Category: Spring

Love Shower Gel from Lush

The Love Shower Gel is a part of Lush’s 2023 Valentine’s Day line. Sadly, the bottled version is available everywhere but the UK. Luckily, a good friend was able to grab me a bottle and I’m so happy about it as I really do have a ridiculous fear of missing out when it comes to Lush products…

Love is a clear red shower gel. It looks fairly similar to the Rose Jam shower gel although I’d say it’s a lot brighter and a much bolder red.

Love has a thick but easy to get out of the bottle consistency. You’ll recognise its scent if you were ever lucky enough to experience the Fizzbanger bath bomb, to this day I’m still sad that Lush discontinued it. Another product that shares its scent is the Whole Lotta Love bubbleroon from Lush’s 2018 Valentine’s Day line.

Love contains a long list of fresh ingredients including, rose, lemon grass, ylang ylang and bergamot oils. Its scent is quite difficult to describe as it has so many layers. It’s fruity, floral, and also a little spicy too. While some Lush products are classed as being from the same scent-family (sharing certain ingredients) different product formats can make their scent differ in very small ways.

I have found the shower gel to be most like the aforementioned Fizzbanger bath bomb. The rose in it is quite dominant but you also get so much lemon grass from it too. On paper, the ingredients look like they’d clash terribly yet, they just work.

I have to mention here that I feel it’s really unfortunate that so many people within the UK will be missing out on buying this shower gel. Yes, the UK have the shower sphere equivalents, but the spheres just aren’t fit for purpose. They’re a good idea and are a step in the right direction for plastic free shower products BUT the concept still needs a lot of work .

Love shower gel lathers up easily and a very small amount of it goes a very long way. Again, if you’re stuck with the shower spheres you are forced to use 10g of shower gel per shower. A small amount of the Love shower gel really does go a long way, I’d say using even 5g per shower is wasteful. If I can get more uses out of the bottled version, then that’s a good enough reason for me to like the bottled version over the single use spheres. Lush isn’t cheap, if I can make a Lush product go further, then I will.

The Love fragrance really comes to life when you start to lather it up in the shower. It’s sweet, floral and warm. Once out of the shower the Love scent remains on your skin for the best part of the rest of the day, it also does a really good job of cleansing your skin, leaving it looking and feeling brighter. 

Overall, I love, Love! I just wish Lush UK would stop being so silly with their seasonal shower gels right now, until the spheres are drastically improved, I will be sticking to bottled shower gels where I can.

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What’s Up, Doc? Shower Gel from Lush

The What’s Up, Doc? Shower Gel is a brand-new, limited-edition, Easter product that first became available in the UK at the start of March 2022. I have well and truly grown bored of Lush’s all-year-round, staple-shower-gels so was very excited to get my hands on a bottle of the What’s Up, Doc? shower gel.

What’s Up, Doc? shower gel is a beautiful shade of warm-orange, to look at it’s very similar to the likes of the Bubbly shower gel. It has a thick but easy to get out of the bottle consistency. Since its release it has proven very popular with customers old and new.

The What’s Up, Doc? shower gel contains a long list of ingredients including, fresh carrot infusion, violet leaf absolute, carrot juice and cold pressed carrot seed oil; Alongside those are the following essential oils too, bergamot, and lime.

The What’s Up, Doc? shower gel has a brand-new Lush scent. It’s deliciously fruity, primarily it’s meant to be a raspberry scent, but it has several layers to its fragrance, the more you sniff the more you can make out. Its rich berry-ness makes it an incredibly refreshing and mouth-watering scent, it’s perfect for the Springtime and I can see it being a popular choice for the Summer too.

It’s really like no other shower gel Lush have released before, there was a gap in the Lush-market for a fruity, mood brightening shower gel and wow has What’s Up, Doc? stepped up to the job, it’s blown me away. This probably won’t happen because Lush rarely listen to their customers anymore but Lush are making a big mistake by not making this delicious shower gel a part of their permanent range!

I’ve not liked a shower gel this much since Lush released the Intergalactic and Sultana shower gels.

As I said earlier, the What’s Up, Doc? shower gels consistency is quite thick but not so thick it’s hard to get out of the bottle. It lathers up easily and a small amount goes a very long way too. Once the hot water and steam of the shower meets the shower gel and you begin to lather it up, its scent really comes alive, it smells so good it immediately makes me want to drink a pint of tropical juice. I always put an extra squirt of it into my hand just because I love the scent so much.

Like the Mimosa shower gel from this years’ (2022) Mother’s Day line, it reminds me of warmer weather and the sunshine. It literally washes away your Winter blues, I recently took it away with me and it’s such an amazing pick-me-up. Using it will now always remind me of my mini trip away.

My favourite thing about the What’s Up, Doc? shower gel is however how it leaves my skin looking and feeling. After I’ve used it, the scent remains on my skin for the best part of the rest of the day and it leaves my skin incredibly soft. It’s also incredibly hydrating too; Overall, I adore this shower gel, it’s one of the best Lush have ever released. I’d love to see this scent in other product formats soon!

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Follow The White Rabbit Bath Bomb from Lush

You may be awash with feelings of déjà vu when you look at the Follow The White Rabbit Bath Bomb for several reasons.

The first reason is how similar its design and colourings are to the Winter bath bomb favourite, Snowman Dreaming. The second and third being its mould is the exact same used for the Bouncy Bunny shower jelly and Spring Bunny bath bomb from Lush Easter lines of the past.

Ever since the aforementioned, Snowman Dreaming bath bomb was released a few Winters ago I have hoped Lush would do a similar bunny shaped bath bomb with the Bouncy Bunny scent and for Easter 2021, Lush did!

The Follow The White Rabbit bath bomb is a smaller sized Lush bath bomb, about the same size as an old-style Butterbear or old-style Ickle Baby Bot bath bomb, it fits snuggly in my hand.

All good things come in small packages and what Follow The White Rabbit lacks in size it well makes up for with its scent and performance in the water.

Containing a mix of buchu, bergamot and Sicilian lemon oils, the Follow The White Rabbit bath bomb has a wonderfully refreshing scent that is deliciously moreish. If you’re looking for a pick-me-up bath product, search no more. The Follow The White Rabbit bath bomb will put more than a spring in your step, a good soak in its citrus-waters will leave you cheery and uplifted.

As soon as the Follow The White Rabbit bath bomb comes into contact with water you are greeted with an explosion of colours. Pinks, reds, oranges, yellows, greens and blues shoot out of its left side leaving behind a rainbow-stream of bath bomb foam.

Even though the Follow The White Rabbit bath bomb is small, it’s a reasonably slow fizzer. Giving you more than enough time to appreciate the kaleidoscope of colourful bath art it creates. The bath art is out of this world, my photos in this review do the bath bomb no justice at all.

I enjoyed using the Follow The White Rabbit bath bomb so much that I immediately ordered 2 more straight after using it.

All good things must come to an end and once the Follow The White Rabbit bath bomb has fully dissolved, you are left with milky violet water that softens and lightly fragrances your skin.

Its scent remains on your skin for the best part of the rest of the day. I hope that one day Lush can create a body spray of the Follow The White Rabbit bath bombs fragrance, it’s perfect for the Spring but its wonderfully refreshing scent would work all year round.

The Follow The White Rabbit bath bomb is a must have from this years Easter line, if it doesn’t return year in, year out Lush will be in my bad books!


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