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No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries September 2013

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  • Two IN to declare from about a week ago - 2 x L'Oreal Elnett Heat Protect Styling Spray - got the straight version, there's also waves or volume. This is an absolute revelation!!!! :j:j:j Its gone straight to the top of my must have products. Totally transforms my hair into straight, sleek and shiny and meets its claim of 3 days straight. It smells lovely too, to me just like old school DKNY, the one in the tall frosted bottle. The only word of warning I would have about it is if used on a hard floor its a major slip hazard! :eek: I read a review that said something along those lines and though oh it'll be fine but it really does make the floor VERY slippy, as its a wide arc spray its impossible not to end up in a mist of it.

    Fairly slow this month but three more UU also:

    VO5 Heat Protection Styling Spray - Rubbish WNBA, left my hair wild and unruly, don't intend to use anything other than the Elnett going forward.

    No. 7 Cleanse & Care Eye Makeup Remover - WBA - pretty good, ideally I'd just like to use a cleanser to take all my makeup off but the Benefit They're Real mascara I'm using at the minute is a tough ask to get off and does need something extra. Replaced from stash with Clinique Take the Day Off (I always, always want to call this Take off the Day, think it flows better :o)

    Clinique Repairwear Laser Focus Serum - WNBA - managed to eek out the tiny trial size bottle for a few weeks but no noticeable benefit and made my moisturiser/foundation ball which is sooo annoying! :mad:

    Was tempted to make a TBS order the other day with 40% off etc but the mood passed as I know their offers come round literally every week. I'm actually really close to graduating in moisturiser/body lotion which was one of the worst parts of the original stash but I've been very poor in remembering to apply it lately so need to pull my finger out there, especially as the cold weather draws in. When I do need to buy body butter it'll be Boots Extract as love the stuff!
  • rosemary54
    rosemary54 Posts: 2,495 Forumite
    Rosemary, don't you have solid, deo sticks in the UK? You can pick up travel size ones from any drugstore in North America. No explosions, no pressure cans to worry about.

    arg, can't make the pictures link, but Dove, Nivea, etc. all make them. We hardly see roll ons over here.
    I think body shop used to do them but don,t know of any others,I have always taken sprays before but DH was horrified when he found out esp when he read "highly inflammable" on the can:rotfl:
  • rosemary54
    rosemary54 Posts: 2,495 Forumite
    Clinique Repairwear Laser Focus Serum - WNBA - managed to eek out the tiny trial size bottle for a few weeks but no noticeable benefit and made my moisturiser/foundation ball which is sooo annoying! :mad:
    I took this on holiday(freebie from mag) but was totally unimpressed with it:(
  • dolly84
    dolly84 Posts: 5,851 Forumite
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    Have a uu

    Vaseline Healthy Hands & Stronger Nails Hand Cream - 75ml - WBA, already have a 100ml bottle in the stash. Have replaced it with a mini Mandara Spa Honeymilk Dream which smells quite a bit like L'occ Shea.
    Debt Free and now a saver, conscious consumer, low waste lifestyler


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  • dolly84
    dolly84 Posts: 5,851 Forumite
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    Have a freebie in

    BS Almond Hand Cream - 30ml.

    Also have some bought ins

    BS Camomile Silky Cleansing Oil
    BS Camomile Gentle Eye Make up Remover
    BS Honey Bronze Lip Balm

    used the 40% offer (yes I gave in in the end) apart from the eye make up remover they were not needed (hangs head in shame).
    Debt Free and now a saver, conscious consumer, low waste lifestyler


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  • rosemary54 wrote: »
    I think body shop used to do them but don,t know of any others,I have always taken sprays before but DH was horrified when he found out esp when he read "highly inflammable" on the can:rotfl:

    You can get Sure and Dove stick deodorants - they were quite popular about 10 years ago, but have since been swamped by aerosols. I did spot them about 6 months ago though, tucked away in a tiny corner of a shelf in superdrug!
  • UU

    Sure max protection cream deo - WBA HG

    Radox refresh shower gel - WBA one of DH favourites.

    Radox refresh shower gel - DH accidently left this in is hotel room

    Elemis PCM cream - WBA current HG - have replaced with the same
    No more buying toiletries
  • mcculloch29
    mcculloch29 Posts: 4,972 Forumite
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    edited 21 September 2013 at 3:30PM
    Non roll on and non spray deos: Sure do a Trisolid cream which is not cheap, but works very well. I got one to trial from Ama@zon Vine a while ago.
    UU Avon Moroccan Argan Oil Shampoo. WIBA? Already have, but have put the shampoo and conditioner to one side in order to UU a few half empty bottles of pound shop L'Oreal conditioner and a gifted Dove shampoo.

    UU2 Aldi Lacura 5% Urea Hand Cream 150ml, one of their Specialbuys. WIBA? Yes, if I can get it. I used this as a foot cream as the brilliant 10 % Urea foot cream that they did as a special a while ago has never re-appeared. Both are top notch.

    On to an Avon Glycerine and Cocoa Butter Deep Moisture Cream with massager. Odd one this, smells very citrussy despite no citrus listed on ingredients. I'd put it to one side to use up the Aldi but I will persevere. Not with the massager bit though, that's carp, imo. Just hard nodules of plastic that hurt the bones in your feet.
    Erma Bombeck, American writer: "If I had my life to live over again... I would have burned the pink candle, sculptured like a rose, that melted in storage." Don't keep things 'for best' - that day never comes. Use them and enjoy them now.
  • VALM
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    Hi ladies. Hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

    I have had three UUs this week:-

    TBS Blueberry Body Butter. Very nice. There has only been one of their butters that I've disliked which was the Moroccan Rose one - it went off very quickly so WBA. Sadly I wandered into TBS today to smell the new Honeymania range and ended up buying the bath melt (I am nearly all out of bath essence) and body butter. It smells divine. The scrub felt lovely too but I managed to stop myself buying this too.

    NSPA Night Cream - WNBA. Sometimes it was fine and worked well. Other times it made my skin tingle and I couldn't figure out what this was.

    Aussie Leave in Conditioner - WBA but not for a while as have tonnes of treatments/conditioners in.
    Back for the No Buying Toiletries challenge. I pledge to only buy when I run out of a product that is not already in my stash no matter what wonderful emails land in in my Inbox or threads I read on MSE re: glitches!

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    £2. Challenge member 55
  • Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

    No UU so far but 2 ebay outs.
    No more buying toiletries
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