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clumpsymai
Dry/Sensitive
Here in Germany most drugstores have western brands like Nivea, L'Oreal Paris.
La Roche Posay, Eucerin or Cerave can be found in pharmacies.
Douglas or Sephora (more expensive drugstores) sells stuff like The ordinary or the inkey, dr jar. K Beauty is very limited here. So it is totally misleading! But I'm happy for those who can found good products for drugstore prices. Sadly buying K beauty is so hard and expensive.
(example: for Yesstyle I need to spend at least 50€ for free shipping)
So that why I'm really glad when I can win the giveaways here:)
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Alca
Oily/Resilient
Same here 🙂 I remember someone mentioning Cerave as a drugstore brand, but I couldn't find it, so I thought it was not available in my country, but then I saw it in a pharmacy. I was so surprised 😯
I can only wish we had Klairs, I'm from, By Wishtrend or even The Ordinary in a drugstore. 😢😅
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Veracity
Oily/Resilient
This is such an interesting topic! I’ve never thiught about how drugstores are vary from one country to another. And yes, here in the US you don’t see Rovectin or Wishtrend as drugstore brand. Besides brands like Neutrogena, Olay, Loreal, No7, LaRoche Posay, Cerave, Cetaphil, Aveeno, Palmer’s, YesTo, Eucerin ....there’s this only one Kbeauty brand here, Sweet Chef.
Other than that you can just go to Ulta or Sephora to find some other Kbrands with mostly overpriced items.
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enne
Oily/Resilient
tbf wishtrend items are a recent addition here too 😅 but it’s still shows that there’s a high enough demand that they put official distributors. i do wish we carried a bit more US brands, or at least more options for US brands.
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IsaacBear
Dry/Resilient
Malaysia even has lesser brand available in the drugstore! Really hope that there will be any official distributor of the ordinary in our country😭😭
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enne
Oily/Resilient
oof, that’s a mood tho. i don’t think there’s any official distributor for the ordinary here. at least we have shopee 😪
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ivskincare
Oily/Sensitive
I'm in Serbia, and here are mostly just basic drugstore European brands like Nivea, Garnier, Ziaja, Loreal, in drugstore which is drugstore/pharmacy you can find La roche posay,really small selection of CeraVe, Vichy, Bioderma, Uriage, some Frudia products. In the german drugstore which I love, DM, you can find Q+A skincare, Revox and also some Korean products, tho I live in a small country so we don't have much of those but in other DM's in other cities you can find more products from Benton, Cosrx, Neogen, Ariul.... So yeah we have an interesting selection but most of those products have fragrance which I like to stay away from, and the more farmacy brands are quite expensive so I always order my skincare online.
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enne
Oily/Resilient
ooo i’ve never heard of some of the brands you listed—ziaja, revox—will have to look them up sometimes. we have no official distributor for cerave here 😢 but oof yeah city size would def play a part in what brands they carry
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Nicolaw
Dry/Resilient
Hello fellow Singaporean! I agree with you. sometimes when I see our fellow skincare enthusiasts mention about drugstore brands, I kinda think of products that are affordable, can be found in non-speciality stores eg any shop or space that are allowed to sell other brands as well like a mart. I also assume that they are also selling things of other functions like body wash 🤯
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enne
Oily/Resilient
oh yes!! the first time i heard the term drugstore i was very confused. then i figured it was generic things you can get at supermarkets or our under void deck shops. but then i realize even our grocery stores carry some niche brands. like our ntuc carried dear klairs and skin1004, which is a privilege we have but also kinda wack when you think about it from the perspective of people outside of this country
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