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Evening Primrose Oil

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -10.7% this quarter, so Evening Primrose Oil is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
51
51 / 100
Top 36% of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · +3 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£566K/yr388K searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
63%top-5 click share · 15 brands · 55 sellers

Flapen Score

Evening Primrose Oil against its category

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

51Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Evening Primrose Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Evening Primrose Oil 388K times last year and spent an estimated £566K. The top 5 brands take 74% of clicks. Flapen scores it 51 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 14.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 388K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 14.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £566K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
388K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.7%
Conversion, latest week
14.2%
Market size, estimated
£566Ka year
Peak month
October1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
evening primrose oil227K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £10.23.

Listings sell for £10.23 on average, from £5.79 to £19.85. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At £10.23 that is £31K to £41K a year per listing.

Average price
£10.23under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.79–£19.85
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
50K–60K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
£31K–£41K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 94% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #35 within Essential Fatty Acids. It carries 1,563 reviews at 4.62 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
83%
Prime listings
94%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#35in Essential Fatty Acids
Average rating
4.62 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,563per listing
Listings tracked
18

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 88 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Evening Primrose 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 25, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£57K£113K£170K£226K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

15 flat

Sellers

55

Est. top-5 brand share

74%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

22%

  • Natures Aid30%
  • Horbäach23%
  • Zipvit8%
  • Nature's Truth7%
  • WeightWorld6%
  • Carlyle4%

Demand

Evening Primrose Oil search demand

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

9K7KSpike '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Evening Primrose Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • evening primrose oil227K/yr
  • evening primrose oil 1000mg53K/yr
  • evening primrose capsules21K/yr
  • primrose oil20K/yr
  • primrose oil capsules 1000mg20K/yr
  • evening primrose16K/yr
  • evening primrose oil capsules8K/yr
  • primrose6K/yr
  • oil of evening primrose 1000mg4K/yr
  • primrose oil capsules5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Evening Primrose Oil

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
12%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“the capsules are pretty small”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”12% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Evening Primrose 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