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Vanilla Lip Balm

Fail

Demand is soft, at -22.6% this quarter, so Vanilla Lip Balm 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
$246K/yr279K searches / yr
90-day growth
-22.6%search demand this quarter
Competition
65%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 87 sellers

Flapen Score

Vanilla Lip Balm against its category

The dotted line is the Beauty & Personal Care average. Past it, Vanilla Lip Balm is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

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

Market

The Vanilla Lip Balm market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Vanilla Lip Balm 279K times last year and spent an estimated $246K. The top 5 brands take 92% of clicks. Flapen scores it 41 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 10.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 279K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 10.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -22.6% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $246K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
279K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-22.6%
Conversion, latest week
10.1%
Market size, estimated
$246Ka year
Top search term
vanilla lip balm59K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $8.76.

Listings sell for $8.76 on average, from $3.50 to $23.99. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 2,000 to 2,500 of them. At $8.76 that is $18K to $22K a year per listing.

Average price
$8.76under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$3.50–$23.99
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
2,000–2,500
Revenue per listing a year
$18K–$22K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

61% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 96% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #393 within Lip Care. It carries 17,447 reviews at 4.69 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
61%
Prime listings
96%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#393in Lip Care
Average rating
4.69 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
17,447per listing
Listings tracked
23

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 52 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Vanilla Lip Balm 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 65% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

10 rising

Sellers

87

Top-5 brand share

92%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

65%

Top 20: 96%

Open market

6%

  • Brand 147%
  • Brand 226%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 46%
  • Brand 53%
  • Brand 62%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 6%)

Demand

Vanilla Lip Balm search demand

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

13K8KHoliday '25NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.6× · 9 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Vanilla Lip Balm search terms shoppers use

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

  • vanilla lip balm59K/yr
  • vanilla chapstick37K/yr
  • vanilla lip gloss26K/yr
  • chapstick vanilla22K/yr
  • burts bees vanilla bean lip balm24K/yr
  • vanilla mint chapstick14K/yr
  • burts bees lip balm vanilla bean11K/yr
  • burts bees vanilla12K/yr
  • lip balm vanilla9K/yr
  • eos vanilla lip balm9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Vanilla Lip Balm

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

27%of positive reviews mention “Smell”
18%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.4%of orders come back
“kinda smells funny”
A buyer, on “Smell”18% 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 Vanilla Lip Balm questions

Answered from the same tracked data.