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Budget and prices

What the total comes to once everything is counted.

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Black-and-white photograph of four square glass toiletry bottles with ornate labels for shampoo, rose cream and astringent lotion — Early toiletry bottles already split a range the way shelves still do: a cleanser, a face cream, an astringent.Photo: National Photo Company Collection · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

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Budget and prices

Cost per use: what a skincare routine really costs a day

Price per millilitre, a dose in millilitres and the days a bottle lasts. The same four steps can cost £0.94 or £2.44 a day on the same routine.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 9 min

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