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African Shea Butter

Fail

Demand is soft, at -25.4% this quarter, so African Shea Butter is a Fail.

Flapen Score
46
46 / 100
Ranks 6,013 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −2 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$285K/yr256K searches / yr
90-day growth
-25.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
63%top-5 click share · 12 brands · 31 sellers

Flapen Score

African Shea Butter against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, African Shea Butter is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The African Shea Butter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for African Shea Butter 256K times last year and spent an estimated $285K. The top 5 brands take 87% of clicks. Flapen scores it 46 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 256K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -25.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $285K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
256K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-25.4%
Conversion, latest week
7.0%
Market size, estimated
$285Ka year
Peak month
January1.4× the quietest month
Top search term
african shea butter179K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $15.87.

Listings sell for $15.87 on average, from $5.21 to $48.44. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $15.87 that is $4K to $8K a year per listing.

Average price
$15.87inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.21–$48.44
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$4K–$8K
Returns
0.8%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

70% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 8.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #196 within Body Butters. It carries 8,517 reviews at 4.60 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
70%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
8.2%
Average rank
#196in Body Butters
Average rating
4.60 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,517per listing
Listings tracked
23

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 73 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top African Shea Butter products & what they sell for

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

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Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 63% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

12 rising

Sellers

31

Top-5 brand share

87%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

63%

Top 20: 97%

Open market

10%

  • Brand 132%
  • Brand 226%
  • Brand 318%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (6 brands, 10%)

Demand

African Shea Butter search demand

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

6K4KHoliday '24Prime Day '25DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.4×

Search terms

Top African Shea Butter search terms shoppers use

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

  • african shea butter179K/yr
  • raw african shea butter30K/yr
  • african shea butter raw organic27K/yr
  • african shea butter 100 natural12K/yr
  • african cocoa butter5K/yr
  • natural cosmetics3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about African Shea Butter

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
31%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.8%of orders come back
“Bad smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”31% 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 African Shea Butter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.