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Curly Hair Products

Curly Hair Products clears our launch bar: a $1.1M/yr market growing +3.8% this quarter with returns at 0.1%.

Flapen Score

58
Launch it

Top 9% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +11 vs the category median of 47

Market size 80Growth 30Conversion 76Competition 58Returns 100Price range 35Avg price 22Brand share 52Review moat 23Quality gap 57
This niche Category average · 2,481 niches

Is Curly Hair Products profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Curly Hair Products is a £1.1M/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (2.0M searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 74% of demand. Demand peaks in Dec. Verdict: Launch it — 58/100.

Curly Hair Products: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Yes. Search demand moved +3.8% over the last 90 days and 7.2% of searches end in a purchase.

£1.1M

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr150K
Search volume / yr+3.8%2.0M
Conversion rate7.2%
Avg price£7.88

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 74% of demand, so 26% of the market is open.

26%

open market share

Brands · sellers18 · 203
Top-5 product click share50%
Open market26%
Avg brand age43 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.4★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 33 products

Sponsored placement88%
New entrants (1y)4· 4 succeeded
Avg rating4.4★
Avg reviews7,261

Top Curly Hair Products 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 50% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£56K£113K£169K£225K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

18 flat

Sellers

203

Top-5 brand share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

50%

Top 20: 86%

Open market

23%

  • CANTU44%
  • Garnier10%
  • Creightons8%
  • Umberto Giannini6%
  • Moroccanoil5%
  • Aussie3%

Curly Hair Products demand & seasonality

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

Volume2.0MCVR7.2%Products33Brands18Top 5 Brands74%OOS Rate2.4%Rating4.4★Reviews7,261Avg BSR#26
50K30KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Top Curly Hair Products search terms shoppers use

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

  • curly hair products626K/yr
  • curl cream458K/yr
  • cantu205K/yr
  • wavy hair products90K/yr
  • curly hair120K/yr
  • curling cream83K/yr
  • cantu curling cream97K/yr
  • curl38K/yr
  • curl cream for curly hair44K/yr
  • curly hair cream27K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Curly Hair Products

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

What buyers love

74% of reviews
Suitability Curly Hair17%

Great for curly hair

Smell15%

Beautiful smell

Quality-Overall13%

Quality is good and creamy

Value For Money7%

Good value for money

Hair Styling6%

Perfect Curls

What buyers complain about

52% of reviews
Hair Related10%

dullness in my hair

Smell7%

Terrible strong smell

Value For Money7%

Waste of money

Oily/Greasy6%

made my hair greasy

Functionality-Overall5%

Didn't work for me

Curly Hair Products return rate & reasons

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

0.1%

Return rate

8%

Fixable by listing

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

1Functionality-Overall
20%
2Leak-Proof
11%
3Suitability Short Hair
11%
4Smell
7%
5Defective Material/Parts
6%

Common Curly Hair Products questions

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

Flapen scores Curly Hair Products 58/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Launch it. The niche generates £1.1M/yr across 33 tracked products. 4 of 4 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved +3.8% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Curly Hair Products on Amazon United Kingdom peaks in Dec, where the busiest month runs 1.7× the quietest.