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Laundry Detergent

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But the products selling today already average 4.7★, so Laundry Detergent is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 6% of 2,976 Grocery niches · +14 vs the category median of 46
Market size
£2.9M/yr4.6M searches / yr
90-day growth
+11.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
43%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 209 sellers

Flapen Score

Laundry Detergent against its category

The dotted line is the Grocery average. Past it, Laundry Detergent is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

60Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Laundry Detergent market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Laundry Detergent 4.6M times last year and spent an estimated £2.9M. The top 5 brands take 85% of clicks. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.0% 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 9.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +11.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £2.9M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
4.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+11.2%
Conversion, latest week
9.0%
Market size, estimated
£2.9Ma year
Peak month
April1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
laundry detergent1.2M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £6.95.

Listings sell for £6.95 on average, from £0.92 to £23.95. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 400K to 500K a year. The average listing sells 6,000 to 8,000 of them. At £6.95 that is £42K to £56K a year per listing.

Average price
£6.95under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.92–£23.95
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
400K–500K
Units per listing a year
6,000–8,000
Revenue per listing a year
£42K–£56K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

78% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #353 within Laundry. It carries 1,350 reviews at 4.69 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
78%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
3.4%
Average rank
#353in Laundry
Average rating
4.69 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,350per listing
Listings tracked
37

04 · Newcomers

7 of last year's 7 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. 7 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 44 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
7Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
44 months

Products

Top Laundry Detergent products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 43% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£144K£287K£431K£575K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

209

Est. top-5 brand share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 79%

Open market

9%

  • Fairy Non Bio27%
  • Persil19%
  • Surf17%
  • Ariel14%
  • Bold8%
  • Fairy6%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 9%)

Demand

Laundry Detergent search demand

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

150K100KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Laundry Detergent search terms shoppers use

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

  • laundry detergent1.2M/yr
  • washing liquid565K/yr
  • fairy390K/yr
  • fairy non bio381K/yr
  • washing detergent274K/yr
  • laundry270K/yr
  • ariel washing liquid178K/yr
  • washing liquid laundry142K/yr
  • non bio washing liquid127K/yr
  • laundry liquid137K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Laundry Detergent

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
13%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Bad smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”13% 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 Laundry Detergent questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data