AIBU to give partially used hair products to a charity shop?

[Juniper904]

... or would they just laugh in my face?

I have bought a number of expensive (ish) hair products over the years in an attempt to tame the frizz that passes as my hair. I tend to use them once, hate the feeling, then add them to the increasing collection in my bathroom.

I don't know anyone with similar hair so can't pass them on to friends or family, and it seems very wasteful to just bin them.

So would a charity shop accept them? Or is there another way of recycling them?

charity shop's around here sell them, mind you i wouldn't buy them.

But someone might

there was once a bottle of ASDA own brand half used baby lotion for £2 im certain it can't cost that amount at ASDA

Your local women's refuge may be grateful for them, or freecycle?

freecycley-type website, are you on a local facebook one? Teenage girls would have them, regardless of hair type, they just like bottles of product
I buy allsorts from the charity but opened toiletries/cosmetics would be a bit grim, don't know how long they have been open etc

Freecycle them. I cleared out the bathroom recently and advertised a collection of up to half used bottles of shampoo, bubble bath, conditioners etc. It was all reasonable quality stuff. A woman came and took them all away - she said they were a house of 6 female students and it was sure to get used up by them

I work in a charity shop and we wouldn't accept them - nor would I think our customer buy them.

I work in a charity shop too and we will sell products that haven't been used but can't sell those with any missing, we have to bin them. Refuge or Freecycle would be better.

I don't think the charity shop would sell them. I wouldn't buy them either, you don't know how long they've been open for. Freecycle probably a good bet though.

Charity shops are there to make money, not to be a dumping ground for half used stuff. Would you buy it?
Just bin it

Colleagues tend to bring stuff into work and ask if anyone is interested.

I agree that it seems so wasteful to bin it.

I don't think a charity shop or even a women's refuge would accept opened/unsealed products.

You don't know what someone might have mixed into it.

I (like a twat) once mixed two foundations together and burnt 2 layers of skin off my face under my eyes.

ebay...or freecycle...they often have 'barely used' products on Ebay

When I worked in a charity shop (many years ago now) we wouldn't accept opened cosmetics as there was no guarantee they hadn't been tampered with.

the ones around here definitely do, make up too they have a wicker basket thing filled with them. Are they not supposed to be doing that then?

Doubt it Lola, health & safety and all that