Shampoo
MaybeAn 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 / 100Top 11% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +10 vs the category median of 4757
- 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.
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.
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.
“Made my hair dry”
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
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