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Hair Serum

Fail

Demand is soft, at -9.6% this quarter, so Hair Serum is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 39% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +2 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£782K/yr1.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
63%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 182 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Serum against its category

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

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

Market

The Hair Serum market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hair Serum 1.1M times last year and spent an estimated £782K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jun. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £782K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.6%
Conversion, latest week
8.2%
Market size, estimated
£782Ka year
Peak month
June1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
hair serum389K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.53.

Listings sell for £8.53 on average, from £2.87 to £29.16. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 80K to 100K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £8.53 that is £26K to £34K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.53under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.87–£29.16
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
80K–100K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£26K–£34K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

74% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #23 within Hair Oils. It carries 7,554 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
74%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.4%
Average rank
#23in Hair Oils
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
7,554per listing
Listings tracked
19

04 · Newcomers

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

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Hair Serum 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 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

182

Top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

6%

  • Brand 152%
  • Brand 228%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 6%)

Demand

Hair Serum search demand

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

40K30KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jun · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Hair Serum search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair serum389K/yr
  • frizz ease serum88K/yr
  • elvive98K/yr
  • hair serum for frizzy hair72K/yr
  • loreal elvive74K/yr
  • loreal hair serum53K/yr
  • loreal hair oil53K/yr
  • hair serum for dry damaged hair47K/yr
  • loreal hair44K/yr
  • anti frizz hair serum26K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Serum

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
9%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
0.1%of orders come back
“Waste of money”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”9% 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 Hair Serum questions

Answered from the same tracked data.