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Hair Smoothing Cream

Fail

The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Hair Smoothing Cream is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 6,474 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −3 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$389K/yr265K searches / yr
90-day growth
+4.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
81%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 53 sellers

Flapen Score

Hair Smoothing Cream against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Hair Smoothing Cream is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hair Smoothing Cream market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hair Smoothing Cream 265K times last year and spent an estimated $389K. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 265K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +4.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $389K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
265K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+4.1%
Conversion, latest week
9.6%
Market size, estimated
$389Ka year
Peak month
January3.4× the quietest month
Top search term
hair smoothing cream59K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $15.29.

Listings sell for $15.29 on average, from $7.68 to $27.24. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 25K to 30K a year. The average listing sells 2,500 to 3,000 of them. At $15.29 that is $38K to $46K a year per listing.

Average price
$15.29inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.68–$27.24
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
25K–30K
Units per listing a year
2,500–3,000
Revenue per listing a year
$38K–$46K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

80% 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 #151 within Creams & Lotions. It carries 8,976 reviews at 4.62 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#151in Creams & Lotions
Average rating
4.62 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,976per listing
Listings tracked
10

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 85 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
85 months

Products

Top Hair Smoothing Cream 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 81% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

6 flat

Sellers

53

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 173%
  • Brand 28%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Hair Smoothing Cream search demand

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

30K20KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.4×

Search terms

Top Hair Smoothing Cream search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair smoothing cream59K/yr
  • bed head after party41K/yr
  • smoothing cream23K/yr
  • after party bed head20K/yr
  • bed head after party smoothing cream17K/yr
  • smoothing hair products25K/yr
  • bedhead after party18K/yr
  • smoothing hair cream12K/yr
  • hair smoothing14K/yr
  • smoothing cream for frizzy hair12K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hair Smoothing Cream

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

17%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
11%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.8%of orders come back
“It smells awful”
A buyer, on “Smell”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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Hair Smoothing Cream questions

Answered from the same tracked data.