Conscious Box Review & Coupon Code – August 2013

Just bought a 3 month subscription on Living Social for $26. Fortunately I have this blog as a reference. After reading all the helpful info shared here I went back to LS and requested a refund. So glad I read before I redeemed the offer! Thanks everybody!

Got the August 2014 box today, boy what a joke – looks like it has gone downhill fast in a year. One full size item – black bean noodles, then some Vit C gummies, probiotic gummies, some foil packets and a $15 gift card to some place that sells juice cleanse for $56 a day…… Wrote them a letter and all they said was give us one more month because next month is a good one….. Bought 3 months on Groupon for $26 or something. One more month left on it. Pathetic box.

Conscious Box is a great idea in theory, but this company needs to make a lot of changes to put a good idea into motion. I paid $30 for 3 months, but even at $10 a box, it was a complete waste of money and I was beyond disappointed. I also received only 1 full size item in the 2 boxes I received (I canceled before the 3rd box could come) and I didn’t even get the nice lip balm mentioned below. My friend who also subscribed (per my suggestion when I saw the LivingSocial Voucher) did receive the lip balm however, which was basically rubbing salt in the wound. I on the other hand, received a paper bookmark and a fabric swatch with a coupon to buy the fabric that counted as 2 of my monthly items. No joke, although it sounds like one. The items were so disappointing, I tried contact customer service and they wouldn’t even appropriately response to me. I kept getting pre-composed “generic” responses, even when I directly informed them they were not addressing my issues. And then from there, they chose to ignore me and not respond at all. TERRIBLE customer service. Stay away from this company and save your money, time and effort!

I made the mistake of pre-subscribing for an entire year on behalf of my fiancée – this box is *terrible*.

We’ve received two months now, and both months have been maybe $2-3 worth of free samples. This month included a small bag of expired coffee and – gasp – a pencil; pretty awesome stuff.

This box is a huge ripoff, and they clearly send “doped” boxes to reviewers to goose up their review scores.

WARNING – Do your research on this box, they delete negative feedback on their facebook page so check out all of the blogs out there. And they send different people different things so check a few…..

Wow, I you got a much better box than I did. Although, I did get the chicken poop chapstick, which I LOVE! BTW, I have two sets of Essie reusable produce bags, and I love them! I have a 1 Month Conscious Box Giveaway for the next 7 days. Link on my name.

Last month’s box was very disappointing, but I was happier with my box this month. I received:
–1 Sneakz choc veggie milkshake
–2 packets of Green Superfood drink mix
–1 packet Stash Lavender-Tulsi tea
–1 packet Digest-All vegetarian enzymes
–1 Clif bar–Sierra Trail Mix flavor
–1 packet Barbara’s Snackimals cereal
–2 natural sleep aid chocolate chews
–2 Nordic omega3 jellies
–1 packet veggie protein vanilla drink mix
–1 Happy Tot Toddler Bar-mixed berry crunch
–1 Happy Tot Toddler Bar–honey grain sun butter
–1 packet (2 capsules) Allimax allicin powder capsules
–1 packet Herbamare organic seasoning

It was mostly snacks and supplements, but I am fine with that because I don’t really like soap samples and candles, and the toothbrush, while cute, doesn’t look like good quality. Although I like everything in the box this month, I’m not sure it is worth the $20 subscription price. I feel $15 would be more fair.

I’m probably weighing in a bit late here; perhaps this is a case of “the grass looking greener from the other side”?

I have a year subscription to the classic Conscious Box – my August box contained:
1 Conscious Box Postcard
1 Stash Lavender-Tulsi Herbal Teabag
1 Ultima Replenisher Lemonade
1 MRM Digest-All Enzyme Capsules (2 capsules in pack)
1 Country Choice Multigrain Maple Spice Oatmeal, technically already outdated (8/13/13)
1 Free Range Chicken Poop Lip Balm
1 Snackimals Cinnamon Crunch Cereal
2 Nordic Omega-3 Jellies
1 Raw Reserve Berry Green Superfood
1 MRM Vanilla Veggie Protein
2 Happytot Chocolate Sunbutter Super Toddler Bars
1 Sneakz Organiz Chocolate Milkshake (2nd time I’ve gotten this)
1 Herbal Zap Immune Support
1 Allimax Allicin Capsules (2 capsules in pack)

I’m on the fence about renewing when my year is up. I know that the box can’t be totally customized (ie. I have no children so don’t send me kid-targeted products) but at the same time, I do feel like I come away disappointed most months.

I do have to say, though, that I have opened problem tickets a few times (missing items, damaged box, special order box not received) and have always come away satisfied with the resolution.

First box purchased and disappointed about all the products. Can not use none of it.

My Conscious Box was pretty different from yours. I received a lot of products this month that I won’t use. I’ll have my review up soon at RandomAmb.wordpress.com

I signed up for a year and my box just came yesterday. It did not look like the one featured above. I too complained and they said oh next month will be better. It hasn’t been better and it’s a BIG disappointment. There was no candle, no toothbrush, no care products, no soap. Just a bunch a crummy weird stuff.

I totally agree with other commenters. I had a 6 month subscription that I couldn’t wait to end. I continuously got horrible products, minuscule samples, and much fewer items than I saw on blog sites. I paid full price for my subscription and they kept telling me that “next month is going to be awesome”. Um, no!

We tried the may box and it was awful. My sweetie was so excited and then so disappointed.

Missing 1 item (according to our online account)
2 items were the same bar in different flavors (one cheery, one apple)
2 items were duplicates of each other (and counted a separate items)

I canceled the next day. 🙁

Interesting to see that I wasn’t alone in getting the crummy box. I will be canceling today.

Mine was also very different than yours. I would have been really excited to get some of these products. I started subscribing to Conscious Box last summer and really loved my first few boxes, but the last six months, my box has been really disappointing. I remember that I started being disappointed with the boxes in February because I also ordered the bonus Valentine’s Box, which turned out to be a huge let down. The boxes have just gone downhill since then. In fact, I just canceled my subscription a few weeks ago, but still had two boxes left (this month’s and next month’s) because I paid ahead. I’ve been getting a lot of pills/supplements that I don’t feel comfortable taking and a lot of small samples of products that I will never use.

Here’s what I got this month: sample of 2 digestive enzyme pills, sample of energy powder, two very small samples of lotion, two granola bars (sadly, the most exciting thing in the box), cereal, chocolate sleep chews, 2 servings of DHA/Omega 3 gummies that contained fish oil, 2 Alicin pills, single serving of chocolate protein shake mix, tea bag, single serving superfood drink mix, clif bar

I got the non-vegan box and was very disappointed. Lots of kids items (I am happily childfree, although my DH and I ate the “toddler” snacks anyway) and weird supplements. I cancelled – there are too many other boxes I want to try to stick with duds.

Your box was way better than mine. I got pills for menopause that expire in 3 weeks, (I’m 40) and 2 toddler snack bars (I have 2 high schoolers) plus other things I won’t use. I was very diappointed. I hope they read these comments on your blog and step it up or it sounds like lots of people will be canceling.

I got the vegan box this month as well, and mine has all the same items as listed here (I got a sympathy card instead of a birthday card). I love the produce bag the best. When I opened the box, I thought something had leaked all over everything since it smells strongly of what I thought was laundry detergent. All was well though, it was a combo of the candle and soaps since they were very strong scents.

I agree with everyone else, your box looks great! Mine sucked, there were repeats from June as well as expired product. No candle, care products, tooth brush, or soap!

Your box was so different than mine. Plus my box was damaged. The only good thing in mine was I got two happy tot toddler bars for my son to eat and those snackimals. I got a lot more last month which was my first box ; however last month they missed something in my box. I wrote them but never got a response. I thought I would give them another month but this one was lacking so I cancelled and will try another box.

Wow – I had much smaller samples, I did receive the cereal, two crisp rice bars and a bag of instant oatmeal, but no candle, toothbrush, soap, gummies, produce bags, make your own mask!

It always raises my suspicions when blogger boxes are better than the “normal folk”.

Eugh… if I’d gotten your box, I probably wouldn’t have cancelled my subscription!

Your box was definitely better than mine also!

Your box looks way better than mine!

Interesting…you got far more items than I did in my box. Very disappointing!