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Cradle Cap Oil

Fail

Demand is soft, at -13.6% this quarter, so Cradle Cap Oil is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Top 45% of 2,472 Baby Products niches · +1 vs the category median of 44
Market size
$170K/yr77K searches / yr
90-day growth
-13.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
75%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 42 sellers

Flapen Score

Cradle Cap Oil against its category

The dotted line is the Baby Products average. Past it, Cradle Cap Oil is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cradle Cap Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cradle Cap Oil 77K times last year and spent an estimated $170K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 12.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 77K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 12.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -13.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $170K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
77K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-13.6%
Conversion, latest week
12.5%
Market size, estimated
$170Ka year
Peak month
June1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
earth mama baby oil10K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $17.78.

Listings sell for $17.78 on average, from $2.89 to $42.63. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 8K to 10K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $17.78 that is $9K to $13K a year per listing.

Average price
$17.78inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.89–$42.63
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
8K–10K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$9K–$13K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

85% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #71 within Baby Care. It carries 4,774 reviews at 4.58 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
85%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#71in Baby Care
Average rating
4.58 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
4,774per listing
Listings tracked
13

04 · Newcomers

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

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 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
1
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
88 months

Products

Top Cradle Cap 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 10, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 75% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

$0$17K$34K$51K$68K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

42

Est. top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

75%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

9%

  • Earth Mama47%
  • Mustela26%
  • Frida6%
  • TUBBY TODD6%
  • Coconut Essentials4%
  • Johnson's Baby3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 9%)

Demand

Cradle Cap Oil search demand

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

2K1KPrime Day '24Black Friday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Cradle Cap Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • earth mama baby oil10K/yr
  • mustela cradle cap cream9K/yr
  • cradle cap oil8K/yr
  • baby scalp oil7K/yr
  • cradle cap cream8K/yr
  • baby oil for cradle cap6K/yr
  • earth mama calendula baby oil6K/yr
  • baby dry scalp6K/yr
  • baby scalp moisturizer6K/yr
  • infant dry scalp moisturizer4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cradle Cap Oil

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

13%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
20%of negative reviews mention “Allergies”
1.0%of orders come back
“irritated at times”
A buyer, on “Allergies”20% 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 Cradle Cap 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