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Pimple Stick

Fail

The top 5 brands take 99% of clicks, so Pimple Stick is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 6,474 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −3 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$135K/yr98K searches / yr
90-day growth
-16.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
70%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 376 sellers

Flapen Score

Pimple Stick against its category

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

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Pimple Stick market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Pimple Stick 98K times last year and spent an estimated $135K. The top 5 brands take 99% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 9.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 98K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 9.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -16.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $135K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
98K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-16.4%
Conversion, latest week
9.1%
Market size, estimated
$135Ka year
Peak month
December1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
elf acne10K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $15.12.

Listings sell for $15.12 on average, from $4.86 to $61.81. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 10K to 13K a year. The average listing sells 500 to 750 of them. At $15.12 that is $8K to $11K a year per listing.

Average price
$15.12inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.86–$61.81
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
$8K–$11K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

80% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 6.2% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #816 within Cleansers. It carries 683 reviews at 4.51 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
80%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
6.2%
Average rank
#816in Cleansers
Average rating
4.51 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
683per listing
Listings tracked
15

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 65 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
65 months

Products

Top Pimple Stick 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 70% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

6 rising

Sellers

376

Top-5 brand share

99%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

70%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 152%
  • Brand 220%
  • Brand 314%
  • Brand 410%
  • Brand 52%
  • Brand 61%

Demand

Pimple Stick search demand

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

4K3KPrime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Pimple Stick search terms shoppers use

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

  • elf acne10K/yr
  • desert essence blemish touch stick9K/yr
  • elf blemish breakthrough10K/yr
  • acne stick5K/yr
  • elf acne spot treatment7K/yr
  • pimple correct8K/yr
  • bubble acne spot treatment8K/yr
  • hero pimple correct pen8K/yr
  • acne pen4K/yr
  • bubble spot treatment3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Pimple Stick

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

11%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
13%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“it barely worked”
A buyer, on “Functionality-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.

23 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Pimple Stick questions

Answered from the same tracked data.