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Shampoo

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But products sell for $5.20 on average, outside the sweet spot, so Shampoo is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
57
57 / 100
Top 11% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +10 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£2.1M/yr4.6M searches / yr
90-day growth
+10.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
48%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 224 sellers

Flapen Score

Shampoo against its category

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

57Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Shampoo market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Shampoo 4.6M times last year and spent an estimated £2.1M. The top 5 brands take 81% of clicks. Flapen scores it 57 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

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

Shoppers searched for this 4.6M 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 +10.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £2.1M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
4.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+10.8%
Conversion, latest week
8.7%
Market size, estimated
£2.1Ma year
Peak month
July1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
shampoo2.7M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.20.

Listings sell for £5.20 on average, from £0.80 to £18.52. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 400K to 500K a year. The average listing sells 10,000 to 12,500 of them. At £5.20 that is £52K to £65K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.20under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.80–£18.52
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
400K–500K
Units per listing a year
10,000–12,500
Revenue per listing a year
£52K–£65K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

77% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #275 within Shampoos & Conditioners. It carries 6,011 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
77%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#275in Shampoos & Conditioners
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,011per listing
Listings tracked
35

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 6 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

6 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 74 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
74 months

Products

Top Shampoo 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 48% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

15 falling

Sellers

224

Top-5 brand share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

48%

Top 20: 83%

Open market

14%

  • Brand 132%
  • Brand 223%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 49%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (9 brands, 14%)

Demand

Shampoo search demand

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

125K75KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Shampoo search terms shoppers use

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

  • shampoo2.7M/yr
  • tresemme shampoo320K/yr
  • dove shampoo214K/yr
  • pantene shampoo226K/yr
  • shampoos144K/yr
  • pantene shampoo and conditioner164K/yr
  • pantene125K/yr
  • tresemme shampoo and conditioner91K/yr
  • hair shampoo96K/yr
  • sulfate free shampoo103K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shampoo

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
8%of negative reviews mention “Moist/Dry”
0.1%of orders come back
“Made my hair dry”
A buyer, on “Moist/Dry”8% 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 Shampoo questions

Answered from the same tracked data.