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Medical Gloves

Fail

Prices span $2.56–$8.62, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Medical Gloves is a Fail.

Flapen Score
47
47 / 100
Ranks 422 of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · −2 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£131K/yr203K searches / yr
90-day growth
-9.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
42%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 37 sellers

Flapen Score

Medical Gloves against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, Medical Gloves is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

47Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Medical Gloves market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Medical Gloves 203K times last year and spent an estimated £131K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Flapen scores it 47 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 14.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 203K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 14.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -9.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £131K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
203K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-9.5%
Conversion, latest week
14.7%
Market size, estimated
£131Ka year
Peak month
February1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
medical gloves70K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.41.

Listings sell for £4.41 on average, from £2.56 to £8.62. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 40K to 50K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At £4.41 that is £3K to £4K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.41under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£2.56–£8.62
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
40K–50K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
£3K–£4K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

85% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 70% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.8% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #22 within Professional Medical Supplies. It carries 5,973 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
85%
Prime listings
70%
Out of stock, average day
1.8%
Average rank
#22in Professional Medical Supplies
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
5,973per listing
Listings tracked
40

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 58 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Medical Gloves 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 42% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£4K£8K£12K£16K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 rising

Sellers

37

Est. top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

42%

Top 20: 81%

Open market

9%

  • PRAIMA36%
  • by Amazon22%
  • Farla Medical19%
  • UNIGLOVES6%
  • firmsafeT5%
  • eatasty3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 9%)

Demand

Medical Gloves search demand

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

5K3KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Medical Gloves search terms shoppers use

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

  • medical gloves70K/yr
  • large disposable gloves18K/yr
  • non latex gloves15K/yr
  • medical gloves medium11K/yr
  • blue nitrile gloves medium10K/yr
  • plastic gloves disposable large13K/yr
  • surgical gloves medium11K/yr
  • latex free gloves medium11K/yr
  • blue nitrile gloves6K/yr
  • non latex gloves medium8K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Medical Gloves

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
27%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“Very tight”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”27% 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 Medical Gloves 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