No Buying Toiletries in February Challenge

PudseyDB

cutiepieabf wrote: »

1 IN to declare - AVON kids shampoo. i am never sure whether there is an actual difference between kids and adults shampoo?

I think kids shampoos are "tear-free" ie it wont hurt their eyes if it goes in. Not that I've tested that, but can vouch that adult shampoo can be ouchy in eyes!!

cutiepieabf

PudseyDB wrote: »

I think kids shampoos are "tear-free" ie it wont hurt their eyes if it goes in. Not that I've tested that, but can vouch that adult shampoo can be ouchy in eyes!!

this is what i thought but i know that when J&J gets in his eyes he cries so unless he's a wuss (more than poss. lol), the only difference i can think of is that there are less chemicals? which then makes you think - well what the hell am i washing MY hair with then? :cool:

EssexHebridean

footymadgal wrote: »

I was also a Mallory Towers/St Clares fan and always wanted a midnight feast! Welshgirl, you have lived the dream :rotfl:!

I always wanted a midnight feast too! Closest I came was going on horse-riding holidays when I was about 12/13/14 - we always had a load of fun late into the night and invariably got in trouble several times for not behaving after lights-out! As for the books, I read practically anything as a kid, but the Enid Blytons were always favourites, as were anything pony-related - the Pullein-Thompson sisters I seem to recall wrote excellent pony books, in fact, I still have a few around I think!

One UU to report this morning - the Sanctuary Kyphi Body Butter - WIBA? - yes, I would. Smelt lovely, and was really effective, although I find Sanctuary products usually are. I have now gone onto using my Avon Rich Moisture Face Cream which I was using as a night cream, as a body cream instead, as it's been open rather a long time now and is a HUGE pot - how anyone would ever use it up within a reasonable time just on their face lord knows! The plan is, that in the few days it will take me to finish that, my shower gel will also have been UU'd, and I will then be able to go onto using BS Moringa shower gel & body butter together. I have taken an Avon Anew Reversalist night emulsion from the stash. It is a really pretty light sparkly cream in a quite posh pot, so looks very impressive on the dressing table!

mcculloch29

Have you ever wondered what the Queen uses in her guest loos at the Palace?

One of the Ouchers! got her MBE this week and she reports back that it's Elemis hand wash and lotions.

Hazz

Ok I'm still catching up... on pg 19!!

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

have you tried Nizorelle (or something like that?) it's expensive, but if you can get a doctor to prescribe it (mine won't) you can get a generic version.

Thanks Lemon Tree, never heard of it but it might be worth a ago, the itchiness really gets me down sometimes

Becky_2 wrote: »

Hi Hazz

I also have a dry/itchy scalp due to my psoriasis. I used to suffer from flakiness too but not anymore. For the last year I have used Lush Retro Recon (a scalp reconditioiner, this can only be bought online). You massage into your scalp and leave it for around 15 minutes, I often leave it for much longer though and then I wash with a normal schampoo (at the moment I am using LE) several times since your hair gets really greasy from the Lush product During the last schampooing I also massage in Dead Sea's spa magik conditioning scalp mud from Debanhams. I only wash my hair once a week and I have found the Lush product and the scalp mud absolutely brilliant and I very rarely now use cortison in my scalp and the itchiness and the flakiness is gone.

Good luck in finding the right product for you and please let us how you are getting on.

Thanks Becky, I'll look into this too. At the moment I'm using herbal essences no flakin' away which is helping with the itching but scalp is still flaky. I guess you have to give things time to work their magic though.

I've got a provisional list below, I know I've missed alot of things off but these are things mostly from gift sets etc. so I've copied and pasted this from finding them online:

Hand / Foot Cream
The Santuary Spa Hand Cream 30ml x 1
Soap & Glory Hand Food Hydrating Hand Cream, 125 ml x 1, 50ml x 1
The Body Shop Coconut Soap 100g x 1
The Body Shop Cranberry Soap 100g x 1

Body Butters / Lotions / Scrubs / Polish / Spray's / Treatments
The Santuary Spa Body Scrub 50ml x 1
The Santuary Spa Body Lotion 250ml x 2
The Santuary Spa Body Butter 150ml x 1
The Santuary Spa Salt Scrub Sachet 60g x 1
The Santuary Spa Spa Skin Body Polisher x 1
Soap & Glory The Righteous Butter Body Butter, 300 ml
Soap & Glory Flake Away Body Scrub, 300ml
Soap & Glory Girligo Scented Body Moisturising Mist, 100 ml
Soap & Glory The Breakfast Scrub Body Smoother, 300 ml
Soap & Glory The Daily Smooth Body Butter 250ml x 1
Soap & Glory Butter Up Body Butter 200ml x 1
Soap & Glory Girligo Moisturising Mist 100ml x 2 / x 1
Soap & Glory Butter Up Body Butter 200ml x 1
The Body Shop Cranberry Body Butter 200ml x 1
The Body Shop Lemon Body Butter 200ml x 1
The Body Shop Jolly Orange Body Butter 200ml x 1
The Body Shop Strawberry Body Butter 50ml? x 1
Boss Orange Femme Body Lotion 50ml x 1
Kate Moss Body Lotion 150ml x 1
Beckham Signature for Her 150ml x 1

Soap & Glory Slimwear, 190ml x 1
Soap & Glory Return to Slender, 200ml x 1
The Body Shop Sweet Whip Lemon Body Lotion 250ml x 1
The Body Shop Neroli Jasmin Body Mist 100ml x 1
The Body Shop Neroli Jasmin Body Lotion 60ml x 1
The Body Shop Coconut Body Butter 50 ml x 1
The Body Shop Coconut Body Scrub 50 ml x 1

Lips

Soap & Glory Super Colour Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Gloss in ‘Pink Apricot,’ 7 ml x 1
Soap & Glory Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Gloss Ltd Edn 7ml x 1
Soap & Glory Sexy Mother Pucker, 7ml x 1
The Body Shop Lemon Lip Butter 10ml x 1
The Body Shop Strawberry Lip Butter 10ml x 1
The Body Shop Cranberry Lip Butter 10ml x 1
Soap & Glory Marvelips, 4.53g x 1
Soap & Glory Mighty Mouth, 9ml + 2 x 4g
Vaseline Lip Therapy 20g x 1
Vaseline Lip Therapy Rose 20g x 1
Vasline Lip Theray Chocolate 20g x 1
Nivea Lip Care Gloss & Shine Natural 10ml x 2 / x 1


Shampoo's / Conditioners
Soap & Glory Glad Hair Day Ultra-Shine Super-Shampoo, 250 ml
Soap & Glory Hair Supply Hair Mask 50ml x 1
Herbal Essences No Flakin' Away Shampoo 250ml x 1
Herbal Essences Dazzling Shine Conditioner 200ml x 1

Bath / Shower
The Santuary Spa Body Wash 250ml x 1
The Santuary Spa Luxury Bath Float 75ml x 1
The Santuary Spa Foaming Bath Soak 75ml x 1
Soap & Glory Clean On Me Creamy Clarifying Shower Gel, 500 ml x 1, 75ml x 1
Soap & Glory I-Foam Body Wash 200ml x 1
Soap & Glory Wash Almighty, 500ml x 1
The Body Shop Neroli Jasmin Shower Gel 60ml x 1
The Body Shop Coconut Shower Cream 250 ml x 1
The Body Shop Jolly Orange Shower Gel 200ml x 1


Face Moisturisers / Cleansers / Scrubs
Soap & Glory Scrub Your Nose In It Face Scrub And Mask, 125 ml
Soap & Glory Off Your Face Cleansing Wipes, 25 wipes x 2
Soap & Glory The Greatest Scrub of All Facial Smoother 125ml x 3 / x 1
Soap & Glory Catch a Wrinkle 50ml x 3
Soap & Glory Clean Mary Facial Cleansing Milk 75ml x 3??, 180ml x 1
Soap & Glory Wizard of Flaws, 1ml x 1
Soap & Glory Eye Lift, 15ml x 2 / x 1
Soap & Glory Touch & Glow, 75ml
Soap & Glory Glow Job 75ml x 1


Perfumes
The Santuary Spa Classic EDT 25ml x 1
Boss Orange Femme 30ml x 1
Calvin Klein CK One 50ml x 1
Kate Moss 30ml x 1
Beckham Signature for Her 30ml x 1
Versace Versus Red Jeans Eau De Toilette Spray 75ml x 1
The Body Shop Neroli Jasmin EDT 30ml x 1


This has kind of made me realise I have to stop, especially buying body butters / scrubs. Ive got enough to mosturise the 5,000 there. :mad: Anyway anything I've highlighted in red is a UU :T and anything in blue is currently being used up.

VALM

sunshineyday wrote: »

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:jThanks for this Valm - will be very tempted. I have loved everything from the one and only TSV I've bought (didn't even know what that meant before I joined this thread - you lot really are a bad influence :rotfl: ) Do you know if the frangipani shower gel will be in it?

I got the info from Shopping telly.com and they in turn got it from Kayley (Elemis guest on QVC). They mention some other travel items and a bag. Doesn't look like the Frangipani is in there though. I used this in my shower this morning with Soap & Glory Righteous Butter and they smelled good together.

mcculloch29 wrote: »

One of the Ouchers! got her MBE this week and she reports back that it's Elemis hand wash and lotions.

Being nosey as to what this means? Is there was way of getting freebie Elemis?

thevicster

lynseydee wrote: »

Roshy, I agree with everyone saying go to Australia and talking about regretting it if you don't.

Obviously not along the same lines but just before I met my husband I was thinking of selling up and moving back down to Cornwall, where I'm from, and starting my life over again down there. Then I met my husband and thought I need to decide between moving to Cornwall and him and I chose my husband. Well now I'm in a situation where he doesn't want to move down to Cornwall so I've lost my dream. What I should have done was tell him I was moving and if he really wanted to be with me he would have followed.

So I say go for it.

Hey Lyndseydee, i'm from Cornwall too! I'm desperate to move back too but my oh doesn't want to either Where are you from?

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Have you ever wondered what the Queen uses in her guest loos at the Palace?

One of the Ouchers! got her MBE this week and she reports back that it's Elemis hand wash and lotions.

The Queen clearly has excellent taste!

roshydoshy

VALM wrote: »

Being nosey as to what this means? Is there was way of getting freebie Elemis?

I think she is just informing us what is used in palace!

Morning all, had a nice shower this morning and the fructis conditioner is a-spluttering. I thought it would have gone weeks ago but typically it's waiting around!

I had my interview this morning, and it was in the back of beyond - about a 40min drive cross country. However, when I got 3 miles away from the offices, the road was cancelled for tarmacing :mad: and the detour (which had signs missing all over the place!) they sent me on was 30 miles, and still not complete!! :eek: in the end I just went another way I knew but it took me nearly 2 hours to reach it - luckily I had left enough time. Soooo for anyone local, you can't get to Walkern from Stevenage today, it will be much quicker to go through Baldock :rotfl:
On the plus side I think it went rather well, I got on with the man interviewing me (only the one interviewer) and fingers crossed i get it although I know that they have interviewed a few already!

Have a good day ladies, I'm off for a catch up on the posts x

bargainbetty

Thanks for all the hellos - feeling welcome, fuzzy and well moisturised. Am so glad it's not just me with the loo rolls. I think it is inherited - I told my mum about it and shre reassured me that she has always kept a stash of it too - hers is currently about 24 though, so I might build down the stash a bit.

2 UU for me (before I've finished the list) a sample of Olay energising face cream. WIBA? Possibly, it was very light and did a good job keeping my skin smooth. The other was a tube of Clarins Relaxing body lotion (the blue tube one) WIBA? Probably not. Quite clumpy, didn't absorb as well as stuff half the price and the smell can't decide it if it lavender or camomile and just stays at 'random floral'. Not really worth the price.

Onto the Molton Brown Coco De Mer body lotion, shampoo, conditioner, body and fash wash now! All open at once - PRCP rules!

tara747

Absinthe_Fairy wrote: »

I loved the Faraway Tree ones too!

I don't think I need to join the 'no buying books' thread, I'm pretty good with them, out of the 680 books I own, there's only 16 I haven't read, and most of them are different translations of Russian books and I don't want to read them too soon after reading other translations of the same books (yes, that's another one of my collecting habits - I own three different translations of War & Peace!).

Back OT, my Body Shop Vitamin E Eye Cream is finally spluttering, about time too, I've been using it since last June, I don't know where it all comes from, the tube is tiny!

I'm using that eye cream atm too (along with a couple of others) and it does last quite a long time

I love Enid Blyton books (have I said that before? lol). I still have them all at my mum's house! :):)

lizziebabe wrote: »

Hi everyone :wave:

I have a UU to report - BS Camomile eye make up remover lotion - WIBA - Yes definately as this is my HG of removers. I don't need any more at the mo as I have a few left in my stash - strange, I have tried this and am not that keen! Funny how different peeps love different things.

Does everyone here use a night cream? I have started to as I need to use up my stash and it might help Don't know if it has made any difference yet but will hopefully see after a month. - yes, always. I love the rich night creams and my day cream has to have SPF so I use separate products.

Tara - have never really had a problem with blackheads but do you use a face mask - I believe there are some that are good for BH's like clay and dead sea salt etc
Have you ever tried those nose strips - that is if you have them on your nose. Anyway good luck with that. - thanks for that, I do use a clay/clarifying mask every so often and I have used the nose strips before, so must dig them out too. They are on my nose and either side of my nose (yuuuk). Is there a Sanctuary mask that I can use the £5 voucher with?

Have managed to get 2 shifts this weekend - Yay - need the dosh.
So just won't have time to go out and spend :rotfl:- good for you! :beer:

Keep up the good work everyone :j

Sorry, had to do replies in pink

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I keep finding little freebie sample tubes in different places, not "in's" as such but rediscovereds. Mostly the Olay 7mls.
I've just finished reading Kath Kelly's How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day. She mentions freebies as a great source of toiletries. The book is wonderful, how annoying that it is out of print when the far inferior Not Buying It by Judith Levine is still going.

Kath used 29p a litre shampoo from Asda which lasted her pretty much the entire year once she had used up what she had at the start of the challenge. Soap was 3 bars for 19p and toothpaste 21p.

She mentions free haircuts from trainees; around here you do pay - not a lot, though. Several of the local colleges do hair cheaply. I've never been tempted, but perhaps one day.

*feels faint* :eek: :rotfl:

Sounds like a book I should read! I am very frugal in most areas except: travelling (my #1 priority), toiletries (I am a bargainista but spend too much overall), clothes (ditto) and food (I will spend money on good food because it's important, I'm lucky to have enough money to buy good food - but even I will gasp at overpriced food, usually fruit!!!).

p.s. confession time! I popped into SpaceNK at lunchtime and got a couple of fab freebies Then I went to Molton Brown to spend my vouchers... got a Skinpure cleanser for 50p after the Times voucher and £10 gift card! I can't decide what to get with the others so will go back on Monday. The lovely SA didn't mind me using both in one transaction and was happy to put another set through for me. No free sample though, humph! (I@m never happy :rotfl: )