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Hair Wax Stick

Fail

Prices span $3.07–$9.28, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Hair Wax Stick is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 1,175 of 2,481 Beauty niches · on the category median
Market size
£293K/yr495K searches / yr
90-day growth
-6.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
73%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 50 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Wax Stick against its category

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

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Wax Stick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hair Wax Stick 495K times last year and spent an estimated £293K. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 495K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -6.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £293K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
495K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-6.8%
Conversion, latest week
10.6%
Market size, estimated
£293Ka year
Peak month
September1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
hair wax stick156K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.57.

Listings sell for £5.57 on average, from £3.07 to £9.28. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £5.57 that is £17K to £22K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.57under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.07–£9.28
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
50K–60K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£17K–£22K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

92% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #19 within Shampoos & Conditioners. It carries 3,845 reviews at 4.25 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
92%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.0%
Average rank
#19in Shampoos & Conditioners
Average rating
4.25 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,845per listing
Listings tracked
13

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 32 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

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

Products

Top Hair Wax Stick 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 73% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

10 flat

Sellers

50

Top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

73%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

11%

  • Brand 124%
  • Brand 223%
  • Brand 315%
  • Brand 410%
  • Brand 510%
  • Brand 67%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 11%)

Demand

Hair Wax Stick search demand

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

20K15KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Hair Wax Stick search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair wax stick156K/yr
  • hair stick62K/yr
  • wax stick90K/yr
  • wax stick hair26K/yr
  • hair slick stick19K/yr
  • hair wax stick womens23K/yr
  • hair stick for flyaways17K/yr
  • hair wax stick for kids16K/yr
  • slick stick17K/yr
  • hair glue stick12K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Wax Stick

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

26%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
14%of negative reviews mention “Oily/Greasy”
0.1%of orders come back
“does make hair slightly greasy”
A buyer, on “Oily/Greasy”14% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hair Wax Stick questions

Answered from the same tracked data.