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Fabric Softener Pods

Fail

The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Fabric Softener Pods is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 7,720 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −1 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$638K/yr331K searches / yr
90-day growth
-16.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
61%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 145 sellers

Flapen Score

Fabric Softener Pods against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Fabric Softener Pods market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Fabric Softener Pods 331K times last year and spent an estimated $638K. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 331K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -16.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $638K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
331K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-16.0%
Conversion, latest week
9.0%
Market size, estimated
$638Ka year
Peak month
December2.4× the quietest month
Top search term
fabric softener pods73K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $21.46.

Listings sell for $21.46 on average, from $6.24 to $41.08. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $21.46 that is $21K to $27K a year per listing.

Average price
$21.46inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.24–$41.08
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$21K–$27K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

68% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 95% ship with Prime. On an average day, 10.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #301 within Laundry. It carries 34,130 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
68%
Prime listings
95%
Out of stock, average day
10.0%
Average rank
#301in Laundry
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
34,130per listing
Listings tracked
22

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 51 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
51 months

Products

Top Fabric Softener Pods 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 61% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

145

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

61%

Top 20: 98%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 168%
  • Brand 214%
  • Brand 311%
  • Brand 43%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 62%

Demand

Fabric Softener Pods search demand

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

23K18KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×

Search terms

Top Fabric Softener Pods search terms shoppers use

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

  • fabric softener pods73K/yr
  • tide pods with downy60K/yr
  • tide pods downy22K/yr
  • snuggle pods28K/yr
  • tide downy pods17K/yr
  • snuggle scent booster pods29K/yr
  • laundry softener pods13K/yr
  • softener pods11K/yr
  • snuggle fabric softener pods13K/yr
  • tide pods with downy fabric softener9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Fabric Softener Pods

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

40%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
20%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.2%of orders come back
“It had a very unpleasant smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”20% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Fabric Softener Pods questions

Answered from the same tracked data.