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Paraffin

Fail

Demand is soft, at -47.0% this quarter, so Paraffin is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 3,831 of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · −5 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£148K/yr109K searches / yr
90-day growth
-47.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
64%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 39 sellers

Flapen Score

Paraffin against its category

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

46Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Paraffin market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Paraffin 109K times last year and spent an estimated £148K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Mar–Nov. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 109K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -47.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £148K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
109K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-47.0%
Conversion, latest week
7.5%
Market size, estimated
£148Ka year
Peak month
January5.3× the quietest month
Top search term
paraffin52K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £18.21.

Listings sell for £18.21 on average, from £5.67 to £37.32. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At £18.21 that is £9K to £14K a year per listing.

Average price
£18.21inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.67–£37.32
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
£9K–£14K
Returns
0.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

58% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 21% ship with Prime. On an average day, 14.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #237 within Outdoor Heaters & Fire Pits. It carries 487 reviews at 4.54 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
58%
Prime listings
21%
Out of stock, average day
14.0%
Average rank
#237in Outdoor Heaters & Fire Pits
Average rating
4.54 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
487per listing
Listings tracked
19

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 59 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
59 months

Products

Top Paraffin 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 26, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 64% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£15K£30K£44K£59K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

12 rising

Sellers

39

Est. top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

64%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

9%

  • Bartoline28%
  • Bird Brand24%
  • Clearell21%
  • PERFECTONISH11%
  • AXpower Inspirational Technology Empowering People4%
  • Candle Charisma4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 9%)

Demand

Paraffin search demand

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

8K6KSpike '24Black Friday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 5.3×

Search terms

Top Paraffin search terms shoppers use

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

  • paraffin52K/yr
  • parafine fuel20K/yr
  • paraffin oil25K/yr
  • parafin7K/yr
  • parrafin2K/yr
  • paraffin fuel3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Paraffin

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

32%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
47%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
<0.1%of orders come back, a rate Amazon rounds to zero
“Smells like paraffin”
A buyer, on “Smell”47% 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 Paraffin 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