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Retinol Cream

Fail

The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Retinol Cream 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
£214K/yr172K searches / yr
90-day growth
-16.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
78%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 69 sellers

Flapen Score

Retinol Cream against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty average. Past it, Retinol Cream is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Retinol Cream market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Retinol Cream 172K times last year and spent an estimated £214K. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 172K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -16.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £214K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
172K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-16.6%
Conversion, latest week
10.0%
Market size, estimated
£214Ka year
Peak month
August1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
olay retinol 24 night cream41K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £12.43.

Listings sell for £12.43 on average, from £7.44 to £21.83. 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 £12.43 that is £9K to £12K a year per listing.

Average price
£12.43under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£7.44–£21.83
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
£9K–£12K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

71% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #139 within Make-up. It carries 3,600 reviews at 4.19 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
71%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
7.3%
Average rank
#139in Make-up
Average rating
4.19 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,600per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 3 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

3 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 48 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
48 months

Products

Top Retinol Cream 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 78% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

69

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

78%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 176%
  • Brand 29%
  • Brand 36%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%

Demand

Retinol Cream search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top Retinol Cream search terms shoppers use

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

  • olay retinol 24 night cream41K/yr
  • retinol night cream28K/yr
  • olay retinol19K/yr
  • olay retinol 24 max night cream9K/yr
  • eclat skincare14K/yr
  • retinol moisturiser9K/yr
  • eclat10K/yr
  • retinol night cream for face7K/yr
  • kleem7K/yr
  • olay retinol 247K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Retinol Cream

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

13%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
11%of negative reviews mention “Allergies”
0.1%of orders come back
“it brought my face up in a rash”
A buyer, on “Allergies”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 Retinol Cream questions

Answered from the same tracked data.