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Skinny Dip

6 out of 5 lol

It’s a very thin gel which you have to shake up. I put mine in the fridge so when shaken it gets thicker. I love it.I have to admit to needing to have it around at all times. I love spicy/foody smells and Skinny Dip is THE spicy and softening shower gel/bath foam I’ve tried to date from Lush. This gel was rabidly popular in it’s day and I don’t know why Lush disconinued this.

Initially Lush titled this a “body conditioner” in their catolog because it was different than the other shower gels. It was used somewhat differently than the shower gels, and looked different. Then later lush just decided to list it under shower gels.

I used it in the bath and i even washed my hair with it at times. Ohhh what fabulous things it did for my skin.

This smells like very strong cloves. there’s a creamy, buttery-rich bakery smell too, lightly. Skinny Dip kind of smells like an uber strong ‘Phoenix Rising/Bathos’ but with even more notes and more ingredients.

The gel needed to be shaken up though or it will seperate. When it does seperate (like oil and water) the top will be more of a off white creamy thick consistency and the bottom half a thin watery dark golden mixture as you can see in the photo i took of mine above. It’s got white chocolate bits, coconut, cocoa butter bits, almond oil, clary sage, ylang ylang, cedarwood, clove, Vetivert Oil, Palmarossa Oil and then some skin softening goodies like cocoa butter, almond oil.

I have dry skin and I love how this makes my skin so soft as well as fragrant. The scent lasts on the skin longer than most so that’s great. I also used it on my hair.

There was a learning curve to this scent for me. The first time I tried it I did’t like it. I thought it was waaay too strong and it didn’t smell like chocolate to me, which i mistakenly thought it would. Later after learning how to read the ingredients listing, I realized it was full of clove oil, cedarwood and Ylang Ylang.

 i put some in a ramekin to take a pic to show you all what it looks like. Its not a very good picture, I didnt know what i was doing back then camera-wise. 😄

Here’s a demo video i made of using the Lush skinny Dip Buttercream at the sink.

Ingredients: Creamed Coconut, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Water, Glycerine, Aloe Vera Gel, Almond Oil, Cocoa Butter, Perfume, Clove Bud Oil, Cedarwood Oil, Clary Sage Oil, Ylang Ylang Oil, Vetivert Oil, Palmarossa Oil, Sodium Chloride, EDTA, Tetrasodium Editronate, *Linalool, Geraniol

Size: 7.0 oz $11.60 Skinny Dip – 3.5 oz $5.80
NOTE: This buttercream product may melt and is NOT guaranteed to arrive solid during the summer months!

Here are some photos i took of other Lush products with the same scent.

Lush 2006 description: As a shower gel Skinny Dip was one of those products which people loved or hated; now that it has metamorphosed into a Butter Cream we hope that even more people will love it (the ones who didn’t like having to shake the bottle to mix up the cocoa butter, for example). Now, Lush’s gorgeous, violet and clove scented shower extravagance comes in solid form with softening cocoa butter, soothing aloe vera and our ever popular infusion of creamed coconut. Washing your body with Skinny Dip Butter Cream feels like a soothing massage with relaxing tropical oils.

This is Skinny Dip but in buttercream form. While it doesn’t begin to have the creamy goodness and originality of it’s predecessor shower gel, Skinny Dip buttercream is a nice, medium consistency and smells of that clove and white chocolate aroma of Skinny Dip. Its not as complex of a scent as the body conditioner/shower gel. And while I give Skinny Dip buttercream three stars, It’s not the same Lush as the “Skinny Dip” original body conditioning gel, it’s just not the same.

Below is another product; the Skinny Dip body lotion. I liked it more than the buttercream but still not quite like the shower gel.

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in my picture below is the Skinny Dip bubble bars. They were AWESOME.

There is a Skinny Dip spray perfume too.

Hand of Friendship

A beautiful design with a beautiful message
Made with skin-softening coconut and almond essential oils, Hand Of Friendship Soap is a cherry blossom-scented sudser that will help us all share a beautiful message to our new neighbors. For every bar sold, we’re donating 100% of the sales to our Friendship Fund, which will help various organizations provide relief to the most pressing needs of refugees arriving in North America.

 Hand of Friendship soap has the same scent as:

13 States bath bomb

Cyanide Pill bath bomb

Delight bath oil

Dragon’s Temple bath oil bauble

‘Delight’ is the silver bath oil in my picture below

Dragon’s Temple bath oil bauble also has the same scent.

This is a very pretty soap.  Initially i was worried because my nose only picked up the two woody notes in this soap. However, after picking it up and smelling it 20 times i smelled a definite cherish note. And then once i smelled the cherry that’s what i primarily smell now, and the initial prominence of the woody notes drift to the background. Now when i pick it up it’s quite lovely and a bit yummyish as well. I would buy more than one of this soap.

This was noticeable more moisturizing than other soaps.  So my rating would be a 4-4.5 out of 5.

I took a couple of photos so you can see what it looks like.  As you can see i bought multiples.

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Fresh ingredients
Water (Aqua) , Glycerine , Rapeseed Oil; Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Cocos nucifera) , Sorbitol , Fragrance , Sodium Lauryl Sulfate , Sodium Stearate , Titanium Dioxide , Almond Essential Oil (Prunus Amygdalus amara) , Rosewood Oil (Aniba rosaeodora) , Cedarwood Oil (Juniperus virginiana) , Sicilian Lemon Oil (Citrus limonum) , Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone , *Citronellol , *Coumarin , *Eugenol , *Farnesol , *Geraniol , *Limonene , *Linalool , Sodium Chloride , Mica , Sodium Hydroxide , EDTA , Tetrasodium Editronate , Iron Oxides , Red 4 , Red 28 , Red 33 . *Occurs naturally in essential oils
Natural Ingredients Safe Synthetics
Bunnies
We do not test our finished products on animals. We also only purchase from ingredient suppliers who do not test on animals. Learn more about our values.Here’s a demo and review video i made of this soap 🙂

Each one is a bit different; some have cream and pink, some have red and pink, and some have gold and pink.

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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Mechanic soap

3 out of 5 rating


An exfoliating Pumice soap to remove ingrained dirt.


Cold-pressed means no heat was used to bind the fresh ingredients together.

The lack of heat helps the oils retain all of their fragrance and fresh nutrients.

Pumpkin soap

Lush Time Xmas 2008: You’ll want a whole one, but be warned; it’s even heavier than a real pumpkin and it’s not hollow inside. Probably best to get yourself a manageable slice or two. Mo’s new soap is a lovely creamy pumpkin coloured affair with a scent that she borrowed from the gorgeous Almond Buttercream: sweet wild orange, lime, mandarin and spice cinnamon. (If you’re northern, like Emma from training and Auntie Pamela, and could only have a turnip for Halloween when you were little, this more than makes up for the childhood deprivation.) It’s only around for Halloween so get yours before All Hallows Day.

Here’s a picture of my Pumpkin soap back then. It’s a 100g piece that Lush were selling via the website.   The big slab of soap that they sold in the store that Halloween looked like the below photo.  I LOVE these soaps, the smell is great.

Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Glycerine, Rapeseed Oil; Sunflower Oil; Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Helianthus annuus; Cocos nucifera), Fresh Organic Orange Juice (Citrus Aurantium dulcis), Pumpkin puree (Cucurbita pepo), Sodium Hydroxide, Perfume, Sweet Orange Oil (Citrus Aurantium dulcis), Mandarin Oil (Citrus nobilis), Lime Oil (Citrus aurantifolia), Cinnamon Leaf Oil (Cinnamomum cassia), *Eugenol, *Limonene, Titanium Dioxide, Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), Colour 45350, Colour 15510, Pumpkin Seeds (Cucurbita pepo)

 

Hair Custard

£12.95 ($19.60) 100g  Not vegan

Lush description:  The proof is in the pudding.

This luxurious custard fights static, adds moisture and creates lasting shine.

Ingredients:  Vanilla pod, fresh free range egg white, fresh grape juice, fresh strawberry juice, cider vinegar, argan oil, honey, perfume, fair trade vanilla absolute, bees wax, fair trade cocoa butter,  organic coconut oil, orange peel wax.