Marks and Spencer customers have been eagerly shopping online after discovering a collection of premium Apothecary items marked down to half price. Once priced at £50, the retailer's Wellness Bag is now available for just £25 in anticipation of Black Friday.
Apothecary is Marks and Spencer's exclusive line of bath and body care products, featuring delightful scents from the 'Calm', 'Sleep', 'Restore', and 'Balance' collections. The Wellness Bag's price cut to half was highlighted to other shoppers in the well-known Facebook group Extreme Couponing and Bargains UK.
One member of the group called Sarah wrote: "If you or know someone who likes M&S Apothecary, I’d recommend taking a look at M&S online. £50 down to £25. Great Christmas present." In the comment section, Elizabeth replied: "Thank you so much! I’ve had my eye on this an almost paid full price!!!"
Grace said: "Love all this stuff smells amazing." Martine added: "This stuff is gorgeous thank you." Susan put: "Thank you, ordered. Great gift." Karen penned: "Thanks so much for sharing I would of never randomly looked up this."
Shoppers get a total of ten items in the £25 Wellness Bag. Five full-size and four deluxe mini products and a reusable tote bag.
- Reusable Tote Bag
- Restore Body Wash - 250ml
- Calm Hand Wash - 250ml
- Calm Hand - 250ml
Calm Body Lotion - 250ml
- Calm Bath Oil - 230ml
- Sleep Body Butter - 70ml
- Sleep Pillow mist - 150ml
- Calm Mini Diffuser - 30ml
- Meditate Votive Candle - 60g
A description of the £25 Wellness Bag online reads: "Discover the soothing power of essential oils with this Apothecary Wellness Bag, featuring the very best products from across the collection. These products feature fragrances containing essential oils which are considered to have soothing and calming qualities to promote wellbeing."
In the reviews section, Sue said: "Looks great quality and good value for money." A second wrote: "Wanted something for a friend’s birthday. Loved the tote bag that it came in. The products are luxurious and good sizes. I’m hoping if I drop enough hints I might get someone to buy one for me too."
A third added: "Christmas present for my daughter who loves all the Apothecary range." Debbie typed: "Absolutely love this." So far, all reviews are five stars out of five.
The £25 Wellness Bag is eligible for free delivery, but only when you spend a total of £60. So, you would need to spend an extra £35 in order to avoid delivery fees. The tote bag is made with 61% polyester, 30% cotton and 9% viscose - polyester is not easily biodegradable.
Besides M&S, plenty of other retailers are selling various beauty goodie bags ahead of Black Friday and Christmas that could be good stocking fillers. Elsewhere, Boots is selling its own Glam and Glowing Luxury Beauty Christmas Bauble for £20.
The £20 bundle includes Lancome's La Vie Est Belle Rose Extraordinaire Eau De Parfum, full-size No7 Stay Perfect eye pencil, full size Huda Beauty Power Bullet Matte Lipstick and more. ASOS is also selling Gift Of Skincare Bag 2024, which is worth £90 but on sale for £25.
Meanwhile, Beauty Bay has a Mystery Box up for grabs that is filled with products worth £94 but only costs £29.95 to buy. Debenhams has a Christmas Beauty Selection Box Edit avaliable for £50, despite it being worth £251.