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The Ordinary Oil

Fail

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

Flapen Score
29
29 / 100
Ranks 10,692 of 10,978 Beauty & Personal Care niches · −19 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$66K/yr48K searches / yr
90-day growth
-23.8%search demand this quarter
Competition
96%top-5 click share · 1 brands · 4 sellers

Flapen Score

The Ordinary Oil against its category

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

29Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The The Ordinary Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for The Ordinary Oil 48K times last year and spent an estimated $66K. One brand takes every click. Demand peaks in Jan–Feb–Dec. Flapen scores it 29 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 14.4% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 48K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 14.4% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -23.8% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $66K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
48K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-23.8%
Conversion, latest week
14.4%
Market size, estimated
$66Ka year
Peak month
February1.6× the quietest month
Top search term
the ordinary oil15K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $9.57.

Listings sell for $9.57 on average, from $7.49 to $11.05. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 6K to 8K a year. The average listing sells 1,000 to 1,250 of them. At $9.57 that is $10K to $12K a year per listing.

Average price
$9.57under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$7.49–$11.05
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
6K–8K
Units per listing a year
1,000–1,250
Revenue per listing a year
$10K–$12K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

100% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #71 within Oils. It carries 18,208 reviews at 4.65 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
100%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#71in Oils
Average rating
4.65 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
18,208per listing
Listings tracked
6

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 The Ordinary 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 96% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

1 flat

Sellers

4

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

96%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 1100%

Demand

The Ordinary Oil search demand

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

1K750Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26MarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Jan, Feb, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.6×

Search terms

Top The Ordinary Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • the ordinary oil15K/yr
  • ordinary oil13K/yr
  • the ordinary face oil9K/yr
  • ordinary face oil6K/yr
  • the ordinary oil for face3K/yr
  • the ordinary b oil2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about The Ordinary Oil

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

16%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
13%of negative reviews mention “Allergies”
0.3%of orders come back
“Severely irritating”
A buyer, on “Allergies”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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common The Ordinary Oil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.