---
title: "Is dermastore.co.za Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "dermastore.co.za"
verdict: "High Trust"
title: "Is dermastore.co.za Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
trust_score: 100
classification_confidence: 70
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/dermastore.co.za
assessed: 2026-08-02
---

# Is dermastore.co.za legit? TrustSniffer's high-trust assessment: 100/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: High Trust, trust score 100/100.** dermastore.co.za appears legitimate.

Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.

Labels: Not Scam, Safe for Login, Low Risk

Assessed 2026-08-02 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 70%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Dermastore is a South African online skincare retailer offering dermatologist-recommended products, supplements, consultations, skin assessments, educational content, customer reviews, and nationwide delivery. |

## Evidence status and limitations


Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN

- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.

## At a glance

The checks that decide most of this verdict.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 12 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 13 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2016 (149 snapshots) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YE2) | Noted |

## The page as captured


No screenshot is retained for this report.

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2016.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.

## Full analysis


### Overview

Dermastore is a South African online skincare retailer presenting dermatologist-recommended products, supplements, consultations, skin assessments, educational content, customer reviews, promotions, and nationwide delivery through an established ecommerce business model.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

No contradictions were observed across the site’s identity, content, behavior, historical presence, or external reputation. The homepage presents a coherent skincare retail operation with detailed product categories, dermatologist-oriented services, customer support, reviews, and educational material; it does not exhibit phishing, impersonation, malware, cryptocurrency, or financial-manipulation indicators. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.

- The homepage identifies Dermastore as a dermatologist-recommended skincare retailer and provides extensive product, service, review, and educational content.
- Historical coverage records 149 archive snapshots across 11 years, from 2016-09-10 through 2026-02-15, with no suspicious repurposing identified.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no confirmed blacklist or phishing finding.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The site’s commercial identity is consistent with an online skincare retailer rather than a regulated financial service. Its business model includes retail products, supplements, consultations, memberships, gift vouchers, and loyalty services. No specific regulatory license or registration number was identified in the supplied site analysis; this is a limited disclosure point for verification purposes, not evidence of deception. The available third-party broker context produced no match.

- Technical registration records identify Dermastore (Pty) Ltd through registrar xneelo (Pty) Ltd.
- The domain was registered on 2014-01-27 and is approximately 12.52 years old, with expiry recorded as 2027-01-27.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE2, valid through 2026-09-10.

### What to Verify Next

Before relying on consultation or health-related product claims, the relevant practitioner credentials, product instructions, returns terms, and delivery conditions should be confirmed through the site’s published service and policy pages. Any required business or professional authorization should be checked with the applicable South African registry where relevant. Official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent, offline route before resolving unusual account or payment requests.

- The homepage advertises dermatologist-oriented recommendations, skin assessments, consultations, and skin therapist advice.
- The site provides product categories spanning skincare, supplements, targeted treatments, and condition-specific concerns.
- The analyzed homepage contains no sensitive form, hidden form, or untrusted form destination.

### Summary Verdict

Dermastore presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy ecommerce website with a coherent identity, mature content profile, clean reputation, and stable operating history. The evidence supports normal browsing, account use, and standard transactions, subject to ordinary product and service verification appropriate to any skincare retailer.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The website is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the observed address was a Cloudflare edge server rather than an exposed origin address. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a positive mitigating control, although protective hosting alone does not establish legitimacy.

- Hosted on AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET — Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- Observed edge IP: 162.159.134.42.
- TLS validation level: DV; issuer: YE2; certificate valid to 2026-09-10.

### Closing Assessment

Prospective users may proceed with normal site interaction and standard purchasing or account activity, while applying routine checks to product suitability, service terms, and any unusual payment or account-recovery request.


_Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._

## What the analysis found


No rule findings contributed to this verdict.

## Identity verification


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Status | LIKELY |
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 76% |

- Trusted social count=2

_Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence._

## What TrustSniffer observed

First-party facts recorded during the assessment of dermastore.co.za.

- The request stayed on dermastore.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under xneelo (Pty) Ltd. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by host-h.net, across 4 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-27. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2016-09-10. (Clear)
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | xneelo (Pty) Ltd |
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.159.134.42 |
| Name servers | ns2.host-h.net, ns1.dns-h.com, ns1.host-h.net, ns2.dns-h.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-10 |
| Domain age | 12.5 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2016-09-10 |
| Archive snapshots | 149 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 12 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

## About this assessment


A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about dermastore.co.za at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.

TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/dermastore.co.za) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/dermastore.co.za · assessed 2026-08-02.*