How competitive is the Spot Plasters niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

12 brands and 39 sellers compete in Spot Plasters on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Spot Plasters products take 65% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 80% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Spot Plasters?

Spot Plasters buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Adhesion/Stickiness, Quality-Overall, Value For Money, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.1%.

What does it cost to enter the Spot Plasters niche?

Spot Plasters sells for £3.53 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £1.68–£6.93. The average incumbent carries 959 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Spot Plasters

Spot Plasters shows low returns (0.1%), but prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($1.68–$6.93) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

Worth a look

This niche Category average

Is Spot Plasters profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Spot Plasters is a £72K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (140K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 80% of demand. Demand peaks in May. Verdict: Worth a look — 52/100.

Spot Plasters: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved +20.7% over the last 90 days and 14.6% of searches end in a purchase.

£72K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr25K

Search volume / yr+20.7%140K

Conversion rate14.6%

Avg price£3.53

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 80% of demand, so 20% of the market is open.

20%

open market share

Brands · sellers12 · 39

Top-5 product click share65%

Open market20%

Avg brand age41 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.1★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 17 products

Top Spot Plasters products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Top sellers

by 90-day click share

JFA Medical Washproof Spot Plasters 22 x 22mm 100 Plasters Per Box

Price: £3.00
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 1,017
Age: 9y ago

Reliance Medical Dependaplast Washproof Spot Plasters With Protective Film Sterile Dressings To Soothe And Heal Non-Perforated Acrylic Low Allergy Adhesive (Pack of 100)

Price: £3.28
Rating: 4.0/5
Reviews: 3,815
Age: 9y ago

AriaPlast Sterile SPOT 100 Round First Aid Wound Plasters - 22mm x 22mm Beige 1 Count (1)

Price: £3.36
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 217
Age: 3y ago

SOL 200pk Small Round Spot Plasters 2.5cm Washproof Plasters for Kids & Adults Hypoallergenic for Sensitive Skin First Aid Kit Refill for Injection Sites Minor Cuts Grazes & Abrasions

Price: £4.88
Rating: 4.2/5
Reviews: 470
Age: 3y ago

Cutiderm Transparent Small Round Spot Plasters 22 x 22mm 200 Plasters Per Box

Price: £3.40
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 289
Age: 1y ago

Newest

by launch date

500Pcs Mole Plasters for Sunbed Heart Sun Tan Stickers Easy to Apply Waterproof PVC Heart Shape Sun Tanning Sticker for Body and Legs for Banquet or Mall Use

Price: £6.93
Rating: 0.0/5
Reviews: 0
Age: 3mo ago

120pcs Round Bandages 22mm/0.87in Elastic Fabric Circle Spot Adhesive Plasters Small Skin Friendly for Nose Hands Face Finger & Sensitive Skin

Price: £6.01
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 28
Age: 6mo ago

Elastoplast Second Skin Protection Plasters (6 Pieces) Hydrocolloid Waterproof Plasters with Advanced and Flexible Protection and Faster Wound Healing Ultra-Thin Plaster Strips

Price: £2.34
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 732
Age: 1y ago

Cutiderm Transparent Small Round Spot Plasters 22 x 22mm 200 Plasters Per Box

Price: £3.40
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 289
Age: 1y ago

Cutiderm Small Round Spot Plasters 22 x 22mm 100 Plasters Per Box

Price: £2.83
Rating: 4.1/5
Reviews: 357
Age: 1y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 65% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)1 product missing review or click data not plotted

Brands

12 rising

Sellers

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

65%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

15%

JFA Medical25%
Reliance Medical20%
Cutiderm16%
Arian Medical10%
SOL10%
Elastoplast5%
Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 15%)

Spot Plasters demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume140KCVR14.6%Products17Brands12Top 5 Brands80%OOS Rate4.6%Rating4.1★Reviews959Avg BSR#182

Peak months: May · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.0×

Top Spot Plasters search terms shoppers use

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

small round plasters24K/yr +40.7%16.4% conv.
round plasters26K/yr +21.4%13.3% conv.
spot plasters24K/yr -19.4%10.8% conv.
small plasters17K/yr +11.8%12.0% conv.
mole plasters for sunbed11K/yr +79.9%2.9% conv.
circle plasters7K/yr +71.2%15.8% conv.
spot plasters round6K/yr +35.1%16.7% conv.
small round plasters skin colour5K/yr +1.4%19.4% conv.
small circle plasters4K/yr +42.5%19.1% conv.
fabric spot plasters4K/yr +12.8%4.1% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Spot Plasters

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

80% of reviews

Quality-Overall19%

“Nice variety”

Adhesion/Stickiness18%

“Good adhesion”

Value For Money14%

“Affordable”

Advertised Vs Actual Product8%

“As advertised”

Size-Overall7%

“Perfect size”

What buyers complain about

80% of reviews

Adhesion/Stickiness50%

“Hardly any adhesion”

Quality-Overall6%

“Poor quality and come away easily”

Value For Money5%

“expensive”

Durability5%

“after a while peel off”

Water Resistance4%

“It would come off immediately after a very tiny contact with water”

Spot Plasters return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

0.1%

Return rate

24%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Adhesion/Stickiness

45%

2Size-Overall

22%

3Material Quality

10%

4Durability

5Skin Health

Common Spot Plasters questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Spot Plasters 52/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £72K/yr across 17 tracked products. 0 of 2 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved +20.7% over the last 90 days.