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Lye for Soap Making Organic

Maybe

An estimated 0.0% of orders come back. But the products selling today already average 4.7★, so Lye for Soap Making Organic is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
54
54 / 100
Top 28% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +5 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$1.6M/yr504K searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
70%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 20 sellers

Flapen Score

Lye for Soap Making Organic against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Lye for Soap Making Organic is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

54Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lye for Soap Making Organic market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Lye for Soap Making Organic 504K times last year and spent an estimated $1.6M. The top 5 brands take 81% of clicks. Demand peaks in Feb–Mar–Apr–May. Flapen scores it 54 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 504K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $1.6M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
504K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.4%
Conversion, latest week
8.5%
Market size, estimated
$1.6Ma year
Peak month
March2.0× the quietest month
Top search term
lye for soap making239K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $36.39.

Listings sell for $36.39 on average, from $4.61 to $151.55. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At $36.39 that is $73K to $91K a year per listing.

Average price
$36.39inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.61–$151.55
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
$73K–$91K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

75% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 81% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #102 within Drain Openers. It carries 2,293 reviews at 4.69 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
75%
Prime listings
81%
Out of stock, average day
0.8%
Average rank
#102in Drain Openers
Average rating
4.69 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
2,293per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 59 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
59 months

Products

Top Lye for Soap Making Organic 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 70% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

20

Top-5 brand share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

14%

  • Brand 130%
  • Brand 223%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 410%
  • Brand 57%
  • Brand 65%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 14%)

Demand

Lye for Soap Making Organic search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Feb, Mar, Apr, May · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Search terms

Top Lye for Soap Making Organic search terms shoppers use

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

  • lye for soap making239K/yr
  • lye196K/yr
  • lye powder13K/yr
  • lye for soap making organic13K/yr
  • 100% lye5K/yr
  • soap lye5K/yr
  • lye for soap6K/yr
  • soap making lye6K/yr
  • lye crystals4K/yr
  • soap lye for soap making3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lye for Soap Making Organic

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
33%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Did not work”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”33% 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.

15 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Lye for Soap Making Organic questions

Answered from the same tracked data.