Trimming My Stash - March Empties And Mini Reviews

It's hard to believe that were at the start of another month already, but March is over and April has begun. Like every month in March I continued in my Trimming My Stash quest to use up as many skincare, body care and make up products as I could - whilst I didn't do as well as the previous two months of the year I still managed to finish 10 Items

Tresemme Platinum Strength 60 Second Treatment Shot - 15ml
Boots Botanics All Bright Soothing Eye Make Up Remover - 150ml
Sanctuary Active Reverse Facial 30 Day Thermal Transformation Mask - 3.5ml and 7ml
La Roche Posay Physiological Soothing Toner -15ml
Bomb Cosmetics Pink Marmalade Shower Body Polish - 365ml
Estee Lauder Perfectly Clean Fresh Balancing Lotion - 30ml
Naughty But Nice Moisturising Hand Cream - Choco Deluxe -18g
Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift And Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm - 15ml
Primark Beauty Oil Balancing Cleansing Wipes With Tea Tree x 25 Wipes
Primark Beauty Oil Balancing Cleansing Wipes With Tea Tree x 25 Wipes
Total - 10 Items

Again I'm pretty pleased with that, I'm being pretty consistent this year and gain I've managed to finish a good variety of products. I'm hoping I can do a bit better in April; I'm already there or thereabouts or on 3 items, and I've hit pan on a couple of make up bits too, so hopefully I can do better this month. In March I managed to finish a few things that I'd used for the first time so again I thought I'd do some mini review for you.

1. Tresemme Platinum Strength 60 Second Treatment Shot - 15ml

There has a lot of hype about these little tubes in the blogging community and I wanted to find out why. Basically these little tubes contain an intensive hair conditioner treatment, that you apply to you hair after shampooing, leave for 60 seconds and then rinse out. I did a little bit of research and I managed to get two treatments out of each tube, and I also left it on for a little bit longer maybe up to 5 minutes. After the first treatment I couldn't see any difference at all but after I used the second half of the tube, my hair felt soft, and silky and it definitely looked less flyaway and it was easier to straighten. If I felt my hair needed a boost I would definitely buy these again.

2. Boots Botanics All Bright Soothing Eye Make Up Remover -150ml

Why Boots? Why? Why did your exchange a perfectly good product for this????. It stings, and leaves my eyes like an oil slick, and you need to use so much product to remove all your make up. I used it all up because I hate throwing things away but I definitely will not be repurchasing. I have two bottle of the old formulation left them I'm stuck so I'd love to hear your eye make up remover recommendations x

3. Sanctuary Active Reverse Facial 30 Day Thermal Transformation Mask - 3.5ml and 7ml

I received this sample in a recent Birchbox, and as I felt my skin needed a boost. The system comprises of a serum and a self heating mask. First of all you cover your face with a layer of the serum and then you pop a layer of the mask on top, then you leave it for about 10-15 minutes before rinsing off. When I removed the mask my skin felt like silky soft velvet it was so smooth and the day after my skin looked so awake and fresh. However after a couple of days my skin erupted with the most horrid breakout. It can't be sure though that the two were linked so luckily (or unluckily!) I have another sample from another beauty box so I''m going to give it another go. In some ways I'm kind of hoping that I don't like it second time round as the full sizes are £27.50 eek.

4. La Roche Posay Physiological Soothing Toner -15ml

Another sample sized product which came free with an order that I placed some time ago. This lasted about a week, and to be honest it didn't impress me that much, it just didn't seem to do anything spectacular and was altogether a bit mehhh. The full size is £11.50 so I honestly don't think I would repurchase. I do quite like the sound of the clarifying lotion but at the same price it's not something I will be purchasing in the near future.

5. Bomb Cosmetics Pink Marmalade Shower Body Polish - 365ml

This shower scrub was a Christmas pressie and I have to say it smells amazing. It's full of citrus and lemongrass and it smells really fresh and invigorating. It was an oil, salt and sugar scrub so it's ideal if you like a more moisturising but abrasive scrub. I actually really enjoyed using this especially in the shower - the only thing is - try not get any water into the tub - I did and instead of dissolving some of it fused together into almost candy rock style chunks, that you had to break up and dissolve to use - very odd - the smell though was worth it.

6. Estee Lauder Perfectly Clean Fresh Balancing Lotion - 30ml

Another toner sample this time from Estee Lauder. This one left my skin feeling pretty smooth and fresh without any irritation, this bottle lasted me about 2 weeks. It was okay but it wasn't amazing so I wouldn't shell out £21 for the full size!

7. Naughty But Nice Moisturising Hand Cream - Choco Deluxe -18g

I really hate dissing things that I received as presents but this was not good at all. It separated into a combination of watery stuff and creamy sludge, it left the hands the really sticky and rather than chocolate it smelled like slightly sickly plastic! It only had one redeeming feature the packaging ! It came in a cute plastic cupcake tub that can be reused but if you see this on your travels my advice is don't waste your money.

8. Emma Hardie Amazing Face Natural Lift And Sculpt Moringa Cleansing Balm - 15ml

From something that I hated to something I love - this product has a cult reputation and rightfully so. I've been using this as a cleanser, over the last week or so I've been using it as spot treatment.    Every night after cleansing I've massaged a little bit of Moringa balm into the blemish and I really think that it's made a difference. I have a full size of this which I'm now using :)

9 and 10. Primark Beauty Oil Balancing Cleansing Wipes With Tea Tree x 25 Wipes

I think I've probably finished at least a packet of these every month lately. I use them for emergency cleansing, freshening my skin, and for removing swatches and cleaning down my make up items. At just £1 for two packets you can't go wrong

So they were March's empties x If you have any questions on any of the products I've mentioned in this post please leave me a comment xxx