having tried various expensive potions in the past and found most of them don't do any more than the cheap for me:

Goats Milk handcream - Crabtree & Evelyn
Rimmel 3D mascara
Simple day cream (lotion too light in winter, OK in summer)
Nivea cleansing gel stuff
Boots smile toothpaste (really cheap, but good)
Island Living Body Butter (love, love the smell)Crabtree & E
Island Living body scrub - Crabtree & E
Bourjois Happy Light Foundation (same makers as Chanel)
Guerlain perfume - Apres L'Ondee/L'heure bleu/Samsara/Nahema etc, etc
Water

Clarins Beauty Flash Balm make my skin look awful! I ended up using on my feet as I didn't want to waste it! Everyone's skin is different.