No Buying Toiletries in March Challenge

PudseyDB

VALM wrote: »

Here is link to the new colours:
http://static.becomegorgeous.com/img/arts/2011/Feb/17/3842/opipiratesofthecaribbeanonstrangertidescollection.jpg

Maybe it wasnt wise to show us that there's some gorgeous colours there!

Mingle wrote: »

Good News! Just used up a deep hair conditioner, avon spa that i'd had for about 7 years. WIBA? I'm not sure it's any better than normal conditioner... I have straight sleek thick hair so a specialist product doesn't really help.

I can see the bottom of my planet spa paraffin hand and foot treatment, my sanctuary zibu salt scrub and body butter, so that's progress

How do you use this? I've got as tub and dont know what I'm meant to do with it. It says warm towels, but wont that ruin them?

I bought a pair of moisture socks of ebay ( or so I thought) and when the order came there was ONE SOCK! I emailed the seller and they said that was the listing. Who sells single, unused socks really?!

One sock????????:eek: lol I've only ever seen them packaged in twos.....most bizarre :rotfl::rotfl: Annoying though :mad:

xoxo_2

I've been told by a friend I need to join this So room for one more?

I'm off to list... :eek: See you all in a week or two :rotfl:

Mingle

Pudsey- I just whack it on and put moisture gloves on. Occasionally I then put my hand down the cover of a hot water bottle for a minute just to activate it. It works well with the gloves and it's not too sticky- it's definitely a treatment rather than a bog standard hand cream though.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-x-cotton-moisturising-sock-keeping-creams-on-foot_W0QQitemZ270608409681QQcategoryZ4844QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp5197.m7QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D5%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8012225082932142701

This is the ebay listing. I know it says "one sock" but I presumed it meant 1 pair because...socks come in pairs and last time I checked I had two feet. This was before the new budget though, so everything could have changed

mcculloch29

Mingle wrote: »

I bought a pair of moisture socks of ebay ( or so I thought) and when the order came there was ONE SOCK! I emailed the seller and they said that was the listing. Who sells single, unused socks really?!

An amputee who hopes that people don't read carefully? But seriously, how very annoying for you, Mingle.

Just watched the trailer for 'Super Scrimpers' on Ch. 4 on Wednesday. Thirty years too late for my Mum to have starred, sadly but I bet there's very little on there that she didn't know about Old Style saving.


Following the Clairol Foam my hair is now rather dry and not pleasant to touch, :mad: (it's baby-fine and tends to be a little greasy normally, if anything) so I have a hair treatment UU. It's a few years old, a Superdrug Naturals Henna and Sweet Chestnut intensive conditioner for brunettes.

WIBA? My hair has never really needed intensive conditioning up to now, I bought it as I thought the henna in the treatment might help with colour fade, which is a bit ironic, given that I've just gone near black instead of medium brown. So possibly not, but iirc it was incredibly good value for money.

I think I'll ring the Careline for Clairol on Monday as I'm more annoyed about the foam debacle when I reflect on it, I had a feeling it would look dark, but medium brown should not look brown/black. Neither should hair be in poor condition following use when it wasn't before. It wasn't fit for purpose, I've had dyes look darker than expected but this????

If you bought a tin of light pink paint and it went on the walls a glaring fuschia, you'd have every right to complain. Ok, I didn't buy it, but I obtained it with certain expectations, which were not met.

Enough moaning. Snipped open a tube of Beauty Formulas cream for Extra Dry skin that I was using as foot cream to find a huge amount clinging to the tube interior, so no UU report from that for at least a week.

In another spirit of experimentation I tried a Boots Lavender hand lotion as body lotion and got the identical result to the body lotion from the same gift set, it rubbed in but left a gritty feeling on the skin. It left the same feeling on my hands, so there must have been some deterioration.

I'm not binning it, it can replace the Beauty Formulas on the feet. Whilst I don't paint my toe nails - they basically don't exist apart from on my big toes - my feet are in the best nick they've been for years. No painful hard skin or calluses in sight. And all this without resorting to cutting or rasping.

PudseyDB

Mingle wrote: »

Pudsey- I just whack it on and put moisture gloves on. Occasionally I then put my hand down the cover of a hot water bottle for a minute just to activate it. It works well with the gloves and it's not too sticky- it's definitely a treatment rather than a bog standard hand cream though.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-x-cotton-moisturising-sock-keeping-creams-on-foot_W0QQitemZ270608409681QQcategoryZ4844QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp5197.m7QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D5%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D8012225082932142701

This is the ebay listing. I know it says "one sock" but I presumed it meant 1 pair because...socks come in pairs and last time I checked I had two feet. This was before the new budget though, so everything could have changed

Thanks for the advice.

Just looked at the buyers for the socks and there's lots that have bought 1 or 3 - so lots that'll have had the same "surprise"!! :rotfl:

xoxo_2

Soap & Glory - My biggest problem
Daily smooth body butter x 4 (2 x 250ml tubes, 1 pot, 1 travel size...)
Breakfast scrub x 1
Clean mary x 1
Hand food x 2
Glad hair day shampoo x 3
Glad hair day conditioner x 2
Hair supply x 1
Calm one, calm all x *cough* 6
Face soap & clarity x 1
Slim wear x 1
Scrub your nose in it x 2
Clean girls x 2
The righteous butter x 2
Flake away x 2
Blueberry thrill x 2
Wash almighty x 1
Heel genuis x 2
Thermal scrub x 1
Easy glistening dry oil body gloss x 1
Scrub em and leave em x 1
Greatest scrub of all x 1
Clean on me x 2
Endless glove x 1
The firminator x 1
Hand break (2 bottle set thing) x 3
Perfume x 1
Girligo x 1
Glam-a-lot x 1
Mist you madly x 1
Glad pits x 2
Wizard of flaws x 1
Marvelips x 1
Sexy mother pucker x 6
Mighty mouth x 1


Perfumes & oils (1 of each unless stated)
Flowerbomb x 7 (1 real, 1 perfume parlour, *cough* 5 oils )
Coco Mademoiselle x 5 (1 real, 1 perfume parlour, 3 oils)
FCUK her
Ghost (original) x 3
Kate Moss x 4 various sizes
Intimately beckham
Eternity x 4 (1 real, 1 perfume parlour, 2 oils)
Britney curious x 3 :rotfl:
Oils bought on recommendation from the thread on here:
Beyonce heat
Issey miyake
Miss dior cherie
Angel
Daisy
Burberry London
Vera Wang princess
Hypnotic poison
And then about 20 nameless random perfumes from cheap shops :rotfl:
And about *cough* 60 body sprays and deodrants all half used

Other stuff x 1 unless stated
FCUK whipped body cream x 2
FCUK sugar scrub x 3
FCUK polished body butter
FCUK bath syrup x 3
FCUK body spray x 3
FCUK body polish
Kate moss body lotion
Ghost body lotion
FCUK body polish
FCUK body was
Gorgeous by Gok liquid gold body wash
Gorgeous by Gok liquid gold bath essence
Gorgeous by Gok molten gold body oil
Boots extracts cocoa butter body wash
Rough to buff body polish x2
Rough to buff moisturiser x2
Johnsons baby body lotion
Johnsons talc
Johnsons oil
Johnsons bedtime lotion
JOhnsons bedtime bath x 3
White collection pure bath essence
white collection pure body lotion
white collection pure handwash
white collection pure hand lotion
Gorgeous by Gok shower scrub
Gorgeous by Gok body wash
Gorgeous by Gok deluxe gold body butter
Gorgeous by Gok body butter
boots extracts cocoa butter sugar scrub
boots extracts cocoa butter body butter
body shop vitamin e body lotion x 2
elle mcpherson body wash x 2
elle mcpherson natural glow set x 2
Radox shower smoothies set x 2
Chilli Pepper body wash x 2
Chilli pepper lotion x 2
chilli pepper polish x 2
chilli pepper cream x 2
chilli pepper foot lotion x 2
chilli pepper foot scrub x 2
Boots blossom cream & perfume gift set
About 15 handmade soaps from the shop in town that I can't use but buy because they smell nice
About 30 bubble baths but I can't be bothered to move from here to list them all :rotfl:
18 boxes of wax strips :rotfl: Used half a strip once and never again :eek: Beauticians or razor in future! :eek:
5 different shaving foams



Hair stuff
QOD gold shampoo x 1
QOD gold condiitoner x 1
QOD keratin set x 1
Tresemme hairspray x 2
Pantene pro-v hairspray x 3
VO5 hairspray x 2 (7 hairsprays and I don't even use the stuff :rotfl: )
Pantene mousse x 1
Hot straight cream x 2
Boots coconut leave in condtioner x 2
About 20 shampoos & conditioners but I can't be bothered to move from here to list all those either and I can't actually use any of them anyway since doing the keratin treatment


Make up & nails
Nail varnish x 47 (even though I rarely wear it..and only chucked out my whole collection last September...)
Foundation x 1
Lipstick x 8 (never worn it in my life... :rotfl: )
Lipgloss x 22 (only ever wear clear...)
Eyeshaddow x 44
Eyeliner x 10
Lip liner x 4 (never worn it in my life..)
Lip balm x 7
Mascara x 4
Liquid eyeliner x 3
Dazzle dust x 2
No7 amazing eyes x 1 (not even sure what it is :rotfl: )

I've also got 3 boxes of stuff being stored at my Grans house, and a box at my mums But I can't list them until I see them to do it.

I feel I should also admit this is all collected since last September when I chucked everything(!) out

xoxo_2

And a S&G stash pic...

It has been added to since :rotfl:

Lemon_Tree

hi and welcome, that's a lovely list.
Just one question, did you buy all 18 boxes of wax strips before you tried one or did you get 17 after you decided never to do it again? Nothing implied just wondering
i know i've got stuff on my list that i bought because i thought i should use them but then didn't.

xoxo_2

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

hi and welcome, that's a lovely list.
Just one question, did you buy all 18 boxes of wax strips before you tried one or did you get 17 after you decided never to do it again? Nothing implied just wondering
i know i've got stuff on my list that i bought because i thought i should use them but then didn't.

I got about 6 one day, went back the next day and got the rest because I thought i'd use them and they were on offer (£1.24 a box) but they're rubbish:rotfl:

trudij

Hi xoxo, welcome and blimey....

I LOVE your stash !!