Evaluating the August 2026 Next Beauty Box Releases

Next Beauty Boxes August 2026

The boxes are presented as discounted edits containing skincare and beauty products, but the available reporting does not provide the item list, price, or verified retail value for either Next box. That makes the headline easy to understand and the purchase decision impossible to audit fully.

For a beauty box, “high value” is not a valuation. It is a marketing position until the contents and comparable retail prices are published.

What is confirmed

Next has launched two new beauty boxes for August. One is a collaboration with Liz Earle called the Get The Glow Beauty Box. Beauty Detective describes the products as curated skincare and beauty items offered at a discount.

That is the complete confirmed detail on the Next release. There is no supported breakdown of:

• the number of products;
• full-size versus sample-size items;
• the selling price;
• the claimed total value;
• the brands beyond Liz Earle;
• the expiry dates or product formats;
• whether the boxes are still available.

Those omissions matter. A box can carry a high nominal value while containing small formats, unwanted categories, or products already discounted elsewhere. Without the SKU list, there is no honest cost-per-ounce calculation and no defensible value score.

The wider August box market

Two other reports provide context, but they should not be confused with the Next launch.

The Mirror reports on the OK! Beauty Box Getaway Edit, priced at £34.99, reduced from £39.99, with 10 products and a claimed value above £175. Seven products are described as full size. The box includes skincare, makeup, fragrance, haircare, and wellness products. The reported standout is Rodial Dragon’s Blood Hyaluronic Moisturiser SPF15, listed at £65 on its own.

The same report notes that the moisturiser left the reviewer’s skin hydrated and gave a glow without a greasy finish. It also flags the SPF15 rating as lower than the reviewer typically prefers and says the product should not replace dedicated facial sunscreen. That is a useful distinction: a product can be usable and still fail as the main value anchor for a summer box.

The report also describes a 2ml Commodity Juice Expressive fragrance sample, a Wild Science Lab shampoo and conditioner pair in 40ml bottles, and other travel-oriented products. These details support the box’s holiday positioning, but they do not establish the value of the Next boxes.

The Irish Sun separately reports that Lookfantastic has released a beauty box with products claimed to be worth £200, including Medik8. The available snippet does not provide the box price or its full contents. Again, the headline value cannot be tested from the available information.

Buy, skip, or wait

Verdict: wait.

The Next x Liz Earle box may be worth considering, but there is not enough published information here to recommend paying for it. Wait for a complete contents list and a price. Then remove sample sizes, duplicate categories, and products you would not buy separately from the claimed retail total. The remaining value is the relevant figure.

Do not use the OK! or Lookfantastic numbers as a substitute for Next’s own box economics. They show that August’s beauty-box market is competing on large headline valuations, not that the Next release delivers equivalent value.

For now, the only rational position is to monitor the Next listing and calculate the box item by item before checkout. A Liz Earle name is not a discount. A claimed total is not savings. The numbers have to survive inspection.