No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries in January 2013

rosemary54

noelphobic wrote: »

oh dear - did the earth move for you too?

Is it repairable?

sadly the earth has not moved for us for over 7 months:((hence my many moans on this thread and still no sign :(:()OH is going to repair and improve it as he thinks the design is poor!Just tried the website but it is down fro maintenence!am going to look at the house insurance to see if we can claim anything on that.

dolly84

Rosemary - the bed collapsing must have been a nasty shock, I hope you get it sorted.

Welcome newbies - this seems a good time to join as we are all doing really well with the challenge this month.

I am almost about to finish a 400ml bottle of Gum Double Cream shampoo which I love and I still have half the bottle of matching conditioner left so I have purchased another bottle in the same size from Home Bargains at a cost of £1.69 (this was where the other bottle came from and I haven't seen it anywhere else). It will be going into use this week and I am still within my £10 budget for the month.

Based on what people were saying about the Ren Omega 3 night serum I dug out one of my three 10ml bottles and by golly it is dreadful. At first it smelt like wood varnish with a fishy undertone but then the fishy smell got worse. That one is in the bin and will be followed by the other two. DH said it smelt like mackerel barbequed in woodstain. Thank heavens I hadn't purchased a full size.

Snowing quite a bit here now and am just waiting for school to text and say they are shutting, won't be long now;)

Absinthe_Fairy

Tater wrote: »

This made me go and count up my soap stash and I have 36 full sized bars of soap :eek::eek::eek: who on earth needs that much soap?!!!! I think I go through 1 -2 bars a years, so this is taking LHJ to a new extreme!

Just counted up my own soap stash and I have 34 :eek: they will definitely take me ages to use up!

Hermia

Tater wrote: »

This made me go and count up my soap stash and I have 36 full sized bars of soap :eek::eek::eek: who on earth needs that much soap?!!!! I think I go through 1 -2 bars a years, so this is taking LHJ to a new extreme!

I dread to think how much soap I own. I rarely use it, but I find it hard to resist beautiful handmade soap. The problem is I have no one I can give it to because everyone I know uses shower gel and liquid soap.

vic.star

I love how most of us hardly use soap, but have a stash of it hidden away!! haha. Every year my Parent's church send off shoeboxes to poor countries (charities such as love in a box) where people have nothing. We put essentials in, and a couple of bags of sweets to perk them up. They usually buy basics everything, but for £50 they can make almost triple the amount of boxes. I usually buy a few things every year to put in, so i think next christmas i'll donate a few bars of soap and anything else i KNOW i won't use There is also a Food Bank charity near me which takes in toiletries for families too so between the two i'm sure i'll get rid of the unwanted items in my stash Heaven knows i need the space with a 6 month old!

Skyllo

dolly84 wrote: »

Based on what people were saying about the Ren Omega 3 night serum I dug out one of my three 10ml bottles and by golly it is dreadful. At first it smelt like wood varnish with a fishy undertone but then the fishy smell got worse. That one is in the bin and will be followed by the other two. DH said it smelt like mackerel barbequed in woodstain. Thank heavens I hadn't purchased a full size.

I'm glad I'm not the only one! I looked up reviews online and it was split between fish smell/what fish smell?

Other Ren products I've smelt have been fine, this came in a kit with 3 other minis from the sensitive range and they all smell lovely.

Still no UUs for me! No snow either thankfully. I'm in Glasgow and thankfully we seem to miss it a lot.

kameleon

Hermia wrote: »

I cannot remember how many UUs I had last year so I am going to start counting from 1 again.

1) Etat Pur Vitamin PP serum. WNBA. This was recommended to me as it's supposed to be good for dehydrated skin & eczema. I didn't find it did anything though. I have another oat-based one from the same company that is supposed to help redness so will try that next.

2) M&S Sweet Orange shower gel. I threw this away halfway through using the bottle. It was just very meh and I don't like the texture.

I have decided I am going to be more ruthless about throwing/giving stuff away. I feel obliged to use stuff up because I don't want to be wasteful, but find myself using stuff I don't really like whilst the stuff I love is rotting away in the cupboard. I have just spent two months using a shampoo that didn't do anything for my hair and wasn't nice to use. The stupid thing was it only cost £4 so I am not sure why I felt compelled to finish it.

If you don't want to be wasteful with products you no longer like maybe you could use them to clean sinks, floors, toilets etc. At least that way they are being put to use.

kameleon

vic.star wrote: »

I love how most of us hardly use soap, but have a stash of it hidden away!! haha. Every year my Parent's church send off shoeboxes to poor countries (charities such as love in a box) where people have nothing. We put essentials in, and a couple of bags of sweets to perk them up. They usually buy basics everything, but for £50 they can make almost triple the amount of boxes. I usually buy a few things every year to put in, so i think next christmas i'll donate a few bars of soap and anything else i KNOW i won't use There is also a Food Bank charity near me which takes in toiletries for families too so between the two i'm sure i'll get rid of the unwanted items in my stash Heaven knows i need the space with a 6 month old!

Ya, I've given away soaps to similar charities when I've known it would take a few years to get through them. The other way I use up soaps is cutting them into cubes and using them in the washing machine. I put the cube in an old sock, or muslin bag ( I have a few of these as I use soap nuts) and tie the top with a hair elastic and throw it in with the clothes. Clothes come out nice and clean and soap gets used up. I haven't seen any difference in the cleaning ability of soap and washing powder/liquid detergent. I also have dogs so I'm regularly washing mats, blankets etc. Cut down on buying washing powder and decreased the never ending soap stash.

It's also the way I use up the ends of bars of soap rather than trying to mush them altogether to make a bigger bar.

vic.star

Thanks for the tip Kameleon - never would of thought of it! As i said i have a 6 month old so there is an endless washing basket full of clothes! So do you do that without any fabric conditioner too?

heartbreak_star

Managed to UU a bar of soap over the weekend, and turned a tiny sample of facewash from a magazine into a face scrub with a handful of sugar, so have resisted buying a tube of scrub!

HBS x