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Hand Soap

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $30.5M a year here. But the average product has 37,597 reviews to catch up to, so Hand Soap is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
61
61 / 100
Top 7% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +13 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$30.5M/yr22.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
+7.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
35%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 818 sellers

Flapen Score

Hand Soap against its category

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

61Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Hand Soap market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Hand Soap 22.0M times last year and spent an estimated $30.5M. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Flapen scores it 61 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 15.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 22.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 15.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +7.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $30.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
22.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+7.8%
Conversion, latest week
15.1%
Market size, estimated
$30.5Ma year
Peak month
July1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
hand soap11.3M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.18.

Listings sell for $9.18 on average, from $1.25 to $29.90. 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 $9.18 that is $367K to $459K a year per listing.

Average price
$9.18under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$1.25–$29.90
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
$367K–$459K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

65% 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 #33 within Cleansers. It carries 37,597 reviews at 4.68 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
65%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#33in Cleansers
Average rating
4.68 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
37,597per listing
Listings tracked
49

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 76 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
76 months

Products

Top Hand Soap products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 15, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 35% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

$0$1.2M$2.4M$3.7M$4.9M1K10K100K1.0M Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

12 falling

Sellers

818

Est. top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

35%

Top 20: 73%

Open market

8%

  • Mrs. MEYER'S34%
  • Softsoap23%
  • Amazon Basics20%
  • Dial10%
  • Native3%
  • Method2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 8%)

Demand

Hand Soap search demand

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

600K400KPrime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Hand Soap search terms shoppers use

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

  • hand soap11.3M/yr
  • soap3.5M/yr
  • meyers hand soap1.1M/yr
  • mrs meyers hand soap1.1M/yr
  • antibacterial hand soap992K/yr
  • liquid hand soap587K/yr
  • hand wash445K/yr
  • hand soap antibacterial435K/yr
  • soft soap396K/yr
  • handsoap336K/yr

FAQ

Common Hand Soap questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data