As someone living in a house with a stash of cosmetics to rival a small Boots branch, I can understand the need for this. Glambot is an online cosmetic store that resells pre-owned makeup. The company buys unwanted cosmetics from members and then re-sells, enabling customers to make money from all the stuff they bought and never used.

My first thought was that there is a hygiene issue but the company claim to have a system for sanitising and repackaging products. Even so, I’m not sure I’d want to be using a second hand lipstick…or any lipstick for that matter, but you know what I mean. This is a fairly recent start-up, so it’s too early to gauge success.

This might provide a mental springboard though. Are there other products which people ‘over-buy’ and could form the basis of a business like this?

www.glambot.com