Free Beauty and Health Products for Reviewing

If you look back at the product reviews I have written, you will see that the majority of them have been purchased for free, or for pennies.

I tell all my friends to either purchase the Sunday newspaper, with all the pull-outs, or go into CVS, and Walgreens drugstores, and buy their promotional items.

I must have at least 100 health, and beauty items, that have either been reviewed or will be shortly. The most I normally pay for them is 99 cents.

Right now I have Bausch + Lomb re'nu multi-purpose solution. This cost me $7.99 at the time of purchase, but I have $7.99 in 'Extra Bucks' to use before 11/6/2010.

I also purchased the Schick Hydro 3 razor and paid $4.99 for it, and received $5 in 'Extra Bucks' to use before 11/16/2010. Both of these came from CVS.

Walgreens have similar offers and I purchased the Complete multi-purpose solution for my husband Len for $7.99, and received a coupon at the cash register for that amount.

I recently bought the Dial NutriSkin ultra hydrating Body Wash at Walgreens for $3.99, and received that amount back in a coupon.

You will probably be thinking that I have to pay all this money out, and then spend it later. The art of working these offers/promotions, is that I check in my purse to see how many coupons I have, and how much they are for. Then I put one item up, with a coupon for a similar amount. I pay pennies on it, and get another coupon. Then I put my next item up with a coupon, and can do this several times in one shop.

I have come out of the drugstore with $20 of goods, and only paid a couple of dollars for them. If there are no offers that I like one week, then I will use my coupons for milk, toilet rolls, paper towels, washing up detergent, etc. I never let one expire on me.

Len is totally amazed at what I do. It does take me an hour or so to decide what I am going to buy, in what sequence to purchase them, and to find them in the drugstores.

We don't always use the products, but we haven't paid anything for them. I pass them on to girlfriends, and have been known to put them in a basket, with ribbons, and give them as gifts.

The final destination if no one wants them is the thrift stores. They are happy to get them.

If you are at a loss for what to write, or can't afford to purchase items to write about, you will have to buy the first product, but after that use your coupons to buy the next ones. This is a secret that I didn't want to keep from my friends.

Being an 'Extracare' customer of CVS I have just received in the mail 2 coupons for free products. The first is the Schick Hydro Razor in 3 or 5 blades, maximum $9.99. and the Schick Hydro Shave Gel, maximum $3.99. I already have both of these for free, but will be happy to give them to Len, and I will keep the original ones.

Isn't it nice to shop for free.