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Mens Lip Balm

Fail

Prices span $1.17–$15.09, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Mens Lip Balm is a Fail.

Flapen Score
35
35 / 100
Ranks 2,315 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −12 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£75K/yr127K searches / yr
90-day growth
-36.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
73%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 189 sellers

Flapen Score

Mens Lip Balm against its category

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

35Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mens Lip Balm market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Mens Lip Balm 127K times last year and spent an estimated £75K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Flapen scores it 35 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 127K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -36.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £75K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
127K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-36.1%
Conversion, latest week
11.7%
Market size, estimated
£75Ka year
Top search term
beeswax lip balm24K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.03.

Listings sell for £5.03 on average, from £1.17 to £15.09. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £5.03 that is £4K to £5K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.03under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.17–£15.09
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£4K–£5K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

79% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 93% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #241 within Lips. It carries 8,126 reviews at 4.54 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
79%
Prime listings
93%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#241in Lips
Average rating
4.54 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
8,126per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 41 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
41 months

Products

Top Mens Lip 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 73% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

9 flat

Sellers

189

Top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

73%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

9%

  • Brand 150%
  • Brand 212%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 9%)

Demand

Mens Lip Balm search demand

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

9K7KSpike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: May, Jun, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 7.2× · 10 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Mens Lip Balm search terms shoppers use

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

  • beeswax lip balm24K/yr
  • mens lip balm31K/yr
  • neutrogena lip balm21K/yr
  • lip balm men22K/yr
  • lip balm for men13K/yr
  • bee lip balm6K/yr
  • neutrogena lip balm stick2K/yr
  • men lip balm6K/yr
  • neutrogena lip2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mens Lip Balm

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
25%of negative reviews mention “Moist/Dry”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“No moisture”
A buyer, on “Moist/Dry”25% 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 Mens Lip Balm questions

Answered from the same tracked data.