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Shea Butter Oil

Fail

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

Flapen Score
37
37 / 100
Ranks 9,560 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −11 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$187K/yr198K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
79%top-5 click share · 5 brands · 609 sellers

Flapen Score

Shea Butter Oil against its category

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

37Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Shea Butter Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Shea Butter Oil 198K times last year and spent an estimated $187K. All 5 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 37 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 198K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -7.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $187K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
198K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.0%
Conversion, latest week
8.5%
Market size, estimated
$187Ka year
Peak month
October1.3× the quietest month
Top search term
shea butter oil44K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.17.

Listings sell for $11.17 on average, from $5.87 to $22.98. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 20K to 25K a year. The average listing sells 1,250 to 1,500 of them. At $11.17 that is $14K to $17K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.17under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.87–$22.98
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
20K–25K
Units per listing a year
1,250–1,500
Revenue per listing a year
$14K–$17K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

50% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 4.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #238 within Oils. It carries 6,027 reviews at 4.67 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
50%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
4.3%
Average rank
#238in Oils
Average rating
4.67 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
6,027per listing
Listings tracked
14

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 69 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
69 months

Products

Top Shea Butter Oil 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 79% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

5 falling

Sellers

609

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

79%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 144%
  • Brand 233%
  • Brand 315%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 53%

Demand

Shea Butter Oil search demand

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

6K4KSpike '24Spike '25Prime Day '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3×

Search terms

Top Shea Butter Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • shea butter oil44K/yr
  • shea moisture body oil38K/yr
  • shea oil21K/yr
  • shea nut oil11K/yr
  • shea butter body oil12K/yr
  • shea body oil9K/yr
  • palmers shea butter oil8K/yr
  • shea oil for body5K/yr
  • shea moisture massage oil5K/yr
  • shea moisture oil for body5K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Shea Butter Oil

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

34%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
33%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.4%of orders come back
“Awful smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”33% 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 Shea Butter Oil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.