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Beauty Box 5
Cost: $12/month.
Ships To: The lower 48 United States and Canada via the Postal Service.
Coupon Code: Use code “FREEBOX1” to get the previous month’s box free with a new subscription.
Lots of boxes arrived this week including my November 2014 Beauty Box 5!
In case you aren’t familiar, Beauty Box 5 is a monthly subscription service that delivers a sample box of all things beauty. Each box contains 4 – 5 samples of a variety of makeup, skin care, fragrances and everything in between! Boxes are $12/month if you do a month-to-month subscription, however, I subscribed a while back when they had a crazy deal that brought the cost of an annual subscription down to $6.58/month.
Beauty Box 5 ships via DHL Express Mail. It starts out with DHL and then is delivered by USPS. Some months it takes just a few days to arrive and other months (like this one) it takes over a week.
The box looked pretty full, but nothing really jumped out at me from it.
The November 2014 Beauty Box 5 theme was “Gracefully Grounded” and included the following items to help with your morning routine and have you dancing through the rest of the day:
~Afterfeather Refillable Travel Bottles ($4.48): I do think this is cute and I appreciate that it is made out of 25% post-consumer plastic, but I can’t really see myself paying that much for a travel bottle on my own.
~DenTek Floss Picks ($2.49): Certainly these are a useful item, but I can’t say that I am excited for them. LOL!
~HASK Macadamia Revitalizing Shine Oil ($2.99): Now this stuff is great! I love macadamia oil and this one is a nice size for traveling.
~Laura Ashley Body Butter ($3.33): I was really excited to open this up and test it out, but I didn’t like it as much as I expected to. The texture of the body butter is weird. It’s almost pudding like? I can’t describe it, but I don’t love it.
~Dove Deep Moisture Body Wash ($1): This isn’t the most exciting product either, but again it’s a useful one. B will take it when he travels or I will give it to L to use.
All totaled I came up with a value of $14.29 for the November 2014 Beauty Box 5. I wasn’t impressed with this month’s box. I pay less than $7/month for it so it was “worth” double the price I paid, but I just thought it was meh. Hopefully next month is better!
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My body lotion arrived half open, and looked as if someone had used it already. That might not be, it might have just lost its adhesive because of the weather, but since I can’t tell either way, I’m not going to use it.
I probably wouldn’t either!
Mine didn’t have the travel bottle. Disappointing since I am traveling a lot these days
I just signed up for this box the other day being curious I check out beauty box 5’s facebook page and I read a lot of complaints on the last few boxes . I don’t think floss picks were a really good fit for a beauty box. It kind of makes me wish I would of checked out the reviews box before ordering.
I just signed up for this service and I am terribly disappointed! My box only came with FOUR items (missing the hair oil, clearly the best item of the lot!). I got some cheap eye crayon instead of the travel bottle. Overall, a terrible value and I also find it quite disingenuous that they list the retail value of a full sized item on the information card (who are they trying to fool?). I will not be continuing this service.
I canceled my BB5 sub because I got terrible boxes 3 months in a row. The stuff you got in this box isn’t great at all! i think it’s a waste of money!!