New Challenge "Use it Up!"

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Count me in!

Last weekend I used up:

1 jar milk hand cream

Body Shop strawberry body butter

L'occitane lavender foot cream

Lush silky underwear dusting powder

strawberry jell-o lip smacker

Philosophy coconut marshmallow 3-in-1

Next on the chopping block:

a Lush shower jelly sample (should be gone by next weekend)

Philosophy Empowermint 3-in-1 (might take a week or two)

Bliss minty soap scrub bar (also might take a week or two)

I'm on a roll!

 
I haven't been buying anything for quite some time, so here's my current count:

body lotions 5

shower gels/soaps 5

hair conditioner 2

shampoo 2

hand cream 2

lipbalm 2

Not bad! :yay:

 
Ohh I almost finish using my EL cleansing oil!

But, I found more body lotions to use up, dohhh!

 
You girls are great. I want to do a challenge, but I'm afraid the only one I would win is the "let's see who can waste the most money on stuff they don't need" challenge. Cheers to you all.

 
I've used up the Cleansing oil!

It took me 2 months to finish it lol.

 
Hey I'm going to make this sticky, so we don't need to spent another 15 minutes to find the thread lol.

This time I need to use my TBS shower gel lol

 
I finally finished up my Stila Jade Blossom SHower Gel but then went and bought another yesterday instead of using up a different one I already owned:laughing: . At least I did use it up!

 
I cleaned out my dresser yesterday and found like 10 different bottles of body lotion. No more lotions for me!

 
I found this and thought it was great. Good tips on how to get that stuff used up!

So you've got enough stuff to open your own cosmetics counter, here's a challenge just for you.

Finish up as many products as possible. From face wash to tooth floss, put the tube or bottle or jar in the out bin.

Stuff you bought and you like. Not stuff you swear you'd never use again cuz it gave you a chemical burn. Toss that. All your body and face products that you want to use on your body or face is game.

-Take extra steps to use as much as you can or to just be more diligent about it. I've written a couple of tips to get you moving....

-Use old acid moisturizers for Neck and decolatage at night and cover this area daily w/ an SPF moisturizer!!! A very good use for older sunblock, use it up before it expires.

-Older masks: Use as body mask before the shower. Use moisturizing masks on neck, decollate, shoulders, arms, hands, shoulders, knees and drier mask on back and shoulders.

-Use scrubs up first. Don't miss a spot. Get all the old dead skin off. You will be so soft. Use your mostly used up lotions first. Finish them off and make yourself some room to manuever.

-Grab closest to finished body washes and lotions and put them up front, you'll go through these in no time. Or so we hope. Same thing for shampoos and conditioners.

-Store products that you know you won't need this season, just get them out of the way to make choices easier.

-Don't skip a beauty step. Get out all your feet balms and cuticle creams, esp. the one's you like the least, so in the end you'll just have one of each item, and it'll be your favourite.

-Hair conditioner works very well as shave cream.

-Use least product left treatment products religiously. Your smallest or closest to finished eye cream.

-Trial sizes that you actually want to try. Redkin Smooth for example. I'll use the whole series together and see if it does anything nice.

-Figure out which mascaras you bought last and use it exclusively for a while. It will run out in no time.

-nd while you're in there, take out stuff you'll never use and put it up for swap.

 
Yay!! I used to do this on another site. MTVSux from MUA had great description on her notepad of how to tunnel through your "inventory." Actually, its very similar to what LuckyMe just posted.

Since I consider my make-up a collection, I won't include it in this challenge. But everything else is fair game :) /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> I have wayyyyy too many bath and body products from VS, B&BW, TBS, etc...

So far I've used up:

B&BW Vanilla Sugar Lip Balm

VS Vanilla Lace Body Spray and Body Lotion

The Body Shop Cranberry Glycerin Bar Soap

Olay Complete Face Moisturizer with SPF15

 
i have a ton fo both and body stuff, but i use one at a time, and never have more than 1 bottle out. Still, it'll take me years to finish everything i have.

 
I've been doing this on my own since about January and I've gotten my bath and body stuff down to about half. I still have way more than most people here probably have so it's going to take me awhile. I am down to one each of shampoo, conditioner, body wash, and face scrub. But I still have a ton of lotions and body sprays and they are all 8 oz. or larger.

 
I can't exactly remember everything I've used up, but I'm down to:

1 Philosophy 3-in-1

1 bottle of milk bubble bath

1 tube of TBS strawberry exfoliating scrub

1 tub Philosophy mint body scrub

a couple BBW lotions

Can't wait to clean everything out and start fresh! Actually, once I use it all up I'll probably switch to unscented body lotion so I can finally use up some of my perfumes/body sprays! Once all those are gone, I can really start fresh!

 
I cant believe I have atually used a whole bottle of facial moisturizer. Hallelujah! Now, I need to finish a whole jar of eye cream cause I have like 3 going right now!

 
I used up a Demeter Rain perfume. But I must confess, I slipped! I bought 2 lotions from BBW. Forgive me, for I have sinned against the use it up challenge!

 
So I used up 3 body lotions, 2 shower gels, 1 conditioner, 1 shampoo, both hand creams and a lip balm....................

...............then I went shopping :eusa_wall:

So I'm back to:

body lotions 7

self-tanners 2

shower gels 3

hair conditioner 2

shampoo 1

hand cream 1

lip balm 1

I'm hopeless!!!

 

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