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Floss

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $18.4M a year here. But the average product has 19,718 reviews to catch up to, so Floss 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
$18.4M/yr10.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
+2.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
59%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 130 sellers

Flapen Score

Floss against its category

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

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

Market

The Floss market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Floss 10.8M times last year and spent an estimated $18.4M. The top 5 brands take 91% of clicks. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 20.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 10.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 20.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +2.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $18.4M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
10.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+2.5%
Conversion, latest week
20.4%
Market size, estimated
$18.4Ma year
Peak month
June1.2× the quietest month
Top search term
floss5.3M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $8.35.

Listings sell for $8.35 on average, from $1.14 to $22.97. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 60,000 to 80,000 of them. At $8.35 that is $501K to $668K a year per listing.

Average price
$8.35under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$1.14–$22.97
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
60,000–80,000
Revenue per listing a year
$501K–$668K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

46% 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 #17 within Dental Floss & Picks. It carries 19,718 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
46%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#17in Dental Floss & Picks
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
19,718per listing
Listings tracked
26

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 56 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
0
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
56 months

Products

Top Floss 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 59% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

9 flat

Sellers

130

Top-5 brand share

91%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

59%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

5%

  • Brand 152%
  • Brand 220%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 5%)

Demand

Floss search demand

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

250K150KPrime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.2×

Search terms

Top Floss search terms shoppers use

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

  • floss5.3M/yr
  • dental floss2.9M/yr
  • glide dental floss504K/yr
  • oral b floss396K/yr
  • tooth floss233K/yr
  • hilo dental para dientes197K/yr
  • dental floss glide190K/yr
  • glide floss197K/yr
  • floss glide147K/yr
  • oral b glide floss142K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Floss

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.2%of orders come back
“Garbage quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Floss questions

Answered from the same tracked data.