Spending on beauty salons in the country totaled $ 20.3 billion a year

Brazilian families spend $ 20.3 billion with hairdressers, manicure and pedicure, per year, according to the Federation of trade in goods, services and tourism of the State of São Paulo (FecomercioSP).
The expenses are 18% higher than the cost of regular courses of education (preschool to second grade), which added R $ 17,24 billion a year, are even greater than the annual amount of families with basic food, which is r $ 19,86 billion.
The research also stresses that the classes D and e invest in acquisition of properties 3,11 R $ billion annually, almost the same amount invested by the class in beauty salons (about Us $ 3 billion).
According to the entity, the largest volume of services consumption of beauty salons is in class C, with R $ 11.8 billion. The second largest expense, with r $ 3 billion, is the class A, followed by B, with r $ 2.9 billion.
D-class consumers spend about $ 1.4 billion a year and and R $ 1.1 billion.
Only in the State of São Paulo, the total estimated expenses with hairdressers is r $ 6,26 billion, or 31% of the expenditure of households across the country, and the class C is also the most consuming, r $ 3.7 billion a year.