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Cold Sore Lip Balm

Fail

The top 5 brands take 100% of clicks, so Cold Sore Lip Balm is a Fail.

Flapen Score
44
44 / 100
Ranks 10,233 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · −5 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$468K/yr174K searches / yr
90-day growth
-7.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
86%top-5 click share · 4 brands · 65 sellers

Flapen Score

Cold Sore Lip Balm against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Cold Sore Lip Balm is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

44Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cold Sore Lip Balm market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cold Sore Lip Balm 174K times last year and spent an estimated $468K. All 4 brands take every click. Flapen scores it 44 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 19.9% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 174K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 19.9% 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 $468K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
174K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-7.0%
Conversion, latest week
19.9%
Market size, estimated
$468Ka year
Top search term
herpecin l lip balm spf 3035K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $13.56.

Listings sell for $13.56 on average, from $5.96 to $28.15. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 30K to 40K a year. The average listing sells 3,000 to 4,000 of them. At $13.56 that is $41K to $54K a year per listing.

Average price
$13.56under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.96–$28.15
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
30K–40K
Units per listing a year
3,000–4,000
Revenue per listing a year
$41K–$54K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

56% 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 #285 within Cold Sore & Fever Blister Treatments. It carries 3,377 reviews at 4.64 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
56%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#285in Cold Sore & Fever Blister Treatments
Average rating
4.64 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
3,377per listing
Listings tracked
9

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 72 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
72 months

Products

Top Cold Sore 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 86% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

Brands

4 rising

Sellers

65

Top-5 brand share

100%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • Brand 186%
  • Brand 29%
  • Brand 33%
  • Brand 43%

Demand

Cold Sore Lip Balm search demand

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

5K4KSpike '26DecJanFebMarAprMayJun

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.3× · 7 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Cold Sore Lip Balm search terms shoppers use

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

  • herpecin l lip balm spf 3035K/yr
  • herpecin l24K/yr
  • cold sore lip balm20K/yr
  • herpecin21K/yr
  • herpecin l for cold sores14K/yr
  • doco14K/yr
  • cold sore chapstick13K/yr
  • cold sore prevention lip balm6K/yr
  • lip balm for cold sores4K/yr
  • herpecin lip balm3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cold Sore Lip Balm

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

21%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
10%of negative reviews mention “Smell”
0.1%of orders come back
“Has a VERY medicinal smell”
A buyer, on “Smell”10% 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 Cold Sore Lip Balm questions

Answered from the same tracked data.