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Cotton

Pass

Cotton scores 72 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $799K a year here, search demand grew +21.6% this quarter, and an estimated 0.5% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
72
72 / 100
Top 1% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +24 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$799K/yr1.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
+21.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
22%top-5 click share · 60 brands · 123 sellers

Flapen Score

Cotton against its category

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

72Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cotton market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cotton 1.1M times last year and spent an estimated $799K. The top 5 brands take 41% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug. Flapen scores it 72 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 3.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +21.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $799K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+21.6%
Conversion, latest week
3.5%
Market size, estimated
$799Ka year
Peak month
August3.0× the quietest month
Top search term
cotton513K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $21.70.

Listings sell for $21.70 on average, from $2.63 to $87.95. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $21.70 that is $22K to $27K a year per listing.

Average price
$21.70inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.63–$87.95
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$22K–$27K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

91% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #3,592 within Cotton Balls & Swabs. It carries 8,121 reviews at 4.36 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
91%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#3,592in Cotton Balls & Swabs
Average rating
4.36 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,121per listing
Listings tracked
96

04 · Newcomers

3 of last year's 14 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

14 products launched here in the last 12 months. 3 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 44 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
14
Successful launches
3Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
44 months

Products

Top Cotton 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 22% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

60 rising

Sellers

123

Top-5 brand share

41%

Top 20: 71%

Top-5 click share

22%

Top 20: 48%

Open market

56%

  • Brand 114%
  • Brand 210%
  • Brand 39%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%

Demand

Cotton search demand

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

80K60KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.0×

Search terms

Top Cotton search terms shoppers use

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

  • cotton513K/yr
  • 100% cotton240K/yr
  • organic cotton157K/yr
  • algodon58K/yr
  • 100 cotton18K/yr
  • cotton wool20K/yr
  • cotten9K/yr
  • corton8K/yr
  • coton7K/yr
  • algodn6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cotton

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

18%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
15%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.5%of orders come back
“Too short”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”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 Cotton questions

Answered from the same tracked data.