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The Comforter Shower Cream

Ingredients: Water, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Blackberry and Fair Trade Vanilla Infusion, Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Glycerine, Stearic Acid, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Almond Oil, Lactic Acid, Titanium Dioxide, Bergamot Oil, Cassis Absolute, Cypress Oil, Limonene, Linalool, Snowflake Lustre, Colour 17200, Colour 45410, Methylparaben and Propylparaben

Vegan 

This shower cream processes one of my all time favourite scents from Lush, The Comforter fragrance. This has been a hard fragrance to track down in other formats than the bubble bar as Lush usually only produces the shower gel version in the Kitchen and that makes a rare appearance. 

The Comforter shower cream was originally developed as an Oxford Street exclusive and was one of the things I was the most excited to pick up when I first went up there, but this product has been released all over shops in the UK and is available to purchase online too probably making it a best selling product given the popularity of the bubble bar. I'm certainly thankful that I don't have to search on eBay or wait on the Kitchen to grab a bottle of this gorgeous smelling fragrance. 

For those who haven't tried/ smelt the Comforter bubble bar, it literally smells like sweet black currants with a slight hint of vanilla to make it slightly more dimensional in fragrance. Other products that Lush offer do have a very similar scent family such as Respect Your Elders soap and You Snap The Whip, but this shower cream has replicated the scent of the bubble bar perfectly in my opinion. It has a wonderful, sweet fruity scent and honestly smells like it could be a coulis on top of a summer pudding!

As the name suggests, this is more of a moisturising shower wash rather than a cleansing gel and it left my skin silky smooth, smelling incredible and well moisturised. For those who did manage to grab a bottle of the shower gel, this is slightly different. Firstly, this is thinner in consistency and secondly, it is a  completely different colour. This is a vivid pink that harks back to the bubble bar but this has got silver lustre throughout that gives a shimmery glitteryness to the liquid, not dissimilar to the lustre found in the Twilight shower gel. 

This lathers up quite well with a body puff and creates soft pink bubbles that spread easily over your body but the only problem I did have with the cream was that I accidently get some on the bathroom rug and it did stain and I used a white body puff and it did stain that as well so do be careful! 

This started to work as soon as the lather hit my skin, leaving it moisturised, soft, silky and smelling amazing and the fragrance did last for a while meaning that you get wafts of fruity goodness throughout the day and it was only at the end of the day that I felt that I needed to moisturise. 

This is one of my all time favourite shower creams to date and will certainly be a permenant product in my collection, especially as you can now buy a kilogram of it! 

5*/5* 

£4.75 for 100g 

£9.50 for 250g 

£15.95 for 500g 

£27.50 for 1kg 

Calacas Shower Gel

Ingredients: Water, Aloe Vera Gel, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Lauryl Betaine, Propylene Glycol, Perfume, Lime Oil, Olibanum Oil, Neroli Oil, Lactic Acid, Citral, Geraniol, Limonene, Linalool, Colour 42090, Colour 45350, Methylparaben and Propylparaben.

Vegan 
When speaking to long time Lush fans, one fragrance always comes up in conversation - Calacas. This extremely popular fragrance was first released for Halloween (please correct me if I'm wrong) with the name 'Day of the Dead' and is inspired by the Mexican celebration, Dia de los Muertos. 

Dias de los Muertos take place on November 1st and 2nd, All Souls Day in the Christian Calendar and honours the dead with festivals and lively celebrations that combine indigenous Aztec ritual with Catholicism.  They celebrate the lives of the deceased with food, drink and parties and other activities that the dead enjoyed doing in life. The dead are part of the community at this time and are awakened from their sleep to share in the celebrations. The most recognisable symbols from this festival may be the Calacas and Calaveras (skeletons and skulls) which appear everywhere during this period and are usually portrayed as enjoying life. They might only be half decorated as this represents the duality between life and death and how, in the end, we shall all become a skeleton. The festival is made up of two days each celebrating death. Dia de los Inocentes is on the first day of November and honours the children that have died and Dia de los Muertos which celebrates the adults' lives. 

The description on the bottle reads 'Very superstitious... Wash your face and hands with a jelly bean scented blast from the Mexican past.' This perfectly summarises this beautiful concoction of lemon and lime zestiness creating a wonderful sweet citrusy scent that is supported from the neroli essential oils and lime oil that would be perfect all year round; from waking you up in winter to a sunny boost in the summer. It has a lasting scent and every so often you get a delicious fragrance wafting up to your nose. 

From looking on eBay to see if I could find an old bottle, Calacas used to be a lime green, a colour to match the fragrance, but due to discolouration after a couple of months it has been changed to an almost see through greeny/orange. Luckily before purchasing an old bottle on eBay, the Kitchen announced that it would be made and I grabbed myself two bottles of goodness. 

It is quite a thick shower gel, similar in consistency to It's Raining Men, and produces a nice amount of lather when used with a shower puff. It leaves you feeling uplifted and refreshed with silky smooth skin to boot.

I am so glad that I was able to purchase Calacas and hopefully it will be out in the Kitchen next year some time so I can stock back up again. This fragrance was available in other formats so even if it turns up in a shower jelly, bath ballistic or perfume I shall certainly be purchasing it! 

5*/5* 

£10.25 for 250g 

Skydancer - Far From The Maddening Guns

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Cream of Tartar, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Water, Bergamot Oil, Cinnamon Leaf Oil, Sicilian Lemon Oil, Lauryl Betaine, Benzyl Benzoate, Lilial, Eugenol, Limonene, Perfume, Potassium Aluminium Silicate, Titanium Dioxide, Iron Oxides, Colour 47005, Colour 42053 and Colour 42090:2

This doesn't say that it is Vegan on the website but another Lush reviewer who is vegan has tried it so I assume that it is ok! 

This beautifully designed bath bomb has been created by Lush in order to support English Hen Harriers. They say that 'Profits from each and every one of these soft floral and liquorice-scented bath bombs will help fund equipment to satellite tag many endangered hen harrier chicks born in the coming years.With bergamot, Sicilian lemon and cinnamon leaf oils, this bath bomb will take you under its wing and fight wildlife crime in one clean sweep.' For those of you who don't know, Lush is an extremely charitable company with very strong ethics and will often create products to raise awareness and support for their cause e.g. animal welfare, human rights and environmental conservation. They have an ongoing Charity Pot which is a hand and body lotion, and some more limited edition products such as the #GayisOk Soap, the May Day bath bomb (in support of Brian May and the Badger Culls) and finally Skydancer. 

In an article published on the Lush website, it explains why they have chosen this charity to support; 

England’s most endangered bird is being intensively persecuted: the beautiful bird of prey of open moorland, which feeds on red grouse, is regarded a pest by gamekeepers on grouse shooting estates. While there is thought to be enough suitable habitats in the country for more than 300 breeding pairs, just four pairs bred in 2014 raising 16 chicks. Three of these fledglings, Sky, Hope and Highlander, were satellite tagged to track their progress when they flew the nest in the hope that wildlife conservationists could learn more about these increasingly rare birds. Yet both Sky and Hope disappeared over the Forest of Bowland within days of each other. Neither tags nor bodies have been found on the site in which they vanished, raising suspicions that both were destroyed or disposed of. Volunteers watching the nesting sites have reported that another five male birds have vanished this summer whilst hunting miles away from the nest.  Without both adults caring for the eggs, a female hen harrier faces starvation unless she leaves her nest to hunt forcing her to abandon the nesting site and the eggs cooling beyond survival.

This bath bomb has an extremely potent scent, one that if I had smelt in store I don't think I would have put one in my basket. It has a scent that vaguely smells of liquorice (which I loathe) and a slight floral element too and when it arrived in the post, it engulfed my room with the smell and overpowered the other bath bombs that I had purchased alongside it and every time I smelt it, a new element of the fragrance came to the foreground. Thankfully, it wasn't nearly as strong when it was in the bath and it mellowed out to give a lovely soft perfume. 

As you can see, the width is nearly the height of a 250g bottle
of shower gel

This is quite a slow dissolver as it is HUGE so it is worth putting it in when you first draw your bath and letting it dissolve as the water rises or you can sit back and relax and let it dissolve around you, either way it takes about 15 - 20 minutes for it to fully dissolve. If you are careful enough when putting Skydancer in, the yellow ring will dissolve first making it appear that the bird in the centre is flying around your tub which I think adds to the whole experience. 

I really love this bath bomb so it is probably I good thing that I got it online rather than in a store as otherwise I would have never purchased it so it shows that you should always take a risk with Lush and try products that you might not otherwise try so I think that when I get back to Bath, I shall try and purchase some of the bath ballistics and bubble bars such as Grass, Big Blue etc (in other words, not the sweet or citrus scented products) and see how I get on with those! This bath bomb turns the water a similar yellow colour to Fizzbanger with a thick layer of white foam on top and the water is velvety smooth and moisturising without being greasy on the skin at all and left my skin silky smooth with a beautiful fragrance too that lasts for a good couple of hours. 

This is a really special limited edition bath bomb with a unique fragrance that I don't believe Lush has recreated in any other products and the fact that money will be going to charity as well makes this product extremely good value for money and because it is so big, you could certainly split it into halves or thirds but certainly try one whole for the full experience. I'm not sure how long this product will be around for so grab one whilst you can! 

5*/5*

£3.95

Error 404 Bath Bomb

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Rosewood Oil, Geranium Oil, Orange Flower Absolute, Cream of Tartar, Gardenia Extract, Water, Lilial, Citronellol, Coumarin, Geraniol, Linalool, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Antique Gold Lustre, Bronze Splendour Lustre, Glacier Blue Lustre, Colour 42053.

Vegan

This bath bomb used to be for only those in the know. Hidden away in Lush's website, this was an Easter Egg for savvy shoppers to find and enjoy. Error 404 is normally used when a page or website can't be find, a nice little nod to the fact that the bath bomb is not meant to exist and Easter Eggs are used in the gaming community as an inside joke and have spread to movies and tv shows as well. I believe I read somewhere that it was inspired by Ridley Scott's Alien film and the alien eggs? Not actually seen the film but from the film poster, I can see where the idea might have come from and the back design might have been inspired by an early games designer, Atari, who first used Easter Eggs in their games.

The outside of this egg is dusted with a bronze lustre that might put off some people and although it does transfer to your fingers whilst you move it, it doesn't leave any stain around the bath edge so it should not put you off and it is easy to wash off your hands.

About the size of the Golden Egg Ballistic that is released around Easter, this bath bomb spews out blueish/green foam that transforms the bath to a beautiful turquoise colour in the end with a slight shimmer provided by the lustre. Although quite a potent, but not unpleasant, perfume in it's solid form, it is not especially strong smelling when in the bath tub and it was quite a subtle scent when it had dried on my skin but it didn't last that long which was unfortunate. On the plus side, the bath water was silky smooth.

Although this is a lovely bath bomb, I'm not sure whether I would repurchase this as it didn't exactly blow me away so I don't know whether I just had quite high expectations that weren't met or what. I do have 2 more so I shall give it another go!

3*/5*
£4.04 each

I've enhanced this picture so that the 404 is clear!