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Shaving Kit

Maybe

Returns run at only 0.3% of orders. But the top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Shaving Kit is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
53
53 / 100
Top 29% of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · +5 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£327K/yr399K searches / yr
90-day growth
+12.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
46%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 34 sellers

Flapen Score

Shaving Kit against its category

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

53Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Shaving Kit market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Shaving Kit 399K times last year and spent an estimated £327K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 53 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

5.6% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 399K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 5.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +12.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £327K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
399K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+12.7%
Conversion, latest week
5.6%
Market size, estimated
£327Ka year
Peak month
December5.3× the quietest month
Top search term
harrys razor132K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £14.71.

Listings sell for £14.71 on average, from £9.08 to £23.94. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £14.71 that is £7K to £11K a year per listing.

Average price
£14.71under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£9.08–£23.94
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£7K–£11K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

96% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #23 within Shaving & Hair Removal. It carries 3,214 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
96%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.8%
Average rank
#23in Shaving & Hair Removal
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,214per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 3 of last year's 7 launches as successful.

7 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 3 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 39 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
7
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Shaving Kit products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 46% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£13K£26K£39K£52K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

34

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

46%

Top 20: 94%

Open market

2%

  • Harry's78%
  • LEPONIX13%
  • AN BAILIHUA3%
  • POP MODERN.C3%
  • houpoo2%
  • Gillette1%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 2%)

Demand

Shaving Kit search demand

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

25K15KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 5.3×

Search terms

Top Shaving Kit search terms shoppers use

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

  • harrys razor132K/yr
  • shaving kit40K/yr
  • shaving kit for men33K/yr
  • mens shaving kit33K/yr
  • harrys razors25K/yr
  • shaving set for men19K/yr
  • shaving set17K/yr
  • harry razor12K/yr
  • harrys razors for men10K/yr
  • first shaving kit for teenagers boys8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shaving Kit

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Quality-Overall13%+1.13

Poor quality

Shocked at reduced quality

Garbage

Durability9%−0.07

Broke after 6 months

Stopped working after a handful of uses

Didnt even last a year

Cutting/Trimming8%+0.33

cuts skin easy not very user friendly

Impossible to use pulling hear cutting skin

cuts that took weeks to clear up

Value For Money7%+0.91

Waste of money

Not worth the money

Over priced

Sharpness6%−0.03

Horrible blades

the blades blunt up really badly after that

not sharp enough

Love

Quality-Overall20%+1.13

Excellent product

Great Premium Quality

The build quality is solid

Value For Money17%+0.91

very affordable

Great deal

Excellent Value for Money

Cutting/Trimming14%+0.33

Comfortable shave

Clean shave

Clean shave

Ease Of Use8%+0.76

easy to handle

Very easy to use

easy to hold

Advertised Vs Actual Product4%

Exactly what i wanted

Exactly as advertised

As Described

Return

0.3% Return rate 23% Fixable by listing

Functionality-Overall19%▆█▆▇▇█

it barely works

It just does not work

Doesnt do the job properly

Charging12%█▅▄▅▆▅

Doesn't Charge

Won't charge

then stopped charging

Size-Overall11%▄▆▆▇▆█

The head is too wide

they do not fit although it would have been very easy to make them in such a manner

smaller than I expected

Quality-Overall11%▇██▆▅▆

Poor quality

Shocked at reduced quality

Garbage

Defective Material/Parts7%▅█▅▄▇▇

FAQ

Common Shaving Kit questions

Answered from the same tracked data.