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Plastic Gloves

Fail

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

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 388 of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · −1 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£55K/yr61K searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
37%top-5 click share · 21 brands · 43 sellers

Flapen Score

Plastic Gloves against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Plastic Gloves market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Plastic Gloves 61K times last year and spent an estimated £55K. The top 5 brands take 78% of clicks. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 19.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 61K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 19.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £55K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
61K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.5%
Conversion, latest week
19.8%
Market size, estimated
£55Ka year
Peak month
September1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
medical gloves medium11K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £4.58.

Listings sell for £4.58 on average, from £2.56 to £8.62. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £4.58 that is £1K to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£4.58under 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
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£2K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

87% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 68% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #32 within Professional Medical Supplies. It carries 4,935 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
87%
Prime listings
68%
Out of stock, average day
2.1%
Average rank
#32in Professional Medical Supplies
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
4,935per listing
Listings tracked
47

04 · Newcomers

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

1 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 58 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Plastic 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 37% of clicks, no more. An open shelf where new products get seen.

£0£2K£3K£5K£7K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

21 rising

Sellers

43

Est. top-5 brand share

78%

Top 20: 99%

Est. top-5 click share

37%

Top 20: 76%

Open market

17%

  • PRAIMA31%
  • Farla Medical18%
  • by Amazon18%
  • firmsafeT7%
  • Healthy Home5%
  • UNIGLOVES5%
  • Open — no brand owns it (15 brands, 17%)

Demand

Plastic Gloves search demand

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

2K1KSpike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top Plastic Gloves search terms shoppers use

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

  • medical gloves medium11K/yr
  • plastic gloves disposable large13K/yr
  • surgical gloves medium11K/yr
  • latex free gloves large7K/yr
  • non latex gloves medium8K/yr
  • plastic disposable gloves4K/yr
  • disposable plastic gloves4K/yr
  • examination gloves medium3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Plastic 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
“Not true to size”
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 Plastic 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