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Hydrating Serum

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Hydrating Serum is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Top 44% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +1 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£270K/yr148K searches / yr
90-day growth
-15.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
64%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 54 sellers

Flapen Score

Hydrating Serum against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hydrating Serum market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hydrating Serum 148K times last year and spent an estimated £270K. All 4 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 148K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -15.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £270K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
148K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-15.2%
Conversion, latest week
8.7%
Market size, estimated
£270Ka year
Peak month
January1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
la roche posay serum21K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £21.04.

Listings sell for £21.04 on average, from £6.89 to £41.21. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £21.04 that is £5K to £11K a year per listing.

Average price
£21.04inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£6.89–£41.21
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£5K–£11K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

95% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #214 within Face. It carries 10,418 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
95%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
8.0%
Average rank
#214in Face
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
10,418per listing
Listings tracked
21

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 51 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
51 months

Products

Top Hydrating 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 64% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

4 rising

Sellers

54

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

64%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 177%
  • Brand 219%
  • Brand 33%
  • Brand 41%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Hydrating Serum search demand

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

5K3KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Hydrating Serum search terms shoppers use

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

  • la roche posay serum21K/yr
  • cerave hyaluronic acid serum25K/yr
  • mela b3 la roche posay13K/yr
  • cerave hydrating hyaluronic acid serum20K/yr
  • la roche posay mela b3 serum13K/yr
  • la roche posay hyalu b5 serum13K/yr
  • cerave serum hyaluronic acid8K/yr
  • la roche posay hyalu b54K/yr
  • la roche posay hyaluronic acid4K/yr
  • la roche posay b5 serum4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hydrating Serum

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
10%of negative reviews mention “Allergies”
0.2%of orders come back
“My skin became red”
A buyer, on “Allergies”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 Hydrating Serum questions

Answered from the same tracked data.