If you love cosmetics, then stop a minute and read this. Almost every large cosmetic company offers Subscribe to Cosmetics for their hardcore patrons. The boxes are curated by company staff and showcase their most famous, most popular or new launches. For a small fee (anywhere from $5 to $50 month), skin care products, cosmetics, and hair products are delivered directly to your home.
If you are intrigued, here is how you get your own monthly box of goodies.
• Find out what you are interested in. Cosmetic companies specialize in skin, hair or body ranges. For example, Estee Lauder specializes in a several body, skin, perfume and hair products. If you like the brand but want only skin products, then that is what you search for on the company’s retail website.
• Fill in the online questionnaire. To ensure that the products meet your needs, there will be a questionnaire that you have to fill. Answer the questions are comprehensively as possible. If you don’t want customized boxes, you can also choose the “surprise me” option. The company will then choose products according to monthly sales or new launches and prepare the box accordingly.
• Sample size vs. full size. This depends on the company producing the beauty box. For example, retailers may usually offer several sample sized products along with a single full-size product. Some boxes also allow customers to choose the same product every month.
• Freebies. Apart from the goodies that you have signed up for, some companies also throw in freebies. For example, Macy’s packs the products in a beautiful keepsake box while Ipsy puts a coupon for other featured products.
• Cost. On an average, the cost will vary anywhere from $5 to $50. Depending on the cost, companies provide anywhere from 5-10 products in each box. A word of caution, high-end products cost more, and samples may be small in size.
• Specialized retailers. Companies like LUSH and THEVEGANKIND specialize in unique product ranges. These ecologically friendly, skin-friendly and cruelty free products are available only with specialty retailers and may cost more than average.
• Retailer vs Brand. The box will contain products according to the range you have chosen. For example, skin, hair, body or perfume based beauty boxes are available from specialty retailers or manufacturers. however, Lancome will only offer Lancome products, while Harrods will have brands from all the stores that it retails.
Almost every brand offers “Subscribe to Cosmetics Subscription Boxes” options on its homepage or with large online retailers. We hope these monthly goody boxes make you happy; have fun!
