Favourite Bargain Beauty Products

Josslette

Hi everyone,

Just thought it'd be quite fun and useful to share favourite bargain beauty products.

My favourites are....

DermaV10 Cocoa Body Butter - 89p Home Bargains
This body butter rivals the Body Shop's body butters, it smells amazing, is nice and thick but sinks in quite quickly and is sooo cheap. It's a 220ml tub for 89p! A little goes a long way too!

MUA Blush in Bon Bon - £1
Bon Bon is a natural, quite deep pink colour which I love wearing for everyday. This blush is really pigmented and will last a long time, it also blends really well.

MUA Clear Mascara - £1
Perfect for using as a brow gel and a total bargain.

So there's a few to get us started Please join in if you like this idea! xxx

CookieMonsta

I love the Vaseline Hand Cream from Family Bargains which is 99p for 75ml. It isn't sticky or takes ages to soak in and is very effective

bossymoo

I browse the poundshop thread from time to time and someone recommended the dermav10 moisturiser. I had a look as passing, and they only had the night cream, but its lovely! Sinks right in, and smells nice too.

My other "save all" product is waitrose baby bottom butter. Smells edible and I use it on elbows, as lip balm, as hair serum, and when my littlies were in nappies would use it as barrier cream as well. Think it was £1.60 a pot and it lasts ages. I used to like the virgin vie guardian angel - but I think it was about £17 for a tiny pot, and I think the waitrose one is just as good.

Found most lacura products I've tried are good too. From Aldi.

Also the George nail polish for £1 at Asda. You can tell on applying its a budget buy, but to be honest, even premium brands peel and chip on my manicures, this way I can have loads of different colours!

shandyclover

Josslette wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Just thought it'd be quite fun and useful to share favourite bargain beauty products.

My favourites are....

DermaV10 Cocoa Body Butter - 89p Home Bargains
This body butter rivals the Body Shop's body butters, it smells amazing, is nice and thick but sinks in quite quickly and is sooo cheap. It's a 220ml tub for 89p! A little goes a long way too!

Ohhh thanks for that tip, just finished a Bodyshop body butter and was wondering where I could get something similar without it costing an hours pay!

I am very much a bargain basement beauty shopper. After many years doing aid work and seeing how little people live on abroad, plus being a mature student and working and having a family the last thing I want to spend loads on is highly advertised beauty products that never seem to live up to the hype!

Hair - long, dry
Garnier Fructis sleek and shine (only ever buy this from pound shops or if it's on offer elsewhere)
Argan Oil hair treatment, £1.99 from home bargains. Very moisterising, use with a light hand. Smells like baby lotion. Better IMO than John Frieda and all that hairdressy stuff.

Face - combination skin
Aldi Q10day and night cream suits me fine and though I have tried much more expensive stuff, I honestly did not see a difference. Also using Aldi's spf 30.

Body - skin dry and sensitive.
Kamil hand creme, can't remember price exactly but under £2 from HB. I work in catering so need a intense hand cream. This is German I think and feels a lot more luxurious than it's price indicates, sinks in right away, and soothes any irritation from chemicals. Keeping an eye out for it to stock up on it next time I see it.

Dove shea butter bar soap, £1 in poundshops for 2 bars, love the smell, don't need body butter so much now I switched from shower gel to proper soap.

Little Me Organics body cream, originally for babies I think. In supermarkets for £3 something, I found slightly different formation in 99p shop. Smells a bit herbally which may be why it did not sell in supermarkets, but lovely moisterising stuff with no parabens or SLS. I bought a couple to last me out a year and one is always in the bathroom cause it suits even the excema prone in my family.

Makeup

I get alot from ELF, especially when they have promotions on - been very happy with all of it so far.

Poundworld in particular have some good brands in, I always have a browse when I'm in the area and if it is a colour or product I think I will use I buy it even if I don't need it that moment, as long as it is sealed. I have bought Maybelline, Revlon, Rimmel, Borjois, Wet and Wild, Sally Hansen, NYC etc.etc. and found some brilliant products. Right now my 'capsule' make up kit in my handbag is almost entirely from Poundworld...

Nivea waterproof mascara
Revlon waterproof eyeliner
L'Oreal liquid concealer
Rimmel madeira blush
NYC toffee kiss lip gloss
Aldi undereye concealer

I do get compliment for being nicely made up, all for under less than a tenner.:)

sofababe

My favourites are not so much products as shops really. My absolute top online shop is fragrancedirect.co.uk. I just got some Essie polishes for £1.99 each:beer: and much of my branded makeup is from there for under £3. I also like MUA at Superdrug.

I buy huge shower gels from the BodyShop outlet at Freeport, they always have an offer on so they end up being about a fiver for 750ml. One of those lasts me 3 months so cheaper than a standard 200ml from the supermarket etc.

I have several oils from perfume-parlour.co.uk. Excellent product at an amazing price.

Dobie

I have dry skin that is very sensitive to perfume and various ingredients in 'standard' products. I'm also prone to eczema, aprticularly around my eyes. I've spent a fortune over the years on Clarins and Boots No 7 face and eye creams. Last year I tried E45 cream and it's brilliant. I spend a fiver on a big tub and it lasts me months. I use it under make up and as a night cream. The only thing it doesn't have is the SPF protection but in this climate I've decided I can live with that. I use E45 lotion as body lotion too. Cheap as chips and very effective.

CookieMonsta

Dobie wrote: »

I have dry skin that is very sensitive to perfume and various ingredients in 'standard' products. I'm also prone to eczema, aprticularly around my eyes. I've spent a fortune over the years on Clarins and Boots No 7 face and eye creams. Last year I tried E45 cream and it's brilliant. I spend a fiver on a big tub and it lasts me months. I use it under make up and as a night cream. The only thing it doesn't have is the SPF protection but in this climate I've decided I can live with that. I use E45 lotion as body lotion too. Cheap as chips and very effective.

Have you tried Aqueous Cream? I can buy a 500ml tub of it from Savers for 99p and haven't noticed much difference between it and E45 except the price!

iamamm

Home Bargins snake venom (type) serum costs about £2.99 last about six weeks with everyday use, this product really tightens your skin (its temporary of course) and leaves it looking smooth and its perfect under make up.

shandyclover

PETAL FRESH

Aloe and Peppermint facial cleanser
Aloe and Apricot facial scrub

Bought these in 99p shop for DD18 when I couldn't find her usual face wash and scrub in supermarket. She has very sensitive skin and has reacted to some expensive high end products so I did not want to spend too much in case she did not get on with them. Scrub is as good as St I*es, the facial wash is lovely and tingly without being stingy, IYKWIM. Both cruelty free, vegan and paraben free too. I googled the brand. Seems to be a US company. Pictures on the website show a different packaging so probably what we are getting in 99p shop is older stock. Definitely worth picking up as the product feels a lot more expensive than 99p.

yasminec

what is the name of this serum

iamamm wrote: »

Home Bargins snake venom (type) serum costs about £2.99 last about six weeks with everyday use, this product really tightens your skin (its temporary of course) and leaves it looking smooth and its perfect under make up.

thanks

michelle8790

I love the shop 'bodycare'. I buy Schwarzkorpf Colour Protectant Shampoo for less than a pound and also Herbal Essence Colour Conditioner for around the same price. It's a fantastic shop :-)