Tag: Shower Gel

Hello Kitty and Friends Shower Gel from Lush

I couldn’t have been more excited when I first heard whispers of the Hello Kitty and Friends X Lush collaboration. Amongst the eight-product-lineup is the Hello Kitty and Friends Shower Gel that I will be reviewing for you today. I was very kindly gifted a bottle by Lush.

The Hello Kitty and Friends shower gel is a limited edition product that shares its scent with the Hello Kitty bath bomb and Hello Kitty and Friends perfume from the same range.

Some of the shower gels ingredients include fresh strawberry infusion, fine sea salt, Brazilian orange oil, patchouli oil, benzoin resinoid and vanilla absolute, a recipe fit for a kitty queen!

What sets this shower gel apart from others is its scent. It’s a beautiful blend of two beloved Lush scent families: Snow Fairy and Milky Bath. Initially, I was nervous about how the two would work together, I’m usually not a fan of mixing scent families BUT somehow, this blend just works. 

Straight out of the bottle this shower gel’s scent is unmistakably bubblegum led, with the sweetness from the Snow Fairy shining through. Beneath that sweetness lies a musky, comforting layer – a gentle nod to Milky Bath’s soft, clean, freshly-washed-linen notes. It’s a sweet, fresh fragrance that reminds me of candyfloss grapes. Think indulgent yet soft enough to not be at all overpowering.

In terms of appearance, Hello Kitty and Friends is a crisp, white, reasonably thick gel. You only need a small amount from the bottle to create a rich, creamy lather. Once lathered up the luxurious foam glides effortlessly over your skin, cleansing and softening it as it goes.

The scent truly blossoms during use in amongst the hot steam of the shower. Interestingly, unlike the Hello Kitty bath bomb (which leans more towards the softer Milky Bath notes in use) the shower gel’s Snow Fairy side really steps into the spotlight.

The candy notes from the shower gel linger in your bathroom long after you step out of the shower. As for on the skin, it leaves a whisper of scent that can still be detected several hours after use.

Best of all, it doesn’t just leave you smelling good enough to eat, it also delivers in performance too. My skin always feels clean, refreshed, and beautifully soft after using the Hello Kitty and Friends shower gel. The fine sea salt gives it a gentle exfoliating touch, while the blend of oils ensures my skin feels nourished rather than stripped.

Overall, the Hello Kitty and Friends shower gel is a real star from this limited edition collection.

Even for someone like me, who usually shies away from scent family crossovers! 

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Green Shower Elixir Shower Gel from Lush

The Green Shower Elixir Shower Gel is the first of the Wicked X Lush collaboration products that I will be reviewing for you. I was lucky enough to receive a bottle of it as a gift from Lush.

With the highly anticipated release of the film Wicked, Lush have created a new range, jam packed with Land-of-Oz inspired wonders.

Each product within the collection oozes the magic of Oz, showcasing some very unusual yet beautifully harmonious ingredient blends that shouldn’t work together, but somehow do… No other Lush collection has ever smelt this good!

Everything about this shower gel screams Wicked. From the shade of green that it is, to its incredibly detailed label, you can tell just by looking at it that a lot of time and thought went into each and every aspect of it.

The Green Shower Elixir shower gel contains some of the following ingredients: willow herb decoction, glycerine, water, litsea cubeba oil, Brazilian orange oil and benzoin resinoid.

Its scent is brand new to Lush and is described by Lush as being, ‘an elixir so enchanting, it’ll have the whole of Oz ready to go green!’

I always struggle to describe scents but the first word that comes to mind when I give Green Shower Elixir a sniff is juicy. It reminds me of when you take the first bite of a melon, juicy, wet and refreshing. It’s crisp, fruity, moreish and smells just like I imagine a green magic potion to smell.

The Green Shower Elixir is a clear emerald-green coloured shower gel, it’s reasonably thick but comes out of the bottle easily.

A very small amount of the Green Shower Elixir shower gel goes a long way, It effortlessly lathers up into a smooth creamy paste, gently gliding over your skin leaving it softer, more hydrated and cleaner.

Mixed in with the steam and hot-shower-water the scent really takes over your bathroom, it reminds me of a big bowl of sliced up melon.

Once out of the shower the Green Shower Elixir’s scent remains on your skin for several hours. With it being quite a fruity fragrance, I am surprised at how long it lasts, normally fruity scents don’t have as much staying power but Green Shower Elixir’s scent lingers. With thanks to the glycerine in this shower gel, my skin has never felt softer or plumper.

Overall, the Green Shower Elixir is a wonderful shower gel, I hope that Lush decide to bring out more products in its scent, it would be a crime for Lush to not explore this delicious scent in other product formats!

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Mario Shower Gel from Lush

Lush’s most recent collaboration with the, The Super Mario Bros. Movie is Lush’s most popular collaborations yet. Today I’m going to be reviewing the Mario Shower Gel. This bright red shower gel has gone down a storm with Lush customers and has brought in a whole load of new customers too! Interestingly, Mario isn’t the first bottled shower product that Lush have released in its scent. You’ll recognise its scent if you were lucky enough to try the Santa’s Christmas shower cream back in the Winter of 2017.

The most obvious difference between the 2 products is that Mario is a shower gel and Santa’s Christmas was a shower cream, but both are used in the same way. As someone who has had a chance to use both I can say which of the 2 I think were better. Without hesitation I’d pick the Mario shower gel every time.

As you can see from the photographs I have included in this review, the Mario shower gel is the brightest of reds, fitting in with Mario the character perfectly.

As I said earlier, I much prefer the Mario shower gel over the Santa’s Christmas shower cream that shared its scent. The formula is so much better, it’s a bolder red and so smooth that it oozes out of the bottle.

The Mario shower gel contains fresh pomegranate juice, benzoin resinoid and the following essential oils, Persian lime, aniseed, and black pepper. Its scent is magnificent, it’s just like a tall glass of fizzy cola with a slice of lime on its side, it’s tangy, sweet, and packed full of energy.

This truly beautiful shower gel is thick but easily glides out of the bottle, it is, in my opinion the perfect consistency for a shower gel. Another great thing about the Mario shower gel is that a very little amount of it goes an incredibly long way. You only need the smallest amount of it to wash your whole body. It lathers up quickly and cleans your skin with ease.

The scent of the Mario shower gel is at its best when it comes together with the hot water and steam of your shower. The scent fills your bathroom and remains in the air, long after you’ve got out of the shower. It not only leaves my skin clean, hydrated, brighter, and incredibly soft it also leaves it lightly scented with the cola scent too.

If you have read my review on the Love shower gel, you’ll know how disappointed I was for all of the UK customers that couldn’t get it in a bottle (Lush UK decided that the UK would only be offered the sphere options in 2023). I am thanking the Lush gods that Lush decided to scrap the spheres as I’d have been devastated to miss out on a bottled Mario shower gel. I doubt Lush would have released the Mario Bros. shower gels in anything but a bottle regardless of scrapping the spheres or not though…

2022 was Lush’s best year for shower gels, I didn’t think it was possible to top it but Lush have well and truly topped 2022 shower-gel-wise and we’re only 3 months in to 2023! Do I recommend the Mario shower gel? YES, YES, YES! Go grab a bottle before it’s too late!

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