If my memory serves me well, I was four products short of my goal of 100 with July’s tally. Let’s see if I made it this month!
Paula’s Choice Peptide Booster
Yesterday, my post gave a sneak peek at one of my empties. I finished up Paula’s Choice Peptide Booster. Repurchase? I was thrilled that Paula’s Choice so generously sent me another bottle just in the nick of time. This multi-tasking serum suits my mature skin very well. My skin feels plumper and firmer when I use this serum.
Nature Island Botanicals Caribbean Escape Coconut Body Butter
Nature Island Botanicals Caribbean Escape Coconut Body Butter: Because I had so many body products to test this past year and I had a bottle of NIB Citrus Sunrise Body Lotion, I didn’t get to this jar of my favorite body butter that I purchased in August 2018 till about a month ago. As you may remember, I adore the Caribbean Escape fragrance. But the weirdest thing happened. When I opened the jar, it had virtually no scent. I don’t know if waiting a year to use it made it lose it’s fragrance, or if somehow this batch wasn’t as highly scented as usual. I forgot to bring it with me when I went to see Daphne at the Gloucester Waterfront Festival a couple of weeks ago. Oh well. Repurchase? Of course. I already did, and this year’s jar smells fabulous as is should!
Koh Gen Do Pure Cotton Pads
These pricey 100% pure cotton pads from Japanese brand Koh Gen Do are my absolute favorite. They are a bigger rectangle, and one pads can remove all of my makeup. Plus they are as soft and gentle as clouds. Repurchase? I lucked out and Koh Gen Do generously sent me a limited edition product: a resealable plastic bag containing 80 pure organic cotton pads, 20 more than are contained in the cardboard box. Since I first tried the KGD Pure Cotton Pads a couple of years ago, I have purchased several boxes of them. I can’t go back to the regular Swisspers cotton rounds that I have demoted to use to remove my nail polish. Sorry, Swisspers.
Vegamour Lovestruck Biotin Gummies for Hair
I loved these yummy heart-shaped Vegamour Biotin Gummies for Hair. Repurchase? In spite of their adorableness and the fact that they are made from organic ingredients, at $24 for a month’s supply, I sadly must pass. My regular brand of biotin is much more affordable (about $12 for a 3 month supply). Plus I couldn’t tell the difference in terms of performance.
Ulta Exfoliating Facial Cleansing Sponge
I think this Exfoliating Facial Sponge came in a two pack when I bought it absolutely ages ago, and I can’t remember what happened to the first one. At any rate, they looked like white clouds in the package. On my face, this exfoliating sponge felt like sandpaper. Repurchase? No way. In fact, I’m tossing it after just a couple of uses. My face can’t take it.
Skyn Iceland Icelandic Relief Eye Cream, sample
I think I got this sample pack of Skyn Iceland Relief Eye Cream from an online Ulta purchase a while ago. It’s a very nice gel-cream for eyes. Light weight, fragrance-free, I think, and it worked well enough on the two occasions when I used it. Repurchase? Probably not because I am so devoted to Belif Moisturizing Eye Bomb and Murad Retinol Eye Cream.
Expired Product: Jordana White Eyeliner Pencil
I remember going to Walgreen’s probably about 4 or 5 years ago to look for the most inexpensive white eye pencil I could find. I wanted to play around with a white pencil, but I knew I probably wouldn’t use it often enough to spend a lot of money on it. So I bought a Jordana pencil. I love Jordana lipsticks, so I hoped this would have the same good quality at an inexpensive price. Unfortunately, this pencil was very stiff right from the start, and I didn’t use it very much as a result. I should have tossed it years ago, but now that I have an excellent, soft, easy to apply Kat Von D White Cake Pencil Eyeliner (reviewed here).
Project Pan Tally
Yay! I made it. This month, I achieved my goal for Project Pan. I don’t count expired products or small sample packs like the Skyn Iceland Eye Cream in my tally, but even without them, I am now at 101 beauty products used up in 2019. Yipee! I’m hoping I can make 125 by the end of December.
What have you used up in August? Do any of my empties interest you?
BTW, if you haven’t entered my giveaway to win a bottle of iconic Paula’s Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant that I posted yesterday (here), please do! Right now, you’ve got a great chance to win!
Nice job with your empties, Allison! The KGD cotton pads are my very favorite as well!
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Maybe Ulta should step into homewares and market that sponge as a scrubber for pots and pans…. 😛
Congrats on making your goal! I emptied another FAB serum, and cleaned out some bottles of Ordinary hylauronic and buffet. Boring but useful staples. All have been replaced with the next bottle of same from the stash as they’re things I don’t like to run out of.
LOL, Rachel! I don’t know who could use that exfoliating sponge? It looks so soft, and it even feels soft to the touch, but it is anything but! I was at Ulta this afternoon, and I didn’t see it on the wall of sponges so they must have gotten the hint 😉
I think spell check got to your comment. In addition to the HA from The Ordinary, what was the second product you finished up? It says “buffet”, and for the life of me, I can’t figure out what you meant to say, lol!
Hehe, actually The Ordinary really does have a product called “Buffet”! It’s one of those multi-peptide serum things. It’s a little gloopy in texture but at TO’s pricepoint I’m totally willing to forgive that.
Glad Ulta seems to have pulled their torture sponge. lol
Would you believe I’ve never done an empties post? I really should! It’s interesting to see what bloggers REALLY love and will repurchase.
You should, Jen. It’s eye opening for me to see what I’ll actually spend my money on!
You’ve had a lucky month with great items sent to you. I actually bought the giant package of Swisspers at Costco but I prefer to use the DHC Cotton Squares. I finished one package of each of those in August. I also finished up Babe Lash Brow Serum and RapidBrow brow serum.
Great job meeting your goals!
Thank you, thank you!
It’s almost always skincare that I go through like crazy! Loved seeing your empties.
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The body butter sounds so delightful! I’ve also been meaning to pick up some of those cotton pads.
The Koh Gen Do cotton pads are absolutely the best! I buy ’em on sale, but so worth it