AI-Powered Product Categorization for Health & Beauty

Health & Beauty Product Categorization

The health and beauty vertical represents one of the fastest-growing and most competitive segments in e-commerce, encompassing everything from luxury skincare serums and professional cosmetics to dietary supplements and everyday personal care items. With thousands of brands, formulations, and product types, accurate categorization is essential for beauty retailers and wellness brands to maximize product visibility and reach customers searching for specific health and beauty solutions. Our AI-powered API automatically classifies health and beauty products into the correct taxonomy categories across all major marketplaces.

Health and beauty products require sophisticated categorization due to the nuanced distinctions between product types and the importance of ingredient-based and function-based classification. A vitamin C brightening serum needs to be classified differently than a hyaluronic acid moisturizer, and a volumizing shampoo requires different taxonomy placement than a color-protecting conditioner. Our machine learning models understand these distinctions, having been trained on millions of health and beauty product listings to recognize formulation types, skin concerns, hair types, and wellness categories.

Whether you're selling prestige skincare on Amazon, listing indie cosmetics on Shopify, managing a Google Shopping feed for supplements, or running an online beauty retailer, our API handles the complexity of health and beauty taxonomy mapping. We support automatic classification into Google Product Taxonomy, Amazon Browse Nodes, Shopify Standard Product Taxonomy, and eBay categories with industry-leading accuracy for cosmetics, personal care, and wellness products.

Health & Beauty Taxonomy Hierarchy

Health and beauty follows a deep hierarchical taxonomy structure across all major e-commerce platforms. Products must be classified from broad categories like "Health & Beauty" down to specific subcategories such as "Health & Beauty > Personal Care > Skincare > Serums & Essences > Vitamin C Serums". Our API navigates this complexity automatically to ensure maximum search visibility.

The diagram below shows how Health & Beauty branches into Tier 2 categories including Health Care, Personal Care, and specialty subcategories. Our AI understands the relationships between these categories and selects the most specific applicable classification based on product attributes, ingredients, and intended use.

Tier 2 Health & Beauty Categories

Each Tier 2 category contains multiple Tier 3 and Tier 4 subcategories. For example, "Personal Care" branches into Skincare, Haircare, Cosmetics, Bath & Body, and Oral Care. Each of these then subdivides by product type, concern, and formulation. Our API automatically determines the full category path for your products.

API Integration for Health & Beauty

Integrating health and beauty product categorization into your workflow is straightforward with our RESTful API. Simply send your product title and description, and receive accurate category classifications for Google Shopping, Amazon, Shopify, and eBay.

import requests

def categorize_beauty(product_description, api_key):
    """Categorize health and beauty products across multiple taxonomies"""
    base_url = "https://www.productcategorization.com/api/ecommerce/ecommerce_category6_get.php"
    params = {"query": product_description, "api_key": api_key, "data_type": "google"}
    response = requests.get(base_url, params=params)
    return response.json()

# Example: Categorize a skincare serum
result = categorize_beauty(
    "The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1% Serum 30ml Pore-Minimizing",
    "your_api_key_here"
)
print(f"Category: {result['category']}")
# Output: Health & Beauty > Personal Care > Skincare > Serums

async function categorizeBeauty(productDescription, apiKey) {
    const baseUrl = 'https://www.productcategorization.com/api/ecommerce/ecommerce_category6_get.php';
    const params = new URLSearchParams({query: productDescription, api_key: apiKey, data_type: 'google'});
    const response = await fetch(`${baseUrl}?${params}`);
    return response.json();
}

// Example: Categorize a lipstick
categorizeBeauty(
    'MAC Matte Lipstick Ruby Woo 3g Long-Wearing Intense Red',
    'your_api_key'
).then(result => {
    console.log('Category:', result.category);
    // Output: Health & Beauty > Personal Care > Cosmetics > Lip Makeup > Lipsticks
});

curl -X GET "https://www.productcategorization.com/api/ecommerce/ecommerce_category6_get.php" \
  -d "query=Olaplex No.3 Hair Perfector Treatment 100ml Bond Building" \
  -d "api_key=your_api_key_here" \
  -d "data_type=google"

# Response:
# {"category": "Health & Beauty > Personal Care > Haircare > Treatments", "confidence": 0.98}