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Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $5.0M a year here. But the top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser 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
$5.0M/yr2.4M searches / yr
90-day growth
+2.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
60%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 58 sellers

Flapen Score

Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser against its category

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

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

Market

The Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser 2.4M times last year and spent an estimated $5.0M. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.4M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.6% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +2.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $5.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.4M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+2.1%
Conversion, latest week
10.6%
Market size, estimated
$5.0Ma year
Peak month
March1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
salicylic acid cleanser585K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $19.41.

Listings sell for $19.41 on average, from $8.15 to $39.67. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 200K to 250K a year. The average listing sells 12,500 to 15,000 of them. At $19.41 that is $243K to $291K a year per listing.

Average price
$19.41inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$8.15–$39.67
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
200K–250K
Units per listing a year
12,500–15,000
Revenue per listing a year
$243K–$291K
Returns
0.6%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

81% 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 #59 within Cleansers. It carries 21,745 reviews at 4.61 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
81%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#59in Cleansers
Average rating
4.61 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
21,745per listing
Listings tracked
21

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 73 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
73 months

Products

Top Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser 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 60% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

7 rising

Sellers

58

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

60%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

1%

  • Brand 143%
  • Brand 238%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Demand

Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser search demand

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

70K50KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser search terms shoppers use

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

  • salicylic acid cleanser585K/yr
  • salicylic acid face wash320K/yr
  • cerave sa cleanser254K/yr
  • la roche posay effaclar289K/yr
  • cerave renewing sa cleanser139K/yr
  • effaclar175K/yr
  • cerave salicylic acid cleanser84K/yr
  • effaclar medicated gel cleanser58K/yr
  • sa cleanser55K/yr
  • la roche posay acne treatment74K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Suitability Combination Skin”
10%of negative reviews mention “Allergies”
0.6%of orders come back
“was so itchy”
A buyer, on “Allergies”10% 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 Salicylic Acid Face Cleanser questions

Answered from the same tracked data.