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Hair Clay

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But prices span $2.66–$18.90, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Hair Clay is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 7% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +12 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£419K/yr472K searches / yr
90-day growth
+8.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
48%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 170 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Clay against its category

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

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Clay market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hair Clay 472K times last year and spent an estimated £419K. The top 5 brands take 66% of clicks. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 472K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +8.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £419K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
472K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+8.9%
Conversion, latest week
9.6%
Market size, estimated
£419Ka year
Peak month
May1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
hair clay200K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.24.

Listings sell for £9.24 on average, from £2.66 to £18.90. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £9.24 that is £12K to £14K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.24under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.66–£18.90
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£12K–£14K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #17 within Styling Products. It carries 2,620 reviews at 4.35 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.7%
Average rank
#17in Styling Products
Average rating
4.35 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,620per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 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 73 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
73 months

Products

Top Hair Clay 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 48% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

21 falling

Sellers

170

Top-5 brand share

66%

Top 20: 99%

Top-5 click share

48%

Top 20: 95%

Open market

28%

  • Brand 121%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 66%

Demand

Hair Clay search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Hair Clay search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair clay200K/yr
  • hair clay men49K/yr
  • mens hair clay28K/yr
  • matte clay hair men17K/yr
  • slick gorilla clay pomade15K/yr
  • matt clay25K/yr
  • matte clay18K/yr
  • texture clay19K/yr
  • hair texture clay9K/yr
  • type hair clay7K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Clay

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
15%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Smells Awful”
A buyer, on “Smell”15% 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 Hair Clay questions

Answered from the same tracked data.