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Body Wash

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $50.6M a year here. But the products selling today already average 4.7★, so Body Wash is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
64
64 / 100
Top 3% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +16 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$50.6M/yr36.4M searches / yr
90-day growth
+14.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
42%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 162 sellers

Flapen Score

Body Wash against its category

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

64Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Body Wash market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Body Wash 36.4M times last year and spent an estimated $50.6M. The top 5 brands take 84% of clicks. Flapen scores it 64 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 36.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +14.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $50.6M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
36.4M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+14.4%
Conversion, latest week
11.2%
Market size, estimated
$50.6Ma year
Peak month
July1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
body wash15.6M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.36.

Listings sell for $12.36 on average, from $4.51 to $34.93. 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 80,000 to 100,000 of them. At $12.36 that is $989K to $1.2M a year per listing.

Average price
$12.36under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.51–$34.93
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
80,000–100,000
Revenue per listing a year
$989K–$1.2M
Returns
0.3%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, 0.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #40 within Cleansers. It carries 12,805 reviews at 4.69 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.5%
Average rank
#40in Cleansers
Average rating
4.69 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
12,805per listing
Listings tracked
40

04 · Newcomers

10 of last year's 10 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

10 products launched here in the last 12 months. 10 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 71 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
10
Successful launches
10Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
71 months

Products

Top Body Wash 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 42% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

15 rising

Sellers

162

Top-5 brand share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

42%

Top 20: 78%

Open market

13%

  • Brand 165%
  • Brand 27%
  • Brand 35%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (9 brands, 13%)

Demand

Body Wash search demand

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

1.5M1.0MSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Body Wash search terms shoppers use

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

  • body wash15.6M/yr
  • dove body wash7.4M/yr
  • body wash women4.3M/yr
  • dove2.3M/yr
  • womens body wash893K/yr
  • body soap825K/yr
  • shower gel731K/yr
  • dove sensitive skin body wash632K/yr
  • bodywash508K/yr
  • body wash sensitive skin417K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Body Wash

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

38%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
30%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.3%of orders come back
“Chemical smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”30% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Body Wash questions

Answered from the same tracked data.