| dc.description.abstract | The beauty industry has been gaining
popularity for past few years, due to increasing
social media trends in "self-care" with the use of
beauty products. As a result, sales generated by
the beauty industry spiked creating competition
among vendors and sellers in the industry. With
the COVID-19 pandemic, the traditional way of
shopping for beauty products halted, creating a
requirement to introduce customers with new
methodologies to sell beauty products, which are
similar in experience to traditional shopping. One
such solution can be considered as e-commerce
websites. E-commerce websites currently
operating in Sri Lanka and are part of the beauty
industry are dedicated to a singular brand or
product line, not a marketplace with multiple
brands. Also, considering the products sold,
current e-commerce applications do not provide
sufficient information regarding standards or
ingredients used in the development of the
product. This paper investigates an e-commerce
solution to the beauty industry that allows
customers to shop for safe beauty products that
are suggested according to their personal
preference by a variety of sellers. | en_US |
