Lush produce a whole range of body-care products (and its sister company B Never Too Busy To be Beautiful sell make-up, fancier bath goodies and a lot of fragrance items).
If you include any or all of the following in your on-line Lush order, you are bound to have a quite a few happy bath experiences. Or try buying sample packs offered widely on eBay.
Soap
All Lush soap uses their new, environmentally friendly palm-oil free base. This makes the soaps softer than what you might be used to, but they still work a treat – just don't let them get too wet.
- B-Scent Electro: this is a guest soap from B-Never, and it has a very sophisticated scent. a lovely, sophisticated but light scent, at once floral and herbal. It's bright electric yellow, but it's worth getting for the ingredients and the intoxicating smell: grapefruit and jasmine, rose and fennel.
- Honey, I Washed The Kids: dull beige in colour, looks a bit like toffee and smells like one too. Sweet, but not overpoweringly sweet, it's a great everyday soap for the whole family – kids will love it too.
- Karma Soap: Signature Lush fragrance, deep, spicy, multi-layered and very lovely. Orange and patchouli are the dominant notes, but it's so much more than that! Deep orange in colour, translucent and totally addictive, if you use it for hand-washing it will perfume your whole bathroom.
Bubble Bars
These are crumbly lumps of foaming material that come in many fragrances and often contain “bits” of herbal and floral matter, and sometimes other stuff (confetti, stars and similar).
- The Comforter Bubble Bar: warming, fruity and fluffy, it has a cheery scent and a reassuring effects. It's a big bar and very economical as an eight of the whole will easily provide a great bath. The scent is fruity but not sweet, refreshing but spicy. A typical Lush item, and a classic. Contains, among others: Bergamot Oil, Cassis Absolute, Cypress Oil.
- Pleasure Dough: It's a retro products (only available on-line) and one of the most unusual and most wonderful bars Lush have ever made. It does look a bit muddy, and it's very crumbly, but the smell is amazing: relaxing, sophisticated, sexy. Worth picking the bits from the bath afterwards! Lush say: blend of herbs and flowers adored by the 17th Century French courtesan, Ninon de Lenclos. She used her favourite, personal perfume of lavender, rose, peppermint and orange blossom to seduce her lovers.
- Aura Suavis: this one is less popular, but brilliant. A pale pink and cream bar, with an amazingly grounding, mentally restorative fragrance. It contains clary sage, coriander, geranium and spearmint but it smells neither minty nor flowery. It's a special bar an a must have (on-line only).
Bath Ballistics
These are also known as bath bombs or bath fizzers and provide a great, non-bubbly bath experience. Ideal for a long soak (and in most cases you can easily use a half of a ballistic and still have a great bath).
- Blackberry Bath Bomb: contains bergamot, frankincense & berries. Another simple and brilliant ballistic, supremely relaxing, clear, purple water, fruity but not overtly fruity, not girly at all and not sweet, slightly spicy scent.
- Youki Hi: this is possibly the best ballistic Lush made ever (although some Christmas ones are good contenders). Deservedly hyped up and popular, this one has a hypnotic, sexy, sophisticated scent, just like Flying Fox shower gel but without the cloying sweetness of honey. Jasmine dominates the scent.
- English Countryside: this has fans and detractors as it contains “bits” (including cloth butterflies and silver bells). But the scent is great: geranium, sandalwood and orris absolute combine to produce very fresh, slightly flowery scent, not grassy but reminiscent of a verdant meadow on a sunny day.
- Ne Worry Pas: another retro product, but well worth getting. It's a milky bath produced with soya milk, softening the skin and gently scented with oils reputed to relax and raise spirits.
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