Beauty & Skincare

PPC Rebuild: 1.6x to 4.1x ROAS in 60 Days

A skincare brand burning through $15K/mo in ad spend with a tangled campaign structure nobody could untangle. Previous agency walked away.

Amazon PPC management for beauty and skincare brands demands precision that most agencies fail to deliver. The beauty category is saturated with competitors, and poorly structured campaigns can drain budgets on irrelevant search terms while missing high-intent buyers. This skincare brand had accumulated 87 overlapping campaigns over two years of mismanagement, creating a tangled web of cannibalized keywords and wasted ad spend that was costing $9,000 per month in pure waste. When their previous agency gave up and walked away, CSB Concepts stepped in with an emergency PPC audit and AI-powered campaign restructuring that delivered a complete turnaround in under 60 days.

Beauty & Skincare
PPC Rebuild: 1.6x to 4.1x ROAS in 60 Days
A skincare brand burning through $15K/mo in ad spend with a tangled campaign structure nobody could untangle. Previous agency walked away.
3.1x
ROAS Improvement
✕ When They Came To Us
⚠️1.6x ROAS — losing money on every ad dollar
⚠️87 active campaigns with massive overlap
⚠️$15K/mo ad spend, $9K wasted on non-converting terms
⚠️Previous agency gave up and quit
✓ After 60 Days With CSB
🔥4.1x ROAS — profitable on every dollar
🔥Consolidated to 14 high-performing campaigns
🔥Same $15K spend, now generating 2.5x more revenue
🔥+41% sales velocity, -28% TACoS
1.6→4.1x
ROAS Turnaround
+41%
Sales Velocity
-28%
TACoS Reduction
60 days
To Profitability
Timeline
Day 1–3
Emergency audit — mapped all 87 campaigns, identified $9K/mo in pure waste on irrelevant and overlapping terms
Week 1
Pause & restructure — killed 73 campaigns, built 14 surgical structures with proper negatives and match types
Week 2–4
AI bid optimization — daily bid adjustments using our AI stack. ACoS dropped from 42% to 24%
Day 60
4.1x ROAS — same budget, 2.5x more revenue. Brand went from considering shutting down Amazon to making it their #1 channel
“Our last agency literally quit on us. CSB took one look at our account and said ‘we can fix this in 60 days.’ They did it in 45.”

Beauty and skincare brands face unique challenges on Amazon, from high competition and thin margins to complex advertising regulations around product claims. A poorly managed PPC account in this category does not just waste money — it actively suppresses organic ranking by sending negative relevancy signals to Amazon's algorithm. CSB Concepts specializes in emergency PPC turnarounds using AI-powered bid optimization that processes thousands of keyword-level adjustments daily, something no human operator can replicate at scale. By consolidating bloated campaign structures, implementing precise negative keyword strategies, and leveraging machine learning for real-time bid management, we consistently deliver ROAS improvements of 2-3x within the first 60 days. For beauty brands struggling with unprofitable Amazon advertising, the path to profitability starts with a proper campaign architecture built on data, not guesswork.

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