
Recently, the 2025 Double 11 shopping festival concluded, with the domestic dermatological skincare brand Winona demonstrating steady growth once again. According to performance reports up to 24:00 on November 11, Winona successfully ranked among the Top 10 in Tmall’s beauty category, making it the only Chinese brand to have consistently made the top ten list for nine consecutive years from 2017 to 2025.
During this year’s Double 11, Winona achieved strong performance across multiple channels, securing the Top 5 position in Vipshop’s overall beauty industry, ranking second among domestic brands on JD.com, taking the top spot on Douyin’s beauty and skincare product card list, and placing among the Top 10 domestic well-known brands in the cross-border beauty industry. These results highlight Winona’s solid market foundation and consumer recognition as a leading brand for sensitive skin care in China.
1. Developing Skincare with a Pharmaceutical Approach: Creating a Scientific Model for High-Quality Efficacy Skincare
According to Sullivan data, Winona has ranked first in sales in China’s sensitive skin skincare market for five consecutive years (2020-2024). The brand’s sustained success is rooted in its unique development path of “grounding skincare in dermatology and developing products with a pharmaceutical mindset.”
In recent years, the domestic efficacy skincare market has experienced rapid growth but also faces significant challenges, including inconsistent product quality, severe homogenization, lack of scientific basis for efficacy claims, and frequent safety issues.
As consumer demands become more mature and professional, efficacy skincare is shifting from marketing competition to scientific competition. In line with this trend, Winona’s product development follows the NUTE principle, focusing on four key dimensions: clinical needs (Need), unique mechanisms (Unique), technology empowerment (Technology), and credible evidence (Evidence). Through over a decade of exploration and refinement, Winona has established an irreplaceable position of professional leadership.
Taking the second-generation Winona Special Care Cream, a hot seller during this Double 11, as an example, the brand started from clinical needs and conducted in-depth research into the pathological mechanisms of sensitive skin, identifying impaired skin barrier as the core issue.
In terms of unique mechanisms, Chinese dermatology experts pioneered the discovery of the relationship between sensitive skin and the CLDN-5 target. This finding has helped the industry and users truly understand why skin becomes sensitive and how to repair sensitivity at its root. Correspondingly, Winona developed targeted active ingredients such as Prinsepia utilis polysaccharide, Prinsepia utilis oil, and Portulaca oleracea extract. These ingredients effectively repair the damaged skin barrier and alleviate sensitivity symptoms.
In the technology empowerment phase, Winona Special Care Cream utilizes a unique formulation technology that organically combines multiple active ingredients, enabling rapid skin penetration and effective repair.
Regarding credible evidence, Winona conducts multi-center clinical observations, collects large-sample data, and performs long-term tracking to comprehensively verify product efficacy and safety. Over the past decade, Winona’s Special Care series products have undergone more than 56 clinical studies, covering 61 hospitals and 5,590 subjects, with 79 scientific publications.
2. Building a Sensitive Skin PLUS Solution to Comprehensively Meet Consumer Needs
As a pioneer and leader in China’s sensitive skin skincare market, Winona has continuously expanded the depth and breadth of its sensitive skin care products in recent years. The brand has iterated its core products around consumers’ upgraded needs for sensitive skin whitening, sun protection, and anti-aging, building a more systematic and comprehensive Sensitive Skin PLUS solution.
Today, under the Sensitive Skin PLUS solution, Winona has established a complete product matrix covering all细分 needs of sensitive skin, supported by five core products: Special Care Cream (repair), Barrier Special Care Cream (post-procedure), Light Sunscreen Lotion (sun protection), Repair Whitening Bottle (whitening), and Silver Core Cream (anti-aging).
At the recently held 20th Chinese Dermatologist Association Annual Meeting and National Aesthetic Dermatology Conference (hereinafter referred to as “CDA”), Winona, invited for the seventeenth time, provided a detailed interpretation of its Sensitive Skin PLUS solution.
In the field of sensitive skin whitening, addressing the complex causes of melasma, Winona applied a “four-dimensional integrated” mechanism in its whitening and spot-fading products. Beyond directly targeting melanin, it also addresses soothing irritation, repairing the skin barrier, and improving blood circulation.
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