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Lip Butter

Fail

Demand is soft, at -46.4% this quarter, so Lip Butter is a Fail.

Flapen Score
38
38 / 100
Ranks 1,082 of 1,260 Kosmetik niches · −9 vs the category median of 47
Market size
€74K/yr225K searches / yr
90-day growth
-46.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
43%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 119 sellers

Flapen Score

Lip Butter against its category

The dotted line is the Kosmetik average. Past it, Lip Butter is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

38Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lip Butter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon Germany searched for Lip Butter 225K times last year and spent an estimated €74K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 38 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 225K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon Germany for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -46.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated €74K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
225K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-46.4%
Conversion, latest week
5.3%
Market size, estimated
€74Ka year
Peak month
November2.5× the quietest month
Top search term
vaseline lip balm112K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth €6.18.

Listings sell for €6.18 on average, from €2.96 to €20.02. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At €6.18 that is €2K to €3K a year per listing.

Average price
€6.18under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
€2.96–€20.02
Amazon Germany median price
€18.99across 29,809 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
€2K–€3K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon Germany median 1.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

71% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #181 within Gesicht. It carries 4,438 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
71%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.5%
Average rank
#181in Gesicht
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon Germany average 4.37 stars
Average reviews
4,438per listing
Listings tracked
35

04 · Newcomers

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

4 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 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Lip Butter 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 43% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

9 rising

Sellers

119

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 88%

Open market

2%

  • Brand 193%
  • Brand 22%
  • Brand 31%
  • Brand 41%
  • Brand 51%
  • Brand 61%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 2%)

Demand

Lip Butter search demand

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

10K6KSpike '24Black Friday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.5×

Search terms

Top Lip Butter search terms shoppers use

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

  • vaseline lip balm112K/yr
  • vaseline lip therapy22K/yr
  • vaseline stick16K/yr
  • vaseline lip16K/yr
  • mini vaseline16K/yr
  • vaseline lippen11K/yr
  • vaseline mini9K/yr
  • vaseline lippenpflege6K/yr
  • vaseline rosy lips5K/yr
  • lippenpflege vaseline4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lip Butter

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

13%of positive reviews mention “Qualität insgesamt”
13%of negative reviews mention “Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis”
0.2%of orders come back
“eigentlich unverschämt überteuert”
A buyer, on “Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis”13% 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 Lip Butter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.