I am going to admit now that we don't buy inexpensive bathroom products due to two reasons, one the boys have both suffered with eczema and two I have an issue with SLS (sodium lauryl sulfate) making me itch.
So it is important for me to make sure that our products last and I am going to admit that I learned this tip from Lizzie at Me and my shadow and it has transformed how much we spend on products and how long they last.
Did you know that in the UK we spend around £14 million on toiletries and I am going to admit again that I possibly spend a large proportion of that, so anyway to save money is good to me!
So what is this phenomenal tip that I received?
Just use less........................
Yes, really just use less and this is more important with products that contain no parabens or SLS as these are often the foaming agent,
We are programmed to only think that toiletries, especially soaps and shampoos are only doing their job is they are foaming and that we must use enough to get foam and lots of foam at that.
It works, it really does, just read the amount on the bottle and use that. A 50p amount of shampoo is more than enough for my thick shoulder length hair.
It is amazing. I have been making sure that the boys just use a pea sized amount of toothpaste and so are we. It is now lasting us twice a long. So that is a 50% saving by doing one thing.
I also make sure that we use all of the product too, which often means cutting the top of the bottle and we often get at least another three of four applications that way.
The other biggest spend for us in the bathroom is loo roll. Kids always use far too much, it just comes off the roll to easily. So I squash the roll making it less circular and less easy for the toilet paper to just come off the roll!
My hope is with all the savings we are making we can afford a new bathroom. I have been browsing bathroom suites for ages as we don't have a shower in the family bathroom and the biggest way to save water is to have showers and not baths and with two boys who play a lot of sport this would be a big saving for us.
in conjunction with Bella Bathrooms
So it is important for me to make sure that our products last and I am going to admit that I learned this tip from Lizzie at Me and my shadow and it has transformed how much we spend on products and how long they last.
Did you know that in the UK we spend around £14 million on toiletries and I am going to admit again that I possibly spend a large proportion of that, so anyway to save money is good to me!
So what is this phenomenal tip that I received?
Just use less........................
Yes, really just use less and this is more important with products that contain no parabens or SLS as these are often the foaming agent,
We are programmed to only think that toiletries, especially soaps and shampoos are only doing their job is they are foaming and that we must use enough to get foam and lots of foam at that.
It works, it really does, just read the amount on the bottle and use that. A 50p amount of shampoo is more than enough for my thick shoulder length hair.
It is amazing. I have been making sure that the boys just use a pea sized amount of toothpaste and so are we. It is now lasting us twice a long. So that is a 50% saving by doing one thing.
I also make sure that we use all of the product too, which often means cutting the top of the bottle and we often get at least another three of four applications that way.
The other biggest spend for us in the bathroom is loo roll. Kids always use far too much, it just comes off the roll to easily. So I squash the roll making it less circular and less easy for the toilet paper to just come off the roll!
My hope is with all the savings we are making we can afford a new bathroom. I have been browsing bathroom suites for ages as we don't have a shower in the family bathroom and the biggest way to save water is to have showers and not baths and with two boys who play a lot of sport this would be a big saving for us.
in conjunction with Bella Bathrooms
It's my husband who is the worst for overuse of any cleaning products, including soap. He seems to think that the more you use the cleaner the result, so he uses about twice as much laundry detergent as I do, about twice as much washing-up liquid etc. I use a bar of soap in the shower, which lasts me ages, but he likes to use brand name "because the other ones don't lather up as well" shower gels, and I literally have to buy him a bottle of shower gel each week. Problem is, the children are getting conflicting messages. I'm telling them "you only need to use a tiny bit", and he's saying "you need more than that, you'll never get clean with just that" - aaggghhh!!
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