Hi there! It’s been a few weeks since I confessed to having too many beauty items and toiletries in general. One problem that comes with stockpiling (well, hoarding) such items is that you end up with lots of older products. Sure, storage is another issue, but I won’t go further into this bit. So let’s have a look at some of the oldies I’ve got in my stash.
1 I’m not sure when I bought The Body Shop’s White Musk Breeze collection – but I reckon it must have been in 2011. I’m generally not a fan of TBS’ White Musk collection, but I know why I bought these limited edition products – because they were dirt cheap. One of the body lotions (I even bought two bottles…) still had its price sticker on – £1.90. Seriously, that’s dirt cheap for a full-size TBS product. However, five years later I haven’t even touched the products. 😦
So what do I need to do? Try the products, and if they’re still good, I need to use them. And I need to finish them. No excuses! Using these White Musk Breeze products is going to be a priority next month.
2 Boots’ Body Butters – I think it would be next to impossible to find any of these body butters anywhere – because they have been discontinued some time ago. The Mango & Babassu butter has been repackaged twice now, the Olive body butter has been discontinued (which is very sad) and Boots’ Mediterranean range is… history.
But what do I need to do? I need to check if these products are still OK to use. If they are, I’ll use them!
3 Now here’s a fragrance that would sell for a lot of money on ebay – Laura Biagiotti Venezia.
I bought this fragrance many years ago but I haven’t worn it much. I used it recently, and it still smells amazing.
It’s a shame that this fragrance has been sitting in my stash all these years – especially because it’s so lovely.
What do I need to do with this fragrance? Use it. Before it turns. I think I’m lucky that this fragrance hasn’t turned, so I’ll make it a priority to wear and enjoy it this autumn and winter.
I’ve got many more items lurking in drawers and boxes (you probably knew that already), and there’s only so much I can use at a time. But I’m making progress on using what I have. 🙂
How about you? Do you have any old beauty items that you’ve forgotten about or that you never got around to use? Feel free to let me know in the comments. And thanks for reading!
Haha I know what you mean. I left all my old stuff at home when I went to uni but I seem to have already built up a collection again!
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I so know what you mean too! 😀
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Awesome!
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I stockpile perfume 🙂 I can not throw out my old Chanels and Dior’s.
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I stockpile perfumes too. I think I have more than 200 bottles of perfumes. And I have countless back-up bottles of limited editions…
I understand that you can’t throw out your old Chanel and Dior fragrances. And please don’t! They don’t make them like that anymore.
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I think you may have more bath and body products than I do! I am slowly but surely working through mine.
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I’m trying to tackle my stash. I know your linen closet is stuffed with toiletries – whilst I have several boxes under the bed… Either way, I’m glad both you and I are working through the oldies. xx
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You know I am the biggest hoarder! I’m doing well though, working my way through my stash of shower gels haha x
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Bargain hunting + beauty (incl toiletries) hoarding = catastrophe!
I’m tyring to work my way through all the old shower gels too – but I think they breed! 😀
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Hahah I totally hoard! Sometimes I’d find mini perfumes and like melted lipstick in my old bags and I’d feel sad because I remember how much I used to love them and now they’re just… in drawers. Lol. Great post!
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Thanks hun. xx
I too often think it’s a shame I never got around to use (and use up) some of the older product I loved back then…
But I’m tackling my stash now!
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I LOLed when I saw the title of this post! I dread going through some of my very old stuff – and like you, I’m guilty of buying stuff just because it’s on clearance. The Body Shop stuff looks good, though. I feel like older stuff lasts longer because they used preservatives – nowadays everyone is so anti-parabens, haha…
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Yeah, sale stuff, clearance, half price offers… bargain hunting and beauty hoarding go hand in hand, I think. 🙂
I too loooove preservatives in products. I don’t use any ‘all natural’ products that you have to keep in the fridge and discard within days or weeks… Seriously, how can these products be deemed safe? And who really throws out, let’s say, an eye palette that’s been opened six months ago…
Anyway, I need to tackle my stash. Wanna join the fun? 🙂
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Yes, bring on the preservatives!!! I’ve actually tried to stop buying as much lipstick because I find the new formulations, sans parabens, don’t last very well. SAD.
And yeah – I’d love to join in! Hahaha…I gotta root around through my scary old stuff.
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Yes to parabens! 🙂
And yes, go through your old stuff, you might be surprised what you find.
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That’s what I’m afraid of!
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Haha! 😀
Seriously, just do it. And take photos of what you find, please. xx
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I’m guilty of this too… (haha surprised?) I’ve bought so many things because they were on sale… not because I needed them! 😛
I also buy back-ups of stuff that I likely will never get around to using! Off the top of my head, I’ve got 2 vials of Kiehl’s perfume oil in Coriander because I’d heard they were being discontinued. Well, I haven’t even worked my way through my FIRST bottle yet! 😳
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I do the same! I too have unopened perfumes (not body sprays) because they were either limited editions or about to be discontinued. And now, yeeears later I’m not even halfway through the first bottle… 😀
The joys of beauty hoarding, eh? 😉
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I totally feel you! I’m such a hoarder in general, but it rises to another level with my beauty products!
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Thanks for stopping by!
Why don’t you join the fun and use up some of your old stuff too? We could be remote de-stashing buddies. 🙂
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Good idea. I actually like the idea of sitting in the middle of a giant pile of beauty products and separating them out between good and not good. Like a Marie Kondo organizing day!
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When I’m going through my beauty stuff, I call it play time! 🙂
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I am guilty of doing this as well!
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Another one’s fessing up! 🙂
Thanks for stopping by.
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Oh this is fun to see! We all have beauty products we forget or get pushed back!
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I have several boxes full of toiletries under the bed. So I really need to make an effort to use these up. 😉
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I have so much crap to go through as well – its so easy to accumulate thing and forget about them. Goof job on getting through it!
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Thanks! 🙂
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One of my all time favorite sunglasses is from Laura Biagiotti and I still wear them all the time. 😍☺️
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