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Clean Makeup

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Clean Makeup is a Fail.

Flapen Score
35
35 / 100
Ranks 10,006 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −13 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$79K/yr131K searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
78%top-5 click share · 2 brands · 12 sellers

Flapen Score

Clean Makeup against its category

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

35Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Clean Makeup market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Clean Makeup 131K times last year and spent an estimated $79K. All 2 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 35 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 131K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $79K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
131K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.8%
Conversion, latest week
5.3%
Market size, estimated
$79Ka year
Peak month
December2.1× the quietest month
Top search term
honest lip balm26K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.36.

Listings sell for $11.36 on average, from $9.72 to $17.66. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 250 to 500 of them. At $11.36 that is $3K to $6K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.36under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$9.72–$17.66
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
250–500
Revenue per listing a year
$3K–$6K
Returns
2.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 91% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.1% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #230 within Lip Care. It carries 12,675 reviews at 4.19 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
91%
Out of stock, average day
2.1%
Average rank
#230in Lip Care
Average rating
4.19 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
12,675per listing
Listings tracked
11

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 67 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
67 months

Products

Top Clean Makeup 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 78% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

2 falling

Sellers

12

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

78%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 181%
  • Brand 219%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Clean Makeup search demand

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

7K5KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26DecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1×

Search terms

Top Clean Makeup search terms shoppers use

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

  • honest lip balm26K/yr
  • well people lip13K/yr
  • well people lipstick17K/yr
  • honest lipstick14K/yr
  • honest beauty tinted lip balm8K/yr
  • honest lip8K/yr
  • honest lip gloss9K/yr
  • honest tinted lip balm7K/yr
  • honest beauty lip12K/yr
  • honest lip balm tinted9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Clean Makeup

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

38%of positive reviews mention “Color”
15%of negative reviews mention “Color”
2.2%of orders come back
“barely any color”
A buyer, on “Color”15% 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 Clean Makeup questions

Answered from the same tracked data.