La Roche-Posay is L'Oreal's French dermatological skincare line, and Google Shopping interest for the keyword la roche posay printed 42 the week of August 29 2026. That is flat from 42 on August 22 and up 425.0% from 8 on August 1, per Trends MCP get_growth on google shopping pulled August 31 2026. The 261-week get_time_series on the same source runs from September 4 2021 (first print 6) through August 29 2026 and peaked at 100 on April 18 2026. Same-week 2025 printed 8. Google Search for la roche posay is 70 on August 29, down 1.41% from 71 over 7 days and up 20.69% from 58 over 30 days, a search story that fails both mover bars. Shopping is the source that clears the 30-day bar and still has a readable cart climb off July.
About la roche posay
La Roche-Posay is the dermocosmetic line named for a spa town in western France, and Google Shopping interest for the keyword la roche posay printed 42 the week of August 29 2026 because pharmacy shoppers look up Cicaplast, Anthelios, and Effaclar rather than a single celebrity SKU. Cosmetics Business, dated June 3 2014, traces dermal products from that thermal spring to 1928 and dates La Roche-Posay Laboratoire Pharmaceutique to 1975, when Rene Levayer built the first modern range on selenium-rich water used since Napoleon's era. CNBC-TV18, dated November 4 2025, says L'Oreal bought the brand in 1989 and puts 2024 net sales at 2.9 billion euros, led by Cicaplast Baume B5+ Repairing Balm and Mela B3, with a 3 billion euro target for 2025. L'Oreal's brand page says more than 100,000 dermatologists recommend the line and counts 800-plus clinical studies. CeraVe tracks the other late-August dermocosmetic climb on this site.
What the time series shows
Google Shopping interest for la roche posay printed 42 the week of August 29 2026, matching 42 on August 22 and up from 8 on August 1, a five-week cart rebuild that still sits 58% under the April 18 2026 peak of 100. The 261-week series opened at 6 on September 4 2021. Last eight weekly prints are 9, 8, 6, 8, 14, 24, 42, and 42. Closest 30-day point is 8 on August 1 (+425.0%). Closest 90-day point is 14 on May 30 (+200.0%), after the April spike had already faded. Same-week 2025 printed 8, 2024 printed 12, and 2023 printed 12. Last August sat at 15 on August 9 2025 and 15 on August 16, then 10; 2026 climbs from 6 on July 25. The recent 30-day absolute change is 34 points (8 to 42) against a prior 30-day drop of 11 points (19 on June 27 to 8). Week-over-week percent-change sample standard deviation on the last 52 weeks is 40.51%. The chart window starts August 24 2024.
Why the page charts Google Shopping
A cream people buy should be tracked on a shopping source first, and Google Shopping for la roche posay clears the 30-day +25% bar while Google Search for the same keyword fails both the 7-day and 30-day windows from a 70 print. Google Search for la roche posay is 70 on August 29, down 1.41% from 71 on August 22 and up 20.69% from 58 on August 1. The 7-day print fails +20%. The 30-day print fails +25%. Search is a high, stuck query after the April peak. Shopping is the cart. Amazon for la roche posay is stale at July 31, 72.1, down 8.5% from 78.8 on June 30, so it is not the story source.
Google Shopping is the story source: 42 to 42 in the frozen weekly series over 7 days, 8 to 42 in 30 days, 261 weekly points, week-to-week sample standard deviation 40.51% on the last 52 changes. Same-day get_growth on google shopping, 30-day window, puts the ordinary at 64 (+540.0% from 10), cerave at 39 (+225.0% from 12), anthelios at 42 (+223.08% from 13), cicaplast at 60 (+114.29% from 28), and cetaphil at 59 (+59.46% from 37). Skincare context: The Ordinary. Source context: Google Shopping trends.
get_time_series with source google shopping and keyword la roche posay is the call behind the chart. get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D and 30D, is the headline math: 42 to 42 (0.0%) and 8 to 42 (+425.0%). Mixing the Google Search 70 with the Shopping 42 would invent a story the APIs do not tell.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="google shopping" keyword="la roche posay"
get_growth source="google shopping" keyword="la roche posay" percent_growth=["7D","30D"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth.