I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found reduced price beauty items at TJ Maxx when I sift through their small, but often treasure-loaded beauty section. If only I could now find the Revitol skin care products there some time, but alas I know those are only available online – oh well! I go through a lot of anti aging and night cream. I believe in loading up the skin at night, when it is most likely to repair and restore since it’s not exposed to the elements and the body’s repair mechanisms are the most available since your energy is not being expended elsewhere, so I’m always reloading on the night time wrinkle and aging prevention creams with goodies like retinols and vitamins in them.
So when I found some RoC night time retinol and alpha hydroxy restoarative night cream for about five bucks less a tube than I can get it for at any other store, including Wal-mart and Target, I decided to buy two of them. These are only one ounce, so I do fly through them fairly fast, but at $12 per tube, I had never seen them for a better price anywhere else. The only thing you ever need to worry about with anti aging creams and other high quality products like this is if they are expired and may perhaps have inactive or less effective ingredients in them because of the time they’ve been on the shelf. These were not old, so I did buy them.
However, what you really have to watch is buying perfumes that are steeply discounted. These you should actually probably buy at a store, because they are new and fresh, whereas high end perfumes usually don’t make their way to discount retailers for reduced prices unless they have expired or are close to expiring.
It really does make a difference with scent. I have purchased them from discounters for great prices, only to find out that the perfume either doens’t smell as strong and takes twice as much to even smell, or that it has somehow turned rancid and smells like a different perfume all together. Other than that, lotions, soaps and bath products are great to buy reduced because they really don’t “go bad” or expire. It’s always worht a look at least when you’re in these discounted types of stores.
