Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Cosmetics Audience in Malaysia

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Cosmetics in Malaysia — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Cosmetics has an estimated audience of 6,704,349 people in Malaysia.

#1among Cosmetics in Malaysia
#34among Topic in Malaysia
#2in Beauty & Wellness

The average Cosmetics fan in Malaysia is 38.4 years old, more female, and lives primarily in Selangor.

The audience is concentrated in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Johor.

Top brand affinities include Sheikh Hasina, DrMAZA.com, with strongest over-indexing on Sheikh Hasina (1.59× the country average).

Demographically, the Cosmetics audience skews more female with an average age of 38.4, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Patriotism, Price Sensitivity.

Compared to the country baseline, this audience shows distinctive patterns across 2 brand affinities and 16 regions tracked by Rascasse.

The typical Cosmetics fan in Malaysia is more female, around 38.4 years old, with strong Patriotism tendencies and a notable affinity for Sheikh Hasina.

Category: Beauty & Wellness · Type: Topic · Subtype: Cosmetics

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Cosmetics profile in Malaysia.

Audience size
6.7M
in Malaysia
Gender
56.6%
43.4% male
Age
38.4
average years
Country rank
#50
Topic in Malaysia
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

-28%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Cosmetics fans

56.6% are female, 43.4% are male, average age 38.4.

Fig. 02

Gender split

56.6%
Female
43.4%
Male
Demographic split for Cosmetics audience in Malaysia
MetricValue
Female56.6%
Male43.4%
Average age38.4
Estimated audience size6,704,349
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 38.4
average years
Age distribution of the Cosmetics audience in Malaysia
Age bracketShare%
16-1916%
20-2926%
30-3923%
40-4919%
50+16%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

1.1%

of the worldwide Cosmetics audience comes from Malaysia.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Cosmetics
CountryShare
United States17.0%
Japan5.5%
India4.5%
Section 03
Affinity (×) = how much more likely a member of this audience is to live in a region than the Malaysia average. Example: 2.0× means twice as concentrated as the national baseline.

Geography

Where the Cosmetics audience in Malaysia is strongest.

Fig. 05

Top regions by affinity

Cosmetics fans by region: top regions in Malaysia
#RegionReachAffinity×
01Selangor~3M1.65×
02Kuala Lumpur~2M1.60×
03Penang~600K1.51×
04Perak~600K1.16×
05Johor~1M1.09×
06Sarawak~600K1.02×
07Sabah~600K0.99×
08Negeri Sembilan~300K0.99×
09Kedah~400K0.98×
10Kelantan~300K0.98×
11Malacca~200K0.98×
12Labuan~50K0.95×
13Perlis~90K0.92×
14Pahang~300K0.89×
15Putrajaya~30K0.89×
16Terengganu~200K0.84×
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Cosmetics audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Cosmetics audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01DrMAZA.comInternet & Social Media1.88×
02Sheikh HasinaPolitics & Society1.59×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Cosmetics audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Cosmetics audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
PatriotismCONSERVATISM1.05×
Price SensitivityPREMIUM0.95×
Need for SecurityCONSERVATISM0.83×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Cosmetics audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
Early Adopter MentalityPOWER0.68×
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.69×
IndividualismJOY0.74×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in Malaysia who actively search for Cosmetics. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across Malaysia. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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