How competitive is the Washing Up Gloves niche on Amazon United Kingdom?

8 brands and 188 sellers compete in Washing Up Gloves on Amazon United Kingdom. The top 5 Washing Up Gloves products take 58% of clicks and its top 5 brands hold 96% of demand.

What do buyers complain about in Washing Up Gloves?

Washing Up Gloves buyers on Amazon United Kingdom complain most about Size-Overall, Quality-Overall, Durability, the themes mined from the niche's reviews. Its return rate is 0.1%.

What does it cost to enter the Washing Up Gloves niche?

Washing Up Gloves sells for £4.04 on average on Amazon United Kingdom, outside our $15–$100 sweet spot. Listings span £0.82–£12.48. The average incumbent carries 2,448 reviews — the moat a new listing must climb.

Washing Up Gloves

prices mostly outside the sweet spot ($0.82–$12.48) — Washing Up Gloves doesn't clear our bar today.

Flapen Score

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This niche Category average

Is Washing Up Gloves profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Washing Up Gloves is a £337K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (369K searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 96% of demand. Demand peaks in Jan. Verdict: Skip it — 46/100.

Washing Up Gloves: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Not really. Search demand moved -10.7% over the last 90 days and 22.6% of searches end in a purchase.

£337K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr100K

Search volume / yr-10.7%369K

Conversion rate22.6%

Avg price£4.04

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 96% of demand, so 4% of the market is open.

open market share

Brands · sellers8 · 188

Top-5 product click share58%

Open market4%

Avg brand age50 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 18 products

Top Washing Up Gloves 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

Elbow Grease Pink Rubber Gloves | Super Strong Cotton Lined Non-Slip Household Gloves (Medium - 1 Pack)

Price: £1.08
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 626
Age: 1y ago

MARIGOLD Extra Life kitchen Glove M (Pack of 3)

Price: £5.95
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 1,045
Age: 12y ago

MARIGOLD GLOVES KITCHEN MEDIUM MEDIUM | 6 PACK BUNDLE Yellow

Price: £9.45
Rating: 4.7/5
Reviews: 2,032
Age: 5y ago

Elbow Grease Rubber Gloves (Medium)

Price: £1.08
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 2,233
Age: 5y ago

Elbow Grease Rubber Gloves (Large)

Price: £1.25
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 1,212
Age: 6y ago

Newest

by launch date

Essentialz Yellow Latex Household Gloves Medium 1 Pair Reusable Powder-Free Flocklined Dishwashing Gloves with Rolled Cuff Durable Kitchen Laundry & Everyday Cleaning Gloves

Price: £1.39
Rating: 4.3/5
Reviews: 49
Age: 9mo ago

Scrub a Duck Rubber Cleaning Gloves | Washing Up

Price: £0.82
Rating: 4.4/5
Reviews: 94
Age: 1y ago

Elbow Grease Pink Rubber Gloves | Super Strong Cotton Lined Non-Slip Household Gloves (Medium - 1 Pack)

Price: £1.08
Rating: 4.5/5
Reviews: 626
Age: 1y ago

lakeland Medium Deluxe Washing Up Gloves White Latex & Rubber Free Suitable For Sensitive Skin

Price: £6.08
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 381
Age: 2y ago

PRAIMA Black Nitrile Disposable Gloves - Latex-Free Powder-Free Pack of 100 Strong and Puncture-Resistant Medical Food Handling Tatoo Barber Shop Gloves (Large)

Price: £4.70
Rating: 4.6/5
Reviews: 6,709
Age: 3y ago

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 58% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

188

Top-5 brand share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

58%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

Marigold48%
Elbow Grease35%
SOL7%
airpure4%
Essentialz3%
PRAIMA2%
Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 2%)

Washing Up Gloves demand & seasonality

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

Volume369KCVR22.6%Products18Brands8Top 5 Brands96%OOS Rate0.0%Rating4.5★Reviews2,448Avg BSR#88

Peak months: Jan · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Top Washing Up Gloves search terms shoppers use

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

washing up gloves112K/yr -12.2%16.1% conv.
marigold gloves medium84K/yr -3.5%27.1% conv.
rubber gloves large34K/yr -3.4%16.3% conv.
washing gloves21K/yr -14.7%11.4% conv.
washing up gloves medium17K/yr -33.1%23.1% conv.
large rubber gloves10K/yr -0.3%14.9% conv.
kitchen gloves for washing dishes12K/yr -21.0%9.0% conv.
dishwashing gloves11K/yr -16.7%7.0% conv.
cotton lined rubber gloves8K/yr -1.7%5.1% conv.
marigolds medium8K/yr -8.6%23.6% conv.

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Washing Up Gloves

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

What buyers love

85% of reviews

Quality-Overall23%

“Good quality performance”

Value For Money15%

“Great value”

Size-Overall13%

“Great size for me”

Grip8%

“Strong gloves”

Durability7%

“They last well”

What buyers complain about

77% of reviews

Size-Overall25%

“Bit small”

Quality-Overall12%

“Awful quality”

Durability12%

“breaks easily”

Thickness10%

“a bit thinner than expected”

Advertised Vs Actual Product6%

“Not as advertised”

Washing Up Gloves return rate & reasons

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

0.1%

Return rate

76%

Fixable by listing

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

1Size-Overall

69%

2Thin

3Durability

4Quality-Overall

5Material Quality

Common Washing Up Gloves questions

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

Flapen scores Washing Up Gloves 46/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Skip it. The niche generates £337K/yr across 18 tracked products. 0 of 1 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -10.7% over the last 90 days.