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Soap

Fail

Prices span $0.89–$14.13, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Soap is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 1,759 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −5 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£812K/yr1.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
+0.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
77%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 134 sellers

Flapen Score

Soap against its category

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

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Soap market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Soap 1.5M times last year and spent an estimated £812K. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +0.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £812K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+0.7%
Conversion, latest week
11.6%
Market size, estimated
£812Ka year
Peak month
September1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
dove soap434K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.68.

Listings sell for £4.68 on average, from £0.89 to £14.13. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 10,000 to 12,500 of them. At £4.68 that is £47K to £59K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.68under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.89–£14.13
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
10,000–12,500
Revenue per listing a year
£47K–£59K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

23% 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 #379 within Bath & Body. It carries 4,315 reviews at 4.72 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
23%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#379in Bath & Body
Average rating
4.72 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
4,315per listing
Listings tracked
13

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 57 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Soap 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 77% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 falling

Sellers

134

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

77%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

2%

  • Brand 176%
  • Brand 26%
  • Brand 35%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)

Demand

Soap search demand

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

80K60KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Soap search terms shoppers use

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

  • dove soap434K/yr
  • soap bar343K/yr
  • bar soap100K/yr
  • dove soap bar113K/yr
  • natural soap81K/yr
  • dove bar soap50K/yr
  • body soap45K/yr
  • soap bars41K/yr
  • palmolive soap36K/yr
  • dove soap bar multipack37K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Soap

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
29%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Awful Smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”29% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Soap questions

Answered from the same tracked data.