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Disinfectant

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 94% of clicks, so Disinfectant is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 21% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +7 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$670K/yr784K searches / yr
90-day growth
+8.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
34%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 726 sellers

Flapen Score

Disinfectant against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Disinfectant is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Disinfectant market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Disinfectant 784K times last year and spent an estimated $670K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 784K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +8.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $670K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
784K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+8.4%
Conversion, latest week
7.7%
Market size, estimated
$670Ka year
Peak month
January1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
clorox scentiva124K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.10.

Listings sell for $11.10 on average, from $3.02 to $69.76. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $11.10 that is $11K to $14K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.10under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.02–$69.76
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$11K–$14K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

51% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #181 within All-Purpose Cleaners. It carries 14,211 reviews at 4.71 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
51%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
1.8%
Average rank
#181in All-Purpose Cleaners
Average rating
4.71 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
14,211per listing
Listings tracked
61

04 · Newcomers

8 of last year's 8 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

8 products launched here in the last 12 months. 8 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 72 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
8
Successful launches
8Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
72 months

Products

Top Disinfectant 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

12 rising

Sellers

726

Top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

34%

Top 20: 69%

Open market

3%

  • Brand 160%
  • Brand 226%
  • Brand 33%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 3%)

Demand

Disinfectant search demand

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

20K15KBlack Friday '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Disinfectant search terms shoppers use

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

  • clorox scentiva124K/yr
  • scentiva94K/yr
  • disinfectant112K/yr
  • clorox disinfecting spray60K/yr
  • lysol brand new day52K/yr
  • disinfecting cleaner55K/yr
  • clorox scentiva spray41K/yr
  • desinfectante26K/yr
  • clorox spray disinfectant21K/yr
  • clorox disinfectant spray24K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Disinfectant

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

37%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
23%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Very faint smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”23% 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 Disinfectant questions

Answered from the same tracked data.