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Hair Wax

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But prices span $2.66–$16.22, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Hair Wax is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 13% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +9 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£276K/yr460K searches / yr
90-day growth
+0.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
46%top-5 click share · 26 brands · 232 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Wax against its category

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

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Wax market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hair Wax 460K times last year and spent an estimated £276K. The top 5 brands take 62% of clicks. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 460K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +0.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £276K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
460K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+0.3%
Conversion, latest week
9.4%
Market size, estimated
£276Ka year
Peak month
March1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
hair wax242K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.38.

Listings sell for £6.38 on average, from £2.66 to £16.22. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £6.38 that is £5K to £6K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.38under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.66–£16.22
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£5K–£6K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #19 within Styling Products. It carries 3,513 reviews at 4.37 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
83%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
2.4%
Average rank
#19in Styling Products
Average rating
4.37 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,513per listing
Listings tracked
42

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 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 67 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
67 months

Products

Top Hair Wax 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 46% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

26 falling

Sellers

232

Top-5 brand share

62%

Top 20: 95%

Top-5 click share

46%

Top 20: 80%

Open market

31%

  • Brand 121%
  • Brand 211%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 411%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 67%

Demand

Hair Wax search demand

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

18K13KPrime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Hair Wax search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair wax242K/yr
  • mens hair wax53K/yr
  • hair wax for men46K/yr
  • hair wax womens28K/yr
  • fudge urban9K/yr
  • hair wax men9K/yr
  • styling wax8K/yr
  • wax hair8K/yr
  • fudge urban matte wax6K/yr
  • hair styling putty clay & wax9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Wax

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
10%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Smells Awful”
A buyer, on “Smell”10% 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 Wax questions

Answered from the same tracked data.