Beauty

Beauty on Salewunder Australia is mostly the everyday shelf: cleansers and moisturisers, sunscreen and self-tan, shampoo and conditioner, body lotion, hair colour and skincare for sensitive skin. Brands that appear here include Cetaphil, Neutrogena, La Roche-Posay, NIVEA, L'Oreal Paris, Garnier, Sukin and Bondi Sands. Which of them are reduced right now changes constantly, and the page reflects only the present state.

The knowledgeable move in beauty is the unit price. The same cleanser is often sold in a 250 ml bottle, a 500 ml pump and a twin pack, and the reduction on one does not tell you which is cheapest per millilitre. Work out the price per 100 ml before you decide, and notice that a value size at full price is regularly cheaper per millilitre than a small bottle on sale. Check the expiry on sunscreen as well: it has a shelf life, and a big bottle you cannot finish before it expires is not a saving.

For beauty in Australia the moments that count are the End of Financial Year sales through June, when the pharmacy ranges get reduced across the board, Click Frenzy in November for stocking up before summer, and the lead into December when sunscreen and self-tan are in every basket. The January clearance then picks up what was over-ordered for Christmas gift sets.

Discounts here mostly come from multipacks and value sizes, from packaging refreshes where the old bottle is cleared out, and from seasonal lines like fake tan after summer. Small prestige items and freshly launched formulations rarely drop, since the demand is there without a reduction.

The percentage on this page is not our own calculation: it is the difference between today's price and the reference price the retailer itself displays. Where no reference price is shown, we show no percentage, because no discount is better than an invented one. The page updates automatically, prices are rechecked regularly, and anything that is no longer reduced disappears rather than sitting here as an expired offer.

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