Online health/beauty shops prepared to ship internationally?

January 12, 2006 9:44 PM

Any suggestions for an online store offering beauty/personal products which will ship internationally?

I'm looking for a store selling hair/personal products (hair wax etc) which is prepared to ship to India and/or Nepal. Many such as Amazon say they do but then won't when it comes to the ordering stage. Any suggestions would be appreciated, bonus points if they are nearer S Asia, but it doesn't matter if not.

posted by MrC to Clothing, Beauty, & Fashion (3 answers total)

http://www.strawberrynet.com/ might do it - they are in Singapore, I think, and they post internationally. Not sure whether they do India or Nepal but you could always ask.
posted by andraste at 10:05 PM on January 12, 2006

Actually, they're in Hong Kong - sorry! They do claim that they post all over the world.
posted by andraste at 10:07 PM on January 12, 2006

I can vouch for strawberrynet: they certainly ship to Europe so I don't see that they wouldn't ship to India. They handled the couple of orders I've placed with them quickly & efficiently. Their main lines are cosmetics & perfumes, but they do list some hair-care products too.

A couple of annoyances I've had ordering from them (neither one of which are their fault) are that I have to pay import-duty when the shipments arrive, and that my (UK) bank seems to have a policy of automatically questioning internet purchases from Chinese vendors as potentially fraudulent, so in the wake of both of my orders, I have been obliged to contact & reassure the bank.
posted by misteraitch at 4:08 AM on January 13, 2006