iHerb deals and shopping guide

iHerb was founded in California in 1996, identifying an early e-commerce opportunity in vitamins and supplements before most retail had moved online. It grew through a sequence of fulfillment centers rather than storefronts: an 18,000 sq ft facility in 2002, a 360,000 sq ft center in Moreno Valley by 2010, a 211,000 sq ft center in Hebron, Kentucky in 2013, then its Irvine, California office in 2015, the same year it opened its first China office. It passed $1 billion in sales in 2018 and opened its first international fulfillment center, in Incheon, South Korea, the following year.

Today iHerb ships more than 50,000 products from over 1,800 brands to more than 180 countries, and states plainly that it sells and ships those products itself rather than hosting third-party sellers the way a marketplace does. One of its logistics centers is inside Saudi Arabia, the detail that actually changes the experience for a Gulf shopper, since an order here is not automatically a trans-Pacific shipment the way it would be from a US-only vitamin retailer.