No buying unnecessary toiletries April 2014

VickyA_2

Whoop!

A long haul coming, but at last I can announce a UU!

Arran Aromatics Lavender & Lemongrass Shampoo 300ml - seem to think that this was a present one Christmas. It was ok, but took a good handful to be effective and get a good lather. WNBA

VALM

Willowbee wrote: »

Hello!

I used to post to and follow this thread. I loved it a great deal but I stopped due to illness. (I couldn't really do anything for a while). It doesn't feel like I stopped for that long but I've found that I last posted in Nov 2012! :eek:

Nice to see you back Willowbee. x

kadison wrote: »

Nice to see you back! :T

Do you want to know my ml/g totals?

Currently....

Bath/Shower Gels/Soap = 5896
Body Butter/Lotion/Oil = 2239
Body Scrub = 830
Cleanser/Make-Up Wipes/Toner = 2960
Conditioner/Shampoo = 2489
Day/Night Cream = 706
Deodorant = 1265
Dry Shampoo/Styling Products = 2096
Eye Cleanser/Cream = 1015
Face Mask/Scrub/Serum/Wash = 1795
Fragrance = 663
Hands/Feet = 170
Miscellaneous = 1490
Toothpaste/Mouthwash = 5271

*ahem*

Thinking of the ml for ml total of my stash makes me feel queasy. Mind you, I'm bobbins at Maths too!

One UU for me over the weekend : LE C&P 30mls. Have 3 x 30mls now left of this so the intention is to us up 2 x them now and save one for my holiday in August.

Dug out my Cherry Blossom shower gel and body butter on Saturday and managed to drop the opened tub of TBS BB onto the floor. Usually the BB is really thick and probably wouldn't have spilt but this one seems to be really creamy and I ended up with loads of it on the floor. Not happy.

mcculloch29

I hate it when that happens, Val. Or when a tube/bottle is spluttering; you squeeze it and then whoosh!
It shoots past your open hand to hit the bathroom/bedroom wall (or, with me, not the bedroom wall but the clean clothes I have just laid out to wear.)

Two NBI's from a pal. Another 75ml Polo shower gel and a 75ml Beyonce Heat Pearlised Exfoliating Shower Gel.

I've completed my review on Am@zon of the Scholl Velvet Smooth Pedicure Overnight Foot Mask

Scholl clearly think that giving an item a long name will blind users with science, Avon are of the same thinking in my book.
At £8 for 60ml (roughly two weeks' supply for me) I think it's fair to say that it won't be added to my list of must buys. Three stars given. Some are raving over it, others of the same opinion as me.

hammyham

Have a v large list, have basically just been reading and not reporting for the last 6 weeks. This is pretty bad, so will be typing from the naughty step!

The Uus. These aren't v much at the moment, since cutting out things that I don't have a stash for (shampoo, conditioner, mu wipes, razors, hair dyes) I've noticed my Uus are much less. So 10 Uus. Estee Lauder daywear 15ml – wnba felt v siliconey, Balance me rich day cream 20ml wba, Molton Brown pink pepper shower gel 50ml adored the smell but much too expensive, Clinique lazer focus 7ml wmba, Lancome bi-facil 30ml wmba, Nivea 10ml, Katy Perry perfume 2ml, Wilkos bath foam 500ml, Nivea serum 1.5ml, Nivea face cream 1.5ml.

GA 35 things to mum, ebay (have had a massive clear out) 85.

The ins (oh the ins...) 95. Have added it up and that is about £330, which is mad.
I have to say I think I might have to ban myself from blogs, or the internet, or something as it's getting worse not better!
TBS – 2 750ml shower gels, 200ml body butter, vanilla 50ml perfume with 300ml body lotion. £22.

Loccitane order NOT COUNTED 75ml shampoo and conditioner, hair mask, bath fizzer, hand sanitiser. COUNTED 8ml Body lotion, 50ml cleansing foam, 10ml hand cream, 2 30ml face creams, 2 75ml Bonne mere creams, 3ml and 1.5ml Divine cream, 1.5ml eye cream, 75ml shower gel. About £40ish once I take out what I don't count.

OPI order from QVC – 3 polishes, 2 nail envies, oil, glitter off. £35.43.

Cultbeauty order – This was a baddie, smacks hand! I got an astalift collection of 15ml day, night, and serum, mu remover 30ml, eye cream 7g. Ren purity cleansing balm. And then free I got an Astalift eye cream 15ml, 3 sachets, Eve Lom Age Defying Smoothing Treatment, Lipstick Queen Makeup Bag, Alpha H Balancing and Pore Refining Mask, Enro Laszlo Phelityl Pre-Cleansing Oil, d.j.v. Beautenizer Volume Lash Mascara, Therapie Joie Uplifting Bath Infusion, Aestelance Mud Mask, Mio Workout Wonder, Zelens 3t Complex, Resultime By Collin Paris Anti-Ageing Smoothing Resurfacing Mask, Le Soft Perfume Le Petit Fou Zazou Solid Fragrance. Paid about £75 for this lot. I'm a sucker for a goody bag, but I didn't need any of this at all which is pretty bad.

Got 3 lipsticks for about £30.

Got the Urban decay shattered face case for £1 as paid using points and an offer. Had wanted this for ages.

Boots – Got origins ginzeng cream 50ml and got a night cream 30ml free. £23.

M and S – 2 nuxe lip balms (got 50ml nuxe oil free). 2 leighton denny nail pens (got 3 minis free). 2 crabtree and evelyn hand sanitisers (not counting these) (3 hand creams free). 2 Ren toners (needed these so not counting) (shower gel, body lotion, face wash, eye cream, day cream, mask free). Bliss lip gloss and mu remover (2 shower gels, 2 eye cream free). 2 m and s cleanser (serum, face cream, night cream, mask and eye cream free). £47ish once I take out what I sold as didn't want , and what I was not going to count.

TKMaxx – Butter nail and base coat £7. 4 Leighton Denny colours £13.

Ojon 2 hair oils and shampoo and conditioner. £24, but counting as £12, as don't count s and c.

Laura Mercier, eye and blush palette, lipgloss and eyeliner. Got this with a case, but sold that on ebay so only paid around £12 for this, v pleased!

Feelunique – Naked basics - £12 as paid with code.

Tbh i feel a bit sick now I've typed it all, I don't understand why I keep buying more?

hammyham

ooh another uu avon mask 75ml - quite liked this, was one of those ones that heat up on your face

166million

hammyham wrote: »

ooh another uu avon mask 75ml - quite liked this, was one of those ones that heat up on your face

I used to like those think it was Biore the ones I had

honey72

hammyham wrote: »

Have a v large list, have basically just been reading and not reporting for the last 6 weeks. This is pretty bad, so will be typing from the naughty step!

The Uus. These aren't v much at the moment, since cutting out things that I don't have a stash for (shampoo, conditioner, mu wipes, razors, hair dyes) I've noticed my Uus are much less. So 10 Uus. Estee Lauder daywear 15ml – wnba felt v siliconey, Balance me rich day cream 20ml wba, Molton Brown pink pepper shower gel 50ml adored the smell but much too expensive, Clinique lazer focus 7ml wmba, Lancome bi-facil 30ml wmba, Nivea 10ml, Katy Perry perfume 2ml, Wilkos bath foam 500ml, Nivea serum 1.5ml, Nivea face cream 1.5ml.

GA 35 things to mum, ebay (have had a massive clear out) 85.

The ins (oh the ins...) 95. Have added it up and that is about £330, which is mad.
I have to say I think I might have to ban myself from blogs, or the internet, or something as it's getting worse not better!
TBS – 2 750ml shower gels, 200ml body butter, vanilla 50ml perfume with 300ml body lotion. £22.

Loccitane order NOT COUNTED 75ml shampoo and conditioner, hair mask, bath fizzer, hand sanitiser. COUNTED 8ml Body lotion, 50ml cleansing foam, 10ml hand cream, 2 30ml face creams, 2 75ml Bonne mere creams, 3ml and 1.5ml Divine cream, 1.5ml eye cream, 75ml shower gel. About £40ish once I take out what I don't count.

OPI order from QVC – 3 polishes, 2 nail envies, oil, glitter off. £35.43.

Cultbeauty order – This was a baddie, smacks hand! I got an astalift collection of 15ml day, night, and serum, mu remover 30ml, eye cream 7g. Ren purity cleansing balm. And then free I got an Astalift eye cream 15ml, 3 sachets, Eve Lom Age Defying Smoothing Treatment, Lipstick Queen Makeup Bag, Alpha H Balancing and Pore Refining Mask, Enro Laszlo Phelityl Pre-Cleansing Oil, d.j.v. Beautenizer Volume Lash Mascara, Therapie Joie Uplifting Bath Infusion, Aestelance Mud Mask, Mio Workout Wonder, Zelens 3t Complex, Resultime By Collin Paris Anti-Ageing Smoothing Resurfacing Mask, Le Soft Perfume Le Petit Fou Zazou Solid Fragrance. Paid about £75 for this lot. I'm a sucker for a goody bag, but I didn't need any of this at all which is pretty bad.

Got 3 lipsticks for about £30.

Got the Urban decay shattered face case for £1 as paid using points and an offer. Had wanted this for ages.

Boots – Got origins ginzeng cream 50ml and got a night cream 30ml free. £23.

M and S – 2 nuxe lip balms (got 50ml nuxe oil free). 2 leighton denny nail pens (got 3 minis free). 2 crabtree and evelyn hand sanitisers (not counting these) (3 hand creams free). 2 Ren toners (needed these so not counting) (shower gel, body lotion, face wash, eye cream, day cream, mask free). Bliss lip gloss and mu remover (2 shower gels, 2 eye cream free). 2 m and s cleanser (serum, face cream, night cream, mask and eye cream free). £47ish once I take out what I sold as didn't want , and what I was not going to count.

TKMaxx – Butter nail and base coat £7. 4 Leighton Denny colours £13.

Ojon 2 hair oils and shampoo and conditioner. £24, but counting as £12, as don't count s and c.

Laura Mercier, eye and blush palette, lipgloss and eyeliner. Got this with a case, but sold that on ebay so only paid around £12 for this, v pleased!

Feelunique – Naked basics - £12 as paid with code.

Tbh i feel a bit sick now I've typed it all, I don't understand why I keep buying more?

Looks like someone else is addicted to buying all the beauty bargains and free GWP like me :rotfl: Oh I feel so much better about myself when I read someone else's LONG In's list so thank you for that

I've also been avoiding posting for a while........mainly because I've more ins than outs which isn't what this thread is all about, buy hey I'm sure we're all guilty of this once in a while

I'm afraid to say to that I couldn't resist the Clarins offer any longer! I tried and tried to be good but I blame you Kadison for posting that photo of yours........that pushed me over the edge :rotfl:
Not that I needed much pushing

xx

dolly84

hammyham - that is some list, I used to have the same problem as you with buying. In the last 4 months I have spent £2.10 on beauty products and had a grand total of 7 ins which I think shows you can stop. I can now read a blog and leave it at that, I don't feel the need to take advantage of any offers unless I was going to buy the products anyway.

rosemary54

another freebie in today,sanctuary spa mini body butter for filling in a survey
had a look through stash and found some bits to give to a lady doing a tombola for cancer charity

Carolyn12

More UU for me

L'Occitane almond shower oil 500ml refill pack. WIBA? Definately. Lovely, lovely. I still have around 500ml more though in stash

Get fruity mango shower gel 50ml WIBA? Came in a little gift set, it was nicely scented and good foaming capabilities!

Bath and body works cherry blossom signature body wash. WIBA? This is so creamy and lovely! I wish we had a bath and body works here.

I think that 15 UU, very little from my PP list though.