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Cold Sore Treatment for Lips

Maybe

An estimated 0.1% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -19.0% this quarter, so Cold Sore Treatment for Lips is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
56
56 / 100
Top 21% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +7 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$3.5M/yr1.6M searches / yr
90-day growth
-19.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
67%top-5 click share · 14 brands · 123 sellers

Flapen Score

Cold Sore Treatment for Lips against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Cold Sore Treatment for Lips is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

56Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Cold Sore Treatment for Lips market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Cold Sore Treatment for Lips 1.6M times last year and spent an estimated $3.5M. The top 5 brands take 81% of clicks. Demand peaks in Oct–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 56 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 15.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.6M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 15.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -19.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $3.5M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-19.0%
Conversion, latest week
15.0%
Market size, estimated
$3.5Ma year
Peak month
November1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
cold sore treatment799K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $14.83.

Listings sell for $14.83 on average, from $4.44 to $38.79. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 200K to 250K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At $14.83 that is $119K to $148K a year per listing.

Average price
$14.83under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$4.44–$38.79
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
200K–250K
Units per listing a year
8,000–10,000
Revenue per listing a year
$119K–$148K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

90% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.6% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #54 within Cold Sore & Fever Blister Treatments. It carries 6,053 reviews at 4.59 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
2.6%
Average rank
#54in Cold Sore & Fever Blister Treatments
Average rating
4.59 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
6,053per listing
Listings tracked
20

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are established.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 90 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
90 months

Products

Top Cold Sore Treatment for Lips 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 67% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

Brands

14 falling

Sellers

123

Top-5 brand share

81%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

67%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

16%

  • Brand 133%
  • Brand 218%
  • Brand 313%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 58%
  • Brand 64%
  • Open — no brand owns it (8 brands, 16%)

Demand

Cold Sore Treatment for Lips search demand

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

70K50KSpike '24Prime Day '25Spike '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Oct, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Cold Sore Treatment for Lips search terms shoppers use

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

  • cold sore treatment799K/yr
  • cold sore200K/yr
  • cold sore treatment for lips123K/yr
  • cold sore medicine70K/yr
  • fever blister treatment for lips54K/yr
  • cold sore treatment overnight66K/yr
  • 1 day cold sore treatment50K/yr
  • cold sore cream38K/yr
  • herpes lip treatment41K/yr
  • valtrex cold sore treatment9K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Cold Sore Treatment for Lips

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

15%of positive reviews mention “Cold Relief”
9%of negative reviews mention “Functionality-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“Works - not perfect”
A buyer, on “Functionality-Overall”9% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Cold Sore Treatment for Lips questions

Answered from the same tracked data.