The 21st century we live in is sometimes called the era of ‘lookism.' Beauty care has become a social issue as well as one of personal competitive edges. Under the influence of economic prosperity and ‘well-being' as a worldwide life trend, many p...
The 21st century we live in is sometimes called the era of ‘lookism.' Beauty care has become a social issue as well as one of personal competitive edges. Under the influence of economic prosperity and ‘well-being' as a worldwide life trend, many people get more interested in skin care so that skin care shops have been further specialized, segmented and advanced in terms of their type and care practices. Moreover, skin care shop tends to be gradually propagated and popularized nationwide.
In this study, total 433 sheets of questionnaire were distributed to ordinary women living in Daegu metropolitan city for survey. The purpose of this study was to analyze their sociodemographic characteristics and skin conditions, determine actual profile of skin care conditions in female customer group, and analyze possible correlations among their preference for skin care, consumers' sentiment and customer satisfaction, so that it could obtain useful data for domestic skin care industry.
The results of this study can be outlined as follows:
First, for general sociodemographic characteristics of our respondents, it was found that most of them belonged to married housewife group at age 30~39 and graduated from 4-year university course. And 27.0% respondents answered that their monthly household income ranged from ₩ 2 to 3 million.
Second, overall, our respondents didn't have so much good skin and physical health conditions. 34.6% respondents belonged to dry skin type and 41.6% respondents had skin problems like wrinkle and lower elasticity. It was found that most respondents had many interests in skin care and relied on skin care service for ca. 1~1 hour 30 minutes once a week at the cost of ₩ 50,000 to 70,000.
Third, it was found that most respondents obtained information on skin care shop from their friends or family members, and 58.2% respondents had experiences in using skin care services. Most respondents relied on skin care shop for their skin beauty and preferred meridian massage for healthcare more than anything else, but didn't show so high intentions to keep relying on skin care shop due to financial limitation. In addition, some respondents who had never used skin care services showed high willingness to use the services in the future. Particularly, it was noted that many of their acquaintances or neighbors recommended skin care services, based on reliable effects of skin care.
Fourth, it was found that most of our respondents valued skin trouble improvement for customer satisfaction, but were dissatisfied with service cost. Their turnover to other shops came primarily from push marketing of beauty care products and the unfledged professionalism of skin care staffs, while most of our respondents wanted lasting care and skin care counseling as a part of after-sales services. Moreover, it was found that they wanted to use healthcare appliances while waiting for services, and preferred affordable services as a part of improvement, but had positive prospect about skin care shop and industry.
Summing up, many women have already experienced in skin care services, so it will be necessary to develop economical but cost-effective skin care programs for lasting services and inexperienced potential customers in the future. Furthermore, it will be required to take approach to skin troubles with professionalism to ensure more trusts from customers. And it is expected that professional capacity based on further studies in training program and reorientation for systematic and efficient skin care techniques will contribute to developing and promoting our domestic skin care shop and industry.