Monthly Archives: January 2016

Ice Blue shampoo

 

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This is very minty.  It wakes you up in the morning to wash hair with this.  It smells nice and strongly of mint.  Lush made a soap called ‘Ice Blue; with the same minty smell.

Lush description:  How much mint can you take in one shampoo? How about an quick blast of spearmint and two different peppermints to perk you up from three directions at once. Mint stimulates your hair follicles and puts a bit of life back into your hair; it wakes up your brain too, so it’s a really excellent morning shampoo for everyone who’s a little bit reluctant to get up and running before noon. It’s brilliant for oily to normal hair that’s a bit flat, dull and dozy now and again. Ice Blue Shampoo was one of the Lush creative team’s first ever best selling, brilliant smelling products; we thought it was time to give it another go.

Ingredients: Water, Perfume, Lactic Acid, Spearmint Oil, Peppermint Oil, Fine sea Salt,

Below is the Lush Ice Blue soap

Babyface

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Ingredients: Cocoa Butter, Shea Butter, Coconut Oil, Fresh Avocado Butter, Tangerine Oil, Narcissus Absolute, Everlasting Flower Absolute, Perfume.

Lush directions on How To Use: “Dampen face with warm water, rub bar between palms, smooth over face, then remove it using warm water on a face cloth, or cotton balls or pads”

Babyface has a really nice smell of orange kind of like a creamsicle, or Lush Ceridwen’s Cauldron.  Babyface  works well to take off makeup. Just swipe on your hands and then rub on your face. I don’t like to wipe the bar on my face but some folks like to rub Babyface directly on the face, either way is fine. Then just  wash off with a warm wash face cloth. Skin feels soft, smooth and moisturized.

Lush 2001 description: The Baby Face bar is another of our solid cleansers which we developed in order to avoid using preservatives on the skin. It melts on the skin so you can softly smooth it all over the places which need cleansing (it’s an excellent make-up remover) then to take it off use warm water on 100% cotton wool or a face cloth and you will be astonished at both how lovely and soft your face feels and how clean the Baby Face gets it. Each smiling bar has four different natural plant butters in it to remove dirt and put back moisture. Its lovely scent comes from toning tangerine oil, narcissus (which we use to make so you beautiful you’ll want to look at your reflection all the time) and everlasting flower (to give you everlasting beauty).

Size: Baby Face – 1.2 oz. $7.95

NOTE: This product may melt and is NOT guaranteed to arrive solid during the summer months!

 

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Flying Fox shower gel

3 out of 3 rating

Youki Hi is the Lush bath bomb that has the Flying Fox scentim definitely in the minority with my 2 out of 5 rating. Many more Lushies love this scent. Its just too much for me to where it smells gross on me. i guess its just my skin chemistry. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ingredients: Honey, Chinese Angelica, Burdock Root and Jasmine Flower Infusion,  Hungarian Honey, Greek Honey, English Honey,English Honey, Perfume, Jasmine Absolute , Ylang Ylang Oil, Cypress Oil , Palmarosa Oil

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This shower gel is loaded with Jasmine. It has honey in it as well but it is no where near the scent of B Never or other lush honey favorites. It is a strong floral scent. The scent stays on your skin 24 hours later. I find it to be a little too intense smelling. The bath bomb version of this scent is called “Youki Hi“. Also Lush made ‘Cloak of Invisibility‘ bath oil bon bon, “Floating Flower’ bath bomb for Valentine’s 2014 in this same scent, and lush “Godiva” solid hair shampoo also has this scent, as well as Lust perfume.

I love Jasmine blends like Tender is the Night, its one of my top perfumes. But Flying Fox. No. Just no.

LT 2006 Description: Lascivious, licentious, vivacious and insatiable, this is the Sex-Appeal Honey Shower with masses of Jasmine. Contains the finest aphrodisiac essential oils, plus the best three oils for controlling PMS. Use generously all over your body and even wash your hair with it if you dare! To make you smell sexy whether you are going out for the night or just having a night in with a friend.

Here is a picture of a Lush exclusive 2018 Summit bath bomb with the same scent. It’s called ‘Fox’. I got a t shirt of this UK ‘stop hunting foxes’ campaign when i walked in, along with other attendees.

Soft Touch

5 out of 5

Soft touch below with its scent twin Vertical Abhyanga solid shower oil

Size: 3.3oz $11.75

Ingredients: Cocoa Butter, Fresh Lemons, Shea Butter, Fresh Mango, Horsetail, Cleavers and Vanilla Pod Infusion, Lanolin, Perfume, Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil, Coconut Butter, Beeswax, Wheatgerm Oil, Soya Oil, Avocado Oil, Cardamom Oil, Vanilla Absolute, Neroli Oil, Lavender Oil, Gardenia Extract.

 

cardamom, vanilla, lavender, neroli.

The first time I tried this I fell for it. To me it smells like some kind of wonderful baked good.  Cardamom is not in alot of lush products. And i have always LOVED cardamom. (Lush Rangoli Dreams bath bomb has it) Its so moisturizing that it makes my skin feel, a tad greasy.  So i use it for my forearms and my legs only.  I’m mad for this bar.  Sometimes i keep a bar on my bedside table so i can smell it while i go to sleep and it’s the first thing i wake up to in the morning. The scent is so good to me that the scent takes it up to a five out of five.

 

Lush 2006 Description: Our Soft Touch Body Butter is made with plant oils and butters to soften your skin and keep your hands smooth and seriously moisturised. Let it melt generously into your hands at night and leave it there for the nutritious coconut butter, beeswax and cocoa butter to work miracles while you sleep, then wake up to the touch of soft, vanilla scented fingertips. If you share your life with a partner it’s a very good idea to make sure that you keep their hands nicely buttered up with Soft Touch too. For your nails we make an infusion of cleavers (goose grass) and horsetail herb because they are full of silicones. We mash up fresh, organic mangoes to feed your skin because they are the most nutritious fruit in existence. (You’ll notice that they are cropping up in lots of our products). We put in beautiful oils like wheatgerm and avocado to protect and moisturise your hands. Keep it by your bedside and remember it last thing at night. You’ll be glad you did first thing in the morning.

 The solid shower oil ‘Vertical Abyanga’ has the same scent.

How To Use: Apply THE SOFT TOUCH to the hands and finger cuticles by rubbing the bar between your hands. Body Butters are designed to melt at body temperatures – please keep them out of direct sunlight and somewhere cool! Body Butters are designed to melt at body temperatures – please keep them out of direct sunlight and somewhere cool!

Aqua Mirabilis body butter scrub bar

5 out of 5

the 2002 original design

Above is the original which i rate a 5 out of 5 rating even though its very small

 and the redesigned square thing they turned it into later i rate 3 out of 5.

i dont like the new design as much as the original little fairy cake style.

New design

 new design

Aqua-Mirabilis

Ingredients: Cocoa Butter , Almond Butter ,
Ground Almond Shells, Sandalwood Oil, Rose Absolute, Perfume

This is a square, solid cocoa butter with ground almond shells for exfoliation.  It has a rose, almond, sandalwood scent.  I like it.  I bought one every now and then.

Original style 😍

How to use:  You take a shower with soap or shower gel as usual, then after rinsing, rub this (not too hard) on your skin all over, and then rinse off in warm/hot water.  That’s it!

Lush 2005 descrption: “The Aqua Mirabilis is now even more of a miracle. New, improved Aqua Mirabilis is BIGGER! (yeah its bigger but no apricot kernel oil and fizzing marigold foam on top like the original).

I bought seven original style once.

Hooray! Now you can scrub generously all over and not worry about it running out before you reach your toes. If you ever treat yourself and get a scrub at a spa, the beauty therapists expect to exfoliate away huge swathes of dead skin. If you regularly give yourself an Aqua Mirabilis softening scrub, with its gently exfoliating ground almond shells, they are astonished to find that you’ve already got lovely, soft, fresh, healthy skin with hardly a dead grey cell there at all. The Aqua Mirabilis turns your bath or your shower into an instant, bargain body therapy. We make it with sandalwood and rose perfumes to soften your skin, cocoa butter and apricot kernel oil to moisturise it, plus natural ground almonds to scrub you even softer. You will feel fantastic after using one of these. Promise.”

Original style that Lush remade in 2020

Review: The original products called “Aqua Mirabilis Underwater Massage bar did triple duty; scrub, melt, massage, ballistic. It was very small and dainty, like something fairies would make. It had apricot oil peach colored ballistic ‘crust’ which would fizz in the bath, and some sprinkles of marigold flowers on the top and also had marigold flowers mixed up in the coco butter inner layer. And it smelled of real roses and sandalwood. I like the original MUCH better.  Suffice it to say it took a few years for me to use of these redesigned body butter squares. If you have dry or bumpy skin I would suggest this Aqua Mirabilis scrub or the other square scrub called Buffy the Backside Slayer.  Aqua Mirabilis does make ones skin incredibley soft and smooth.

I cut it open. It looks like a slice of cake or a petit four.

Though i cant forgive Lush for destroying my Preciousss…I do like these cocoa butter scrub squares much better than those harder, dome shaped sugar scrubs that Lush have also created.

Original style that lush remade in 2022

 

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Sweetie Pie

1.85 100g

5 out of 5 rating

(also see The Lush ‘Comforter Jelly’)

This has the scent of ‘The comforter’ line of products.Scent family: The Comforter Body Lotion; The Comforter Bubble Bar Slice; The Comforter Shower Gel; Oopsie Daisy Bubble Bar Slice; Cherie Ripe Massage Bar; You Snap The Whip Body Butter.

I love the dark, fruity black currant smell of Sweetie Pie. It’s exactly the consistency of jello, as such it can be a bit hard to control or hold in the  shower. A shower pouff works wonders in this regard.  Or one can cut the jelly into small cubes,  and use one cube for each shower. I love this smell.

Lush made The Comforter jelly one year, which is basically the same thing.

When Lush first sold Sweetie Pie jelly in stores, they had one giant piece of jelly, about two ft across, and lush would cut off chunks and put them in containers for people to buy. They didn’t have pre filled containers of jelly like they do nowadays.  The giant slab of Sweetie Pie jelly in the stores had larger sparkly stars and things on it, as well as the tiny sparkle mixed in the jelly like today’s Sweetie Pie jelly.

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Ingredients: Cherry Infusion,  Coconut Infusion, Perfume, Carrageenan Extract, Bergamot Oil,  Cassis Absolute , Cypress Oil Iridescent Glitter.

Lush 2006 Description: The Lush internet forum inspired this jelly too; one ‘forumite’ customer posted that her favourite smell was doughnuts* and cherry muffins so Mark decided that this sounded like a wonderful scent for a jelly. Lush aficionados will recognise the fruity Cherie Ripe fragrance as its base: blackcurrants, cherries and refreshing cypress. We add this to the skin-softening seaweed jelly mix, throw in a handful of iridescent sparkles then just in case you think we’re all turning into Mary Poppins we chuck in a vat of sour cherry infusion and a hint of bitter citrus. We may be sweet, but we retain our darker side. (Note to American customers: that’s how we spell donuts in the UK. We like to make things complicated wherever possible.)

Scent family: The Comforter Body Lotion; The Comforter Bubble Bar Slice; The Comforter Shower Gel; Oopsie Daisy Bubble Bar Slice; Cherie Ripe Massage Bar; You Snap The Whip Body Butter.

 

In this picture i tried to show the color of it.

 

Ultraviolet

5 out of 5 rating

This is an extra big bubble bar. It has such a wonderful scent omg. Like sweet violet with a grassy note. It makes purple water.

‘You’re turning violet, Violet’

If deep purple bubbles with a hint of shimmer is what you’re after, look to the other end of the spectrum. Violet leaf, rosewood and jasmine blend to create a fabulous floral fragrance, bringing springtime to the bath regardless of the weather. It’s just what UV been waiting for.

You’ll love this if you like:

– Violet flavoured sweets.

– Kerbside Violet perfume or Sunny Day hair detangler. – Glamorous purple baths with luxurious frothy bubbles.

Benefits:

– Violet leaf absolute gives this bar a grassy, floral top note .

– Floral neroli and ylang ylang oils balance your skin and your mind. – A touch of plastic-free shimmer adds the wow factor.

How to use: Crumble a little, a lot, or all of this purple powerhouse under a running tap for mountains of floral foam.

How to store: UV rays might be present in sunlight, but this bar shouldn’t be – keep it in a cool, dry place until you’re ready to go beyond the rainbow again.

Sodium Bicarbonate, Cream of Tartar, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Neroli Oil, Jasmine Absolute, Violet Leaf Absolute, Ylang Ylang Oil, Titanium Dioxide, Gardenia Extract, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Tin Oxide,

Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, *Benzyl Benzoate, Citronellol, Geraniol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Colour 17200, Colour 42090, Colour 47005:1, Colour 60725, Colour 14700, Colour 45410:1

Here’s a demo video of this in the tub

Prince Charming shower gel

4.5 out of 5 rating

If it were a tad sweeter with not so much geranium i would give it a 5.

I show the exclusive lush Prince Charming scented bath bomb called ‘Tiger Tiger Burning Bright‘ in the photo i took towards the botyom of this page.

See my close up Video demo below showing the way it pours.

I have many pictures i took of Prince Charming because i bought it every year for several years. Lush has made this in different shades of pink or red. 😊

This smells fruity, not very sweet, with a floral note from geranium.

Shower gel in my photo above.

This year 2020 Lush made a shower gel instead of the more moisturizing shower creme that theyve made in the past.

Shower cream in my photo below.

I wanted to show the gorgeous color in my photo below. 😊

Below is my close up demo video i made of this shower cream. 😄 this has pomegranates, geranium and smells floral and fruity. Gorgeous!

Below i show the thickness and consistency, and how it pours.

In the pic i took below is the dark pink red one with pink red glitter/shimmer.

One year they made a liquid version and a solid version in the bright, true red color as in my photo below.

How to use:
Smooth across your body in the shower for sweet and fruity suds. Rinse away for a new fairytale that ends in soft, fresh skin.

List of ingredients

Natural Ingredients 
Safe Synthetics

A perfect Valentine’s shower rinse. Fresh pomegranate juice will seduce your senses while marshmallow root rescues your skin.

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Lush made a bath bomb in the Prince Charming scent in 2018 at their lush summit in London.

Lush made a bath bomb with the Prince Charming scent called ‘Tiger Tiger Burning Bright‘ one year, only for attendees of the Lush Creative Showcase. I was lucky enough to acquire one from my friend Amelia, and so I took a scent family photo.

Lush also made Frog Prince shower jelly in the Prince Charming scent.

List of ingredients

Natural Ingredients 
Safe Synthetics

Heres my video review of it.

Love Spell massage bar

3 out of 5 rating. See my demo video below.

Lush made this lovely massage bar only at their Oxford Street superstore in 2017, and it was also available for one day only on the lush Kitchen website.  Here’s a video demo i made of this massage bar. 
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I loved the original Love Spell massage bars so much. I thought the original ones were a 4 out of 5 rating. However when they remade them in the Lush Kitchen in 2014 they hardly had any scent so my rating went down to 3 out of 5.

Here’s my lush Kitchen box that i bought when they remade Love Spell.

Here’s my Sink Demo Video of Love Spell.

 

Spank Me With Saplings

4 out of 5 ratinghe Lush Kitchen at lush.co.uk  will be making these during the week of April 4-8 2016

video here  http://www.youtube.com/user/MSlushalot

Ingredients: Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Glycerine, Sea Water (Aqua), Bay Leaf (Laurus nobilis) and Olive Leaf (Olea europaea) Infusion, Grape Juice (Vitis vinifera), Propylene Glycol, Fresh Cucumber Juice (Cucumis sativus), Carrageenan Extract, Perfume, Olive Oil (Olea europaea), Cinnamon Leaf Oil (Cinnamomum cassia), Neroli Oil (Citrus amara), Oakmoss Absolute (Evernia prunastri), Black Pepper Oil (Piper nigrum), Chlorophyllin, Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), *Cinnamal, *Citral, *Eugenol, *Geraniol, *Benzyl Benzoate, *Citronellol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Methylparaben. * Occurs naturally in essential oils

This is a somewhat unappetizing looking dark green jelly. Initially it was hard for me to pin down what it smelled like. I think that’s a good thing, means it’s not a simple fragrance. It’s a bright, sharp lemon/citrus smell with lots of astringent herbiness. I love the subtle whiff of black pepper. The herbiness is almost minty but not quite. It’s also a bit sweet smelling but just a bit. To me this is THE Lush product that would be an “Eye Opener” product for morning showers or times when we’re feeling sluggish. It smells as if Gavarnie, Slammer, Narcotick and Party On mated and had offspring.

Here’s a demo & review video i made of Spank me with Saplings review and demo video

Lush 2005 description: There’s a Nordic sauna theme to Spank Me With Saplings. Up there in the far north of Finland, where snow covers all the joins, you need to get nice and warm after venturing outside, which is probably why the Fins invented the sauna. In a pine hut in the woods, grown men cleanse their bodies by getting very hot, running outside and rolling in the snow and slapping themselves with birch twigs. Fortunately, we have a cleansing, detoxifying Shower Jelly instead. Take a hot shower, slap the refreshingly ice cold jelly (straight from the freezer) all over your body, inhale the woody oakmoss, bay and olive leaf scent and let the neroli and black pepper oils detoxify and cheer you. A Spank in the morning wakes you up and puts a smile on your face.

Lush made Poisson D’ Avril for Spring one year. It was a fish shaped bubble bar in the scent of Spank Me With Saplings.

Phoenix Rising

5 out of 5 rating

A UK Phoenix Rising

Ive bought a lot of Phoenix Rising bombs. 😊

Also, I actually got to see how the Lush Ltd factory in England make phoenix Rising, and i recorded it.

Additionally I made a short video of it in my tub at the bottom of this page.

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A UK Phoenix Rising

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Icing Sugar, Cocoa Butter, PEG-6 Caprylic / Capric Glycerides, Bergamot Oil, Cassia Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil, Fair Trade Shea Butter, *Cinnamal, *Citral, *Limonene, *Linalool, Colour 45410, Colour 42090, Colour 77891, Colour 77510, Frosty Holly Lustre, Gold Lustre,Cinnamon sticks



My U.S. Phoenix Rising

Lush Times: All the myth and magic of a phoenix, pressed into one bathtime experience, which lets you arise at the end feeling refreshed and ready for the next 500 years. Your phoenix will sink to the bottom then rise in triumph, her mythical sparkling purple and green plumage unfurling through your bath water. She’ll release gentle shea butter, cocoa butter and jojoba oil to leave your skin feather-soft. Exotic essential oils of fruit and spices take your mind on a flight of fancy to distant shores where you are lying on a beach drinking spiced rum.Actually, you won’t want to rise again from this bath – you’ll want to just stay on in there gliding on the dream! The phoenix is often quoted as using cinnamon sticks to make her nest. So we’ve topped this ballistic with some, so she has some handy nesting material, should she wish to stick around at yours for a while. Meanwhile, it will also add to the delicate spiciness of your bath.

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My U.S. Phoenix Rising

Lush description: The work on this website had been going on in the background at Lush for quite some time. Having a current website trading plus a new one that is being built made for very confusing conversations when talking about things for ‘the website’. To end the confusion, we gave the website under construction the name Phoenix. So Phoenix has been very much on everyone’s mind here at Lush; not least Jack, who has been working on it for over a year. When he went into the lab to invent new ballistics, he couldn’t shake his mind free of it – and thus we now have a Phoenix Rising ballistic!

Lush UK Phoenix Rising

US Phoenix Rising water

UK Phoenix Rising water

Smells like spicy apples and cinnamon.
This is what it looks like up close in the tub

And this is how the factory makes the phoenix bath bomb

 

Which Came First 2016

See my demo video of this cutie below.  Spoiler Alert though, if you don’t want to see what’s inside, don’t look any further. 🙂

6.95gbp (converted that’s $9.96)

This is the same as the previous years “Immaculate Eggception’.  Here are a couple of pics i took of it

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If this sweet and citrussy bath bomb can’t answer the age-old question then what can? Crack open the generously-sized pink egg to coax out the chick inside and enjoy three egg-cellent soaks over a couple of nights. Or, if you fancy something really decadent, use the entire bomb at once to infuse your bath water with deliciously sweet, fuchsia waters brimming over with fruity fragrance. What did the chicken cross the road? To get to the bathroom of course!

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Here’s a video that i made of what it looks like in the tub.

List of ingredients
Sodium Bicarbonate Citric Acid Perfume Grapefruit Oil Lemon Oil Fair Trade Vanilla Absolute Dipropylene Glycol *Limonene *Linalool Gardenia Extract Colour 45410 Colour 17200 Colour 14700 Colour 42090 Orange Pip
Natural Ingredients
Safe Synthetics
*occurs naturally in essential oils.
We do not test our finished products on animals. We also only purchase from ingredient suppliers who do not test on animals. More.

 

Gumback smoothie

See my video demonstration of this smoothie at the bottom of the page

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Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Glycerine, Almond Oil (Prunus dulcis), Apricot Oil (Prunus armeniaca), Sodium Palm Kernelate, Ground Almond Shells (Prunus dulcis), Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Fresh Banana (Musa paradisiaca), Labdanum Resinoid (Cistus labdanum), Sodium Chloride, Tetrasodium EDTA, Perfume, Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), Methylparaben, Propylparaben.

This is a very scrubby . I think it smells like bananas and swimming pools (chlorine).

LT 2004 description: We did have a Gumbo Express Smoothie exfoliating shower soap for a while and when we discontinued it its fans were vociferous in their complaints (but there weren’t quite enough of them buying it for us to continue making it). Instead we went off, did some work and introduced the Gumback Express, another splendid, exfoliating shower soap, this time with bananas, labdanum essential oil to tone the skin, almond and apricot oils to moisturize you and ground almond shells, our environmentally friendly exfoliator, to scrub you smooth. We like it even better than the original.

Scent Family: Banana Moon Soap; Big Banana Moon Soap; A Little Monkey Bubble Bar Slice; Gumbo Express Smoothie.

Here’s a demo video i made of this smoothie