If you are a regular consumer of herbal products, you may have asked yourself this question, and as a result, decided whether or not to buy your herbal products through one of the thousands of herbal stores herbal products that currently exist online.
The benefits of online herbal shopping, like any other online shopping, are many, but we must also keep in mind the latest and greatest services that are being implemented on the websites of certain online herbal stores to give consumers users the same confidence and performance as traditional herbalists.
We are then going to list the greatest advantages reported by online herbalists:
- Flexible schedule. We assume that the Internet is open to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, which makes it easy to place your orders at any time on any day of the year.
- Thanks to price comparison websites, you can easily compare hundreds of herbal products in just a few minutes, to stay with the one that offers the best value for money.
- In relation to this, being comfortably at home you can spend all the time you need to carefully read the label of each product and all the information on the web.
- Certain online herbalists are implementing personalized support via online chat in order to answer any questions you may have about the products they offer, or guide you if you don’t know which product may be the most appropriate to solve your health problem. In this way, the support provided by the assistance in the shop of your traditional herbalist will be compensated.
However, despite these advantages, we must also take precautions to prevent theft and counterfeiting. To avoid this, we must pay attention to the following aspects when we visit an online herbalist:
- Site trust given at a glance.
- SSL security certificates during the registration and purchase process, and if the payment is through the website itself, you must also have security payment. If the site is secure we can see the certificate logo posted, possibly in the footer of the website. Well-known security certificates are, for example, Trusted-shops or Quick-SSL. We also know this because the browser turns green on the https fragment. For payment, Verified by Visa is very fashionable these days, although many users prefer to make their payments through secure payment platforms such as Paypal or Moneybookers.
- Information provided on the website relating to the owner. An online store that offers specific information about the company or person that manages the service, who they are or where you can find them (emails, telephone numbers, warehouse, etc.) gives the buyer a lot of confidence. And also for the product details provided. A website with detailed information about the herbal products offered, for example, type of medicinal plant, amount of active ingredients and how they work, instructions, interactions with other diseases or medications, duration of each bottle… give more confidence to the buyer. than a website where the information is quite scarce.
- Satisfaction and return policy. An online store that does not give us a return guarantee offers little confidence.
- Health records. For example, if they are members of certain associations or organizations related to health.
- If they are qualified professionals, as in the case of needing online advice, we cannot trust anyone other than a professional who advises us from their expert knowledge.
With all this, at KinwaNatura we are sure that your herbal purchases can be as safe as those made in a physical establishment, and even enjoy greater benefits.
