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Hair Powder

Hair Powder shows low returns (0.1%), but a concentrated shelf (top 5 take 84% of clicks) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

50
Worth a look

Top 34% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +3 vs the category median of 47

Market size 95Growth 15Conversion 97Competition 13Returns 100Price range 28Avg price 28Brand share 18Review moat 23Quality gap 60
This niche Category average · 2,481 niches

Is Hair Powder profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Hair Powder is a £2.1M/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (1.5M searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 93% of demand. Demand peaks in Dec. Verdict: Worth a look — 50/100.

Hair Powder: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -20.5% over the last 90 days and 15.0% of searches end in a purchase.

£2.1M

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr250K
Search volume / yr-20.5%1.5M
Conversion rate15.0%
Avg price£9.39

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 93% of demand, so 7% of the market is open.

7%

open market share

Brands · sellers8 · 88
Top-5 product click share84%
Open market7%
Avg brand age46 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 · 11 products

Sponsored placement91%
New entrants (1y)1· 0 succeeded
Avg rating4.4★
Avg reviews8,393

Top Hair Powder 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 capture 84% of clicks — a locked-up shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£212K£424K£637K£849K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

88

Top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

4%

  • Slick Gorilla49%
  • Got2B33%
  • BlackMask5%
  • Fudge Urban4%
  • BASED BODYWORKS3%
  • AUIWQWFI3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 4%)

Hair Powder demand & seasonality

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

Volume1.5MCVR15.0%Products11Brands8Top 5 Brands93%OOS Rate0.0%Rating4.4★Reviews8,393Avg BSR#8
50K30KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.2×

Top Hair Powder search terms shoppers use

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

  • texture powder309K/yr
  • hair powder246K/yr
  • slick gorilla190K/yr
  • hair powder men143K/yr
  • hair styling powder94K/yr
  • hair texture powder70K/yr
  • based texture powder75K/yr
  • styling powder58K/yr
  • slick gorilla hair styling powder48K/yr
  • gorilla46K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Powder

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

What buyers love

72% of reviews
Quality-Overall19%

Excellent Product

Hair Styling10%

Good styler, my son likes it

Texture/Consistency-Overall7%

Good texture

Value For Money7%

Good price

Advertised Vs Actual Product7%

Works well and as described

What buyers complain about

60% of reviews
Smell16%

Smells Awful

Value For Money8%

Too expensive

Adhesion/Stickiness7%

Sticky, tacky, firm hold

Functionality-Overall6%

Awful product stay away it run like a cracked pipe white

Hair Related6%

Has small sandy like particles which don't look great in your hair

Hair Powder return rate & reasons

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

0.1%

Return rate

14%

Fixable by listing

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

1Functionality-Overall
19%
2Advertised Vs Actual Product
10%
3Suitability Short Hair
9%
4Quality-Overall
9%
5Defective Material/Parts
6%

Common Hair Powder questions

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

Flapen scores Hair Powder 50/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £2.1M/yr across 11 tracked products. 0 of 1 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -20.5% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Hair Powder on Amazon United Kingdom peaks in Dec, where the busiest month runs 2.2× the quietest.