SAVVY beauty lovers can save a bit of extra cash with a little-known way to get free £5 Boots vouchers.
The health and beauty retailer runs two schemes where you can return your empty beauty, health, wellness and dental products that can’t be recycled at home – and earn Advantage points that can be turned into £5 vouchers.
The only catch is that you have to be an Advantage Card member to benefit from the scheme.
How does it work?
You can recycle your empties by downloading the Recycle at Boots app, where you can scan your products.
Some of the items you can recycle include make-up palettes, lipsticks, travel minis, and mascaras – but the scheme also includes other products made of non-recyclable materials such as lotion pumps and toothpaste tubes.
Once your products are approved, you can take them into a participating Boots store and scan the QR code on the deposit box.
You can then drop your empties in.
After recycling five empty products, you need to also spend £10 in store to collect 500 Advantage Card points – equivalent to a free £5 voucher.
You can find a list of participating stores on the Recycle at Boots app.
And Boots has confirmed that there is no limit on how many times you can use the scheme – meaning you can use it every time you have collected five hard to recycle empties.
But you should bear in mind that you can only get one voucher every 24 hours, which must be redeemed by midnight.
So you wouldn’t be able to bank your vouchers to use multiple times on the same day.
What else is new at Boots?
With Black Friday fast approaching, the beauty and health retailer is offering discounts on cult favourites, including the viral YSL Black Opium.
Boots is currently also offering shoppers £448 worth of beauty products for just £90.
The retailer has launched its Showstopper bundle for its fifth year, with an impressive 26 items inside from cult brands including Fenty Beauty, Sol de Janeiro and No7.
Meanwhile, shoppers have recently shared their frustration over the jaw-dropping price of toothpaste at various retailers and supermarkets – with high-end whitening pastes now setting shoppers back up to £23 for a single 75ml tube from select stores.
The Colgate Max White Ultimate Renewal Teeth Whitening Toothpaste is currently £23 at Sainsbury’s.
The Oral-B Intensive Whitening Toothpaste is £20 in Tesco – but you can get it for half price with a Clubcard.
Meanwhile, in Boots, a 75ml tube of Oral-B Pro 3D White Clinical Intensive Whitening Toothpaste Bright Brilliance is also listed for £20.
What other recycling schemes are out there?
Boots allows you to recycle your empties and earn 500 Advantage points for every five products you recycle – if you spend £10 in store.
John Lewis runs a BeautyCycle scheme, allowing you to recycle your empty beauty product containers for free.
If you’re a My John Lewis member, you’ll also get £5 off when you spend £50 or more on B Corp certified beauty brands that day. Just bring in five or more clean, empty beauty product containers to any John Lewis beauty counter.
B Corp certified brands are companies that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
Superdrug also operates an empties recycling drop-off service.
