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Coal Tar

Fail

Prices span $0.67–$14.24, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Coal Tar is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 1,867 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −6 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£112K/yr99K searches / yr
90-day growth
-17.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
77%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 91 sellers

Flapen Score

Coal Tar against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Coal Tar is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Coal Tar market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Coal Tar 99K times last year and spent an estimated £112K. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 15.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 99K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 15.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -17.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £112K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
99K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-17.5%
Conversion, latest week
15.4%
Market size, estimated
£112Ka year
Peak month
August1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
coal tar soap33K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.37.

Listings sell for £7.37 on average, from £0.67 to £14.24. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At £7.37 that is £11K to £15K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.37under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.67–£14.24
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
Revenue per listing a year
£11K–£15K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

55% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 82% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #191 within Bath & Body. It carries 1,631 reviews at 4.40 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
55%
Prime listings
82%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#191in Bath & Body
Average rating
4.40 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,631per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 59 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
59 months

Products

Top Coal Tar 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 77% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

8 rising

Sellers

91

Top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

6%

  • Brand 166%
  • Brand 28%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 6%)

Demand

Coal Tar search demand

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

3K2KSpike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Coal Tar search terms shoppers use

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

  • coal tar soap33K/yr
  • wrights coal tar soap26K/yr
  • pine tar soap19K/yr
  • pine tar10K/yr
  • tar soap5K/yr
  • wrights soap4K/yr
  • cold tar soap3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Coal Tar

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

29%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
53%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Very very strong smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”53% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Coal Tar questions

Answered from the same tracked data.