Woman shares little-known app hack to save money on toiletries

When all your toiletries seem to run out at once, it can be an expensive time to replace them. From face wash to shower gels, perfumes, shaving foams and soaps, there are so many different things you use every single day, and add up when you scan them all at the till.

That's why @thefinancegurl on TikTokshared you should "stop throwing away your empty toiletries and pill packets" and "earn Boots points" with them instead. She said: "All you need to do is download the recycle at Boots app, and scan five empty pill packets. This can be a prescription or a non-prescription.

"And then scan five empty beauty or toiletry products. This can be anything empty, like empty face wash, empty toothpaste, empty deodorant - anything like that."

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She also pointed out the items you scan don't even have to have been "originally purchased from Boots".

Once you've uploaded everything, you need to "wait for them to be approved," which can take "up to 48 hours," but sometimes they're "approved instantly".

Once your items have been approved, head to Boots and "look for these deposit boxes, click make a deposit on the recycle at Boots app, and then scan the QR code on the box and deposit all of your products".

She explained once you've dropped all things beauty off successfully, "you'll receive a voucher for 500 points when you spend £10 or more".

When it comes to the empty pill packets, you'll "receive a voucher for 100 points when you spend £5 or more".

The terms and conditions have been updated lately, meaning you have to "redeem these vouchers on the same day you make the deposits," so it's worth recycling when you have things to get rid of and things to buy at the same time.

TikTok user @thefinancegurl said she'll get £15 worth of products and split it into two transactions so she's "able to redeem both of the vouchers".

She explained: "So I scanned £10 worth of products for the first transaction, and scanned the first voucher. This gives me £5-worth of advantage card points.

"And then I scanned the rest of my products for £5 or more, and scanned my second voucher, which gives me £1 worth of points for the £5 spend.

"And there we have it, £6-worth of Boots points for products that would've just ended up in the bin anyway."

She admitted she does this "pretty much every time" she goes to Boots, saying she's "really stacking up" her points, which she's saving to go "towards Christmas presents".

In the comments, someone said the things she'd shown are not accepted, but another disagreed, penning: "The only things they reject for me are perfumes/body mists or full-size body washes. Everything else gets accepted. Even empty pad wrappers."

Others said that this was a "great idea" to recycle things you didn't want.