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Surgical Bandages

Maybe

An estimated 0.5% of orders come back. But shoppers spend an estimated $64K a year here, so Surgical Bandages is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 16% of 14,768 Health & Household niches · +9 vs the category median of 49
Market size
$64K/yr93K searches / yr
90-day growth
+18.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
29%top-5 click share · 27 brands · 92 sellers

Flapen Score

Surgical Bandages against its category

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

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Surgical Bandages market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Surgical Bandages 93K times last year and spent an estimated $64K. The top 5 brands take 54% of clicks. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 5.2% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 93K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 5.2% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +18.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $64K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
93K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+18.9%
Conversion, latest week
5.2%
Market size, estimated
$64Ka year
Top search term
surgical bandages19K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $13.21.

Listings sell for $13.21 on average, from $2.48 to $24.87. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $13.21 that is $0 to $1K a year per listing.

Average price
$13.21under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$2.48–$24.87
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$1K
Returns
0.5%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, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #213 within Bandages & Bandaging Supplies. It carries 4,360 reviews at 4.46 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
90%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#213in Bandages & Bandaging Supplies
Average rating
4.46 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
4,360per listing
Listings tracked
58

04 · Newcomers

5 of last year's 5 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

5 products launched here in the last 12 months. 5 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 45 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
5
Successful launches
5Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
45 months

Products

Top Surgical Bandages 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 only 29% of clicks. An open shelf where new products get seen.

Brands

27 rising

Sellers

92

Top-5 brand share

54%

Top 20: 94%

Top-5 click share

29%

Top 20: 65%

Open market

41%

  • Brand 114%
  • Brand 213%
  • Brand 312%
  • Brand 48%
  • Brand 56%
  • Brand 65%

Demand

Surgical Bandages search demand

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

2K2KBlack Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun

Peak months: Jun, Jul · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.1× · 11 of 12 months tracked

Search terms

Top Surgical Bandages search terms shoppers use

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

  • surgical bandages19K/yr
  • wound dressing bandage10K/yr
  • wound patches6K/yr
  • armpit bandage5K/yr
  • neck bandage5K/yr
  • post surgery bandages4K/yr
  • bandages for head wounds with hair3K/yr
  • dressing bandage4K/yr
  • adhesive wound dressing6K/yr
  • skin tear bandages for elderly3K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Surgical Bandages

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

17%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
30%of negative reviews mention “Adhesion/Stickiness”
0.5%of orders come back
“Poor quality adhesive”
A buyer, on “Adhesion/Stickiness”30% 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 Surgical Bandages questions

Answered from the same tracked data.