Marks & Spencer has relaunched its summer beauty bag for 2026, priced at £40 but with a claimed value of over £230. The bundle, which marks ten years of the retailer's warm-weather beauty offerings, sold out once before returning to site last week. It features a mix of skincare, fragrance, hair and makeup staples from major brands including Clinique, Estée Lauder, Sam McKnight, Laura Mercier, and Iconic London.
Five of the included items are full-sized, and all miniature products exceed 10ml, avoiding stingy sample sachets. The selection is described as 'chock full of cult formulas', such as Clinique's Dramatically Different Moisturising Lotion and Color Wow's viral hair mask. Beauty expert Ellis Cochrane praised the Color Wow Dreaming Mask for reducing frizz, while editor Annabel Grossman noted the brand's colour security shampoo 'perfectly preserves the blonde in my hair'.
The Floral Street Wonderland Peony scent was deemed a perfect day-to-night fragrance, balancing sweet notes of pink berries and hazelnut with bright florals of peonies and violets. The Clinique moisturiser was found to be incredibly stretchy, with a pine nut-sized amount moisturising the entire back of a hand, and the 50ml tube expected to last six months or more.
Compared to other 2026 beauty bundles from Lookfantastic, Boots and Cult Beauty, this one is described as 'the most enticing', offering current and time-earned brands with generous full-sizes for under £50. The bag costs £5 more than the 2025 version but is worth an extra £20, making it one of the strongest beauty savings seen this year.
Senior shopping writer Lucy Smith tested the bag, examining the size, quality and desirability of each item. She concluded that the bundle feels unusually generous, avoiding filler products, and includes everyday staples alongside indulgent treats, making it useful rather than gimmicky.
