Category: Shower Gel

Sakura Shower Gel from Lush

The Sakura Shower Gel started off its Lush life as a Lush Japan exclusive.

Luckily for Lush customers in the UK, Lush decided to release a very small batch of it, making it possible for me to grab myself a bottle.

It was ridiculously popular and sold out within less than 24 hours of its UK release.

The shower gel is described by Lush as a ‘bouquet in a bottle’. If you’ve used the Sakura bath bomb, you’ll recognise its gentle and calming scent straight away.

The name Sakura is actually the Japanese term for cherry blossom trees; With this in mind, the Sakura Lush-scent-family was created to evoke the burst of optimism that the first signs of Spring bring.

The Sakura shower gel contains fresh lemon juice, Sicilian lemon oil, mimosa absolute, orange flower absolute and jasmine absolute. When Lush described it as a bouquet in a bottle, they couldn’t have been any more accurate.

Sakura is not an in-your-face strong fragrance, as I said earlier, it is very gentle. The light floral notes it gives off make the scent have a super-clean and refreshing feel to it. 

The fragrance reminds me of the cherry blossom trees I had outside of my house when I was a little girl. They always seemed to smell fresher after a good sprinkling of rain and that’s exactly how I feel about the Sakura shower gel lathered up with your shower water.

A very small amount of the Sakura shower gel goes an incredibly long way; It has a creamy consistency and gets even creamier the more you lather it up.

The Sakura shower gel glides over your skin leaving it clean, hydrated, and fresh, it’s a true Spring-clean for your skin.

Its scent really shines through when combined with the hot water and steam from your shower and it feels incredible lathered up on your skin.

There is no need at all to moisturise after using this shower gel.

For such a gentle fragrance I was surprised at its staying power. I can still smell the scent on my skin long after using it.

If you are looking for a creamy shower gel that not only cleans but freshens up tired and dull skin too, look no further.

Overall, I am very impressed with the Sakura shower gel, I can only have my fingers crossed that Lush decide to make it more readily available so that everyone can give it a try, I already regret only getting one bottle!

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Snuggles Shower Gel from Lush

The Snuggles Shower Gel started off its Lush life as a product from the 2024 Mother’s Day line and upon its release will be available in 3 different sized bottles, 115g, 275g and 550g.

I was lucky enough to get to try the Snuggles shower gel before its initial release as Lush gifted me a bottle, it’s set to be available in all UK stores from the 1st of February.

The Snuggles shower gel is described as a comforting, buttery cuddle. If you’ve used the Butterball bath bomb, you’ll recognise its scent straight away.

Snuggles isn’t the first Butterball scented shower gel to be released, the original was called Butterball shower gel. It was popular but incredibly thick making it hard to get out of the bottle.

Snuggles shower gel has the same great scent as the Butterball shower gel but has a brand new ‘cocoa butter suspension formulation’. The formula is a lot thinner; it could easily be a body milk.

Snuggles shower gel contains fine sea salt, fair trade organic cocoa butter and Ghanaian ylang ylang oil. It is sweet but not in an unpleasant way, it reminds me of vanilla ice cream but also has elements of chocolate to its scent too.

A very small amount of Snuggles goes a long way, I have even tried it without wetting my hands first just to get a feel of its true consistency; There has never been a creamier shower gel from Lush, without water it was like I was lathering up a heavy duty moisturiser.

Just a splash of warm water helps to really lather the Snuggles shower gel up, it glides over your skin leaving it clean, hydrated and so very soft.

I could see the Snuggles shower gel being perfect for anyone with sensitive skin but always recommend a patch test before use.

Its scent really shines through when combined with the hot water and steam from your shower and it feels incredible lathered up on your skin.

There is no need at all to moisturise after using this shower gel, making it not only an amazing smelling shower gel but also a product that saves you much needed time as well.

I can still smell the Butterball scent on my skin long after getting out of the shower, my skin feels soft and appears perfectly hydrated well into the next day too.

If you are looking for a creamier shower gel that not only cleans but hydrates and soothes skin too, look no further.

Overall, I am very impressed with the Snuggles shower gel and plan on grabbing a few more bottles before Mother’s Day is through. Lush would be mad to not make this shower gel a main line product. I have my fingers crossed that they do as it’s wonderful!

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Passion Shower Gel from Lush

The Passion Shower Gel was first released by Lush as a part of their 2024 Valentine’s Day line. Its name is very similar to the recently released Lush Kitchen exclusive, Passion Fruit exfoliating shower gel but it is only their names that are similar. Both are very different shower products.

The Passion shower gel is described on Lush’s website as a ‘lustrous shower gel’ that is fit to go hand in hand with ‘a love fuelled by passion and commitment’. 

It is a darker shade of rose-red and is shimmery through-out in an almost pearlescent way. Quite often with Lush shower gels, the ones with added sparkle begin to separate quickly, with all the shimmer collecting at the bottom of the bottle; BUT I have heard that Passion is a new type of shower-gel-formula that won’t separate.

I haven’t had it long enough to confirm but so far, so good!

The Passion shower gel contains a long list of ingredients, some of them being ingredients often associated with romance; There’s an infusion of red rose petals, fresh passion fruit, buchu oil, fine sea salt, litsea cubeba oil as well as sweet wild orange oil.

Passion shares its scent with several recently released Lush products, the Cyclops bubble bar, SpongeBob bath bomb and Tropical Co-Mingle body scrub just to name a few.

The best way to describe the Passion shower gel’s scent is a rich passion fruit like fragrance, I have heard several customers say that with it being so fruity, it would also work well as a Summer-time product. Maybe a Summer perfume with the same fragrance would sell well, Lush?

Consistency-wise the Passion shower gel is lovely and thick but also super-silky, something I’m not used to from Lush shower gels.

The Passion shower gel lathers up quickly and a very small amount goes an incredibly long way. A blob the size of a one-pound coin is more than enough to wash your whole body.

Its scent really does come alive when combined with the hot water and steam from your shower and it feels incredible on your skin.

Unfortunately the shower gels scent doesn’t stay on your skin for very long but I couldn’t help but notice how soft my skin was after using it, it feels like I’ve used a dusting powder, it’s so silky to touch! I wouldn’t say it was a particularly hydrating shower gel, but it doesn’t dry out my skin either.

Overall, I am very impressed with the Passion shower gel and hope to grab an extra bottle before the 2024 Valentine’s Day line retires as I think it would be especially fabulous to use in the Summer!

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