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Lip Butter

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Lip Butter is a Fail.

Flapen Score
30
30 / 100
Ranks 10,639 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −18 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$104K/yr272K searches / yr
90-day growth
-25.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
83%top-5 click share · 3 brands · 23 sellers

Flapen Score

Lip Butter against its category

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

30Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Lip Butter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Lip Butter 272K times last year and spent an estimated $104K. All 3 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 30 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 272K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -25.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $104K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
272K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-25.1%
Conversion, latest week
4.0%
Market size, estimated
$104Ka year
Peak month
December2.7× the quietest month
Top search term
starface lip balm166K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.51.

Listings sell for $9.51 on average, from $5.58 to $20.49. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $9.51 that is $5K to $7K a year per listing.

Average price
$9.51under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.58–$20.49
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
10K–13K
Units per listing a year
500–750
Revenue per listing a year
$5K–$7K
Returns
0.5%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. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #75 within Lip Care. It carries 3,074 reviews at 4.69 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.6%
Average rank
#75in Lip Care
Average rating
4.69 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,074per listing
Listings tracked
11

04 · Newcomers

4 of last year's 4 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

4 products launched here in the last 12 months. 4 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 53 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
4
Successful launches
4Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
53 months

Products

Top Lip 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 83% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

3 falling

Sellers

23

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

83%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 196%
  • Brand 23%
  • Brand 31%
  • Open — no brand owns it (0%)

Demand

Lip Butter search demand

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

13K8KSpike '24Holiday '24Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.7×

Search terms

Top Lip Butter search terms shoppers use

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

  • starface lip balm166K/yr
  • star face lip balm51K/yr
  • star lip balm16K/yr
  • star balm15K/yr
  • first aid beauty lip balm7K/yr
  • star balm lip balm6K/yr
  • elf lip oil clear4K/yr
  • elf clear lip oil3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Lip Butter

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

19%of positive reviews mention “Moist/Dry”
13%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.5%of orders come back
“The only difference is it is short”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Lip Butter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.