Skip to content

Argan Oil

Maybe

An estimated 0.6% of orders come back. But the average product has 18,098 reviews to catch up to, so Argan Oil is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
59
59 / 100
Top 10% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +11 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$3.4M/yr2.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
56%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 87 sellers

Flapen Score

Argan Oil against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Argan Oil is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

59Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Argan Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Argan Oil 2.5M times last year and spent an estimated $3.4M. The top 5 brands take 73% of clicks. Flapen scores it 59 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $3.4M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.5%
Conversion, latest week
9.0%
Market size, estimated
$3.4Ma year
Peak month
January1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
argan oil996K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $15.55.

Listings sell for $15.55 on average, from $6.12 to $47.61. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 200K to 250K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At $15.55 that is $124K to $156K a year per listing.

Average price
$15.55inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.12–$47.61
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
200K–250K
Units per listing a year
8,000–10,000
Revenue per listing a year
$124K–$156K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

88% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #102 within Hair Treatment Oils. It carries 18,098 reviews at 4.59 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.2%
Average rank
#102in Hair Treatment Oils
Average rating
4.59 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
18,098per listing
Listings tracked
25

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 75 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Argan Oil products & what they sell for

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

Sign in to see the products

The products selling in this niche are for signed-in readers. Every market figure above stays open to everyone.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 56% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

16 falling

Sellers

87

Top-5 brand share

73%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

56%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

23%

  • Brand 125%
  • Brand 223%
  • Brand 315%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Argan Oil search demand

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

60K40KPrime Day '24Spike '24Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Argan Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • argan oil996K/yr
  • argan oil for hair523K/yr
  • argon oil hair oil156K/yr
  • argan oil for skin113K/yr
  • aceite de argan92K/yr
  • argon oil105K/yr
  • aceite de argan cabello62K/yr
  • organic argan oil49K/yr
  • argon oil pure36K/yr
  • aragon hair oil41K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Argan Oil

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

17%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
17%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.6%of orders come back
“Horrible smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”17% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Argan Oil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.