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EU website for skincare

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MollyVolley · 14/01/2021 17:54

So I found the EU website for clothes thread really useful as I am in Ireland so can anyone recommend websites for beauty and skincare that are not UK based? Have already had to pay €60 customs charge for something I'd ordered in UK! Smile normally use Look Fantastic and couple of other sites but they are UK based. Thanks

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botemp · 14/01/2021 18:17

Lookfantastic has EU websites and warehouses just assure you're ordering on their EU sites. Cult Beauty, Feelunique, and SpaceNK deliver DDP so it's like shopping as before with all of those. It may be that you have a smaller selection/don't have access to some brands though.

EU alternatives really depend on what you're looking for. Niche beauty has a lot of what SpaceNK and Cult Beauty offer. 24s has a fair bit of premium beauty too as does Luisa Via Roma. Place des Tendences also have a lot of beauty and they regularly do 20% off beauty.

For hair there's a lot of German sites, if you're doing CGM there's quite a few Dutch sites and a few German ones too that I could recommend. French pharmacy is easily found in France, easyparapharmacie and power santé have a lot of good offers but if you don't live in France you need to bulk buy to earn back the postage cost. Notino, based in eastern Europe has a lot on offer and probably closest to Lookfantastic but they're quite slow with transport atm although not as slow as anything coming out of the UK.

Most big cosmetic brands also have their own EU sites. German Amazon also has a lot.

Apileofballyhoo · 14/01/2021 18:31

Caretobeauty is worth looking at. To get their brand listing you need to use the search function - don't know why it's not in the menu. Postage seems reasonable and free over €100. Portugal.

I was looking at Heliocare yesterday, which is on offer there, so it works out cheaper than buying elsewhere even with the postage.

botemp · 14/01/2021 18:39

Forgot to mention Skincity in Sweden, best customer service I've come across.

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MollyVolley · 14/01/2021 18:44

Thanks @botemp and @Apileofballyhoo it's great to get more options (nice new shiny things). Haven't done CGM but have curly hair & a curly haired daughter might start this year botemp I read through some of the threads & wrote down a load of possible CGM methods & products & did precisely nothingHmm

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Apileofballyhoo · 14/01/2021 22:52

I've just had a mail from cloud10beauty to remind me they're an Irish business and there's no need to worry about Brexit. I have ordered from them before but I think things are often out of stock so I end up going to look fantastic or beauty expert instead (which happen to be the same company as far as I can figure out). There's also skinshop.ie - I am pretty sure I bought some stuff from them on black Friday. I tend to Google whatever it is I'm looking for and see where it pops up and then check if there's something else I could use from that site if there's free delivery over a certain total. If it was skin shop they sent decent samples too.

I also read some of the curly girl threads and haven't done anything.

List of brands on cloud 10:

www.cloud10beauty.com/pages/brands

VanillaSheHer · 14/01/2021 23:10

EccoVerde is a good place for the more organic/green/natural type stuff.

AppleStars · 14/01/2021 23:24

Not sure how it works now ordering from NI to down south, as far as I know it should be business as normal? There is a small skincare business who make some lovely products, Mrs R'ganics, she's got a website & an instagram and sells at some local markets! It's not a huge range but it's a possible option!

AppleStars · 14/01/2021 23:29

spas.ie/blog/5-irish-skincare-brands-watch some of these brands look like they have nice products too, and local so postage should be minimal although I haven't tried any of them!

botemp · 15/01/2021 09:31

I've thought of some more. Amazingy (no L) based in Berlin is good for natural/clean.

Oh my cream in Paris has a wide range, on the higher end, lots of interesting French brands you don't get elsewhere.

Skin by Olga in Dublin has a lot of niche brands too, including the elusive Biologique Recherche.

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MollyVolley · 15/01/2021 19:00

Brilliant thanks so much ladies Flowers really appreciate all the suggestions will be upgrading my skincare now (massively improved my clothes after following all les parisiennes threads)!!

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Evanna13 · 14/02/2021 13:10

I have ordered from skincity, it will only let me pay in £ so I will see....

Gwenhwyfar · 14/02/2021 13:14

Boots Netherlands.
I desperately want a product from M&S but their EU site doesn't have any cosmetics/toiletry.

botemp · 14/02/2021 18:15

@Evanna13

I have ordered from skincity, it will only let me pay in £ so I will see....
Are you sure you orders from Skincity.com not co.uk? If you did accidentally order with the latter I'd contact their CS, they're really great and I'm sure they'd fix it.
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