What are your favourite cheap beauty products/toiletries?

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What 'cheapies' do you like?
Do you always have them around or do you only buy when you're trying to spend less?

Blisteze Relief Cream is the only thing that heals my split/chapped lips. If I put it on before I sleep it works it’s magic and my lips are better in the morning.

I have dry skin so Nivea in the blue tin is good for me and it's cheap, I've been using it for a few years now.

Collection Invisible Setting Powder, is the only thing that works on my post menopausal oil slick of a face now.

Primark Perfect Finish Foundation is also suprisingly good. Good range of coluors, doesnt oxidise and long lasting.

Oil of Olay. It's the cream my face loves the most.

Nivea Soft. Slather it on as body moisturiser. Cheap as chips compared to "body butter", my skin loves it and smells great too.

Batisse! It’s wonderful stuff.

The Poundland make up gallery liquid eyeliner is THE best.

I pretty much only buy cheap-ish products and have no complaints. When I buy more expensive products I seem to always react to them or they don't work for me. I must just have been built for poverty or something ?!

Blisteze here too, brilliant stuff

My favourites are:

Revolution foundation drops
Nivea double effect eye make up remover
Rimmer exaggerate liquid eye liner

@AnnaSW1 mine too! Tried all sorts of more expensive skincare but always go back to Olay

Revolution eyeshadow has always outperformed the far more expensive brands I've tried. I think the palettes are amazing value for money!

For perfume - the Lidl Madame Glamour Chanel dupe is great and also the Yardley Jade dupe of Cristalle.

Soap and glory shower gels

Dove soap for washing body and face.
Biovene shampoo bars and conditioning bars.
Crystal salt deodorant.
Azelaic acid and differin creams from GP for acne and wrinkles.

The first 3 are great for the environment too as no plastic.

Bright yellow lemon shower gel for about 75p from Boots.
Garnier soft rose facial cleanser. £3. Smells gorgeous and leaves skin really clean.
Nivea Q10 moisturiser. It's the only one that makes my skin feel supple but not sticky. Usually only £5-6 as it's always on half-price offer. And their pore cream, same price is almost as good an Benefit's pore refiner for 5 times the price.
Palmers cocoa butter hand cream. I have tried absolutely every hand cream under the sun including really expensive ones hand made in Paris. This one is the best.
For perfume - Clarins Eau Ressourcante or Dynamissante - refreshing and about £20 a bottle.

Primark brow pencil £1

Sainsbury's own miscellar water, HUGE bottle for £2

Nivea or Dove soap bar. Cheap, smell lovely and I feel cleaner than after shower gel. Also I've noticed much less of the build up of that pink scum in the shower which is a bonus

Dove soap smells gorgeous. Aveena body lotion or Johnston’s baby lotion

I stumbled on this £5.75 rose and frankinsense face cream by accident, but love it, and it smells gorgeous. here

MUA lipsticks in Superdrugs - I have drawers and drawers of lipsticks and these ones are creamy, pigmented but don't bleed. And they come in lots of colours. Simply brilliant!

Aveeno cream or lotion, Dove soap, Nivea sensitive cleanser and day cream are products I buy over and over.

Tesco moisturiser
It's the only one I've ever used that doesn't leave a greasy feeling which I absolutely hate
I use it on my feet and body and it's £1 ish

I will be gutted if they ever discontinue it!!

I love the fruity shower gels which I’ve only ever found in Superdrug. 89p each and they smell lovely!!

Nivea Daily Essentials Tinted Moisturing Day Cream. It's SPF 15 and gives my pale skin a lovely glow. I use it instead of foundation as it doesn't settle in my pores. It's usually around the £3 mark in Boots and a bit cheaper in Superdrug and Savers.

4711 cologne. Aveeno skin relief. Quite impress with o’keefs foot cream recently too. George/asda nail varnish (although it does thicken terribly quickly). Super cheap nail foils and decals from eBay/AliExpress have tended to be the equivalent of proper branded stuff.

I've never tried a Nivea moisturiser my skin didn't love. I also really rate the Waitrose Pure facial oil.