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Oil Pastels

Fail

Demand is soft, at -17.1% this quarter, so Oil Pastels is a Fail.

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 4,712 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −10 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£222K/yr325K searches / yr
90-day growth
-17.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
68%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 70 sellers

Flapen Score

Oil Pastels against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Oil Pastels is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Oil Pastels market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Oil Pastels 325K times last year and spent an estimated £222K. The top 5 brands take 91% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 6.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 325K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 6.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -17.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £222K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
325K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-17.1%
Conversion, latest week
6.1%
Market size, estimated
£222Ka year
Peak month
December2.6× the quietest month
Top search term
oil pastels186K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £11.20.

Listings sell for £11.20 on average, from £3.52 to £30.92. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At £11.20 that is £14K to £17K a year per listing.

Average price
£11.20under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£3.52–£30.92
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
£14K–£17K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

71% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 1.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #101 within Drawing. It carries 3,124 reviews at 4.63 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
71%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
1.6%
Average rank
#101in Drawing
Average rating
4.63 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
3,124per listing
Listings tracked
17

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 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 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
52 months

Products

Top Oil Pastels 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 27, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 68% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£22K£44K£66K£89K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

9 flat

Sellers

70

Est. top-5 brand share

91%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

68%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

6%

  • Artecho47%
  • Pentel26%
  • MONT MARTE7%
  • Faber-Castell7%
  • MEEDEN4%
  • Paul Rubens3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 6%)

Demand

Oil Pastels search demand

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

10K6KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.6×

Search terms

Top Oil Pastels search terms shoppers use

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

  • oil pastels186K/yr
  • pastels34K/yr
  • oil pastels for art26K/yr
  • pastel16K/yr
  • oil pastel15K/yr
  • pastels for art15K/yr
  • soft oil pastels10K/yr
  • oil pastels for artists8K/yr
  • pastel crayons5K/yr
  • kuelox soft oil pastels4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Oil Pastels

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

24%of positive reviews mention “Color”
19%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“not good quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”19% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Oil Pastels 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