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Heel Balm

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Heel Balm is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Top 39% of 2,481 Beauty niches · +2 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£802K/yr455K searches / yr
90-day growth
+22.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
72%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 83 sellers

Flapen Score

Heel Balm against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Heel Balm is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Heel Balm market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Heel Balm 455K times last year and spent an estimated £802K. All 5 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Apr–May–Jun–Jul. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 18.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 455K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 18.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +22.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £802K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
455K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+22.1%
Conversion, latest week
18.9%
Market size, estimated
£802Ka year
Peak month
May3.8× the quietest month
Top search term
flexitol heel balm145K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.33.

Listings sell for £9.33 on average, from £3.72 to £22.05. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £9.33 that is £28K to £37K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.33under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.72–£22.05
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£28K–£37K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

85% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 85% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #53 within Hands & Feet. It carries 10,842 reviews at 4.57 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
85%
Prime listings
85%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#53in Hands & Feet
Average rating
4.57 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
10,842per listing
Listings tracked
13

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 41 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
41 months

Products

Top Heel Balm products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 21, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 72% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£80K£160K£241K£321K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

5 rising

Sellers

83

Est. top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Flexitol84%
  • Dermatonics7%
  • Dr. Scholl's5%
  • Bieteky2%
  • O'Keeffe's2%

Demand

Heel Balm search demand

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

13K8KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Apr, May, Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.8×

Search terms

Top Heel Balm search terms shoppers use

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

  • flexitol heel balm145K/yr
  • flexitol100K/yr
  • flexitol foot cream49K/yr
  • heel balm42K/yr
  • foot balm22K/yr
  • flexitol cracked heel balm6K/yr
  • flexitol hard skin and callus balm13K/yr
  • dermatonics once heel balm7K/yr
  • heel balm for cracked heel10K/yr
  • scholl cracked heel repair cream9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Heel Balm

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
23%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“Didn't work for me”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”23% 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.

22 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Heel Balm questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data