No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries August 2014

Carolyn12

Hello all,
1 UU so far: a ted baker foam bath 400ml. This is lovely, used the last bit of it up as shower gel as my new house doesn't have a bath, just a shower, sob

I gave away *I think* all my bubble baths to my mum last month, there's probably some minis still in gift sets that will be discovered eventually.

Hope everyone is well, welcome Steffie, this is a lovely thread, I've been reading it for well over two years now

violetta

I have found a brilliant way to use up tinted moisturiser that you don't particularly like as a face product is to moisturise your legs with it instead - it is as easy to apply to the legs as normal moisture cream and makes legs not so pasty pale and evens the skin tone when you haven't got around to doing them with gradual tan.

It doesn't seem to transfer onto clothes or furniture either, and stays put all day (unlike on my face) probably because my legs don't seem to get greasy like my face does.

ruby_eskimo

violetta wrote: »

I have found a brilliant way to use up tinted moisturiser that you don't particularly like as a face product is to moisturise your legs with it instead - it is as easy to apply to the legs as normal moisture cream and makes legs not so pasty pale and evens the skin tone when you haven't got around to doing them with gradual tan.

It doesn't seem to transfer onto clothes or furniture either, and stays put all day (unlike on my face) probably because my legs don't seem to get greasy like my face does.

I've been doing the exact same thing with a sample of Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser I received in a birchbox because the shade was way too dark.

asset2004

Just caught up with the thread, wow some exciting news on here!
No UUs or INs so that's something I suppose.

Just back from a cycle, ended up being more of a walk as got a puncture and as I tried to fix it ended up bursting the new inner tube, so had to push it home. I am not impressed, at least I hadn't gone too far

3_kids_2_jobs_1_dog

FACE WASH/CLEANSERS

Vie 7th Heaven HCC 150ml x 6 (not liked, tried one, will use that for shaving legs and sell the other 5)
Boots No7 Beautiful skin HCC 200ml x 3
Superdrug Naturally Radient HCC 150ml x 6
REN HCC 150ml x 4
Liz Earle HCC 100ml x 1
Liz Earle HCC 50ml x 1
S & G peaches and Clean 200ml x 2
S & G Face, Soap and Clarity 150ml x 1
L'Occitane Immortelle. Precious cleansing foam 150ml x 1
Olay daily facials clarify 150ml x 2
CleN and Clear morning burst 200ml x 1
Biore blemish fighting ice wash 200ml x 4
L'Or!al pure zone gel wash 200ml x 1
Clearasil daily spot control cleanser 200ml x 1
Garnier moisture infusion cleansing water 200ml x 1
Garnier soothing sensation toner 200ml x 1

36 items (but aiming to sell some!)

HAND CREAM

Boots botanical soothing HC 50ml x 2
S & G hand food 125ml x 6
S & G hand food 250ml ALL USED, took last one to work!
S & G endless glove hand mask 125ml x 1
Cath Kidston Wild Rose HC 30ml x 1
M & S almond HC 50ml x 1
Neals Yard Geranium and Orange Blossom 50ml x 1
Plus S & Get wash your hands of it 250ml x 4

17 items

HAIR PRODUCTS

S & G glad hair day shampoo 250ml x 2
S & G glad hair day conditioner 250ml x 1
Mark Hill gorgeous brunette shampoo 75ml x 2
Mark Hill gorgeous brunette conditioner 75ml x 2
Schwarzkopf hair dye x 3
Bonacure hair therapy treatment 750ml x 1
John Frieda leave-in conditioner 200ml x 2
MOU leave-in conditioner 250ml x 1
Creightons Argan Oil Shampoo 250ml x 1
Creightons Argan Oil Conditioner 250ml x 1

16 items

FOOT CREAM

S & G heel genius 125ml x 2

2 items

BODY MOISTURISERS

S & G righteous butter 300ml x 3
S & G butter yourself 500ml x 1
S & G butter yourself 300ml x 1
Dove pro age body lotion 250ml x 1
Dove pro age neck and chest serum 100ml x 1
FCUK body butter 50ml x 1
Boots extracts bergamot body butter 50ml x 1
Boots extracts mango body butter 50ml x 1
Boots extracts brazilnut body butter 50ml x 1
Boots extracts almond body butter 50ml x 1
Bronnley honey blossom lotion 250ml x 1

13 items

MINIS AND TRAVEL SIZE

No7 time resisting hand cream 25ml x 2
No7 toner 30ml x 2
No7 body polished 40ml x 1
No7 completely quenched body lotion 30ml. X 2
No7 soft and soothed cleanser 30ml x1
No7 p and p eye cream 7ml x 1
No7 radiance revealed exfoliating 15ml x 1
No7 p and p day cream 15ml x 1
No7 p and p night cream 15ml x 1
No7. Nourishing nail and cuticle cream 10ml x 1
S & G righteous butter 50ml x 6
S & G clean on me 75ml. X 5
S & G hand food 50ml x 4
S & G hair supply 50ml x 1
S & G glad hair day 50ml x 1
S & G scrub of your life 50ml. X 2
S & G heel genius 50ml x 1
S & G flake away 50ml x 1
L'Occitane amande HC 10ml x 3
L'Occitane cherry blossom HC 10ml x 3
L'Occitane shear butter HC 10ml. X 4
L'Occitane foot cream 10ml. X 1
L'Occitane gel douche universal 75ml. X 1
L'Occitane pivoine HC 10ml. X 1
L'Occitane brightening cleansing foam 50ml. X 1
L'Occitane essential water 30ml x 2
L'Occitane Immortelle brightening moisture cream 15ml x 1
L'Occitane Immortelle brightening essence 7ml x 1
L'Occitane Immortelle brightening HC 15ml x 1
No7 beautiful skin HCC 50ml x 2
REN HCC 30ml x 10
Lancome bi facil cleanser 30ml x 1

66 items

SHOWER AND BATH

S & G clean girl 500ml x1
S & G foam call 500ml x1
Palmolive thermal spa bath foam 750ml x 1
M & S floral collection Iris bath foam 500ml x 1
S & G calm one calm all 500ml - Now in use!
L'Occitane jasmine and bergamot shower gel 175ml x 1
L'Occitane lavender foaming bath 100ml x 1
Lush happy hippy 100g x 1
Lush the olive branch 100g x 1
Lush grass 100g x 1
FCUK body wash 75ml x 1
Lush bubble bars - ALL USED

14 items

SCRUBS

S & G breakfast scrub 300ml x 1
S & G pulp friction 250ml x 1
S & G scrub if your life 200ml x 1
FCUK body polished 50ml x 1

4 items

FACE CREAMS

L'Occitane divine cream 50ml x 1
L'Occitane precious cream 50ml x 2
L'Occitane precious eye balm 15ml x 1
Decleour prolagene gel 400ml x 1
Bellapierre intensive antiwrinkle cream 30m x 2
Bellapierre revitalising eye gel 15ml x 1
Anew thermLift 30ml - Now in use
TBS vit e serum 30ml x 1
L'Oreal wrinkle decrease eye cream 15ml - Now in use
L'Oreal Revitalift duo eye cream 30ml x 1
L'Occitane Immortelle brightening mist 100ml x 1
L'Occitane hydration face mist 50ml x 1
L'Occitane brightening water 50ml x 2
TBS vit e moisture cream 50ml x 1
TBS vit e face mist 100ml x 1
Olay regenerist eye derma pods - pack of 24, 17 left

35 items

SOAP

Asquith & Somerset winter pear and thyme 350g x 1
L'Occitane cinnamon orange 100g x 1
L'Occitane lavender 100g x 1
L'Occitane verbena 100g x 1
Lush soaps x 3
Arran apothecary seaweed and oatmeal 125g x 1
Jane Madden honeysuckle and rose 45g x1
Jane Madden lemongrass and cedarwood 45g x 1
Jane Madden happy Christmas 100g x 1
Jane Madden figgy pudding 100g x 1
Molton Brown milk soap 25g x 2
Molton Brown milk soap 50g x 1
Boots lavender soap 25g x 1
Bronnley honey blossom 100g x 3

20 items

TOTAL STASH Originally 220 now 215!!!!!

Okay so I've updated my stash list as above, despite using up items I seem to accumulated more!!!! In fairness I will be selling the Vie Cleansing Balm as it is far too oily for me. I have bought more HCC's but they are my HG ones the REN and Superdrug ones, both on really good offers (less than half price) so silly not too and the 10 REN 30mls are equivalent to just 2 full size products. I have also added a Liz Earle 100ml to my stash but this was bought to use up Birch Box points so only cost me £3.50 delivered. My eye cream and face cream are almost used so will have a couple of UU's to declare soon. I'm on a fortnights 'staycation' now so planning a bit of pampering so hope to plough through some of the above stash!!
Have a great weekend all 321 xxx

shandyclover

Finally some OUT's to report.

Knock of of channel #5, a gift. Nice enough, but not my favourite scent.
Johnson's refreshing gel wash. Inherited from DD who developed an allergy and in a effort to discover the cause got rid of everything and reverted to all LUSH products. Didn't bother my skin, but probably WNBA, I prefer other face washes.

In was my birthday this week, so although I told family I didn't want/need toiletries, inevitably there were some IN's.

Ted Baker 'Opulent Orchid' body wash, body spray, body souffle' and hand cream.
BS Ananya eau de toilette
LUSH honeybee bath bombs

My OH was on a business trip to China for 3 weeks. He knows I am trying to get my toiletry stash under control, but he brought me back this very pretty retro vanishing cream along with some other souvenirs. The packaging is amazingly feminine, and my phone pic doesn't really do it justice. Inside the cardboard cylinder is a silver tin with 'Midnight rose precious vanishing cream'. There's a date '1932' along with some Chinese writing so I am guessing that is when it was first made. I thought it was so unique I should post a pic.

FizzWhizz

The good news is the first of my Regis orders arrived; the bad news is DH was off work "sick" today and got to the parcel before I did. The worst news is my second delivery is on its way and will likely arrive tomorrow when he's here too.

BUSTED.

I will update my numbers on Monday. I do have a couple of UU to attempt to rebalance

Kiwisaver_2

FizzWhizz wrote: »

UU #126: Estee Lauder Advanced Time Zone Moisturiser 15ml Deluxe Sample; so sad to see this go, I like it even more than Elemis PCMC :eek: Considering the size of the tub it has lasted me ages and ages and has been an absolute pleasure.

I'm with you on this, come the day when I need to buy moisturisers I would be torn between the two.


I have one LHJ finally used up Superdrug Naturally Radiant Hot Cloth Cleanser - it's one of those things that just went on and on. I quite liked it to start with, got bored of it, used other cleansers in between and gone back to it. In the end I have to admit that I really do like it and didn't want it to be gone, because its not going to be replaced any time soon. How fickle am I? :rotfl:


In other news, I am clinging onto the dregs of a little Clinique Even Better Eyes Dark Circle Corrector that I cut open and have just one more application of Body Shop Divine Calm Lotion left. :T

dolly84

Shandyclover - what a pretty gift.

I have a uu

Liz Earle C&P 30ml, I have several full sizes in the stash but no more minis, I do love this and have been using it off and on for many years.

assett - I feel your pain re the puncture, I cycle about 50-60 miles a week and have had my fair share of them.

FizzWhizz

I pulled a fast one and managed to retrieve my second Regis delivery without my DH noticing No doubt he'll spot the products in the bathroom cupboard but I'm practising my "oh, they've been there for AGES!" innocent face :rotfl:

I've made it up to four UU and have at least another two splutterers.

More details later

ETA, meant to say, I agree Shandy, dead pretty and unique too! Vanishing cream always reminds me of Tom & Jerry, when Jerry found a pot, covered himself so he was invisible and wreaked havoc on poor Tom :rotfl: