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Afro Hair Products

Fail

Prices span $2.61–$13.67, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Afro Hair Products is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 1,655 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −4 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£46K/yr92K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
49%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 132 sellers

Flapen Score

Afro Hair Products against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Afro Hair Products is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Afro Hair Products market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Afro Hair Products 92K times last year and spent an estimated £46K. The top 5 brands take 84% of clicks. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 92K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £46K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
92K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.1%
Conversion, latest week
6.9%
Market size, estimated
£46Ka year
Peak month
December1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
afro hair products46K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.23.

Listings sell for £7.23 on average, from £2.61 to £13.67. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £7.23 that is £723 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.23under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.61–£13.67
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£723–£2K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

61% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #451 within Hair Oils. It carries 6,742 reviews at 4.42 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
61%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#451in Hair Oils
Average rating
4.42 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,742per listing
Listings tracked
33

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 58 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
58 months

Products

Top Afro Hair Products products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 49% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

14 falling

Sellers

132

Top-5 brand share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

49%

Top 20: 85%

Open market

14%

  • Brand 164%
  • Brand 28%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 14%)

Demand

Afro Hair Products search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

2K2KPrime Day '25JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Afro Hair Products search terms shoppers use

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

  • afro hair products46K/yr
  • 4c hair products10K/yr
  • sofnfree6K/yr
  • soft and free curl activator6K/yr
  • soft n free5K/yr
  • black hair products5K/yr
  • soft and free4K/yr
  • soft n free curl activator4K/yr
  • sof n free3K/yr
  • sofnfree curl activator lotion3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Afro Hair Products

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

16%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
8%of negative reviews mention “Hair Related”
0.1%of orders come back
“it made my hair very stiff unlike my usual brand”
A buyer, on “Hair Related”8% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

21 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Afro Hair Products questions

Answered from the same tracked data.