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Hand Cream

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $6.9M a year here. But demand is soft, at -23.8% this quarter, so Hand Cream is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
62
62 / 100
Top 5% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +14 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$6.9M/yr8.3M searches / yr
90-day growth
-23.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
34%top-5 click share · 33 brands · 247 sellers

Flapen Score

Hand Cream against its category

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

62Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hand Cream market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hand Cream 8.3M times last year and spent an estimated $6.9M. The top 5 brands take 59% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 62 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 8.3M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -23.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $6.9M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
8.3M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-23.8%
Conversion, latest week
7.2%
Market size, estimated
$6.9Ma year
Peak month
December4.1× the quietest month
Top search term
hand cream2.6M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.69.

Listings sell for $11.69 on average, from $2.01 to $33.12. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 600K to 800K a year. The average listing sells 10,000 to 12,500 of them. At $11.69 that is $117K to $146K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.69under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.01–$33.12
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
600K–800K
Units per listing a year
10,000–12,500
Revenue per listing a year
$117K–$146K
Returns
0.4%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, 0.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #94 within Foot & Hand Care. It carries 16,124 reviews at 4.66 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
84%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.5%
Average rank
#94in Foot & Hand Care
Average rating
4.66 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
16,124per listing
Listings tracked
58

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 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
5
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
71 months

Products

Top Hand 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 only 34% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

33 falling

Sellers

247

Top-5 brand share

59%

Top 20: 91%

Top-5 click share

34%

Top 20: 68%

Open market

37%

  • Brand 126%
  • Brand 214%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%

Demand

Hand Cream search demand

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

500K300KPrime Day '24Spike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.1×

Search terms

Top Hand Cream search terms shoppers use

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

  • hand cream2.6M/yr
  • hand lotion1.7M/yr
  • travel lotion452K/yr
  • travel size lotion435K/yr
  • hand lotion travel size491K/yr
  • hand cream for women484K/yr
  • mini lotion272K/yr
  • hand cream for dry cracked hands224K/yr
  • lotion travel size181K/yr
  • hand cream travel size210K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Hand Cream

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

27%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
19%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.4%of orders come back
“Smells like vomit”
A buyer, on “Smell”19% 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 Hand Cream questions

Answered from the same tracked data.