No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries in January 2013

BeNiceToMySelf

Thanks. I have only just started a proper skincare routine. I'm 32 and have good skin so haven't been worried before. I have some body shop nutriganics stuff that I bough about 2 years ago that I've just started using properly. They all say 6 or 12 months after opening but as they don't smell off I'm using them. I will restrain myself from using the no7 vouchers.

VALM

Cas wrote: »

not long in after a bracing 4 mile walk (boy is it bitter out there!) and my skin still feels soft after using Live Native and Trilogy.

I know - I went out there before to clean the rabbit hutch. Poor loves won't come out of their bedroom at the moment especially when it gets dirty at the end of the week. They looked a little happier when it was cleaned but I was frozen.

Have had a bath since. The LE handwash has, as predicted, been UU. Have opened the Champneys one and it smells gorgeous. Reminds me of sherbet lemons! Have also repainted my nails as all the housework I did earlier cause the blue to chip off. Am now wearing No. 7 Highland Mist which is more work appropriate as well ready for tomorrow.

rogueylawyer

VALM wrote: »

On a website called shoppingtelly.com. There's a forum on there where TSVs are discussed. I've found it's a good way to figure out whether the kit is value rather than sitting watching QVC and being tempted to buy by their "jump to the phones, there are only 60 million kits left" tactics. lol

I had to click off that site when I realised I was making a list of the upcoming TSV's I was interested in!

Skyllo

rae18 wrote: »

Ok, at the moment I am using Liz Earle - C&P, toner and moisturiser (light) and Clinique 'All About Eyes' eye cream (my DH goes to America for business so he stocks up on this and the Naturally Glossy Mascara as it's so much cheaper over there!)

I haven't got much in my stash (I tend to pass things on to my mum or SIL if it's something I don't get on with) but I do have:

LE gentle exfoliator
Mudd Mask
Johnson's Gentle Exfoliating Wash (I love this, very gentle)
Montagne Jeunesse Peel Off Mask sachet
Nivea eye-make up remover
Green Peopl'Hit The Spot' oil
Freederm gel (only bought in the last couple of weeks, but I like it, it doesn't make the skin flakey)
Clean & Clear deep cleansing lotion for sensitive skin
Astral light & creamy (currently using as body lotion)
E45 lotion
Simple rich moisturising lotion
and a Dove gentle exfoliating soap bar, which I don't remember buying!!!

Make-up wise I use

Green People mineral make-up
CLinique All About Eyes concealer
LE concealor
Body Shop pressed powder (tried LE and it gave me a major break out!)

Not sure if this helps or not!! I'm not a snob, I'll try anything cheap or premium......before I discovered LE I was known as the Clarins Queen....any thoughts about Clarins products? I haven't used them in a while. Though I'd be more than happy to find an own brand product that worked!!!!!

Some people find the camphor in Liz Earle irritating. Superdrug do a Vitamin E hot cloth cleanser that I liked and they've a new one in their "brightening" range.

Avoid any toner with alcohol high in the ingredients list as it'll dry your skin out - Liz Earle is fine.

For moisturiser, look at the ingredients. Some people are sensitive to mineral oil and silicones (No7 and Clinique are high in silicones, as are most department store brands). Look for dimethicone in the list of ingredients and avoid if it's in the top few.

The best thing I found for my skin was double-cleansing. The first one takes your makeup off then the second one actually cleans your skin. You don't have to use different cleansers, the same one twice is fine.

http://www.beautymouth.com/ is really a skincare bible! Read the "cheat sheets" that are in the right hand column and just do what Caroline Hirons says!

Emmala

VALM wrote: »

On a website called shoppingtelly.com. There's a forum on there where TSVs are discussed. I've found it's a good way to figure out whether the kit is value rather than sitting watching QVC and being tempted to buy by their "jump to the phones, there are only 60 million kits left" tactics. lol



Has your skin reacted all the time that you have been using LE? I've heard other people complain about this reaction with her products. I've never used Clarins? Were these products ok for you? Did you stop using because of the cost?



I've never got on with No. 7 skincare but it's not to say you won't. Protect & Perfect congests my skin. Other products that I have found have not affected it adversely but also haven't done anything and I've found other brands that are more suited to my skin.

The vouchers come around quite often.

'congests' is a good word......I don't react to the LE face products (but I do to some of her body products) but nice as they are, I just don't seem to get the benefits that everyone seems to shout about!!! no real difference to using cheaper products. Clarins products I always liked......not sure why I switched really. Cost is more of an issue now I'm a SAHM, but as DH is a hardcore Clarins man himself, he can't really moan at me!! (though to be fair, he travels a lot, so the premium stuff he picks up duty free or country of origin if poss where it's cheaper).

Just had a nose at the Dr Hauschka website...they have the 30ml travel sizes on offer so I have ordered the cleansing milk and toner to try, and this way the sample size is big enough to get a true idea of how well it works.

VALM

rogueylawyer wrote: »

I had to click off that site when I realised I was making a list of the upcoming TSV's I was interested in!

Sorry! At least you stepped away. x

kiplingmonkey

VALM wrote: »

On the subject of LE there is a TSV next Sunday. There is a link here if anyone is interested (not that I'm enabling as I won't be buying it. I don't use any of her treatment products). http://www.qvcuk.com/qvc.product.202281.html. That will be the first fiver in my pot re: TSVs I've avoided.

That will be £5 in the sealed pot for me too as the last thing I need is face masks. I see there is a BM TSV coming up - that will be a dangerous time for me as I love their things. The other one showing as upcoming so far that will tempt me off the straight and narrow is L'Occ but the last thing I need is handcream/shower gel/soap so hope to add another £5 then too. I managed to resist the last L'Occ TSV altho' it was very hard.

No further OUTs but have a couple of splutterers so hope my OUTs may reach double figures by the end of the month.

Thanks to all for the detangling suggestions - will look out for the combs that were suggested to see if they help.

Maddiemay - you mentioning Steam cream reminded me - they were selling it off for £2.50 a pot in my local Boots - I didn't buy any as I have been given some as a present in the past so have some to use up in my stash. The tins were cute - I read that someone uses a Lush shampoo tin for cotton wool pads on weekends away - thought the Steam Cream pot may be suitable for that too - may have to find it in the stash and start using it.

dolly84

Hi All

Hope you are all keeping warm.

Have a uu

Gum Double Cream Shampoo - as predicted, have already replaced it with another to use up with the remaining conditioner.

rogueylawyer

VALM wrote: »

Sorry! At least you stepped away. x

It's personal growth!

trudij

Oh Roguey - huge huge hugs. And to you Rosemary (though with a face mask on )

Im in my 30s (well - Im 39 next month - eeek!!) and I get spots still, i find ive got much less since ive swapped to washing just with pears soap and if i remember to cleanse (not often!) i use tescos cucumber toner, and just use regenerist moisturiser at the moment (got it for christmas) I had a massive blind spot on my chin at the beginning of the month - in profile i was a dead ringer for Bruce Forsythe, but it didnt come to a head, just hurt like mad !!

have 3 outs, but as they are a suprise for a swap on the facebook page, Im not saying

talking of swaps - Im in, do you still have my details from before Tokki??