I am a faithful, longterm, daily user of Lubriderm lotion on my face, but that’s the limit of my skin care routine. It costs about $10 and I buy one every few months or so, so that would put my budget at about $3 or less per month.
Jar of organic virgin coconut oil twice a year, if even that? Greatest face/body moisturizer in the world, IMHO. It goes for about $10 at our local health food place.
I use knockoff Olay wipes every evening. They go for maybe $6 for a package of 40? I could get double usage by cutting them as somebody upthread mentioned, but I’m lazy. In the morning I just splash cold water on my face.
Every few months I’ll buy a tube of generic facial scrub to use in the shower. Maybe $5?
I stopped using name-brand products and such a few years ago (I used to be a diehard Origins fan, btw) when I realized that it was silly to pay that much money when there was a reasonably good, less expensive alternative. That’s how I discovered coconut oil.
Let’s see 5 bucks every three months for a scrub, 20 bucks every three months for facial moisturizer. Averaging up about 10 bucks a month.
I actually get enough free samples of hand lotion to last me for that. I only use it once every couple of days and only in the winter.
$15 a month maybe. I use a facial bar from Lush twice a day, some toner with tea tree oil in it and sunscreen on top of that.
I’m prone to breakouts so I buy special cleansing soap for sensitive skin, and it seems to help. About $8 per month.
I use Caress body wash on my face, it’s about three bucks a bottle. I recently bought a little tub of spme sort of skin cream for an itchy, dry patch of skin behind my knee. It was $7.50, and I expect it will last 6 months or more.
I am not high maintenance.
It probably works out to about $35/month, excluding cosmetics.
It’s part of our normal budget for plain, ordinary soap. I prefer Ivory.
In the winter the skin on my legs gets really dry and I buy some cocoa butter as moisturizer. That’s about it.
Maybe $15? I use knock-off face wipes and knock-off good moisturizer on my face. My body gets some kind of body wash and store brand cocoa butter lotion. Now and then, I go nuts and buy some awesome stuff at Lush. They have spectacular after-Christmas sales.
I buy a pump bottle of Clean and Clear for three dollars and it lasts a few months for my daughters and me. I made a jar of body scrub with coconut oil and brown sugar last year for my daughter and we’re still using that. It was around ten bucks total.
My face wash and toner are maybe $10, but I refill them less than monthly, so it probably works out to $5/mo. I don’t use moisturizers (have oily skin; yes, I’ve heard folks say even people with oily skin should moisturize, but whatever), and I have dark skin, have only been sunburned once in my entire life (yes, I’ve heard folks say even dark skinned folk should wear sunscreen, but whatever) so I skip that whole deal.
I use Philosophy brand lotion (Hope in a Jar, the version for dry sensitive skin). A 2oz jar is $52 (Canadian). In the past I’ve never used anything that expensive. However, the first jar I bought lasted me for two years (I only use a tiny dot on my finger for my entire face). So it averages out to $2.16 per month.
I also use Philosophy brand exfoliating scrub (I can’t find it on their website right now). I bought a really big bottle, and I only use it about once per week, so I’ve had it for about a year and I have at least 2/3 of the bottle left. So I’d guess it will average to $1-$2 per month.
I don’t wear makeup very often, but I use Neutrogena oil-free eye makeup remover; I usually buy it on sale, so about $5 per bottle, maybe one bottle per year. I also use Cetaphil cleanser to remove makeup on my face; I buy the biggest bottle (16 or 20 oz) for about $10, and it lasts me at least a year.
I don’t usually use lotion on my body, but in the winter when my skin is dry I use Shea butter body butter from The Body Shop. It’s $19 for a tub, and assuming I use one per year (I actually probably don’t use that much), that’s $1.58 per month.
So all together for skin cleansers/exfoliators/lotion I probably spend an average of maybe $7 per month.
So now I have to ask, DummyGladHands, what do you use for skin care that costs a $100 a month?