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Grooming

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Grooming is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 39% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +2 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£147K/yr37K searches / yr
90-day growth
+14.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
89%top-5 click share · 3 brands · 19 sellers

Flapen Score

Grooming against its category

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

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Grooming market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Grooming 37K times last year and spent an estimated £147K. All 3 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 37K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +14.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £147K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
37K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+14.0%
Conversion, latest week
6.3%
Market size, estimated
£147Ka year
Top search term
manscaped beard trimmer22K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £62.11.

Listings sell for £62.11 on average, from £19.22 to £98.19. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £62.11 that is £6K to £16K a year per listing.

Average price
£62.11inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£19.22–£98.19
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
2K–2K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£6K–£16K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #61 within Hair Cutting Tools. It carries 2,473 reviews at 4.15 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.9%
Average rank
#61in Hair Cutting Tools
Average rating
4.15 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,473per listing
Listings tracked
8

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Grooming 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 89% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

3 falling

Sellers

19

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

89%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 185%
  • Brand 210%
  • Brand 35%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Grooming search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

800600Spike '26Mar '26Apr '26Apr '26May '26May '26May '26Jun '26Jun '26Jul '26

Search terms

Top Grooming search terms shoppers use

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

  • manscaped beard trimmer22K/yr
  • grooming6K/yr
  • neck shaver4K/yr
  • waterproof shavers for men4K/yr
  • manscaped beard hedger3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Grooming

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
16%of negative reviews mention “Durability”
1.0%of orders come back
“Broke after 6 months”
A buyer, on “Durability”16% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Grooming questions

Answered from the same tracked data.