June 4, 2024

Bath and Body Works Tops in at Spot 11 for Top 100 Beauty Companies of 2023

Bath and Body Works may have had a little stumble during the pandemic but fans continue to buy with the company topping the 100 Beauty Companies of 2023 at spot number 11. With an estimated 4.57 million dollars in sales. But the real tea is the fact that Bath and Body Works is debuting new product launches daily. As you may know the recently ventured in the laundry department with new laundry detergents and fragrance boosters and later this year they’ll be diving deeper into this category with a line of fabric softeners. They’ve also began targeting men with a new grooming, hair care, and fragrance collection as well as marketing featuring men. Not to mention they introduced their first ever collaboration this Spring with the Bath and Body Works x Bridgerton Collection!

There has been a shift in demand for certain products with popular items like candles, hand sanitizers, and hand sops being the most popular during the pandemic and body care becoming more in demand at the moment.

I’ve personally reigned in my Bath and Body Works spending. I have too many candles and as tempting as it is to purchase more I really want to use up what I have. Likewise, for fragrance mist, body lotions, etc…! There comes a point in your life where you really don’t need yet another fragrance mist or candle. Sometimes you have to be adult and say no. Also, it helps a lot that Bath and Body Works is very fond of releasing repetitive fragrances in new packaging. The new packaging makes it tempting but one sniff and you realize, “hey, I’ve smelled this somewhere before!”

How can they entice me back?

Honestly, when Bath and Body Works does it right they REALLY do it right. They’ve introduced a few products and scents over the years that have really stuck with me! One thing I’d love to see them do is get back to gourmands. Sometimes it feels like the only people buying are floral lovers. They do so love introducing florals or fruity florals and I’m just not into them all that much. If they started doing some gourmands I’d be a goner! Bye bye money! We don’t get nearly enough gourmand scents from Bath and Body Works! I’d really love to see something along the Temptations Collection re-introduced or maybe do a focus on certain notes from time to time like vanilla! I’d kill for a cake-like vanilla collection! It just feels like they are missing out by not introducing more dessert-like fragrance especially now when gourmand is so hot in the fragrance world.

What would you like to see Bath and Body Works do? How can they get your money?

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Isabella MuseIsabella is just an average everyday geeky girl who doesn’t blend her eyeshadow correctly, wears too much blush, and hopes she never finds her holy grail products because she likes the thrill of the chase so much. Her mission is to bring you super honest reviews on makeup, skincare, fragrance and all things beauty. She’s in no way an expert on the topic and she sure as hell isn’t a super model. But she’s passionate about makeup and is seeking like-minded individuals that like pina coladas, getting caught in the rain, and ones that enjoy spending hundreds of dollars at Sephora without feeling buyer’s remorse. If you’re that person feel free to reach out and leave a comment or follow me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Bloglovin‘.

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  • Glenda

    Shout it from the rooftops! I want straight up vanilla cake, no musk, no sandalwood, no floral, just cake!
    BTW did you see DefineMe released a gourmand? It has all the gourmand notes of the moment. Have you ever tried their fragrances?

    • Isabella Muse

      YES! Why does BBW not get on board with that? I did but why did they release in a travel spray? I didn’t buy it because it sounds like a full bottle love and who wants to love a small travel spray? I have! I like some of their stuff so the Lalawoo release was awesome but too bad it’s so small : (

  • Natalie

    Excuse me for saying, but I believe their sales are in the billions per fiscal quarter and not millions. That makes me not fee bad that I haven’t shopped from them since January, since they don’t send me their coupons anymore.

    • Isabella Muse

      LOL THANKS! that was a typo! They’d be out of business if it was million!

  • Laura

    I do enjoy the candles, but for me to buy the lotions and all that, they need to take out the parabens. They don’t even post the ingredients online when you look up a product. Beyond that, I agree, more food based scents. Floral scents give me migraines.

    • Isabella Muse

      too true about the ingreds. That’s rather annoying. It should be mandatory that companies need to post them : (

  • Robin Hawkins

    Hi Isabella. I went to BBW today for the sale and struggled. I got several moisturizing body washes in December,so I didn’t need any. I ended up with their Glowing exfoliating body wash,a Sea salt body scrub,and a perfume mist. Don’t need any candles or much anything else. I’m just beginning to get into gourmand scents and not much of that at all. I’m disappointed in the sale so far.

    • Isabella Muse

      sigh 🙁 sorry Robin! It really isn’t what it used to be 🙁 I struggled my side too! Really wasn’t much I needed or wanted! I’m always expecting so much more but it’s just not the same sale it was 🙁