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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Cheep Cheep Bath Bomb from Lush

The Cheep Cheep Bath Bomb is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2024 Easter line.

Weighing in at just 75g each, Cheep Cheep is one of Lush’s smaller bath bombs. With it being so small, it’s also very cheap, no pun intended!

When the 2024 Easter collection was first announced the Cheep Cheep bath bomb caught my eye straight away as I can never resist a bath bomb that has eyes.

Looking at ALL of the bath bombs in this year’s Easter and Mother’s Day lines, it has never been harder to believe that they are all handmade.

The Cheep Cheep bath bomb is a bright yellow chick shaped bath bomb. Some of its ingredients include both bergamot and lime oils, violet leaf absolute, fine sea salt and a generous helping of popping candy.

Its scent is very similar to the Ostara bath bomb and What’s Up, Doc? Shower gel from past Easter lines. They are pretty much identical BUT I feel as if the Cheep Cheep bath bomb has a stronger berry scent-layer within it, somehow it smells more tropical to me.

Cheep Cheep’s scent is refreshing and fruity making it perfect for the Springtime and all-things-Easter. It’s a very berry-led-scent, the more you sniff it the more layers of fragrance seem to come through. If you like the Lush products that are fruity but not citrus heavy, it’s a perfect choice for you.

I don’t quite know how, but the blend of bergamot, lime and other ingredients in this bath bomb really gives off a raspberry like scent. It’s not an easy one to describe, it is a little citrusy but completely different from any citrus-Lush-scent made before.

As soon as the Cheep Cheep bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a hiss of yellow bubbles.

The Cheep Cheep bath bomb doesn’t offer anything bath-art-wise but quickly turns your bath water the same bright yellow as the bath bomb.

While the bath bomb fizzes away, its inviting-fruity-scent fills your bathroom.

It took just a little over 2 minutes for the Cheep Cheep bath bomb to fully dissolve, I thought at first that I’d missed the popping candy in it but as I went to lay back to just enjoy the fruity scented hot-water, snap, crackle, and pops began to sizzle away!

As I said earlier, the waters left behind by the Cheep Cheep bath bomb were bright yellow.

Once the bath bomb has fully dissolved the yellow water is really soft and still highly fragranced. A good soak in a Cheep Cheep bath left my skin feeling brighter and more refreshed. The scent could still be detected in my bathroom long after the last drop of bath water went down the plug hole too.

The scent also remained on my skin for a good few hours after getting out of the bath.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Cheep Cheep bath bomb. Nothing can upstage its beautiful scent!

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Easter Turtle Shower Jelly from Lush

The Easter Turtle Shower Jelly is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2024 Easter line. I was lucky enough to get to try it before its initial release date as Lush kindly sent me one.

Designed to look just like a giant sea turtle, I couldn’t wait to give it a go in the shower.

The Easter Turtle is a mix of different shades of green and HUGE. Each jelly is 220g making it even bigger than both the Monster Octopus shower jelly and Tarantula shower jelly.

The Easter Turtle shower jelly contains bladderwrack seaweed infusion, sugar kelp infusion, carrageenan extract, myrrh resinoid, orange flower absolute and cinnamon leaf oil.

It shares its scent with the Apple Crumble bubble bar, Temptation shower gel and Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel bath bomb.

Straight out of the pot it’s an intense and warm fragrance, there’s an element of baked apples in there but I can also smell something I can only describe as being very green. At one point I was wrongly convinced it had elements of the Grass Lush-scent-family in it too.

Anyone who knows me personally will know that a sea turtle is one of my favourite animals and one I have been lucky enough to swim with in the Indian Ocean. This sea turtle shaped shower jelly has made me reflect on some of my most treasured memories.

With Easter Turtle 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 Easter Turtle shower jelly did get a little flimsy after just a few uses. However, I’d rather use it and lose it than not use it at all… So far, I’ve used it 4 times and although it is showing a small amount of 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.

If you do keep it whole, as I mentioned above, the Easter Turtle shower jelly is big enough to fit in your hand. It is a lot easier to keep a hold of in the shower being so big. Once you’ve used it simply rinse it off and then pop it back into the pot until you next want to use it.

The Easter Turtle shower jelly lathers up quickly, once you have enough of a lather it in your hands pop the shower jelly back in its pot and start to work your wet hands together.

Before I ever use a Lush product that I plan on reviewing, I always take photos beforehand. When taking the above photo, all I did was take the Easter Turtle out of its pot and place it into my bathtub so that I could get a photo of it. I hardly had any contact with it at all but could smell it on my hands/wrists for the rest of the day.

You do not have to lather the Easter Turtle for very long at all, a very small amount of it goes a long way.

As I stated earlier, The Easter Turtle shower jellies scent is intense. As soon as you take the pots lid off, you are hit with its fragrance BUT in use, the scent seems to explode, filling your bathroom and drenching your skin with its fragrance.

After using the Easter Turtle shower jelly my skin feels soft, warm, clean, and refreshed.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Easter Turtle shower jelly, it has such a strong and unique fragrance that seems to work in whatever format Lush decide to release it in.

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