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Salonpas

Fail

The top 5 products take 79% of clicks, so Salonpas is a Fail.

Flapen Score
43
43 / 100
Ranks 1,437 of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · −5 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£95K/yr213K searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.7%search demand this quarter
Competition
79%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 17 sellers

Flapen Score

Salonpas against its category

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

43Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Salonpas market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Salonpas 213K times last year and spent an estimated £95K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Flapen scores it 43 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

4.9% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 213K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 4.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.7% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £95K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
213K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.7%
Conversion, latest week
4.9%
Market size, estimated
£95Ka year
Peak month
April1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
lidocaine patches105K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £9.12.

Listings sell for £9.12 on average, from £4.80 to £18.83. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 13K to 15K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At £9.12 that is £9K to £11K a year per listing.

Average price
£9.12under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.80–£18.83
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
13K–15K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
£9K–£11K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #80 within Hot & Cold Therapies. It carries 760 reviews at 4.06 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
6.5%
Average rank
#80in Hot & Cold Therapies
Average rating
4.06 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
760per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 2 of last year's 3 launches as successful.

3 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 2 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
3
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
50 months

Products

Top Salonpas products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 79% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£14K£28K£43K£57K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

17

Top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

8%

  • Salonpas65%
  • MQUPIN8%
  • Wonderfulife6%
  • MEITREND5%
  • Nurofen4%
  • YouEase4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 8%)

Demand

Salonpas search demand

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

5K4KSpike '24Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Salonpas search terms shoppers use

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

  • lidocaine patches105K/yr
  • salonpas pain relief patches35K/yr
  • lidocaine patches uk13K/yr
  • salonpas22K/yr
  • lidocaine patches for nerve pain8K/yr
  • salonpas lidocaine patches4K/yr
  • lidocaine patch9K/yr
  • salonpas pain relief patches 605K/yr
  • lidocaine patches for back pain3K/yr
  • lidocaine patches 5 percent3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Salonpas

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Pain Relief-Overall19%−0.22

No pain relief

Didnt really relieve pain

Not perhaps the best product for pain relief

Adhesion/Stickiness17%−0.09

Horrendous adhesive

does not stick well

Very poor adhesive

Functionality-Overall14%−0.17

it just didnt do much

Didn't work

It does not work in the slightest

Value For Money7%+1.35

Waste of money

Not worth the price for me

This item is a bit pricey for me

Allergies6%−0.04

then got a rash from them

it was burning me

Itchy

Love

Value For Money17%+1.35

Good value for money

worth every penny

Great price

Joint Pain11%

helped ease my aching joint

i would really recommend it to someone who is having pain in the joints or anywhere in the body

aid relief in painful joints etc

Quality-Overall8%+0.58

Good quality

Always a reliable,quality brand

Great product

Ease Of Application7%+0.29

Easy to apply

this was definitely easy to apply

easy to apply and rub in

Efficiency6%+0.55

Does the job well

Works well

Works almost immediately

Return

0.1% Return rate 15% Fixable by listing

Pain Relief-Overall18%▄▁█▁▅▁

No pain relief

Didnt really relieve pain

Not perhaps the best product for pain relief

Functionality-Overall15%▁▁▂▁█▅

it just didnt do much

Didn't work

It does not work in the slightest

Advertised Vs Actual Product14%▄█▁▁▁▅
Joint Pain13%▁█▅▁▆▄

This item doesn't stop my frozen shoulder or arthritis pain

Didn't work on lower leg and back nerve pain

Unusually, I didn't find that this particular product had much effect on the pain in my knee

Adhesion/Stickiness10%▁▁▁▁▁█

Horrendous adhesive

does not stick well

Very poor adhesive

FAQ

Common Salonpas questions

Answered from the same tracked data.