AARRGHH! Discontinued favourites 😡

[MustardMitt]

I’m SO annoyed! Just went to the Lish website to reorder my Queen Bee hair stuff and found it’s gone. Replaced by a cream which just won’t be right for me - it’s the addition of beeswax that stops my hair from fluffing up and releasing all moisture.

So I have two questions. What favourites of yours have been discontinued and what did you replace it with? And can you recommend anything to replace Queen Bee? 😭 I guess technically that’s three questions but still....

I am also annoyed that I bought a lipstick from Mac (it was a limited edition to be fair) which was discontinued with no equivalent replacement. It was perfect.

I used to love The Body Shop Raspberry Ripple Bathing Bubbles and Cosmetics To Go Smaragadine bubble bath. I wish Lush would bring it back.

I also loved the Vidal Sassoon shampoo and conditioner that smelled of almonds. They used to do it in little sachets which were a lovely treat at the time.

@Blondiney

That Vidal Sassoon shampoo and conditioner from the early 90s. Smelled of almonds. I think fondly of that stuff way too often.

It was way before the early 90s. My Mum bought it for me in about 1978-9. It was probably the first "salon" shampoo you could get in places like Boots. It was wonderful. The scent was amazing!

@TheSilentStars I LOVED that Sassoon stuff.

In 1984, you could get a skin moisturiser with the fragrance too. I used to bulk buy it. It really was beautiful.

And...

Bobbi Brown Telluride Bronzer. It was only available in the US but DH used to get it for me. Then, a few popped up on ebayUk which I bought but now, nothing. It was THE BEST for my cool toned colouring. All others make me orange.

Boots Style Works Heat Protection Serum. It was the best.

I've remembered another one: MAC shadestick in Sharkskin, I went through loads of those in my late 20s

Those missing the Vidal sassoon shampoo, Aveda cherry almond smells gorgeous. Really almondy.

Oh, and Lancôme Impactive moisturiser. It made my skin feel amazing.

1. Boots curl creme £5 for a large pink tub, everyone bloody loved it but Boots pulled it with no replacement.

1. Byzance perfume by Rochas - they discontinued it in the 90s after I had been wearing it for years. However, I've just googled it and I think they have released it again!!!!

1. Literally any foundation which is moisturising enough and comes in a plastic bottle. Clinique and Clarins have done this repeatedly to me and it's very upsetting

@AriesTheRam

Gio by Giorgio Armani.Loved it so much if I smelt it now it would take me back to clubbing in my early 20s

Omg yes. I treated myself to an almost empty bottle on eBay. Not to use, just to sniff every now and then. People knew me by that perfume. I miss it so much!

...just read reviews on the re-released one and it is a re-interpretation and not a popular one at that. Why, why, why do they do this?

Thank you *icanboogieboogiewoogie’

It was way before the early 90s. My Mum bought it for me in about 1978-9. It was probably the first "salon" shampoo you could get in places like Boots. It was wonderful. The scent was amazing!

I would've been 5 then. Don't think I had a preference for Vidal Sassoon products at that age. I was in secondary school so possibly late 80s rather than early 90s.

It was fabulous though.

Olay ribbons body wash! Haven't seen it in years. They did a bubble bath too but can't remember the name.

Bath & Body Works had a shop in the Trafford Centre when it first opened. They had a lovely scent called ‘Refreshing Garden Mint’. I was so excited when I went to the States...to find that scent is no longer available!

Thanks to this thread I'm now googling Dolce and Gabbana Sicily dupes without much success

Not really style and beauty, but I really miss the original pink germolene ointment!

Oh, and Medised!

Avon did a Korean range and I loved the milk hand cream it smelt lovely.
They don't do them anymore. I haven't found an alternative yet.

As mentioned by pps Armani White - haven't found anything like it since ☹

Boots did a wonderful Mediterranean skin care range that disappeared without trace.

I have 2 products I'd love to buy again, no1 Estee Lauder had a limited edition pot of flower petel blusher things, all different shades of pink and in the centre a gold highlighter. Circa 2000. No2 Benefit Flamingo Fancy which was a body bronzer cream with pink bronze and gold and shimmer. I loved it as it smelt great and washed off. So easy to use. Theres always a half used one on Ebay for £££ but who knows if it's rancid and refilled with something else. I think that was the early 2000s too.

And others I've liked, Olay had a make up range for a while, they had the best tinted moisturiser, it was really glowy minus the glitter. About 1998 I think.

@Blondiney

It was way before the early 90s. My Mum bought it for me in about 1978-9. It was probably the first "salon" shampoo you could get in places like Boots. It was wonderful. The scent was amazing!

I would've been 5 then. Don't think I had a preference for Vidal Sassoon products at that age. I was in secondary school so possibly late 80s rather than early 90s.

It was fabulous though.

I used to use this stuff when I was a nurse. It was brilliant for hair that was shoved up under a nurses hat all day. I was a nurse in 1980.

Benefit jiffy tan! Was a great waterproof instant tan!