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Purple Shampoo

Purple Shampoo shows low returns (0.0%), but a failed launch gate (market size, growth, or returns) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

56
Worth a look

Top 16% of 638 Baby Products niches · +9 vs the category median of 47

Market size 84Growth 25Conversion 95Competition 49Returns 100Price range 26Avg price 30Brand share 49Review moat 21Quality gap 37
This niche Category average · 638 niches

Is Purple Shampoo profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Purple Shampoo is a £1.4M/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (1.2M searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 76% of demand. Verdict: Worth a look — 56/100.

Purple Shampoo: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -0.1% over the last 90 days and 12.3% of searches end in a purchase.

£1.4M

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr150K
Search volume / yr-0.1%1.2M
Conversion rate12.3%
Avg price£9.59

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 76% of demand, so 24% of the market is open.

24%

open market share

Brands · sellers13 · 140
Top-5 product click share55%
Open market24%
Avg brand age64 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 21 products

Sponsored placement52%
New entrants (1y)1· 1 succeeded
Avg rating4.5★
Avg reviews11,055

Top Purple Shampoo products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 55% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£135K£270K£405K£541K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 falling

Sellers

140

Top-5 brand share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

55%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

19%

  • FANOLA28%
  • PROVOKE26%
  • Osmo9%
  • OLAPLEX7%
  • Aussie6%
  • John Frieda5%

Purple Shampoo demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume1.2MCVR12.3%Products21Brands13Top 5 Brands76%OOS Rate0.0%Rating4.5★Reviews11,055Avg BSR#169
35K25KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Top Purple Shampoo search terms shoppers use

The exact queries shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth and conversion.

  • purple shampoo672K/yr
  • fanola no yellow shampoo115K/yr
  • silver shampoo83K/yr
  • osmo purple shampoo45K/yr
  • fanola purple shampoo37K/yr
  • purple shampoo for blonde hair29K/yr
  • provoke touch of silver shampoo22K/yr
  • olaplex purple shampoo20K/yr
  • silver shampoo for blonde hair26K/yr
  • osmo super silver shampoo16K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Purple Shampoo

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

84% of reviews
Quality-Overall20%

Excellent product

Value For Money14%

Good price

Suitability Colored Hair14%

Protect colour in your hair

Color9%

Great colour

Smell6%

its a subtle fragrance

What buyers complain about

66% of reviews
Moist/Dry16%

Very dry

Color12%

I cant get the colour out of my hands

Suitability Colored Hair8%

The shampoo is a dark purple colour which I found unusual

Functionality-Overall7%

And this shampoo doesn't work

Smell7%

smells totally different

Purple Shampoo return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.0%

Return rate

100%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Advertised Vs Actual Product
100%

Common Purple Shampoo questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Purple Shampoo 56/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £1.4M/yr across 21 tracked products. 1 of 1 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -0.1% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Purple Shampoo on Amazon United Kingdom is steady year-round — the busiest month runs 1.6× the quietest.