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Mineral Oil

Fail

The top 5 products take 86% of clicks, so Mineral Oil is a Fail.

Flapen Score
49
49 / 100
Ranks 7,059 of 14,768 Health & Household niches · on the category median
Market size
$4.0M/yr2.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-8.5%search demand this quarter
Competition
86%top-5 click share · 9 brands · 76 sellers

Flapen Score

Mineral Oil against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Household average. Past it, Mineral Oil is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

49Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Mineral Oil market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Mineral Oil 2.1M times last year and spent an estimated $4.0M. The top 5 brands take 90% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Dec. Flapen scores it 49 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 16.5% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 2.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 16.5% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -8.5% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $4.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
2.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-8.5%
Conversion, latest week
16.5%
Market size, estimated
$4.0Ma year
Peak month
January2.5× the quietest month
Top search term
mineral oil969K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $11.70.

Listings sell for $11.70 on average, from $2.87 to $28.90. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 300K to 400K a year. The average listing sells 20,000 to 25,000 of them. At $11.70 that is $234K to $293K a year per listing.

Average price
$11.70under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.87–$28.90
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
300K–400K
Units per listing a year
20,000–25,000
Revenue per listing a year
$234K–$293K
Returns
0.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

70% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.5% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #52 within Wood Polish & Care. It carries 14,936 reviews at 4.77 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
70%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.5%
Average rank
#52in Wood Polish & Care
Average rating
4.77 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
14,936per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 1 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 75 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
75 months

Products

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

Brands

9 falling

Sellers

76

Top-5 brand share

90%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

86%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

7%

  • Brand 138%
  • Brand 233%
  • Brand 310%
  • Brand 45%
  • Brand 54%
  • Brand 63%
  • Open — no brand owns it (3 brands, 7%)

Demand

Mineral Oil search demand

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

70K50KHoliday '24Spike '25Prime Day '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.5×

Search terms

Top Mineral Oil search terms shoppers use

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

  • mineral oil969K/yr
  • food grade mineral oil459K/yr
  • mineral oil for wood cutting board187K/yr
  • mineral oil food grade102K/yr
  • food grade mineral oil for wood cutting board78K/yr
  • food safe mineral oil44K/yr
  • food-grade mineral oil30K/yr
  • wood oil for cutting board24K/yr
  • aceite mineral15K/yr
  • food safe mineral oil for cutting board24K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Mineral Oil

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

25%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
40%of negative reviews mention “Leak-Proof”
0.2%of orders come back
“Leaked oil”
A buyer, on “Leak-Proof”40% 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.

17 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Mineral Oil questions

Answered from the same tracked data.