Around two week ago I received an email from the Maternity and Infant Website, Ireland’s finest parenting magazine. I love getting exciting emails every now and then. This time it involved my favourite grocery store Lidl. I do the weekly shopping here every Saturday morning.
Lidl has teamed up with Maternity Infant and created a free Lidl Baby Box. You can sign up here. I think it’s a brilliant idea. I use a lot of their baby products anyway so to get a free box full of stuff is amazing. Within a few days Maternity infant will send you on your voucher. This can be printed off or just show the email to the cashier at the check out.
So what was actually in the box?
1. Cien Lip Balm
We are coming into autumn and soon it will be winter. Lips are getting dry. For me sometimes anyway. This lip balm is great to have. I am generally not big into beauty products but I do like lip balm, especially the ones that are scented.
2. Cien Hand Lotion
I tried this out first time this morning. I did have a hand cream from Cien before but I didn’t find it that great. This hand lotion is brilliant though and is the perfect travel size to fit in your hand bag.
[adToAppearHere]3. Dentalux Kid Tooth Paste
I didn’t actually know that Lidl does tooth paste for kids. The fact that this one if 0-6 years puts me a bit off though. Tooth paste for babies has to be very gentle and there can only be little flavour. That’s why you see all the big brands like Colgate divide them into 0-2 years etc. I would use this tooth paste for my eldest who is four but definitely not for my nearly 20 months old.
4. Cien Body Lotion
Lidl has recently launched travel sized products. The body lotion is one of them. Very handy for when you got away on a girly weekend trip for example.
5. W5 Bathroom Wipes
I use bathroom spray and mainly bleach to clean our bathrooms but if you are in a hurry, you can have these in the press in the main bathroom upstairs for a quick run over if you have visitors coming over.
6. Cien Deodorant
Again this deodorant is handy to have a in a travel size when going away over the weekend. This one is extra dry and it promises 48h protection. I haven’t tried it yet but it smells lovely.
[adToAppearHere]7. Toujours Newborn Nappies
When I first had Matthew, my first born, we bought Toujours nappies up until he moved into size 6 nappies because back then Lidl only produced nappies up until size 5. In my opinion these nappies are as good as Pampers. I don’t even think they had Newborn sizes 4 years ago. For new mums these are brilliant. I can’t recommend them enough and the price on them are definitely better than Pampers where you can sometimes spend a little fortune.
8. Toujours Wipes
All I can say is I love these wipes. I have been using them for the last 4 years and I can just simply not fault them. You can get them in either in the sensitive type or the aloe vera type. I think they are €1,19 and there are 80 wipes in it. Occasionally Lidl does XXL version of it too. I can’t believe sometimes how expensive the Pampers wipes are. These are definitely better and way cheaper too.
What did we think about the Lidl Baby Box?
I was actually quite impressed by the amount of stuff they included in it. The only thing that I was a bit disappointed about was the size of the nappies. When you sign up, you have to specify how old your children are. It would be great to have the right size nappy for my little girl as newborn size is no good to me.
I would like to try lidl baby box for myself as i normally buy all mine in boots chemist but it to expensive now. I like to try free samples before i buy.
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That’s a bit disappointing. This post was very popular since they released the baby box. I suppose the Newborn pack is the only pack that fits into the box. Hopefully you will receive it soon. x
I never received mine still waiting, if I do get it, I believe the nappies are newborn, so they won’t fit, git lots of emails saying thanks for my patience, but still nothing, my baby will be old enough to shoo there himself, by the time he receives anything x
Thanks for sharing your review on #TriedTested this week x
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Really? Well that’s disappointing alright. Mine was actually a bit demolished and not boxed up right. xx
I collected my free box the other day and was missing the magazine, lip balm and toothpaste. Disappointing. Only for I got the pr box sent I would never have known.
This looks fab and so amazing that it’s free too! I occasionally pop to Lidl in town and am always impressed! xo
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Definitely to. I am the other way around. I have never used Aldi products before… well except the nappies actually.
This looks fab! I have to say I’ve never used Lidl’s baby products, but I have used Aldi’s and love them so would be more than willing to try out Lidl one day 🙂 x
That’s amazing that they send it for free! I love Lidls! It’s our go to shop. The contents are so useful, especially for new mamas! xx
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I think so Vikky. I haven’t heard Lidl UK talking about it yet.
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There you go. They heard you. 🙂 x
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No, I don’t think so. I haven’t heard about it anyway. You should get onto them. 🙂 Gap in the market. x
This is a fab idea and so practical! X
What a great idea – I am sure they don’t have them in the UK? It would be fab if they did! Kaz x
What a fab box! I always advise new mums to take lip balm so glad to see that there!
This is such a great idea and as someone who’s never shopped for baby products at Lidl’s, it would be great way for mamas to try them out. Is it just available in Ireland? xx
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Hopefully they will make it available in the UK as well at some stage.
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I take anything that’s free especially a shop I shop in.
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I suppose it is called baby box after all but they should specify that next time. x
That’s a great idea and I love a cleaning wipe – makes a change to using baby wipes on every surface!!
Such a clever idea, I don’t think I’ve used any baby lidl product so so it would be a good way to get a great selection to try out.
That’s a really nice touch. Yeah you are right about the nappy sizes, pointless otherwise.
Sally @ Life Loving
What an awesome idea! Even if you don’t use every product, you can’t really grumble at that price. 🙂 #triedtested
This sounds like a great idea. Shame it only seems to be Ireland and not the UK though. I had similar with nappy size when I picked up my last bounty pack – my son is huge, so there’s no way he was fitting in size 3 nappies at 6 months old!!
#triedtested