Skinny Dip Shower Gel from Lush

The Skinny Dip Shower Gel is one of six that Lush are releasing a limited amount of on the Lush app on the 26th of June 2024 and online on the 28th. They will also be available in selected Lush flagship stores.

The Skinny Dip shower gel is a milky white colour and much like the Super Milk shower gel from the same drop has a runnier consistency compared to some of the other more recently released shower gels.

The Skinny Dip shower gel isn’t new to Lush, it was actually one of Lush’s first ever shower gels back when they first opened their doors in 1995. If I had a time machine, the first place I’d visit is that first Lush store and I’d buy absolutely EVERYTHING!

Although the Skinny Dip shower gel is one of Lush’s older products, it hasn’t seen the light of day for a very long time as the original formula wasn’t self-preserving and was therefore subject to go off. Lush switched up an ingredient or two to make it self-preserving and now it’s back and better than ever!

Consistency wise the Skinny Dip shower gel is a little thicker than the Super Milk shower gel but not by much. I recommend giving it a good shake before using it as this thickens it up.

Some customers have been quite vocal about the thinner consistency of the shower gels included in this latest shower gel drop but as long as they do exactly what a shower gel should, I’m happy – runny or thick.

The Skinny Dip shower gel contains plenty of skin hydrating glycerine, coconut infusion, fine sea salt, cold pressed murumuru butter, cedarwood oil, clary sage oil, clove bud oil, palmarosa oil, vetivert oil and ylang ylang oil.

The shower gels label describes the scent so well that I’m just going to quote it instead of attempting to describe it myself. Skinny Dip is a ‘chocolatey, clove-scented mixture with a hint of tropical essential oils to calm the mind and soothe the skin.’

It has a lot of ingredients; Seeing its long list I was expecting the scent of Skinny Dip to be strong and overpowering, it is however a very gentle fragrance.

To me, it’s perfect. The clove gives it a spicy kick but without it being super intense, something that is quite rare when clove is involved.

The Skinny Dip shower gel lathers up easily and a small amount of it goes a very long way. Mixed in with the steam and hot-shower-water the scent really takes hold as does how it feels on your skin.

Using just a little bit of the Skinny Dip shower gel feels like millions of tiny hands are massaging all of my aches and pains away. With it being a little runnier, it also works well when squirted into a running bath.

I found the Skinny Dip shower gel incredibly moisturising and super relaxing to use, clove is a magical ingredient, as is glycerine. 24 hours later my skin still feels and looks incredible after using Skinny Dip.

Once out of the shower the Skinny Dip scent is detectable on your skin although very subtle. I thought I wouldn’t like how gentle the scent is but it’s really grown on me, sometimes less is more.


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Sonic Death Monkey Shower Gel from Lush

My very first experience with the Sonic Death Monkey Shower Gel was at the Lush Creative Showcase back in September 2016. Previous to this event, I had always passed on getting Sonic Death Monkey shower gel whenever it had been on the Lush Kitchen menu because it has coffee in it.

After giving it a sniff back at the 2016 Showcase, I wanted to kick myself and vowed to never, ever miss it when it came up on  the Lush Kitchen menu again.

Since then the Kitchen has closed and then, as of May 2020, reopened BUT as a monthly subscription box. The Sonic Death Monkey shower gel thankfully made a return in the very first Lush Kitchen subscription box back in May of this year.

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Sonic Death Monkey has a very peculiar mixture of ingredients that against-all-odds actually work brilliantly together. Looking at its ingredients list I shouldn’t be interested in this shower gel at all, its scent is however one of my personal favourites from Lush.

Sonic Death Monkey shower gel contains coffee, cocoa powder, vanilla absolute, organic lime juice and sweet orange and tangerine oils. I don’t like to beat around the bush, I hate the taste and smell of coffee with a passion but there’s something about the Sonic Death Monkey shower gel that I can’t get enough of.

The coffee scent is apparent in this shower gel but the cocoa powder and vanilla absolute round it off giving it a very pleasant smell, it literally makes my mouth water. The added sweetness of the lime juice and other included citrusy essential oils add a softness to it too. All in all, even if you don’t like coffee, there’s a high chance that you may still like the Sonic Death Monkey shower gel.

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Sonic Death Monkey’s only sort-of negative is that it has a slightly watery consistency, this doesn’t however hinder its cleaning quality. Although it’s not the foamiest of shower gels it does leave my skin feeling clean, refreshed and beautifully scented after use.

As long as you’re careful at getting it out of its bottle its consistency isn’t much of a problem at all. The caffeine in it leaves my skin appearing brighter and it adds the right amount of hydration too.

Overall I have to admit that I love Sonic Death Monkey, I still can’t get my head around the fact that I happily use a product that contains coffee. I’d love a Sonic Death Monkey bath bomb or body lotion, hint, hint Lush!



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