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Lip Balm Tin

Fail

Prices span $0.87–$12.43, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Lip Balm Tin is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 1,399 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −2 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£382K/yr634K searches / yr
90-day growth
-28.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
51%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 224 sellers

Flapen Score

Lip Balm Tin against its category

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

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lip Balm Tin market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Lip Balm Tin 634K times last year and spent an estimated £382K. The top 5 brands take 94% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 13.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 634K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 13.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -28.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £382K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
634K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-28.1%
Conversion, latest week
13.1%
Market size, estimated
£382Ka year
Top search term
vaseline lip balm357K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.59.

Listings sell for £4.59 on average, from £0.87 to £12.43. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At £4.59 that is £9K to £11K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.59under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£0.87–£12.43
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
£9K–£11K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

46% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #187 within Lips. It carries 2,525 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
46%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.1%
Average rank
#187in Lips
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
2,525per listing
Listings tracked
26

04 · Newcomers

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

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 39 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
39 months

Products

Top Lip Balm Tin 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 51% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£19K£38K£57K£76K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

224

Est. top-5 brand share

94%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

51%

Top 20: 94%

Open market

4%

  • Vaseline60%
  • Brylcreem18%
  • Generic7%
  • TRESemmé7%
  • Haiyox2%
  • SALROAL2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 4%)

Demand

Lip Balm Tin search demand

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

30K20KSpike '25Holiday '25SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Jan, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.7× · 11 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Lip Balm Tin search terms shoppers use

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

  • vaseline lip balm357K/yr
  • vaseline lip62K/yr
  • vaseline lip therapy63K/yr
  • lip balm vaseline32K/yr
  • vaseline tin21K/yr
  • vaseline lips therapy16K/yr
  • vaseline tube12K/yr
  • lip vaseline9K/yr
  • vaseline lips7K/yr
  • original vaseline lip balm6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lip Balm Tin

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
12%of negative reviews mention “Moist/Dry”
0.1%of orders come back
“Not moisturising enough”
A buyer, on “Moist/Dry”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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Lip Balm Tin 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