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Medicated Chapstick

Fail

The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks, so Medicated Chapstick is a Fail.

Flapen Score
48
48 / 100
Ranks 5,071 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · on the category median
Market size
$696K/yr437K searches / yr
90-day growth
-29.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 8 brands · 638 sellers

Flapen Score

Medicated Chapstick against its category

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

48Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Medicated Chapstick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Medicated Chapstick 437K times last year and spent an estimated $696K. The top 5 brands take 98% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Dec. Flapen scores it 48 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 14.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 437K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 14.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -29.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $696K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
437K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-29.4%
Conversion, latest week
14.5%
Market size, estimated
$696Ka year
Peak month
January4.8× the quietest month
Top search term
chapstick medicated120K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.02.

Listings sell for $11.02 on average, from $1.83 to $49.86. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 60K to 80K a year. The average listing sells 1,500 to 2,000 of them. At $11.02 that is $17K to $22K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.02under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$1.83–$49.86
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
60K–80K
Units per listing a year
1,500–2,000
Revenue per listing a year
$17K–$22K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

52% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #317 within Lip Care. It carries 10,043 reviews at 4.74 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
52%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
7.3%
Average rank
#317in Lip Care
Average rating
4.74 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
10,043per listing
Listings tracked
23

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 73 months on average, so the names here are established.

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

Products

Top Medicated Chapstick 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 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

8 falling

Sellers

638

Top-5 brand share

98%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

2%

  • Brand 149%
  • Brand 234%
  • Brand 37%
  • Brand 44%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (2 brands, 2%)

Demand

Medicated Chapstick search demand

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

13K8KPrime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26JunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 4.8×

Search terms

Top Medicated Chapstick search terms shoppers use

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

  • chapstick medicated120K/yr
  • medicated lip balm124K/yr
  • medicated chapstick112K/yr
  • medicated lip balm for chapped lips11K/yr
  • lip balm medicated17K/yr
  • chapstick medicated lip balm13K/yr
  • medicated lip balm stick4K/yr
  • medicated lip balm for severe chapped lips8K/yr
  • medicated chapstick 3 pack6K/yr
  • medicated chap stick4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Medicated Chapstick

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

23%of positive reviews mention “Moist/Dry”
15%of negative reviews mention “Moist/Dry”
0.2%of orders come back
“Feels hard and dry”
A buyer, on “Moist/Dry”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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Medicated Chapstick questions

Answered from the same tracked data.