Category: Lush Christmas

Snow Angel Choir Shower Jelly from Lush

The Snow Angel Choir Shower Jelly is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2024 Christmas line.

The Snow Angel Choir shower jelly is a warm, caramel gold colour and is in the shape of a singing angel. The angel is wearing typical choir clothes; A voluminous long gown, that is decorated with one giant gold star.

Each Snow Angel Choir shower jelly is 210g although, the one I have pictured in this review is the smaller 100g version that you get in the 2024 Refill advent calendar.

The Snow Angel Choir shower jelly contains some of the following ingredients: elderflower infusion, carrageenan extract, litsea cubeba oil, tonka absolute and vanilla absolute.

Snow Angel Choir’s scent is from the Super Milk Lush-scent-family. Most recently another limited edition item that came out with the same fragrance was the Super Milk shower gel.

Straight out of the pot the Snow Angel Choir shower jelly has a warm, sherbet like scent. It’s not an easy scent to describe as it has an almost fizziness to it. It’s one of the Lush scents you always go back to for an extra sniff.

With Snow Angel Choir being a novelty shaped shower jelly, I wondered how long it would last as unfortunately I find more often than not, that the novelty shaped jellies aren’t always as sturdy and robust as the normal, pot-shaped-ones.

As predicted, the 100g Snow Angel Choir shower jelly did get a little flimsy after just one use but I have heard the larger version that are for sale individually are a lot more robust.

Even when a shower jelly is a little flimsy, I’d rather use it and lose it than not use it at all… So far, I’ve used the 100g Snow Angel Choir shower jelly three times and although it is showing wear and tear, there’s plenty more of it to go around yet!

There is no right or wrong way to use a shower jelly, I prefer to use mine in the same way as you would a bar of soap, whole. Some people however chop their shower jellies up using a few pieces at a time, this is a good method if you’re sharing it with someone else.

Although, if you do keep it whole, it is big enough to fit in your hand making it a lot easier to keep a hold of in the shower. Once you’ve used it, simply rinse it off and then pop it back into the pot leaving it ready and waiting for you when you next want to use it.

The Snow Angel Choir shower jelly lathers up quickly, once you have enough of a lather work it in to your hands and body just like you would a soap or shower gel.

Before I ever use a Lush product that I plan on reviewing, I always take photos beforehand. When I take photographs of the shower jellies out of their pot, I place them onto a plate so that I can get a clear photo them (see photo 2). I hardly had any contact with the Snow Angel Choir shower jelly when doing this but could still smell it on my hands/wrists for the rest of the day.

You do not have to lather up the Snow Angel Choir for very long at all, a very small amount of it goes a long way. A trait I love in a Lush product!

As I stated earlier, The Snow Angel Choir shower jelly has quite a strong scent. As soon as you take the pots lid off, you are hit with its fragrance BUT in use, the scent intensifies so much more, filling your bathroom and drenching your skin with its warm and inviting fragrance.

After using the Snow Angel Choir shower jelly my skin feels silky smooth, warm, clean, and fresh.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Snow Angel Choir shower jelly, it has such a strong and inviting fragrance that seems to work in whatever format Lush decide to release it in!

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Snow Queen Bath Bomb from Lush

The Snow Queen Bath Bomb is a brand-new, limited edition product from Lush’s 2024 Christmas line and I was fortunate enough to receive one as a gift from Lush.

It is described by Lush as a ‘Queen frozen by Winter that will thaw in warm waters.’

Snow Queen is an icy blue, queen-shaped bath bomb with a crown, wavy hair and a long flowing dress that is decorated with snowflakes; It screams cold and icy, fitting right into the theme of Winter.

It is a beautifully made bath bomb, whose colouring and regalness perfectly capture the Snow Queen’s frosty charm!

At 90g each the Snow Queen is one of Lush’s smaller Winter bath bombs BUT never assume with bath bombs that bigger is better…

Some of the ingredients included in the Snow Queen bath bomb are agar agar, peppermint oil, bergamot oil, sweet wild orange oil and dried lilac cornflowers.

A lot of people say anything with peppermint oil in it smells the same, no matter what other ingredients it has mixed with it. With peppermint being such a dominant ingredient fragrance wise, I can see (or should I say, smell) what people mean.

It’s very difficult to pinpoint other ingredients when peppermint is involved but with the Snow Queen bath bomb it does have other noticeable yet subtle scent notes.

You get the coolness of the peppermint primarily but then the orange oil adds a sweetness and then the bergamot a bitterness, it rounds off the mintyness giving it less clout. As peppermint based fragrances go it is quite complex and, in my opinion, quite an acquired taste but one I have grown to love.

I make it no secret that sleepiness is a huge part of my personality, minty products are therefore perfect for me as there’s nothing like them to wake you up.

Many people like to save minty products for the Summer because of their cooling effect, but I love how they wake me up—even in the Winter. With the Snow Queen’s scent not being as powerful menthol wise, it’s a good alternative for this time of year (just in case you didn’t want to feel too cool!)

As soon as the Snow Queen bath bomb touches the water it begins to fizz away, releasing a thin stream of blue foam that in places turn green. (see below photo). The blue to green is a little trick Lush have added to this bath bomb, the green colour is inside the agar agar and as the agar gets wet, the green is released.

Even with the added green specs Snow Queen isn’t going to give you much bath art but as the bath bomb fizzes away a very small amount of dried lilac cornflowers are also released into the water. For those customers that do not like to bathe with ‘bits’ I have good news, it’s a very small amount of flowers making clean up a breeze.

The Snow Queen bath bomb was a very fast fizzer taking only three minutes to fully dissolve. Left behind is the most gorgeous turquoise/marine green coloured bath water.

Looking at the bath bomb beforehand, I thought the water would be an icy blue colour but the secret green in the bath bomb made it a stunning shade of marine green.

After leaving the bath, my skin felt smooth, appeared brighter and I felt really refreshed. The scent wasn’t really detectable anymore but its effects on my skin lasted.

I thoroughly enjoyed using the Snow Queen bath bomb and would happily pick it up again while it’s still available. Its unique scent blend, refreshing effects, and vibrant marine green bath water make it a standout in this year’s Christmas range!

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Sleepy Bear Shower Gel from Lush

The Sleepy Bear Shower Gel is a brand-new, limited edition product from Lush’s 2024 Christmas line.

I can’t quite believe how many new shower gels Lush have released this year, it’s been an incredible year for shower gels, so many have come out that I still have several to review before the year is through!

With the shower gel I am reviewing today being called Sleepy Bear, you’d expect it to share its scent with the Sleepy Bear bath bomb, it however doesn’t. The Sleepy Bear shower gel in fact shares its scent with the Deep Sleep bath bomb.

Lush already have a shower gel available that shares its scent with the Sleepy Bear bath bomb, the Sleepy shower gel. I have no idea why Lush decided to call this shower gel Sleepy Bear and not Deep Sleep, but here we are…

The Sleepy Bear shower gel contains some of the following ingredients: fine sea salt, lavender oil, chamomile oil, lavender absolute and neroli oil.

Fresh from the bottle the Sleepy Bear shower gels scent is best described as lavender rich with a touch of chamomile. The neroli oil in it is also quite noticeable although it isn’t nearly as intense as the lavender. The fragrance is very sweet and herbal.

Think of the Deep Sleep Lush-scent-family as another amazing lavender based fragrance that is available to try, if you’ve grown bored of Sleepy…

The Sleepy Bear shower gel is a sparkly darker shade of purple (not dissimilar to Goddess shower gel) it has quite a thick consistency but is very easy to get out of the bottle.

A very small amount of the Sleepy Bear shower gel goes a long way, something I wasn’t expecting considering its consistency. Mixed with the water it lathers up with minimal effort creating a violet-white foam that simply glides over your skin leaving it soft, refreshed and clean.

Mixed in with the steam and hot-shower-water the scent really takes over your bathroom, if you thought that the Sleepy shower gel was great to use before bed, then you’ll be blown away with the Sleepy Bear shower gel…

After use the Sleepy Bear scent remains on your skin for several hours. Although I still believe it’s a mostly lavender scent, on your skin the chamomile elements come through a lot stronger than straight out of the bottle.

Overall, it’s a great edition to the list of many shower gels that have been created by Lush this year; It also makes a welcome change from the Sleepy shower gel!

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