Lalaaluu Big Kid Trial Box Review

Lalaaluu recently offered a one-month trial subscription box for the cost of shipping ($15.95...pretty pricey for "shipping & handling"), so I ordered the "Big Kid" version, which is for kids 4-6.  They touted it as an honest representation of the kinds of things you would find in a Lalaaluu subscription box (which are pretty pricey at $35 per box...one of the priciest kid subscription boxes I've run into).  I will say that they have fantastic customer service -- their response times to the e-mails I sent them (including the one where I asked to cancel the subscription going forward) were SUPER fast & they were always very polite.

That said, the box itself really was not that great (OK, that's an understatement.  It was pretty bad).  I mean, I feel like I did get at least $16 worth of products, but many of them are things we won't use at all (and I suspect I'm not alone in this), and if I had paid $35 for this box...I would have been MAD.  The box did not look like it had been assembled with any kind of care...things were just kind of haphazardly thrown in there (unlike the Yuzen or Citrus Lane boxes I receive, which are clearly packed with love & care).

Their logo is cute, I'll give them that, and the box shipped to me very fast (within a few days of ordering it, actually...quite impressive shipping speed!)

The first product I pulled out of the box was Licelogic Daily Lice Repellent Spray (Rosemary).  REALLY?!?  They say this was included in the box because these boxes are targeted at NYC kids who might run into issues with lice because they live in a big city.  You know what?  I live in a big city too (near Boston), and lice really aren't that much of an issue here.  This just seems like a really odd & somewhat useless item to include in the box...I feel like this is the kind of thing you'd buy if, say, the kids in your kid's class had been experiencing lice...but you probably wouldn't just have it lying around the house just in case.  Two thumbs down.

Next was Pons Extra Virgin Olive Oil for Kids, which says that it's less acidic & a milder flavor to develop a taste for olive oil in young kids.  I think that sounds lovely in theory, and we'll definitely use this up for cooking, but honestly, my kid already eats things cooked in olive oil & has since he was little, so this isn't really a product that we'd ever buy again.  I'm kind of neutral on this one since we'll at least use it up.

The next thing I pulled out was a camera sticker by Box Play (meant to be stuck on a mac 'n' cheese box).  This was the only "toy" in the box, and man, what a bummer.

We also got two boxes of Oscillococcinum.  This would have been an awesome thing to get in a box in the winter when flu season was in full swing, but in April?...kind of useless.  On the up side, the boxes we got don't expire for several more years so we will save this for next winter & use it then...but honestly, when I get a subscription box I want to receive things I can use right then or soon, not 9 months from now.  Bummer.  

This was the one product in the box I was actually excited about.  We like the GoGo Squeeze pouches, and we've never tried the apple peach flavor, so this was the star of the box by far (which really doesn't say much for the rest of the box!)

Finally, they included a box of 40 Yum-V's Probiotic Bears (white chocolate flavor).  I like these in theory, but they taste kind of icky (like fake chocolate), so this was not a winner for us either.

Overall, not a good box (at all), and if this is representative of the kind of stuff they usually send, we are definitely not interested in getting future boxes from them.  If this kind of stuff is up your alley though, you can subscribe at the link below.

https://www.lalaalu.com/