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Fake Tan

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But the top 5 brands take 95% of clicks, so Fake Tan is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 13% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +9 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£1.2M/yr2.0M searches / yr
90-day growth
+35.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
55%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 172 sellers

Flapen Score

Fake Tan against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Fake Tan is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Fake Tan market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Fake Tan 2.0M times last year and spent an estimated £1.2M. The top 5 brands take 95% of clicks. Demand peaks in Apr–May–Jun–Jul. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.0M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +35.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.2M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.0M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+35.4%
Conversion, latest week
7.5%
Market size, estimated
£1.2Ma year
Peak month
May2.2× the quietest month
Top search term
fake tan816K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.09.

Listings sell for £8.09 on average, from £3.36 to £18.42. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 150K to 200K a year. The average listing sells 5,000 to 6,000 of them. At £8.09 that is £40K to £49K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.09under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.36–£18.42
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
150K–200K
Units per listing a year
5,000–6,000
Revenue per listing a year
£40K–£49K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

88% 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 Styling Products. It carries 6,800 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
88%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#17in Styling Products
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,800per listing
Listings tracked
24

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Fake Tan 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 55% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

172

Top-5 brand share

95%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

55%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

3%

  • Brand 144%
  • Brand 236%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 3%)

Demand

Fake Tan search demand

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

70K50KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr, May, Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.2×

Search terms

Top Fake Tan search terms shoppers use

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

  • fake tan816K/yr
  • bondi sands tan236K/yr
  • tan256K/yr
  • bondi sands149K/yr
  • self tan112K/yr
  • tanning56K/yr
  • st moriz tan78K/yr
  • bondi80K/yr
  • false tan31K/yr
  • effin tan26K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Fake Tan

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Color”
26%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“The smell was absolutely disgusting”
A buyer, on “Smell”26% 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 Fake Tan questions

Answered from the same tracked data.