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Bar Soap

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $18.9M a year here. But the products selling today already average 4.8★, so Bar Soap is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
55
55 / 100
Top 19% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$18.9M/yr12.6M searches / yr
90-day growth
+7.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
58%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 159 sellers

Flapen Score

Bar Soap against its category

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

55Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Bar Soap market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Bar Soap 12.6M times last year and spent an estimated $18.9M. The top 5 brands take 93% of clicks. Flapen scores it 55 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 13.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 12.6M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 13.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +7.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $18.9M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
12.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+7.3%
Conversion, latest week
13.4%
Market size, estimated
$18.9Ma year
Peak month
July1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
bar soap2.7M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.15.

Listings sell for $11.15 on average, from $3.54 to $22.71. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 40,000 to 50,000 of them. At $11.15 that is $446K to $558K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.15under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.54–$22.71
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
40,000–50,000
Revenue per listing a year
$446K–$558K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

84% 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 #28 within Cleansers. It carries 17,991 reviews at 4.76 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#28in Cleansers
Average rating
4.76 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
17,991per 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 73 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
73 months

Products

Top Bar 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 58% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

159

Top-5 brand share

93%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

5%

  • Brand 179%
  • Brand 25%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 42%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 5%)

Demand

Bar Soap search demand

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

350K250KPrime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Bar Soap search terms shoppers use

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

  • bar soap2.7M/yr
  • dove soap bar2.7M/yr
  • dove soap1.7M/yr
  • soap bar1.5M/yr
  • dove bar soap855K/yr
  • mens soap540K/yr
  • mens bar soap413K/yr
  • bar soap for men271K/yr
  • bath soaps186K/yr
  • natural soap210K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Bar Soap

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

34%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
38%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Chemical Smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”38% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Bar Soap questions

Answered from the same tracked data.