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Face Wash

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $33.0M a year here. But the average product has 44,113 reviews to catch up to, so Face Wash is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 17% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +8 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$33.0M/yr20.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
+3.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
52%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 565 sellers

Flapen Score

Face Wash against its category

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

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

Market

The Face Wash market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Face Wash 20.5M times last year and spent an estimated $33.0M. The top 5 brands take 86% of clicks. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 13.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 20.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 13.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +3.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $33.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
20.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+3.8%
Conversion, latest week
13.1%
Market size, estimated
$33.0Ma year
Peak month
July1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
face wash6.5M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.38.

Listings sell for $12.38 on average, from $4.21 to $18.64. 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 100,000 to 125,000 of them. At $12.38 that is $1.2M to $1.5M a year per listing.

Average price
$12.38under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.21–$18.64
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
100,000–125,000
Revenue per listing a year
$1.2M–$1.5M
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

93% 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 #21 within Cleansers. It carries 44,113 reviews at 4.66 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
93%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#21in Cleansers
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
44,113per listing
Listings tracked
30

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 73 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
73 months

Products

Top Face 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 52% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

14 rising

Sellers

565

Top-5 brand share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

52%

Top 20: 89%

Open market

12%

  • Brand 167%
  • Brand 29%
  • Brand 34%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 12%)

Demand

Face Wash search demand

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

600K400KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Face Wash search terms shoppers use

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

  • face wash6.5M/yr
  • cerave face wash4.0M/yr
  • facial cleanser1.3M/yr
  • face cleanser1.1M/yr
  • face wash for women1.0M/yr
  • cerave hydrating facial cleanser620K/yr
  • cleanser706K/yr
  • cetaphil face wash1.3M/yr
  • cerave foaming facial cleanser636K/yr
  • mens face wash510K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Face Wash

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Cleansing”
11%of negative reviews mention “Allergies”
0.5%of orders come back
“Skin irritation”
A buyer, on “Allergies”11% 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 Face Wash questions

Answered from the same tracked data.