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Fiona Shower Gel from Lush

This March, Lush released yet another influx of collaboration products and I’ve never been more excited with a collection.

The small but impressive line that was released online yesterday (25th of March 2024) is inspired by no other than the Shrek franchise!

Each of the brand-new products from the Lush X Shrek collection are said to celebrate everyone’s inner-swampy-self and contrasts with the ‘clean girl’ aesthetic of recent years.

Ahead of the products online release, I was lucky enough to be gifted most of the line by Lush. thanks again Lush, you’ve made my month with this surprise box of Shrek goodies!


As you can see from the photos I have included in this review, the Fiona shower gel has such an incredibly detailed product label featuring princess Fiona’s face as a human and as an ogre.

Lush were wise to use these types of visuals on their packaging for this line, I know Lush would prefer no packaging for their products at all but I feel that a huge part of this shower gels appeal is the beautiful art on its bottle.

The almost glowing neon green Fiona Shower Gel contains fine sea salt, fresh cucumber juice, mango leaf absolute, violet leaf absolute, Persian lime oil and buchu oil.

Its scent is brand new to Lush and is described on their website as a ‘fragrant fairytale blend’.

As soon as you take the shower gels lid off, you’re hit with an apple and mango fragrance. The more you sniff the more that seems to come through. Sniffing it straight from the bottle there’s also melon-like notes in it too.

Consistency wise, the Fiona shower gel is very easy to get out of the bottle, it’s a fairly translucent green, reminding me of stained glass (which happens to be featured in quite a famous scene in the Shrek movie!)

The Fiona shower gel is slightly less thick than the likes of the Luigi shower gel (another green shower gel from Lush’s past) I’m guessing this looser consistency is because of the fresh cucumber juice in it.

Although I have said that the consistency of this shower gel is looser it is by no means runny. A very small amount of the Fiona shower gel goes a long way too which is always a plus with Lush products.

What I wasn’t expecting with the Fiona shower gel was how its scent seemed to develop once mixed in with the hot water and steam of the shower.

The Fiona shower gel lathers up easily and during use you’re hit with several more layers of scent notes. The first new note that I noticed was lime-like, it seems to blend with the apple in it giving it a sour-apple edge.

The more I lathered up the shower gel the more I could smell, there’s a freshly cut grass element to it and the cucumber in it really comes through too.

After use, my skin not only appears brighter but is left feeling super clean and hydrated. The scent lingers on your skin for a good few hours too.

Overall, I love the Fiona shower gel; The scent captures princess Fiona as a character so well and the best news is, there’s a body spray equivalent! I promise to get a review of the body spray up in the next few days.

I hope this isn’t the last we see of this fresh and fruity Lush fragrance, I’d love to see it in other product formats in the future.

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Shrek Swamp Bath Bomb from Lush

This March Lush have hit us with, yet another influx of collaboration products and I’ve never been more excited with a collection.

The new mini line that came out online today is inspired by no other than DreamWorks Animations’ Shrek franchise. 

The brand-new products from the Lush X Shrek collection celebrate everyone’s inner swampy self and contrasts with the ‘clean girl’ aesthetic of recent years.

Ahead of the products website release, I was lucky enough to be gifted most of the line by Lush. thanks again Lush, you’ve made my month with this surprise box of Shrek goodies!

The Shrek Swamp Bath Bomb is the first of the products from the Lush X Shrek collaboration that I tried, and it did not disappoint.

Shrek Swamp is a mixture of two colours, bright green and chocolate brown and has a big green ‘S’ on its top, ogre ears and all.

Shrek Swamp is the perfect bath bomb to turn your bath water into swamp-bathwater, I’m positive that Shrek and every other ogre in the world would be proud of it.

The Shrek Swamp bath bomb contains pine oil, vetitvert oil, peppermint oil, cocoa absolute, cocoa powder, carrageenan extract, Fullers earth, rhassoul mud, arame seaweed and dried oakmoss.

Scent wise, before using the Shrek Swamp bath bomb my nose can detect the peppermint in it, the cocoa powder gives it a chocolatey layer as well.

The dried oakmoss and pine oil adds a foresty like layer to its scent too. In ways this part of the bath bomb reminds me of a mixture of the Lakes bath bomb mixed with some Grass shower gel.

When the Shrek Swamp bath bomb first encounters your bath water there is an explosion of green froth, slowly bubbling away. Not long after placing it into the water, brown froth begins to spill out of it too.

Slowly but surely, little bits of dried oakmoss and arame seaweed breaks free from the bath bomb filling your bath with swamp debris.

At this point I’d like to point out that if you don’t enjoy floating pieces in your bath water it would be best to use the Shrek Swamp bath bomb in a sock or stocking. That way, any floating debris will stay in that sock or stocking, but you’ll still get all the benefits from the ingredients.

For example the arame seaweed will still soften the water you just won’t have it loose in the water.

I don’t mind the ‘swamp life’ and used the Shrek Swamp bath bomb as it was designed, to get the true ogre, swamp experience.

Clean up with products like this is always a huge topic amongst customers. But luckily for you, I’ve used thousands of bath bombs so know a thing or two about them and how to ensure clean up isn’t hard work…

Every bath bomb you use will leave some sort of residue in your bathtub IF it has any soap scum in (even the invisible bits you can’t easily see).

I recommend running a sponge with dish soap on it around your tub after each use, this cuts and wipes away any stubborn grease or residue that may be left behind, even the left-over bits you can’t see.

Doing this followed by a quick rinse makes the world of difference when using bath bombs.

I do feel like I need to point out that you should bear in mind that this bath bomb is to create swamp like water though; It’s not an ordinary bath bomb, it’s swamp chic not ‘clean girl’ chic!

Once in the hot water the scent of the Shrek Swamp bath bomb seems to change a little bit, the chocolate aspect seems to disappear and a new layer of scent seems to come through, there’s an almost smoky, slightly spicy air to it, it’s subtle but definitely there.

The peppermint and pine oil in it really shines through during use, filling your bath bomb with its forest-fresh fragrance.

It takes a good 5 minutes for the Shrek Swamp bath bomb to fully dissolve, and the water left behind is heavily fragranced and the exact shade of green that Shrek is.

The scent of the Shrek Swamp bath bomb lasted on my skin for the rest of the day, I was pleasantly surprised at how soft and hydrated it left my skin too.

As I said earlier, I didn’t use the bath bomb in a stocking, so I did have swamp debris in with me in the tub. The larger bits were very easy to fish out and place in the bin and the smaller bits went down the plug hole no problem.

The Shrek Swamp bath bomb does contain skin-loving Fullers earth and rhassoul mud so you will need to rinse your bath out after using it BUT if you stick with my sponge and dish soap trick, the rinse will take only seconds instead of several minutes.

Overall, I’m so in love with the Shrek Swamp bath bomb, it’s so well thought out and my skin adored soaking up all of its ingredients.

I can’t wait to review the other Shrek stock!

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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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