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Silk Hair Ties

Maybe

An estimated 0.4% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -13.5% this quarter, so Silk Hair Ties is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Top 31% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +4 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£108K/yr141K searches / yr
90-day growth
-13.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
47%top-5 click share · 22 brands · 28 sellers

Flapen Score

Silk Hair Ties against its category

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

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Silk Hair Ties market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Silk Hair Ties 141K times last year and spent an estimated £108K. The top 5 brands take 73% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 141K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -13.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £108K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
141K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-13.5%
Conversion, latest week
7.3%
Market size, estimated
£108Ka year
Peak month
December1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
silk hair ties68K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.49.

Listings sell for £10.49 on average, from £2.57 to £37.15. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £10.49 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.49under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.57–£37.15
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

94% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #192 within Hair Styling Accessories. It carries 2,066 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
94%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
7.4%
Average rank
#192in Hair Styling Accessories
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,066per listing
Listings tracked
35

04 · Newcomers

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

6 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 27 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
6
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
27 months

Products

Top Silk Hair Ties 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 47% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

22 falling

Sellers

28

Top-5 brand share

73%

Top 20: 98%

Top-5 click share

47%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

23%

  • Brand 125%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 316%
  • Brand 410%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Silk Hair Ties search demand

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

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

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Silk Hair Ties search terms shoppers use

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

  • silk hair ties68K/yr
  • kitsch scrunchies10K/yr
  • silk bobbles for hair7K/yr
  • slip hair ties8K/yr
  • sleep scrunchie4K/yr
  • slip scrunchies7K/yr
  • silk bobbles7K/yr
  • mulberry silk scrunchies6K/yr
  • slip silk scrunchie5K/yr
  • skinny silk scrunchies5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Silk Hair Ties

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
11%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“Too tight”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”11% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Silk Hair Ties questions

Answered from the same tracked data.