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Here's an interesting question, particularly as we head into Stocking Stuffer/White Elephant season: what are your favorite drugstore beauty and bath products? Here are five of mine…
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1. Best lip treatment for chapped/dry lips: Neosporin Overnight Lip Renewal Therapy. I buy this stuff in bulk, and have written before about how (when they were smaller at least) I would sneak into my kids' rooms to put this on their crazy chapped lips.
2. Nighttime moisturizer: CeraVe PM. I layer it on top of my retinol when my skin gets really dry in the winter.
3. Daily facial sunscreen: I've tried some fancier sunscreens (including reader favorite Elta MD) but I like Missha sunscreen just as much.
2024 Update: Here's my latest skincare routine! I do my BHA first, then Vitamin C, then peptide spray, then this snail essence, then my moisturizer, then sunscreen. (I save my prescription trentinoin for before bed.)
4. Vitamin C serum: My dermatologist turned me on to Mad Hippie when I was pregnant years ago — I felt like my face “buzzed” the first time I used it, in only the best way — and while I really hate the smell of some Vitamin C serums, this one has never bugged me.
5. Best Hand Cream: My mother gets really horribly dry, peeling fingers in winter, and my own cuticles drive me batty if I don't moisturize well… so we've tried a LOT of different hand creams. My favorite is Weleda Skin Food (the smell makes me happy as I drift off to sleep), but my mom's longtime favorite is Neutrogena Norwegian Formula Hand Cream. For those people in your life who you can't convince to wear lotion but really really need it (for me it's my father, husband, and son), Gloves in a Bottle seems to be the least annoying one for them.
All right, ladies, over to you — what are your favorite drugstore finds for bath and beauty — and what other affordable things like that will you be putting in stockings and for other small gifts?
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As of 2024, my short makeup routine is pretty boring — curled eyelashes + concealer + blush (Nars Orgasm) + powder, with a different lipstick and eyeliner depending on my mood. If I'm feeling extra fancy I'll add mascara, highlighter, and/or do my brows with this cream and a brush similar to this one (here's my review). (I also add eye shadows in the “extra” days but it's a huge variety, maybe 25 or so different ones.)
Some favorite lipsticks include Clinique (Graped Up), NARS lipstick (Damage), Fenty (Goji Gang), NARS gloss (Orgasm, Fast Lane), and Clinique (Black Honey). I use this NYX lipliner (Natural) for almost all of them.
Favorite eyeliners include Chanel (Espresso), Urban Decay (Sabbath, Smoke), and Clinique (Intense Chocolate & Plum).
Anonymous
Yardley soaps, especially lavender and almond
Batiste dry shampoo
Clairol Silver lights shampoo (for toning down brassy color/highlights)
Cerave facial cleanser
Anon
+1 Batiste dry shampoo. I’ve yet to try any other dry shampoo that works as good or is as cheap.
bellatrix
* +1 more for CeraVe cleansers. The skincare groups I follow on FB swear by them. I use the foaming one but some people love the hydrating one.
* Not Your Mother’s / Hair Food shampoo and conditioner – check the label but most of the formulas are free of sulfates and silicone – it may be just marketing but I’m trying to avoid both right now to see if it makes a difference.
* e.l.f. products in general are very good for the price.
* eos hand lotion – I can’t stand greasy lotions, but this one sinks in quickly, and the bottle is like a little worry stone. It’s a very small bottle so more for purse/desk use but I’d buy it in a large size if I could.
anon
La Roche-Posay everything. I particularly like the hyaluronic acid serum, the retinol, and the Toleriane facial moisturizer, and I wear the tinted moisturizer with SPF daily. I am also a big fan of Burt’s Bees salicylic acid spot treatment for acne
Is it Friday yet?
+1 on the LRP
Anon
Not drugstore, but same price point: I love Avon’s Skin So Soft and sensitive skin bubble bath.
Anonymous
Banana Boat Aloe chapstick with SPF.
AttiredAttorney
Mascara: Covergirl LashBlast (in the orange tube)- absolutely the best, most flake proof volumizing mascara out there
Eyeliner: NYX Epic Ink Liner – I have greasy eyelids and this stuff stays put all day for not-waterproof
Undereye concealer: Maybelline Age Rewind
Lotion: Aveeno Daily Moisturizing -comes in a pump bottle- critical for regular use!
Chapstick: O’Keefe’s Lip Repair – I think I read about this here? Some of the best lip moisturizer
eertmeert
Ivory soap
Cerave facial cleanser
Garnier Micellar water (pink cap)
Daiso brush cleaner
Daiso cotton pads
Aquaphor
La Roche Posey spf
Gold Bond Cracked Skin Relief (for cuticles)
Gold Bond Healing with Aloe hand lotion
anon
Cerave gentle facial cleanser for the AM and the Cerave nighttime moisturizer
Vaseline intensive lip care
Neutrogena hydro boost body lotion (facial moisturizer isn’t too shabby either)
NYX eyeshadow primer
Elf foundation primer
Loreal pro glow foundation – this is literally the only drugstore foundation I’ve ever liked
Neutrogena lip gloss
Neutrogena eye makeup remover
Aveeno body wash in the gentle coconut scent
Ana
Burt’s Bees lip balm and tinted lip balm
Pantene for shampoo/conditioner
Sally Hansen nail polish
Covergirl great lash mascara