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Japanese Skincare

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Japanese Skincare is a Fail.

Flapen Score
38
38 / 100
Ranks 2,131 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −9 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£96K/yr165K searches / yr
90-day growth
+3.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
80%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 121 sellers

Flapen Score

Japanese Skincare against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Japanese Skincare is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Japanese Skincare market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Japanese Skincare 165K times last year and spent an estimated £96K. All 5 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Jan–Dec. Flapen scores it 38 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 165K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +3.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £96K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
165K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+3.7%
Conversion, latest week
5.5%
Market size, estimated
£96Ka year
Peak month
January2.4× the quietest month
Top search term
beauty of joseon serum42K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.55.

Listings sell for £10.55 on average, from £4.87 to £25.84. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £10.55 that is £5K to £8K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.55under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.87–£25.84
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
£5K–£8K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #109 within Face. It carries 6,264 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.9%
Average rank
#109in Face
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,264per listing
Listings tracked
12

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 43 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
43 months

Products

Top Japanese Skincare 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 80% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

5 falling

Sellers

121

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 172%
  • Brand 29%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 47%
  • Brand 53%

Demand

Japanese Skincare search demand

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

7K5KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.4×

Search terms

Top Japanese Skincare search terms shoppers use

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

  • beauty of joseon serum42K/yr
  • beauty of joseon glow serum24K/yr
  • glow serum21K/yr
  • skin glow8K/yr
  • beauty of joseon glow deep serum7K/yr
  • glowing skin products6K/yr
  • byoma phyto mucin glow serum7K/yr
  • nivea luminous skin glow5K/yr
  • skin glow for face6K/yr
  • glow skin5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Japanese Skincare

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Suitability Combination Skin”
11%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.1%of orders come back
“the stickiness remained”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”11% 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 Japanese Skincare questions

Answered from the same tracked data.