GLOSSYBOX November 2026 Winter Retreat box: 5 products, first box £8

GLOSSYBOX has confirmed its November 2026 box, called Winter Retreat, and it holds the same five products we reported on 30 October: an ICONIC London mascara, a Neutrogena moisturiser, an Innersense hair mask, a Laurens lip mask and GLOSSYBOX under-eye patches. The first-box price has gone up, though. The GLOSSYBOX subscription page now shows “first box from £8”, where it showed £6 on 30 October. The box itself still costs £13.50 on the one-month plan.

What is in GLOSSYBOX’s November 2026 box?

GLOSSYBOX lists these five products under “Products Featured In This Box” on its subscription page:

ICONIC London Triple Threat Mascara in Black: a volumising and lengthening mascara.
Neutrogena Hydro Boost Water Gel Moisturiser: a hyaluronic acid gel that Neutrogena says boosts moisture for up to 72 hours.
Innersense Organic Beauty Hair Repair Mask: a bonding treatment for damaged hair.
Laurens Skincare Lip Mask: a shea butter and vitamin E mask for dry lips.
GLOSSYBOX Reusable Under-Eye Patches: silicone patches that hold eye cream or serum in place for 10 to 20 minutes.

The page describes the theme as “winter-ready essentials that help your skin retreat, restore and recharge”, with hydration, softness and calm as the focus. These are the same five products Beauty Detective listed on 24 October, so the leak we covered in our earlier report on the November box turned out to be right.

Source: GLOSSYBOX (subscription and product pages, checked on 2 November 2026).

The five Winter Retreat products laid out on cream bed linen and a knitted throw — The five Winter Retreat products, styled for the box’s theme of comfort and hydration. © GLOSSYBOX

How much is the first box now?

GLOSSYBOX’s product page and basket both show the first box at £8 on 2 November 2026, not £6. In a test basket, the one-month plan came to £8.00, shown as “Was £13.50, save £5.50”. A banner across the top of the site still says “get your first box for just £6”, so the two do not agree. We would go by the basket, since that is the price you are charged.

That makes the first box £2 dearer, a rise of a third on the £6 offer. It is still £5.50 under the full price.

Plan	Price	Per box
First box (one-month plan)	£8.00	£8.00
One month, then monthly	£13.50	£13.50
12 months, paid monthly	£12.50 a month	£12.50
3 months, paid upfront	£39	£13.00
6 months, paid upfront	£75	£12.50
12 months, paid upfront	£138	£11.50

GLOSSYBOX adds free delivery on all subscriptions. Per-box prices are our own division of the upfront totals.

Source: GLOSSYBOX (subscription page and basket, checked on 2 November 2026).

Is the box worth £50?

GLOSSYBOX promises “five beauty essentials worth a minimum of £50 each month”, but it does not publish a value for each November product. Here is what we could match on shop pages on 2 November:

Mascara: ICONIC London lists the Triple Threat Mascara at £23, with a sale price of £17.25 showing that day.
Innersense: Cult Beauty sells the Repair Mask travel size, 59.1ml, at £11 and had it in stock.
Lip mask: Laurens Skincare sells its 15ml lip mask at £19.
Eye patches: GLOSSYBOX sells them at £4.99, though the page shows them as sold out.

GLOSSYBOX does not say which sizes are in the box, so these are not guaranteed to match. Beauty Detective puts the box at £53.98 on its own figures: a £23 mascara, a £10 lip mask, an £11 Innersense mask, and £4.99 each for the moisturiser and the patches. On those figures, the box would clear the £50 mark by under £4. The mascara and the hair mask make up £34 of that.

A rose gold tube of ICONIC London Triple Threat Mascara on a cream background — The ICONIC London Triple Threat Mascara is the highest-value product in the box. © GLOSSYBOX

What we think

If you only want the mascara and a few skincare minis, the first box at £8 is still good value: the mascara alone costs £23 at ICONIC London, or £17.25 on its sale price. After that the box costs £13.50, or £12.50 on the 12-month plan, so you need to like at least a couple of products to make it pay. Winter Retreat is a skin and hair box with one make-up item, which suits people who want hydration over colour.

The catch is the rise. A first box at £8 is a smaller teaser than the £6 offer, and GLOSSYBOX’s own banner still shows the old price, so check the basket before you pay. Some reviewers on the GLOSSYBOX page say recent boxes did not add up to the £50 minimum, so it is worth checking the products against the values once your box arrives.

A white tube of Innersense Repair Mask on a cream background — The Innersense Repair Mask is the box’s hair product. © GLOSSYBOX

How does it compare with October?

October’s box held a £14 Kanzen cleansing spray, a £12 grüum pumpkin elixir oil, an £8 The Beauty Crop lip oil, a Rituals shower gel and a GOSH Copenhagen blush or bronzer, over £57 on the page’s own values. November leans on care rather than colour, and it has just one full-size product we can identify, the mascara. Our October box guide has the full breakdown.

For another beauty box this month, see our guide to LOOKFANTASTIC’s November box, which has six products for £15. If you are thinking about the festive range instead, read our GLOSSYBOX advent calendar 2026 guide, and note that GLOSSYBOX has cut the calendar to £80 in its Payday sale. You can also browse our guide to the best beauty advent calendars in the UK.

Price and subscription: the essentials

First box: £8 on the one-month plan, according to the product page and basket (2 November 2026).
Monthly price: £13.50 on one month, £12.50 a month on 12 months.
Paid upfront: £39 for 3 months, £75 for 6 months, £138 for 12 months.
Delivery: free on all subscriptions.
Stated worth: a minimum of £50 for five products, according to GLOSSYBOX.
Box: Winter Retreat, November 2026, five products.

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