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Scalp Oil

Maybe

An estimated 0.8% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -19.9% this quarter, so Scalp Oil is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 12% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +10 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$584K/yr891K searches / yr
90-day growth
-19.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
45%top-5 click share · 24 brands · 644 sellers

Flapen Score

Scalp Oil against its category

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

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Scalp Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Scalp Oil 891K times last year and spent an estimated $584K. The top 5 brands take 55% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Mar. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 891K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -19.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $584K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
891K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-19.9%
Conversion, latest week
4.5%
Market size, estimated
$584Ka year
Peak month
January2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
scalp oil446K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $14.57.

Listings sell for $14.57 on average, from $5.48 to $41.07. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $14.57 that is $15K to $18K a year per listing.

Average price
$14.57under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.48–$41.07
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$15K–$18K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

97% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #110 within Hair Treatment Oils. It carries 14,907 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
97%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.2%
Average rank
#110in Hair Treatment Oils
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
14,907per listing
Listings tracked
37

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 53 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
53 months

Products

Top Scalp Oil 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 45% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

24 falling

Sellers

644

Top-5 brand share

55%

Top 20: 97%

Top-5 click share

45%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

39%

  • Brand 117%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Scalp Oil search demand

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

25K15KSpike '24Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Mar · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Scalp Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • scalp oil446K/yr
  • hair growth oil for black women66K/yr
  • growth oil39K/yr
  • hair oil for dry scalp34K/yr
  • hair oil for black women34K/yr
  • kitsch hair oil23K/yr
  • pre wash hair oil28K/yr
  • hair oiling38K/yr
  • rbh hair food growth oil19K/yr
  • hair scalp oil26K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Scalp Oil

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

17%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
12%of negative reviews mention “Oily/Greasy”
0.8%of orders come back
“Very greasy”
A buyer, on “Oily/Greasy”12% 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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Scalp Oil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.