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Essential Oil

Maybe

An estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But prices span $3.33–$14.71, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Essential Oil is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
52
52 / 100
Top 33% of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · +4 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£1.1M/yr2.5M searches / yr
90-day growth
-19.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 18 brands · 23 sellers

Flapen Score

Essential Oil against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Essential Oil is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

52Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Essential Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Essential Oil 2.5M times last year and spent an estimated £1.1M. The top 5 brands take 68% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 52 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.5M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -19.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.1M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.5M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-19.7%
Conversion, latest week
5.3%
Market size, estimated
£1.1Ma year
Peak month
December2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
essential oils for diffusers for home471K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.98.

Listings sell for £7.98 on average, from £3.33 to £14.71. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 100K to 125K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £7.98 that is £24K to £32K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.98under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.33–£14.71
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
100K–125K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£24K–£32K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 11.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #12 within Alternative Medicine. It carries 7,696 reviews at 4.41 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
11.1%
Average rank
#12in Alternative Medicine
Average rating
4.41 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
7,696per listing
Listings tracked
28

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 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 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Essential Oil 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 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£106K£213K£319K£426K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

18 falling

Sellers

23

Est. top-5 brand share

68%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

27%

  • Livaano22%
  • MAYJAM18%
  • nikura18%
  • WECONA5%
  • Pure Aroma5%
  • Aoruilia5%

Demand

Essential Oil search demand

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

90K70KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Essential Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • essential oils for diffusers for home471K/yr
  • essential oil650K/yr
  • diffuser oil424K/yr
  • essential oils217K/yr
  • fragrance oil109K/yr
  • nikura essential oils98K/yr
  • aromatherapy oil83K/yr
  • essential oils set86K/yr
  • oil for diffuser51K/yr
  • diffuser oils57K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Essential Oil

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

57%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
49%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.3%of orders come back
“very weak aroma's”
A buyer, on “Smell”49% 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 Essential Oil 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