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Plumping Lip Balm

Fail

The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks, so Plumping Lip Balm is a Fail.

Flapen Score
42
42 / 100
Ranks 1,759 of 2,481 Beauty niches · −5 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£76K/yr170K searches / yr
90-day growth
-18.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
59%top-5 click share · 7 brands · 112 sellers

Flapen Score

Plumping Lip Balm against its category

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

42Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plumping Lip Balm market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Plumping Lip Balm 170K times last year and spent an estimated £76K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Flapen scores it 42 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 170K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £76K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
170K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-18.1%
Conversion, latest week
2.5%
Market size, estimated
£76Ka year
Top search term
dior lip oil50K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £17.78.

Listings sell for £17.78 on average, from £2.31 to £41.17. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £17.78 that is £4K to £9K a year per listing.

Average price
£17.78inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.31–£41.17
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£4K–£9K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

43% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 87% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #437 within Make-up. It carries 1,270 reviews at 4.34 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
43%
Prime listings
87%
Out of stock, average day
1.0%
Average rank
#437in Make-up
Average rating
4.34 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,270per listing
Listings tracked
23

04 · Newcomers

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

2 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 38 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
38 months

Products

Top Plumping 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 59% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

7 rising

Sellers

112

Top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

59%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

1%

  • Brand 157%
  • Brand 233%
  • Brand 33%
  • Brand 42%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 61%
  • Open — no brand owns it (1 brand, 1%)

Demand

Plumping Lip Balm search demand

Weekly searches over the year. Pick a range.

3K2KSpike '26Apr '26Apr '26May '26May '26May '26Jun '26Jun '26Jul '26

Search terms

Top Plumping Lip Balm search terms shoppers use

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

  • dior lip oil50K/yr
  • dior lip gloss36K/yr
  • plumping lip balm14K/yr
  • maybelline glaze lip balm5K/yr
  • maybelline lifter glaze14K/yr
  • dior lip9K/yr
  • lip plumping balm6K/yr
  • dior addict lip glow6K/yr
  • dior lip glow5K/yr
  • maybelline glaze4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plumping Lip Balm

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Moist/Dry”
11%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.2%of orders come back
“the pink will not show”
A buyer, on “Color”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.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Plumping Lip Balm questions

Answered from the same tracked data.