Best beauty subscription boxes 2024: Which ones are worth your cash?

Good Housekeeping’s latest offering – the Ultimate Beauty Box – contains the perfect line-up of products to see you through summer. It’s always fun to wait until the parcel arrives at your door, but if you fancy a spoiler, this edit contains 12 products (five of which are full-size) from brands like Laura Mercier, Shiseido and Philip Kingsley. So be it skincare, makeup or hair care, you’re guaranteed to find products that you’ll use to the final drop.

Featuring an assortment of products cherry-picked by Red Magazine’s editors, the Red Beauty Box deserves a top three spot as it contains £509 worth of goodies for only £93 – that’s a saving of £416.

Wrapped up inside you’ve got a selection of brands bound to please any beauty lover, from luxury labels like Zelens and Medik8 to editor favourites like Trinny London. And there’s more. The box also comes with an annual digital subscription to Red Magazine.

We could spend hours trawling Liberty’s iconic beauty hall, but we also don’t mind having a selection of its best products delivered to our door. The Beauty Drop offers four boxes a year for £25, each one filled with a range of skincare, makeup, hair care and fragrance products.

You’re also guaranteed an overall product value of £300 per year, so you’re bound to be thrilled by the selection each time. As for the contents, it could feature anything from 111Skin and Votary to Olaplex and Lisa Eldridge.

LOOK FANTASTIC's The Box is always a reliable choice – and we’ve received enough edits to know. Each month the box is filled with six beauty essentials, guaranteed to be worth over £50 collectively, so you’re always promised to make your money back and then some.

As for the contents, the June Edit contains full- and deluxe-size products from brands like Murad, KVD and Philip Kingsley, and you can still sign up for today.

You can read our full review of The Box here.

Since launching in 2011, Glossybox has led the beauty subscription charge – and it hasn’t slowed down since. There are multiple plans to choose from, ranging from one month to 12, and each box contains an assortment of products from a wide range of brands.

Better yet, you’re guaranteed that the combined worth will be over £50. We don’t want to give away any spoilers, but in previous months we’ve seen brands such as Rituals, Molton Brown and This Works.

Another long-loved classic is Birchbox and what’s so great about this subscription service is that you get to choose some of the products in each edit.

You also fill out an online survey so that you’re being offered the right products for your hair and skin type, making it feel far more personal. In previous boxes, we’ve seen big-name brands pop up, like Amika, Percy & Reed and Eve Lom, so it’s certainly worth the £17 a month price tag.

Beauty Pie is more of a private members' club in that you pay £10 per month to gain access to its products at a fraction of the price.

The brand works alongside some of the industry's top labs, dermatologists, makeup artists and perfumers to create beauty products that, in the regular market space, would come with a much heftier price tag.

For instance, the famed Youthbomb Serum usually retails at £93 whereas members can purchase it for £44. The over 50% off saving is surely enough to back the £10 subscription fee.

Skin and Me is one of the most popular skincare subscription boxes around – and for great reason. After completing an online consultation, medical experts analyze your skin to put together a bespoke treatment plan that arrives each month.

You only receive a small tube of product, but that’s all that’s needed as it’s perfectly formulated to suit your skin type and concern. Whether you’re suffering from acne or a damaged skin barrier, the plan helps to come up with a targeted treatment for you.