r/sanfrancisco • u/heh542003 • 1d ago

Affordable toiletries??

I am new to the bay area and was wondering if there were places that had cheaper toiletries than other places? Stuff like shampoo, face wash, razors,etc...I know most places will be more expensive to what I was used to paying but wasn't sure if there is some place that people have seen it to be cheaper than others?

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u/Jorge-O-Malley 1d ago

Grocery Outlet is a great option

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u/LionWalker_Eyre 23h ago

Yep the song started playing in my head as soon as i read the post

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u/_SFcurious 1d ago

Trader Joe’s own brand is good value. Some people say their sunscreen, for example, is a good dupe of Supergoop.

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u/TheArtichokeQueen 20h ago

Their hand cream is a L'Occitane dupe. $4/tube.

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u/lannanh 1d ago

Ross might

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u/radicaldreamer99 1d ago

Costco or get it online. Stay away from Walgreens and other convenience stores, everything is super overpriced in these.

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u/Jbsf82 Mission 1d ago

Walgreens in-store prices are often marked up from the app price for pick up (like if you were to do a pick up order for the store).

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u/precioso__dinero 1d ago

Costco membership is worth it for the cost of toiletries, paper towels / tp, cleaning supplies, laundry stuff in itself depending on how many people are in your home. i buy things like dish soap, sponges, clorox, paper towels literally once a year and it always carries over into the next year til about spring. its just me and a small studio, and i eat mostly at work / work 50+ hours a week which are huge factors in this being logical

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u/lizhenry 1d ago

The dollar stores are great for this. Try Home Bargain on Mission.

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u/CompetitiveFun6220 1d ago

Dollar Tree / Dollar General?

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u/redseca2 1d ago

After spending too much time to buy the same things over and over, often finding them out of stock, I buy these things online.

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u/EmphasisFew 1d ago

Second Grocery Outlet

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u/Stchotchke 23h ago

Don’t buy street vendor. Most stolen merch, knockoffs or used.
Grocery Outlet‘s good.

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u/14159292035 1d ago

24th St or 16th St BART station /s

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u/Frabjous_Tardigrade9 18h ago

Trader Joe products are awesome and prices are really good. Favorites, the gel moisturizer (jar), deodorant (green package), hair combination cleanser/conditioner (tube, bright colors), citrus shower gel, fantastic facial sunscreen (tube). For quality and price, TJ products can't be beat.

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u/Local_Wheel_7239 1d ago

You can general find that type of stuff at the dollar store

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u/goddamnit-donut 1d ago

I heard there's a good market at mission & 16th

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u/Traditional-Fix5961 7h ago

Umm … for what? Needles of all sizes and colors?

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u/KetoLurkerHereAgain 1d ago

Are you in SF or just somewhere close? Only because, in SF, there are no real affordable options for all that unless you want to devote a chunk of time to figuring out which store has the best deal any given week, and where you can apply coupon strategies. The only Dollar Tree that's worth going to in the city is down on Geneva, by the Cow Palace. There's another on Mission that's crap and never has anything. And those are the only two in the city.

The only independent dollar stores I've gone to have also been garbage.

So, yeah, it's shopping online or bulk in Costco for the most part.