Off-topic: Where to buy Tazorac (tazarotene)

[karib574]

I was out of town, friend, and came here to check on your package progress 🙁

Has anyone had success that you've talked to?

 

[Sun_Seeker]

I've been buying European sunscreen for 20 years from France. this stuff is legal in the entire European Union, Australia, NZ, CN, Ireland, but have not been approved in the US.

The FDA has not approved any new UV filters since 1999. All of these other countries are saving lives (and preventing wrinkles in their old folks), but the US will not approve any new UV ingredients. Four tubes of my Bioderma Sunscreen were seized and destroyed three weeks ago. They were manufactured in France. France.

If I end up having to fly overseas to get sunscreen, I will. It is far superior to what we have in the USA. Apparently, the USA sees France as a third world country incapable of product testing and with unsanitary production methods.

Luckily, my ex-husband is British and we are on good enough terms that he will happily allow me to have packages delivered to his house and then will send them on to me. It also helps that he hates the United States.

For the time being I see a way of continuing to get Taz from India, tox from Korea, and sunscreen from France. I've got three years' worth of peptides in my freezer, but this stinks. There are a lot of people who are depending on overseas meds and peps and just cannot afford to get them in the United States.

I wonder if some of our UK and European members have ever thought about becoming re-shippers for us overprotected, harassed Americans?

By the way, I have bought 4 tubes of Bioderma a year since 2005, and never once had a package seized until a few weeks ago.

It's freakin' unbelievable. But, please, do share your sunscreen brand so that when, and if the regime actually spends time on things that are truly harmful instead of targeting old, fat, wrinkly folks who are just trying to be healthy, I can maybe get some. (Currently use Supergoop and Ronas Waterfall.)

 

[Calm Logic]

I just put in an order today of less than $90, ensuring it is not marked as healthcare products. So I will post back in a couple weeks. Kawal says 95 percent of his packages are going through, even now.

(I am also crazily hoping the government shutdown has hurt employee morale at customs and the FDA, even if all the employees involved are still working.)

Update: Small package from India cleared customs and was thankfully not seized by FDA, departing Queens this morning.