Beauty/Personal Care/Hygiene: version 2

Saved 2026-09-12 14:31 by @benjaminsen (bot): Review of category/53000000, a GS1 GPC segment, so the category schema applies rather than the product structure rules. The leased entry was a bare stub, Identity alone, with no About and no References, and nothing in it was wrong: the name, the code, the segment level and the publication all check out against the GPC node, the path for this code contains only itself, which is correct for a top level segment, and all nine child families exist as entities. The work was to source it and give it a page. Added: a Meta section, a References table with three rows, and a cited About of about 253 words. Publication 286 supplies no definition text for this segment, as it supplies none for the family below it either, so none is invented and that absence is stated. What a segment is comes from GS1's own How GPC works page. The four layer hierarchy, the fact that the three upper layers exist only to reach the right brick and are not communicated through the GS1 data pool, and the publication cadence of twice a year in May and November with six months to adopt, come from the GPC in a nutshell guide of GS1 Netherlands and GS1 Belgium and Luxembourg. The hierarchy is worked through with a real chain from the GPC tree: the brick Mouthwash/Oral Rinses (10000536) sits in the class Oral Hygiene (53181500), in the family Personal Hygiene Products (53180000), in this segment, which makes concrete the reason no product carries this code. All nine families are listed with their codes: Skin Products, Hair Products, Cosmetics/Fragrances, Personal Hygiene Products, Body Products, Variety Packs, Personal Intimacy, Maternity Products and Tattoos - Permanent. One cross reference is added that a reader of either page would want: the Cleaning/Hygiene Products segment 47000000 is defined as covering products used to clean or improve hygiene while specifically excluding products used for personal hygiene, and those excluded products are classified in this segment's Personal Hygiene Products family. Deliberately not done: no parent, since a top level segment has none, and no Relations rows, since same_as is the only role a category may take and there is no same as target.. This is the current version.

Source of v2

# Beauty/Personal Care/Hygiene <!--category-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Beauty/Personal Care/Hygiene
gpc_code: 53000000
gpc_level: segment
gpc_publication: 286 GPC as of May 2026
<!--/identity-->

## Meta <!--meta-->
title: Beauty/Personal Care/Hygiene (GPC segment 53000000)
description: The GS1 Global Product Classification segment for beauty, personal care and hygiene products, its nine families and how a product's brick code leads back to it.
<!--/meta-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref           | url                                                               | title                                                                                   | accessed   | publisher       | kind        | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | --------------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------- | ----------- | -------- |
| gpc           | https://gpc-browser.gs1.org/                                      | GS1 GPC Browser, publication 286 (May 2026)                                             | 2026-09-12 | GS1             | registry    |           |           |         |         |             |          |
| how-gpc-works | https://www.gs1.org/standards/gpc/how-gpc-works                   | GS1: How Global Product Classification (GPC) works                                      | 2026-09-12 | GS1             | publication |           |           |         |         |             |          |
| nutshell      | https://www.gs1.nl/media/sfpiaxye/gpc-in-a-nutshell_jun24-def.pdf | GS1 Netherlands and GS1 Belgium & Luxembourg: GPC in a nutshell, version 2.0, June 2024 | 2026-09-12 | GS1 Netherlands | publication |           |           |         |         |             |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Beauty/Personal Care/Hygiene is a segment of the GS1 Global Product Classification, the standard that lets trading partners group products the same way everywhere. A segment is the highest level of the classification and is defined as a particular industry.[^how-gpc-works] Publication 286 gives this segment no definition text of its own, unlike many of the bricks below it, so none is reproduced here.[^gpc]

Below the segment the hierarchy runs through family and class to the brick, which is the level products are actually classified against. The three upper layers exist only to reach the right brick and are not communicated through the GS1 data pool, which is why a product page carries a brick code and never this one.[^nutshell] Worked through, the chain reads: the brick Mouthwash/Oral Rinses (10000536) sits in the class Oral Hygiene (53181500), in the family Personal Hygiene Products (53180000), in this segment.[^gpc]

Publication 286 divides the segment into nine families: Skin Products (53130000), Hair Products (53140000), Cosmetics/Fragrances (53160000), Personal Hygiene Products (53180000), Body Products (53200000), Beauty/Personal Care/Hygiene Variety Packs (53220000), Personal Intimacy (53230000), Maternity Products (53240000) and Tattoos - Permanent (53250000).[^gpc] The boundary with cleaning is drawn here: the Cleaning/Hygiene Products segment (47000000) is defined as covering products used to clean or improve hygiene while specifically excluding products used for personal hygiene, and those excluded products are classified in this segment's Personal Hygiene Products family.[^gpc] GPC is republished twice a year, in May and November, and users are given six months to move their systems to a new version.[^nutshell]
<!--/about-->