No Buying Unnecessary ToiletriesDecember 2014

aintshesweet

UU Colab dry shampoo

Really great - been using it a lot. Definitely want a big bottle now!

Carolyn12

Evening ladies:
UU to report!

Love in New York shower gel 200ml. WIBA? This was from a cheap gift set I was given last Christmas, did its job, glad it's out of the cupboard.
On to a giant snow fairy for now.

A surprise UU:
Avon Flower by Cynthia Rowley 50ml perfume. WIBA? It's a lovely honeysuckle perfume but I don't think they make this anymore, I counted before, and its been with me for 5, yes 5 house moves.

Sanctuary Spa body lotion 50ml WIBA? I think I have 2 more of these minis to get through yet.

One small in I forgot about: Loreal age perfect extraordinary oil-cream sample sachet.

seasideDreamer

Evening all, a very unsuccessful Christmas shopping trip into town today and a UU of Lush Brazened Honey Face Mask.

SuiDreams

Pleut wrote: »

Should that have said 'Pleut'? :P
I used my Birch Box points and then saw some in the Regis sale for ridiculously cheap and couldn't resist!

Whoops. I did type it in correctly, but was using my phone it must have decided that I can't spell.

dolly84

I have a uu

Eyeko Mascara Off Wipes - this was a pack of 10 from a beauty box, they are little wipes just for eye make up and they did a really good job.

ruby_eskimo

Morning everyone, just back from a few lovely days in Prague and have rather a lot of UU's to report:

- Beauty Protect Shampoo 50ml
- Beauty Protect Conditioner 50ml
- Beauty Protect Hair Mask 30ml
- L'Occitane Shampoo mini
- L'Occitane Conditioner mini
- Sanctury body wash 75ml
- Sanctury body lotion 75ml
- Benefit They're Real mini
- Etude House drawing eyebrow pencil thing (HG)
- Vichy Idealia eye serum sample
- Vichy Idealia serum sample
- Colgate Max White toothpaste mini

Think there was something else but can't quite remember. Did also finish up a body shop blueberry body scrub yesterday. The cupboard is looking a bit bare now but I think I'm still ok for shower gel and body butter for next year!

VALM

One more UU - going so slowy !! - NSPA Pink Grapefruit body butter. Have love/hate relationship with this one hence why it's been a LHJ. Sometimes it smells synthetic and others not. Loved the texture of it but not sure I'll buy again.

So, I ended up talking MrM into buying one of the S&G OOTW between me and Emma. So looking forward to opening that on Xmas day plus he went off shopping on his own in the Trafford Centre yesterday. Think he had found a good Elemis kit containing PCMC.

Got a lovely free gift from Liz Earle at weekend. Ordered 3 x shower gels for MrM and as well as the usual 30ml free C&P got a kit containing 50ml C&P, 50ml IBST and 15ml Skin Repair Moisturiser and cloths. Really chuffed - the kit on their website costs £32.00.

Didn't buy any other toiletries at the weekend.

lankygirl20

A few more UUs -

Lancome Bi Facial 30ml - got quite a few more of these left in my stash to use up.
Organic pharmacy antioxidant face cream 3ml sachet 3ml WNBA
L'occitane divine extract sachet 1ml WNBA
Clinique all about eyes 7ml - WDBA, absolutely love the texture of this one

decanted some of the sachets I have multiples of into tubs last night to try and make them last a bit longer - looked a right nutter doing it but hopefully that should make them a bit more economical.

Hope you all have a lovely week!

cw18

Looking at my list of toiletries (including all the ones I've no idea why I bought them) has made me think about what I'd call essential purchases if I were starting from scratch. This is ideally what I'd like to end up having in the house, plus probably 1 spare of each item.

The list I came up with was

• 1 shampoo
• 1 conditioner

both with some decanted into travel bottles for my swim kit and my travel wash bag

• 1 unscented shower gel

again with some decanted into a travel bottle for my travel wash bag (supplied at gym, so don't need in swim kit)

• 3 soaps
• 3 deodorants
• 3 day creams
• 3 bottles of toner
• 3 toothbrushes
• 3 tubes toothpaste

each of the above being 1 each for cloakroom, en-suite and travel wash bag

• 2 night creams

1 each for en-suite and travel wash bag

• 3 small bottles Argan hair oil (only thing that stops the ends of my hair getting very dry very quickly)

1 each for en-suite, swim kit and travel wash bag

• 3 bottles hand wash

1 each for en-suite, cloakroom and kitchen, with some decanted for travel wash bag

• 1 bag of cotton pads

split between en-suite, cloakroom and travel wash bag

• 2 tubs of cotton buds

1 each for ensuite and cloakroom, with some put into travel wash bag

• 4 sponges

1 each for en-suite, cloakroom, swim kit and travel wash bag

• 1 tube hair removal cream

kept in en-suite

Plus

• 2 boxes of tissues for bedroom and living room
• travel packs of tissues for 3 backpacks and 1 coat
• a bottle of eyedrops (hopefully remembering to move these between bags - much more cost efficient that lots of open bottles that get binned while still at least half full)
• emery boards for bedroom, living room and travel wash bag (and 1 in each of 2 larger backpacks)
• hair elastics (kept in en-suite with a couple in cloakroom and travel wash bag)
• 3 hairbrushes for en-suite, cloakroom and travel wash bag
• 1 wide toothed comb for swim kit

and (as "luxury" but not essential items)

• 1 box of hair dye
• 1 bottle of (not too expensive) perfume
• 1 mascara (the only makeup I wear more than once or twice a year, and even that's probably not more than once a month!)

and maybe

• 1 tub baby talc for en-suite

aintshesweet

I have some INs

I succumbed when Christmas shopping.

I replaced the Colab dry shampoo with two big bottles - cheaper, on offer, and not available in my town's branch so not a bad thing to stock up on.

I also found a Burt's Bees gift set down from £50 to £17.50 and decided to gift it to myself...

+2 Colab dry shampoo
+1 Burt's Bees Shower gel
+1 Burt's Bees Orange Essence Facial Cleanser
+1 Burt's Bees Milk and Honey Body Lotion
+1 Burt's Bees Hand Repair Cream
+1 Burt's Bees Beeswax vitamin E & peppermint lip balm
+1 Burt's Bees Rhubarb Lip Shimmer

I did GA one brown kohl pencil because I've got quite a few already, and my mum is going lighter and it I thought it would suit her better. She's happy!

I'm also going to GA to charity a couple of nail polishes that don't suit me. And I'm never going to buy OPI or Essie again! Essie just seem to be poor quality every time I try them.