August 2014 Birchbox Man Review – “Summer Camp”

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Birchbox Man
Cost: $20/month.
Ships To: United States.

I opened up the mailbox yesterday expecting to find just one box (Hammock Pack) and there was B’s August 2014 Birchbox Man box!  I seriously hadn’t even gotten a shipping notification for it and there it was!

If you aren’t familiar, Birchbox Man is $20/month and sends you monthly deliveries of deluxe grooming and lifestyle samples, tailored to your profile. With Birchbox Man you can try cult brands, up-and-coming lines, and everything in between.

My tracking e-mail arrived a few hours after my box did and it appears that it took just three days to get to me from TN, which is awesome!

The August Birchbox Man box was larger than normal which had me totally wondering what was inside.  The box wasn’t heavy so I knew it wasn’t a candle or something like that, but I had no clue what it was.

I think this is the second month in a row for Birchbox Man that the box arrived before the boxes were updated on the Birchbox site.  I hope that happens with my August Women’s box as well ;).

The August 2014 Birchbox Man theme was “Summer Camp”.  B received Box #11 (*) this month which included the following items:

~Baxter of California Facial Scrub ($2.13): I am partial to ALL Baxter of California products due to the name alone.  That said, they are actually great products and B has always been happy in the past.

~Billy Jealousy White Knight Gentle Daily Facial Cleanser ($2.50): B has been traveling more than normal lately and this will be perfect.  He likes to not take a checked bag so all these small containers are perfect.

~Clinique for Men Broad Spectrum SPF 21 Moisturizer ($3.75): B always used to use Kiehls moisturizer, but I think he’s been finishing up a bunch of samples right now looking for a new one to love.  Maybe this will be it?

~Game Day Aftershave: Soothing Balm ($7.35): I wonder what B does with all the aftershave balm he gets?  I am not totally sure I have ever seen him use it?  Granted I am sleeping when he gets ready for work, so who knows?

~Grover Boxers ($22): We had been getting all of lifestyle items that B would have picked for himself, but that streak is over.  These are just so not him.  At all! He would have preferred the cool red flask that some other boxes got.  But you can’t get everything you want, so we’ll just look forward to next month!

All totaled I came up with a value of $37.73 for the August 2014 Birchbox Man – “Summer Camp” box.  This doesn’t include the including points for doing reviews and purchasing the box itself (**) – which would bring the value up to $44.73 ($5 in Birchbox points for reviews and $2 in Birchbox points for purchasing)!  Birchbox Man is $20/month and I think we were both just meh this month. The samples were great, but the lifestyle item isn’t him.

Do you get Birchbox Man box this month?  What’d you think of the box this month and what lifestyle item did you get (there was a bracket, boxers and a flask I believe)?  If you are interested in subscribing or just want to learn more, click here!

(*) If you want to see all the boxes this month, click here and change the 1 at the end to anything from a 2 to 19 since there were 19 (down from last month’s 26 variations) box variations this month. If you can’t figure out which box number you got, login into Birchbox and then Click “Box” and select Men’s or Women’s. Scroll down a bit to were it says “Box History” and click the month of the box (in this case August 2014). The number at the end of the URL is your box number. B’s box ended in “august-2014-mb11″ which means he got box #11.

(**) You only get points for purchasing the box if you buy a prepaid annual subscription (or 3-month, 6-months, etc.). You don’t get points if you are on a month to month subscription.