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Surgical Tape for Skin

Fail

Prices span $1.53–$13.38, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Surgical Tape for Skin is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 1,596 of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · −7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£37K/yr47K searches / yr
90-day growth
+2.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
66%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 28 sellers

Flapen Score

Surgical Tape for Skin against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Surgical Tape for Skin is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Surgical Tape for Skin market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Surgical Tape for Skin 47K times last year and spent an estimated £37K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 15.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 47K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 15.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +2.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £37K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
47K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+2.8%
Conversion, latest week
15.0%
Market size, estimated
£37Ka year
Peak month
February1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
transpore tape14K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.24.

Listings sell for £5.24 on average, from £1.53 to £13.38. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At £5.24 that is £1K to £3K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.24under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.53–£13.38
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
£1K–£3K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

53% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 88% ship with Prime. On an average day, 9.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #210 within Medical Supplies & Equipment. It carries 1,090 reviews at 4.43 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
53%
Prime listings
88%
Out of stock, average day
9.3%
Average rank
#210in Medical Supplies & Equipment
Average rating
4.43 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
1,090per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 50 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Surgical Tape for Skin 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 66% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£4K£7K£11K£15K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

28

Est. top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

6%

  • NanaCare38%
  • Transpore30%
  • JFA Medical13%
  • 3M8%
  • Safe + Sound3%
  • MediSale2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 6%)

Demand

Surgical Tape for Skin search demand

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

1K750Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Surgical Tape for Skin search terms shoppers use

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

  • transpore tape14K/yr
  • medical tape for skin10K/yr
  • surgical tape for dressings10K/yr
  • transpore surgical tape6K/yr
  • 3m transpore surgical tape4K/yr
  • surgical tape for skin5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Surgical Tape for Skin

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
45%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.2%of orders come back
“Poor adhesive quality”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”45% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Surgical Tape for Skin 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