Product Use Up: June

Deodorant - 1

Dry Shampoo - 1

Face Wipes - 2

Shower Gel - 1

Other - 3

Total - 8 products

This past month has been quite slow on the product use up front mainly because I've been trying lots of new things and not finishing them after starting them.

Hope June has been a good month for product use up for you!

Product Use Up: May

Ok I admit it, I forgot to do a product use up post at the end of April, my bad. But that means more empties this month! So here are my two months worth of empties.

Shampoo: 2

Conditioner: 6

Dry shampoo: 2

Deodorant: 2

Shower gel: 5

Body lotion: 2

Wipes: 2

Other: 7

Total: 28 empties! 

Product Use Up - March

Not everything finished this month has been photographed as some things I finished on holiday but here is what I used up whilst at home:

1x face cleanser

1x shower gel

1x deodorant

1x spot gel

1x face cream

A bit of a slow month but I'm going to be back on the product use up wagon next month!

Product Use Up - February

Product use up this month has gone well yet again. Here's what I've finished:

Shampoo - 2

Conditioner - 2

Deodorant - 1

Shower gel - 2

Dry shampoo - 1

Face mask - 2

Face wash - 1

Hair straightening balm - 1

Face wipes - 2

Body scrub - 1

Hand cream - 1

Body lotion - 1

Total - 17 products!

How is your product use up challenge going?

Product Use Up: January

This is my first product use up post of the year and in case you missed it this post is going back to being monthly rather than every 3 months.

So what did I use up this month?

8 products finished!

1x face cream

2x conditioner

2x shower gel

1x deodorant

1x hair oil

1x eye make up remover wipes

I'm on a real mission this year to get my stash of products massively reduced and this includes using products that have been sat in boxes for months, and in some cases years. 

As I used up lots of part used products the end of last year I've started off abit slow but I'm sure I'll pick up pace soon.

Are you doing your own product use up challenge? Link me to your progress posts below!

Product use up: October - December

This last 3 months I've been concentrating on using up as many odd bottle of stuff as possible which I only managed in the past month so here are my empties:

That's a grand total of 32 products finished in the last 3 months!

Next year I am going to go back to posting Product Use Up every month again so these posts won't be as long.

I hope this last year I have inspired you to take up your own Product Use Up challenge, it is really rewarding at the end of the month to see your stash of products slowly reduce, next year I am on a real mission to cut mine in half so wish me luck!

Product use up: July - September

It's hard to believe that the next time I do a product use up post it will be the end of the year but this last 3 months I have done really well in using up my stash of products, here are my empties!

Deodorant - 5

Handcream - 2

Body scrub - 3

Dry shampoo - 2

Shower gel - 6

Make up remover - 2

Cleanser - 2

Face wash - 2

Shampoo - 2

Conditioner - 3

Face wipes - 3

Mouth wash - 1

Heat protection spray - 2

Hairspray - 1

Face mask - 2

Hair mask - 2

Face cream - 3

Total - 43 empties!

That's a huge amount of empties and I'm aiming to use up more in this last 3 months of the year, I do have certain products that have been open for quite a while that I want to finish by the end of the year so hopefully I'll get them finished by December 31st!

How's your product use up challenge going? Link me to your posts.

Product use up: April - June

Crikey, we're halfway through the year! So it is of course time for my product use up post! So this quarter what have I used up?

Shower gel - 6

Face wipes - 4

Shampoo - 4

Conditioner - 4

Deodorant - 4

Heat protection spray - 2

Face mask - 2

Dry shampoo - 2

Make up remover - 2

Face scrub - 2

Hairspray - 2

Face cream - 1

Body scrub - 1

Veet - 1

Hand cream -1

Hair serum - 1

Cleanser - 1

Face oil - 1

Foot soak - 1

Total = 42 products used up!

I'm still working my way through my stash of products but I'm getting there! Hopefully by the end of the year I'll have used up all of my 'older' products.

Link me to your use up posts!

Product use up: January to March

This used to be my monthly post to show what products I've used up in the past month but I decided to post it every month months instead and this is my first post of the year. So what have I used up?

Face cream - 5

Shower gel - 4

Shampoo - 4

Deodorant - 3

Conditioner - 2

Face wipes - 2

Body scrub - 2

Hairspray - 1

Dry shampoo - 1

Face wash - 1

Cleanser - 1

Hand cream - 1

Hair straightening spray - 1

Total: 28 empties!

Alot of these were mini's and sample sizes but these are what tend to get left for ages in my stash so I'm still quite please that I've used them up.

How well have you done recently?

Product use up - end of year

This month I used up these products:

2x deodorants

2x shampoo

1x conditioner

1x bubble bath

1x fake tan

1x face mask

1x face cream

1x exfoliator

1x shower gel

I started off the year by wanting to use up all my hoarded products which I did start to do, my collection went down but slowly it built it's way back up. Now though I don't work in a health and beauty retailer and rarely go into town so slowly it is being reduced and I am now not going to buy products unless I only have one left. Hmmm we'll see how this goes I suppose.

Oh and some of you might already know but this post is now going to be posted every 3 months rather than every month.

So that is it. My last empties of 2011. Now on to a successful product use up 2012!

Product use up

This is my second to last product use up of the year! Wow time has flown by! So how what I managed to use up?

Make up remover

Face cream

Body butter

Dry shampoo

Deodorant x2

Hairspray

Mouthwash

Shower gel x2

Heat protection spray

So all in all not a bad month. How well have you done?

Product use up

This post is a little late this month mainly because I've been rather lack on the blogging front! So how well have I done this month.

This month I've used up 7 items:

Face wipes x2

Deodorant

Make up remover

Hair straightening gel

Face wash

Body wash

Conditioner (not pictured)

How well have you done this month?

Product use up

September has been another month of using up odds and ends so here's what I finished:

2x face wipes

1x eye serum

1x deodorant

1x dry shampoo

1x cleanser

1x toner

2x face creams

4x shower gels

1x hair serums

1x heat protection spray

I only have 3 months left of my year challenge and so far I think I'm on course to do really well and to have used up the majority of my stash!

Let me know how you've done this month!

Product use up

This last months Product Use Up challenge has been focused on using up products which have been open for ages. As I was moving house I didn't want to move half used products from one house to another I knuckled down and did really well. Here's what I finished:

Like last month I'm not going to list everything as there's alot but in total I finished 28 products.

Next month is going to be a slow month as I've started alot of new products but all in all my toiletries stash is going down which is the whole point of this challenge!

So how have you done this month?

Product use up

This months product use up had been really important as I am moving in a couple of weeks so I've needed to really try hard in using up my part used products and I think I've done really well as I've finished a huge 25 products!

I'm not going to name them all because the post would be like a million miles long but there is a mixture of haircare, skincare and bodycare. 

How have you done this month?

Product use up - half way point

So it's the beginning of July and I'm now half way through my product use up challenge! I have to admit I think I'm doing quite well. I was originally trying to not buy any beauty products until I'd ran out but you know what it's like, a new product comes out or theres a great offer on so you succumb to the pressure and buy. But even with that in mind I still haven't done bad.

So in June what did I manage to use up?

Left photo: Sure deodorant x2, Elle Macpherson body scrub, Batiste dry shampoo and Clinique facial liquid soap


Right photo: Lee Stafford Grow Faster hair treatment, Organic Surge liquid handwash, Lee Stafford poker straight balm, No 7 make=up remover, Soap & Glory Fab Pore face mask and Neutrogena face wipes

For the second half of the year I'm going to revert back to what I was doing in my product use up challenges last year and aim to finish all the opened products I have a I've been abit naughty and have been opening new bottles when the old one hasn't been finished. So I have these to finish before the 31st December:

I'm not going to name every item but in a nut shell there are:
11x hair styling products
12x hair washing products
15x facial skincare products
4x washing products
10x moisturising products
Which totals 52 products to get through. Wish me luck!

Finally how are you doing with your challenge? Link me to you posts in the comments below!