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Silica Gel

Fail

Demand is soft, at -20.0% this quarter, so Silica Gel is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 482 of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · −4 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£172K/yr170K searches / yr
90-day growth
-20.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
58%top-5 click share · 11 brands · 15 sellers

Flapen Score

Silica Gel against its category

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

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

Market

The Silica Gel market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Silica Gel 170K times last year and spent an estimated £172K. The top 5 brands take 86% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.4% 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 9.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -20.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £172K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
170K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-20.0%
Conversion, latest week
9.4%
Market size, estimated
£172Ka year
Peak month
February2.9× the quietest month
Top search term
silica gel95K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.83.

Listings sell for £10.83 on average, from £3.39 to £22.87. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £10.83 that is £5K to £8K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.83under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.39–£22.87
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£5K–£8K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

81% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #68 within Lab & Scientific Products. It carries 1,860 reviews at 4.60 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
81%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
6.1%
Average rank
#68in Lab & Scientific Products
Average rating
4.60 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,860per listing
Listings tracked
21

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 39 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
39 months

Products

Top Silica Gel 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 58% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£17K£34K£52K£69K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

11 falling

Sellers

15

Est. top-5 brand share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 99%

Open market

11%

  • Trustleaf35%
  • wisedry22%
  • Fonday15%
  • 1ABOVE9%
  • LotFancy5%
  • Yeather3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (5 brands, 11%)

Demand

Silica Gel search demand

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

5K4KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.9×

Search terms

Top Silica Gel search terms shoppers use

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

  • silica gel95K/yr
  • desiccant beads21K/yr
  • desiccant28K/yr
  • silica beads7K/yr
  • dessicant8K/yr
  • silica gel beads5K/yr
  • silica gel desiccant4K/yr
  • reusable desiccant3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Silica Gel

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
23%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.3%of orders come back
“As said in the description they turned a dark green colour”
A buyer, on “Color”23% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Silica Gel 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