Currently heavy on hair-care products and tools, the site boasts potions, lotions and flat irons from companies including TIGI, Chi, Biosilk, Rusk, Joico and Kerastase. Items are discounted from 7% to 75% off, with most products slashed to around 20% off.

There’s a skinnier selection of skin-care offerings, with a few items each from marquee brands including Clarins and Philosophy.

But the sun-care selection is solid — featuring favorite self-tanners and SPF lotions from brands including Neutrogena and Coppertone, priced from 9% to 75% off.

Some of the biggest deals on the site include the cult favorite Chi flat irons, which are priced 56% off retail, from $179.99 to $79.99; and a rainbow of Essie nail colors, marked down from $8 to $4.50 each.
Shipping is free on orders over $100, and there are great deals to be had for bulk buys, depending on the product (retailers and salons have standing orders with the site.)

Though Stockngo.com is clearly no Drugstore.com yet, due to its comparatively scant selection, its prices are better on the products it does carry.

Which earns it a hard-won spot on our browser’s “favorites” bar.

Stockn’Go, or Stockngo.com, which was launched late last year, fuses convenience with warehouse-style prices and aims to become a “go-to” source for the growing ranks of consumers opting to buy health and beauty products online.

“We’re like Costco and Overstock.com combined,” said Adam Berkowitz, who co-founded the company with Jonathan Webb. The team had worked on e-commerce sites for Giorgio Armani, Perfumania, Revlon and Elizabeth Arden before deciding to create its own. He said Stockn’Go is already outpacing original sales plans by threefold.

Rapid expansion of Stockn’Go comes at what many experts believe is a turning point for online shopping. Consumers are warming up to the idea of ordering even fragrances or cosmetics via the Internet, especially thanks to money-back guarantees. Some research shows more than 50 percent of consumers buying at least some items online and 85 percent are said to research products via the Web.

Even manufacturers see the need to boost online sales with Procter & Gamble Co. and others looking to raise online sales to as much as 10 percent of total volume in the next few years.

Currently Stockn’Go has more than 5,000 stockkeeping units with plans for 10,000 by year’s end. Brands range from high-end lines, such as Chi hair styling tools, to value-priced items, including VO5 shampoo. Bulk sales are a big part of the business and even independent drugstores and other retailers order from the site. There is a customized account program allowing for reoccurring deliveries based on daily, weekly or monthly needs.

Currently, hair care is the biggest seller on the site and Stockn’Go especially serves those in markets within middle America where it can be hard to procure some brands. “We have customers who can’t easily buy, say, John Frieda,” said Berkowitz. The e-retailer will soon add as many as 400 styling tools, another big category not always readily available at retail. Currently, average orders ring in around $50 — twice that of what is required for free shipping.