Is hestia-cosmetics.com safe?
http://hestia-cosmetics.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Two-day-old cosmetics storefront selling a "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" foundation stick, with reviewers describing non-delivery and a nonexistent company address
hestia-cosmetics.com is a Shopify storefront branded "HESTIA" that sells two cosmetics items — a Color-Changing Foundation Stick at $39.99 and a Calcium Multi Balm at $19.95 — under a Greek-goddess founding story. The registrable domain was created two days before our review, yet the site runs an evergreen "SPECIAL OFFER: BUY 1 GET 1 FREE · ENDS TODAY" banner and a "HESTIA®" trademark style. No legal entity, registration number, phone number or postal address is disclosed, and the refund terms cut off cancellations one hour after purchase and can be changed without notice. Independent search results include reviews describing the shop as not shipping and not answering emails, and one saying the listed company address does not exist. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is not, which places the site in the High Risk band.
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 5 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateA permanent "BUY 1 GET 1 FREE · ENDS TODAY" banner and "offer ends at midnight" copy create evergreen scarcity on a brand-new store.
- ModerateOne customer complaint on a public review site: "FAKE SITE Don't buy anything from them; they don't ship and don't reply to emails."
- ModerateThe registrable domain was created two days before review while the site presents an established brand story and "HESTIA®" styling.
- ModerateThe refund policy bars cancellation one hour after purchase and can be changed without notice, effective immediately.
- MinorNo phone number and no operator postal address are shown, and the terms name only "HESTIA" with no registration identifier.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe shop publishes a 30-day return policy and tracked delivery, and offers a domain-matched contact email.
- SupportsNo engine detections, no Safe Browsing warning and a valid encrypted connection.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
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- Report the site
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
hestia-cosmetics.com is a Shopify storefront branded "HESTIA" that sells two cosmetics items — a Color-Changing Foundation Stick at $39.99 and a Calcium Multi Balm at $19.95 — under a Greek-goddess founding story. The registrable domain was created two days before our review, yet the site runs an evergreen "SPECIAL OFFER: BUY 1 GET 1 FREE · ENDS TODAY" banner and a "HESTIA®" trademark style. No legal entity, registration number, phone number or postal address is disclosed, and the refund terms cut off cancellations one hour after purchase and can be changed without notice. Independent search results include reviews describing the shop as not shipping and not answering emails, and one saying the listed company address does not exist. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is not, which places the site in the High Risk band.
A brand story that is two days old, with no company behind it
The homepage tells a crafted brand story — "Named after the Greek goddess of the hearth, keeper of fires, holder of homes. We built one foundation that actually holds" — and the product is styled as "HESTIA®". The registrable domain, however, was created just two days before our review, so the heritage framing has no history behind it.
Nothing on the captured pages identifies who runs the shop: there is no phone number and no operator postal address, and the terms name only "HESTIA" with no registration identifier. The only contact route is an email on the site's own domain, contact@hestia-cosmetics.com.
Independent search results include reviews that describe the shop as not shipping and not replying to emails, and one that says the address listed for the company appears invalid and nonexistent. These are third-party reviewer statements rather than anything we verified ourselves, but they line up with the missing operator details on the site.
Evergreen "ends today" urgency and a one-hour cancellation cutoff
The top banner reads "SPECIAL OFFER: BUY 1 GET 1 FREE · ENDS TODAY", and the product copy repeats "Limited BOGO sets — act now" and "Offer ends at midnight or while today's stock lasts." On a storefront this new, that deadline framing is a sales device rather than a real event.
The refund policy states that orders cannot be cancelled after one hour from the time of purchase, and separately reserves the right to modify the return and refund policy at any time without prior notice, effective immediately on posting. Both terms narrow what a buyer can do if the order goes wrong.
On the other side, the shop does publish a 30-day return policy and says every order ships with tracked delivery, which is why this is not scored as a pure technical threat.
Clean scanners, unverified seller
No malware or phishing indicators were found: 0 of 93 engines flagged the domain, the browser threat feed returned no warning, and the encrypted connection is valid. The multi-engine malware scan categorisation also carries a "newly registered websites" label, which matches the two-day-old registration.
The checkout path stays on the same domain: the product links, "More Details" and "Shop the stick" buttons and the cart all resolve to hestia-cosmetics.com, and no cross-domain order destination or affiliate presell was captured. The risk here is who is taking the money and whether goods arrive, not a malicious download or credential theft.
Why the score is 38
A permanent "BUY 1 GET 1 FREE · ENDS TODAY" banner and "offer ends at midnight" copy create evergreen scarcity on a brand-new store.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
- Googleshopping
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Top banner reads 'SPECIAL OFFER: BUY 1 GET 1 FREE · ENDS TODAY' in white on an orange bar. Header shows a serif 'HESTIA' wordmark centered, with nav items 'HESTIA Color-Changing Foundation Stick · Buy 1 Get 1 FREE', 'Hestia Calcium Multi Balm' and 'Contact', plus search, account and cart icons. Hero is a close-up beauty photo of a face with the word 'HESTIA' overlaid in large white serif type; no price, ingredient list or operator details are visible in the hero. A 'Home' pill button appears at top-left of the header area, suggesting a minimal single-page storefront layout.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Top banner reads 'SPECIAL OFFER: BUY 1 GET 1 FREE · ENDS TODAY' in white on an orange bar.
- 02
Header shows a serif 'HESTIA' wordmark centered, with nav items 'HESTIA Color-Changing Foundation Stick · Buy 1 Get 1 FREE', 'Hestia Calcium Multi Balm' and 'Contact', plus search, account and cart icons.
- 03
Hero is a close-up beauty photo of a face with the word 'HESTIA' overlaid in large white serif type; no price, ingredient list or operator details are visible in the hero.
- 04
A 'Home' pill button appears at top-left of the header area, suggesting a minimal single-page storefront layout.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Hestia Official
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/policies/contact-informationRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Hestia Official
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
6 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain was created two days before review while the site presents an established brand story and "HESTIA®" styling.
- 02No phone number and no operator postal address are shown, and the terms name only "HESTIA" with no registration identifier.
- 03The shop publishes a 30-day return policy and tracked delivery, and offers a domain-matched contact email.
Web research findings
Independent findings for hestia-cosmetics.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Trustindex.io reviewer profileopen
"THEY ARE SCAMMERS They are scammers! do not buy from them! Made to order, paid with bitcoin and never heard from them again!"
- Trustindex.io reviewer profileopen
"FAKE SITE Don't buy anything from them; they don't ship and don't reply to emails."
- Trustindex.io reviewer profileopen
"The address listed for this company appears to be invalid. After checking, it seems nonexistent."
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domainhestia-cosmetics.com
- Redirects tohestia-cosmetics.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 5, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 8, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
hestia-cosmetics.com was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (contact@hestia-cosmetics.com).
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for hestia-cosmetics.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://hestia-cosmetics.com/
- 2200https://hestia-cosmetics.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
A permanent "BUY 1 GET 1 FREE · ENDS TODAY" banner and "offer ends at midnight" copy create evergreen scarcity on a brand-new store. · One customer complaint on a public review site: "FAKE SITE Don't buy anything from them; they don't ship and don't reply to emails."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Nov 8, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Independent research | 6 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 8, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Independent research
- Result6 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is hestia-cosmetics.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is hestia-cosmetics.com safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to hestia-cosmetics.com?
Can I get my money back from hestia-cosmetics.com?
I ordered from hestia-cosmetics.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report hestia-cosmetics.com?
Why does hestia-cosmetics.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has hestia-cosmetics.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is hestia-cosmetics.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the hestia-cosmetics.com domain?
Does hestia-cosmetics.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the hestia-cosmetics.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Two-day-old cosmetics storefront selling a "Buy 1 Get 1 Free" foundation stick, with reviewers describing non-delivery and a nonexistent company address
hestia-cosmetics.com is a Shopify storefront branded "HESTIA" that sells two cosmetics items — a Color-Changing Foundation Stick at $39.99 and a Calcium Multi Balm at $19.95 — under a Greek-goddess founding story. The registrable domain was created two days before our review, yet the site runs an evergreen "SPECIAL OFFER: BUY 1 GET 1 FREE · ENDS TODAY" banner and a "HESTIA®" trademark style. No legal entity, registration number, phone number or postal address is disclosed, and the refund terms cut off cancellations one hour after purchase and can be changed without notice. Independent search results include reviews describing the shop as not shipping and not answering emails, and one saying the listed company address does not exist. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is not, which places the site in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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