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Japanese Hair Wax

Fail

The top 5 products take 85% of clicks, so Japanese Hair Wax 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
$415K/yr326K searches / yr
90-day growth
-6.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
85%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 53 sellers

Flapen Score

Japanese Hair Wax against its category

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

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

Market

The Japanese Hair Wax market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Japanese Hair Wax 326K times last year and spent an estimated $415K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 326K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -6.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $415K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
326K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-6.0%
Conversion, latest week
10.4%
Market size, estimated
$415Ka year
Top search term
hair wax for men77K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.21.

Listings sell for $12.21 on average, from $5.72 to $23.99. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At $12.21 that is $24K to $31K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.21under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.72–$23.99
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
$24K–$31K
Returns
0.6%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 #37 within Clays. It carries 9,808 reviews at 4.50 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
#37in Clays
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
9,808per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 90 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
90 months

Products

Top Japanese Hair Wax 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 85% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

53

Top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

5%

  • Brand 160%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 5%)

Demand

Japanese Hair Wax search demand

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

18K13KSpike '26OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Feb · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.7× · 11 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Japanese Hair Wax search terms shoppers use

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

  • hair wax for men77K/yr
  • spider wax39K/yr
  • cera para cabello hombre35K/yr
  • mens hair wax32K/yr
  • hair wax men19K/yr
  • spider wax level 315K/yr
  • hair dough15K/yr
  • men hair wax15K/yr
  • styling wax12K/yr
  • cera para el cabello hombres10K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Japanese Hair Wax

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

14%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
11%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.6%of orders come back
“Smells weird”
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 Japanese Hair Wax questions

Answered from the same tracked data.