Thanks for the sites. It appears, however, that neither of them sells the Elvital.

Two good things happened today. My grand-nephew who is living with us during medical school advised me this morning that he has to fly to London tomorrow on a research project and will get me one bottle of shampoo, one bottle of conditioner and a can of hairspray. That will hold me until I find a better solution.

I think that living with us has started addicting him. When we were discussing the fact that I needed European shampoo, he said, "Well you could always go for the miles".

I also met with a client today who used to be in the cosmetics business. She gave me the name of a friend of hers who imports beauty products from Europe into Canada and then drives them across the border. She also advised that the reason Europe has such superior beauty products is that many of the ingredients they use are forbidden by the FDA in the US, which is what I had suspected.

Maybe I will become an ex-pat retiree.