From freebies to money off, if we spot a great deal on beauty products we’ll list them here.
You can always get beauty discounts and freebies at various retailers. Here’s our pick of the best savings right now.
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Marks & Spencer beauty deals
Beauty: £315 beauty advent calendar for £50
You can get a £315 M&S Collection advent calendar for £50 when you spend £35 on full-price clothing, homeware or beauty. It’s available from 24 October until stock sells out, which can be pretty fast.
The Beauty Advent Calendar 2024 includes a selection of 25 hand-picked products, including 6 full-size products across bath and body, skincare, fragrance and make-up.
Now, just because M&S say it’s worth £315 it doesn’t mean it actually is. You can see the entire contents here, so use that to work out whether it’s worth paying £50 for.
And of course, try to buy something you actually need to want for the initial £35 spend. Sale and clearance items are excluded from this qualifying spend.
Health deals
Vision Express: free eye test with £50 spend
Download the Lidl Plus app, and in the partner offers section you’ll find you can claim a free eye test (worth £30) and get 30% off frames, as long as you spend £50 on prescription glasses at Vision Express.
Ends 1 January 2025.
Lush beauty deals
Lush: £3 Lush Club bonus
If you join Lush’s UK loyalty club then new or existing account holders can get a £3 welcome voucher if they sign into the latest version of the app before 8 October 2024.
You don’t need to do anything to trigger the coupon, though do check if it’s showing in the banner on the app or in the ‘Rewards’ section of the app.
You’ll be able to use the £3 in-store or on purchases via the app. It’ll last three months from activation.
Grüum beauty deals
Grüum: skincare and/or haircare bundle for £3.95
You can get two or three full-sized products from Grüum (worth up to £43) for just the cost of delivery (£3.95).
There are several bundles to choose between, although some are often out of stock. The options include skin cleansers, shampoo bars, body wash bars and body oils, to name a few.
You have to pay £3.95 for delivery, but for a couple of products, that’s not bad.
Boots offers
There are often regular offers and savings at Boots so we’ve set up a page just for those deals.
Body Shop discounts
Before buying anything at Body Shop, look for a special offer. Sites like Vouchercodes or Vouchercloud always have one kind of deal or another, usually at least 15% off. It’s rare to get above 30% off now.
Also, take a look at your bank’s cashback offers. I’ve often seen extra discounts on Halifax and Santander’s apps.
£5 Body Shop voucher on your birthday
Love My Body members get sent a £5 voucher on their birthday every year. You can sign up for the scheme (for free) here.
Holland & Barrett offers
£3 free spend via Holland & Barrett loyalty scheme
Sign up to the H&B Rewards for Life scheme and you’ll get 300 bonus points straight away – worth £3.
You’ll then earn 4 points for every pound you spend, and vouchers are sent out four times a year (minimum 50 points needed).
Liberty beauty deals
Liberty: Subscription box offer
You can get an unusual beauty subscription box from Liberty. If you deposit £25 per month into your Liberty “beauty bank” (essentially buying store credit), then you get a “Discovery Box” four times a year for £5 per month, worth a total of £300 per year.
You’ll still have the credit in your account that you deposited (except the £5 fee for each box), but it can’t be refunded or withdrawn.
What’s in the beauty box?
The box is called The Beauty Drop. You get four per year full of trial-sized products. They’re sent in January, April, July and October and they’ll be worth up to £300 throughout the year.
Remember that just because Liberty would sell the products for £300, it doesn’t mean they’re worth that for you.
The drawbacks
Your typical bank account has protection – you’re protected by up to £85,000 if your bank goes bust. However, your money in the “beauty bank” at Liberty isn’t protected. This means that if Liberty were to go bust, the money you have in the account likely won’t be refunded to you, much like a gift card.
You could mitigate this by spending the money you deposit as soon as you can and not letting a large balance rack up, but Liberty’s high prices might prevent this.
Space NK offers
Space NK: up to 20% off £100 spend (ended)
This is a decent opportunity to stock up on beauty essentials (and luxuries) as you can get up to 20% off at Space NK until 9 August 2024.
You must spend at least £100 before delivery (if shopping online) and the maximum discount you can get is £200. For website purchases use the code ‘EXPLORE’.
This includes rarely discounted brands such as Diptyque – only a handful of brands are excluded, which you can see here. You can’t use the deal on gift cards or sale items either.
It ends 11.45pm on 9 August 2024.
The liberty beauty drop box now has a £5 fee each month, so not as lucrative as it once was!
As someone who does 90% of my shopping online, I find it so important to make sure you check out sites for discount codes and vouchers! Why pay full price when you can get 15% off, or free delivery? Also sign up to as many newsletters as you can, as many shops will offer extra discounts through this, as well as loyalty programmes/ cards. As a lover of Bodyshop, they are great as they change their codes every few weeks so you can usually find something to suit you, and they often have up to 25% off!