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Nipple Balm

Fail

The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks, so Nipple Balm is a Fail.

Flapen Score
37
37 / 100
Ranks 550 of 638 Baby Products niches · −10 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£101K/yr80K searches / yr
90-day growth
-28.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
76%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 53 sellers

Flapen Score

Nipple Balm against its category

The dotted line is the Baby Products average. Past it, Nipple Balm is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

37Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Nipple Balm market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Nipple Balm 80K times last year and spent an estimated £101K. The top 5 brands take 96% of clicks. Flapen scores it 37 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 80K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -28.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £101K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
80K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-28.4%
Conversion, latest week
10.4%
Market size, estimated
£101Ka year
Peak month
January1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
nipple balm53K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £12.21.

Listings sell for £12.21 on average, from £4.78 to £36.23. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £12.21 that is £6K to £9K a year per listing.

Average price
£12.21under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.78–£36.23
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£6K–£9K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

86% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 71% ship with Prime. On an average day, 13.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #88 within Nursing & Feeding. It carries 7,205 reviews at 4.72 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
86%
Prime listings
71%
Out of stock, average day
13.0%
Average rank
#88in Nursing & Feeding
Average rating
4.72 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
7,205per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

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

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 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
4
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
59 months

Products

Top Nipple Balm 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 76% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

7 flat

Sellers

53

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

2%

  • Brand 151%
  • Brand 220%
  • Brand 317%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 2%)

Demand

Nipple Balm search demand

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

3K2KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Nipple Balm search terms shoppers use

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

  • nipple balm53K/yr
  • dr lipp11K/yr
  • dr lipp nipple balm for lips11K/yr
  • nipple balm breastfeeding5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Nipple Balm

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
12%of negative reviews mention “Value For Money”
0.3%of orders come back
“Little bit pricey though”
A buyer, on “Value For Money”12% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Nipple Balm questions

Answered from the same tracked data.