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Shea Body Butter

Fail

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

Flapen Score
41
41 / 100
Ranks 8,284 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −7 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$189K/yr188K searches / yr
90-day growth
-10.3%search demand this quarter
Competition
72%top-5 click share · 3 brands · 471 sellers

Flapen Score

Shea Body Butter against its category

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

41Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Shea Body Butter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Shea Body Butter 188K times last year and spent an estimated $189K. All 3 brands take every click. Demand peaks in Jul. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 188K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -10.3% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $189K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
188K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-10.3%
Conversion, latest week
8.3%
Market size, estimated
$189Ka year
Peak month
July1.8× the quietest month
Top search term
vaseline radiant38K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $12.08.

Listings sell for $12.08 on average, from $6.25 to $38.90. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 15K to 20K a year. The average listing sells 750 to 1,000 of them. At $12.08 that is $9K to $12K a year per listing.

Average price
$12.08under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$6.25–$38.90
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
15K–20K
Units per listing a year
750–1,000
Revenue per listing a year
$9K–$12K
Returns
0.5%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

81% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #246 within Creams. It carries 3,205 reviews at 4.54 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
81%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.5%
Average rank
#246in Creams
Average rating
4.54 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,205per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

2 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 2 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 69 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
2Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
69 months

Products

Top Shea Body 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 72% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

3 flat

Sellers

471

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

72%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 184%
  • Brand 29%
  • Brand 37%

Demand

Shea Body Butter search demand

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

5K3KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.8×

Search terms

Top Shea Body Butter search terms shoppers use

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

  • vaseline radiant38K/yr
  • vaseline radiant x26K/yr
  • vaseline radiant x even tone body lotion5K/yr
  • vaseline radiant body lotion12K/yr
  • shea moisture body butter15K/yr
  • vaseline all purpose cream9K/yr
  • shea moisture raw shea butter10K/yr
  • shea butter body cream10K/yr
  • vaseline cocoa radiant body butter4K/yr
  • vaseline radiant body cream17K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shea Body Butter

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

20%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
12%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.5%of orders come back
“Hate the smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”12% 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.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Shea Body Butter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.