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Bee Balm

Maybe

An estimated 0.5% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -44.0% this quarter, so Bee Balm is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 12% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +10 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$651K/yr1.6M searches / yr
90-day growth
-44.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
36%top-5 click share · 31 brands · 65 sellers

Flapen Score

Bee Balm against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Bee Balm is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Bee Balm market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Bee Balm 1.6M times last year and spent an estimated $651K. The top 5 brands take 54% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 2.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.6M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 2.9% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -44.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $651K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-44.0%
Conversion, latest week
2.9%
Market size, estimated
$651Ka year
Peak month
November12.7× the quietest month
Top search term
bee balm507K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $13.98.

Listings sell for $13.98 on average, from $4.83 to $33.39. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $13.98 that is $10K to $14K a year per listing.

Average price
$13.98under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.83–$33.39
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
50K–60K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$10K–$14K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

96% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 98% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #716 within Lip Care. It carries 3,591 reviews at 4.36 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
96%
Prime listings
98%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#716in Lip Care
Average rating
4.36 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,591per listing
Listings tracked
49

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 16 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

16 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 37 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
16
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
37 months

Products

Top Bee Balm 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 only 36% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

31 rising

Sellers

65

Top-5 brand share

54%

Top 20: 91%

Top-5 click share

36%

Top 20: 74%

Open market

41%

  • Brand 124%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 38%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 55%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Bee Balm search demand

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

175K125KHoliday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 12.7×

Search terms

Top Bee Balm search terms shoppers use

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

  • bee balm507K/yr
  • honey lip balm79K/yr
  • honey balm189K/yr
  • bee balm lip balm212K/yr
  • bee lip balm38K/yr
  • honeybalm117K/yr
  • honey pot lip balm62K/yr
  • honey lip mask15K/yr
  • honeybalm lip balm125K/yr
  • honey balm lip balm84K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Bee Balm

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

14%of positive reviews mention “Moist/Dry”
13%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.5%of orders come back
“Funky smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”13% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Bee Balm questions

Answered from the same tracked data.