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Hair Removal

Maybe

An estimated 0.2% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Hair Removal is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 18% of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · +8 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£1.5M/yr1.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
+31.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
63%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 134 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Removal against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Hair Removal is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Removal market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Hair Removal 1.8M times last year and spent an estimated £1.5M. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +31.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+31.1%
Conversion, latest week
9.9%
Market size, estimated
£1.5Ma year
Peak month
July2.5× the quietest month
Top search term
hair removal cream555K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.26.

Listings sell for £8.26 on average, from £4.52 to £15.49. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 5,000 to 6,000 of them. At £8.26 that is £41K to £50K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.26under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.52–£15.49
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
5,000–6,000
Revenue per listing a year
£41K–£50K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 89% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #28 within Shaving & Hair Removal. It carries 9,534 reviews at 4.32 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
89%
Out of stock, average day
1.0%
Average rank
#28in Shaving & Hair Removal
Average rating
4.32 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
9,534per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Hair Removal 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 25, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£74K£147K£221K£295K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

134

Est. top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Veet75%
  • NO HAIR CREW11%
  • woowoo6%
  • Nair4%
  • womn3%
  • IFANZETECH2%

Demand

Hair Removal search demand

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

60K40KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.5×

Search terms

Top Hair Removal search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair removal cream555K/yr
  • veet hair removal cream for women201K/yr
  • hair removal189K/yr
  • veet151K/yr
  • hair removal cream for genitals164K/yr
  • hair removal device144K/yr
  • hair removal cream for women39K/yr
  • bikini hair removal cream52K/yr
  • hair remover56K/yr
  • veet hair removal cream42K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Removal

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

17%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
14%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
0.2%of orders come back
“Barely works”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”14% 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 Hair Removal 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