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Shea Butter

Pass

Shea Butter scores 65 out of 100, a Pass. Shoppers spend an estimated $5.1M a year here, demand is soft, at -18.2% this quarter, and an estimated 0.9% of orders come back.

Flapen Score
65
65 / 100
Top 3% of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · +17 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$5.1M/yr3.9M searches / yr
90-day growth
-18.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
44%top-5 click share · 23 brands · 48 sellers

Flapen Score

Shea Butter against its category

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

65Pass
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Shea Butter market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Shea Butter 3.9M times last year and spent an estimated $5.1M. The top 5 brands take 51% of clicks. Demand peaks in Dec. Flapen scores it 65 out of 100, a Pass.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 3.9M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $5.1M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
3.9M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-18.2%
Conversion, latest week
7.8%
Market size, estimated
$5.1Ma year
Peak month
December1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
shea butter2.0M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $16.83.

Listings sell for $16.83 on average, from $5.21 to $48.44. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 250K to 300K a year. The average listing sells 10,000 to 12,500 of them. At $16.83 that is $168K to $210K a year per listing.

Average price
$16.83inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.21–$48.44
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
250K–300K
Units per listing a year
10,000–12,500
Revenue per listing a year
$168K–$210K
Returns
0.9%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

73% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 3.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #78 within Body Butters. It carries 8,360 reviews at 4.55 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
73%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
3.0%
Average rank
#78in Body Butters
Average rating
4.55 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
8,360per listing
Listings tracked
30

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 71 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
71 months

Products

Top Shea Butter products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 15, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 44% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$254K$508K$762K$1.0M101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

23 rising

Sellers

48

Est. top-5 brand share

51%

Top 20: 97%

Est. top-5 click share

44%

Top 20: 90%

Open market

42%

  • Yellow Brick Road17%
  • RA COSMETICS10%
  • Better Shea Butter9%
  • SmellGood8%
  • Yajna7%
  • Plant Guru7%

Demand

Shea Butter search demand

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

100K60KHoliday '24Prime Day '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Shea Butter search terms shoppers use

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

  • shea butter2.0M/yr
  • shea butter raw organic670K/yr
  • raw shea butter226K/yr
  • african shea butter179K/yr
  • organic shea butter127K/yr
  • manteca de karite76K/yr
  • unrefined shea butter80K/yr
  • shea butter raw68K/yr
  • raw shea butter organic unrefined46K/yr
  • pure shea butter42K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shea Butter

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

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
47%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.9%of orders come back
“Gross Smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”47% 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 Shea Butter questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data