Lush Easter 2024 Sneak Peek

 Hey everyone! 

Welcome to a brand new blog post! The lovely Community Team at Lush sent me some of the Easter products before they drop in store this Thursday and I thought that I’d talk to you all about what I got sent. 

Sticky Dates Sugar Scrub 

It’s time to scrub that sticky icky feeling off yourself! 

Okay so it’s no surprise that I love Sticky Dates. It’s an amazing scent that lasts forever on the skin and just oozes comfort. This superb scrub contains Caster Sugar and Golden Caster Sugar to really help buff dead skin away. This scrub also contains Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Extra Virgin Coconut Oil and Argan Oil to ensure that this scrub isn’t too stripping for the skin and to ensure that your skin can be as soft and supple as possible! Argan Oil is quite well known for its soothing and conditioning properties! This scrub also contains Date Syrup, Benzoin Resinoid, Sandalwood Oil & Carob Resinoid. To me, this scrub has a quite sweet scent and it is utterly divine! It reminds me of Sticky Toffee Pudding. The Golden Caster Sugar and Date Syrup do seem to intensify the scent a bit compared to the O.G Sticky Dates Shower Gel. The scrub itself is gorgeous. It’s gritty but not too gritty and a little is needed. I have quite dry skin so I do like to scrub often or have a deep scrub and this scrub worked wonders on my skin. If you’ve tried the Barbie Scrub or the Old Songs Are Waking scrub  and loved the texture then you will love this one as they share the same texture!! If you like sweet scents, sticky toffee or want something comforting and good enough to eat to scrub away dead skin with then I would definitely recommend giving this a go.  Priced at £10 for a 135g tub or £20 for a 290g tub. 

Sticky Dates Body Lotion 

Well your skin needs to be nourished before that first date during the Easter holidays! 

Following on with the Sticky Dates love, for their Easter 2024 range, Lush have released a Sticky Dates Lotion and oh my it is fabulous! I am so happy to be adding this to my Sticky Dates shrine. Yes you heard right, shrine. Don’t judge me! This lotion contains Organic Jojoba Oil, Sunflower Oil which is rich in Vitamin E, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter and Organic Illipe Butter to ensure that the skin is truly moisturised. The lotion contains Vanilla Pod Decoction (fun fact, this is actually made in house at Lush), Carob Resinoid, Sandalwood Oil and Benzoin Resinoid. This blend of oils creates a gorgeous dessert scent that reminds me personally of when you walk into a house and you can tell someone has been baking. I love this lotion, it’s light but severely moisturising which is quite hard to achieve! When I’ve used it, I’ve noticed that it sinks into the skin quite easily which is great because I hate it when you have to stand and wait after applying body products to ensure that you’re not left with a greasy feeling on the skin. As mentioned, I adore Sticky Dates so I’ll definitely be layering this with the Body Spray when I go out to make sure everyone wonders what is that gorgeous scent that I am wearing. If you’ve been wanting something that deeply nourishes the skin or want a gorgeous new body product to use when you’re going out out in 2024 then I would definitely recommend picking a bottle up! Priced at £10 for a 100g bottle and £20 for a 250g bottle. 

Easter Turtle Shower Jelly 

It’s time for this turtle to move from Easter Island to the bathroom! 

This shower jelly contains Bladderwhack Seaweed Infusion, Sugar Kelp Infusion, Carrageenan Extract, Myrrh Resinoid, Orange Flower Absolute and Cinnamon Leaf Oil: This blend of ingredients creates a deep Spiced Apple scent to me. The infusions bring a sort of fresh undertone to the scent which pushes the Apple a little bit more the forefront compared to the spiced scent which comes from mainly the Cinnamon that is in this jelly. Bladderwhack and Sugar Kelp are both known for their moisturising properties and they definitely do help to nourish the body when you use this wonderful turtle.  This terrific turtle is massive and a little will go a long way. I use it via just swiping Easter Turtle over my body but if you’re feeling sadistic you can always chop them up into smaller bits. I love the scent of this Turtle but I love anything spicy. Anyone that knows me knows that I’m a fiend for anything flavoured or scented with spices such as Cinnamon. I definitely need to name my Easter Turtle! Leave your suggestions down below! This Shower Jelly shares the same scent as Temptation Shower Gel and Apple Crumble Bubble Bar from Lush and I know a fair few of you miss the Gel so this would be a great replacement if you are missing it! If you’re looking for a cute new shower product or for something that will stimulate and nourish the skin whilst the weather is slowly getting a little bit better or for a product to help the kids wash then I would definitely recommend Easter Turtle! Priced at £14 for a 220g Turtle. 

Hot Cross  Bunny Bubble Bar 

To paraphrase Bridget Jones, this bubble bar is for when you need to go home and de-bunny! 

This bubble bar contains Sicilian Lemon OIl, Ginger Oil, Ginger Powder & Buchu Oil. To me, this amalgamation  of ingredients creates a very spicy scent with a  blast of Lemon and a slight citrusy blackcurrant undertone from the Buchu. I love anything Ginger and Lemon so when I smelt this I was in heaven! I also use Ginger in my baths quite often due to forever being in pain or when I accidentally whack my body when I’m rushing to get out or on a train (this happened last week) as it not only helps to soothe aching muscles but also aids circulation which is great for this time of year! If you’re a Lushie who remembers some of the retro products then you may know the scent of this bubble bar via Gingerbread House or Mercury Retrograde!. Lush decided to use this scent due to a suggestion by xpeachx on Discord so here’s my suggestion, Lush put this scent into a Shower Gel or Body Spray please! If you’re looking for something warming and to help you destress during the Easter time then I do really recommend this Bubble Bar. I’d also recommend screaming into the tub whilst you crumble it if you need to! Priced at £5.

Thank you so much to the wonderful Community Team and Finley for sending me these amazing goodies before they drop in store! You can already order them via the Lush App but if you prefer to go in store then the Easter range which includes the above products will be available in store and on the Lush website from tomorrow (Thursday 15th February 2024). 

Will you be checking out the Easter range? Do you like the sound of any of the products mentioned? Do you like the Lush Sticky Dates scent? Let me know down below!

Thanks for reading!

Jamie x

The products mentioned in this post were gifted by Lush but all opinions and views are my own!  

We Stick Together In This Community! | Sticky Dates Body Spray from Lush X Community Fragrance Range

Hey everyone! 

Welcome to a brand new blog post! The wonderful people at the Lush Community Team including Finley sent me one of the new fragrances from the upcoming Lush X Community Range and I thought that today I would talk to you all about it.  

What is the Lush X Community range? The range is a selection of fragrances that will be produced im a small batch for the public that are in popular scents that have been requested by the Lush Community via platforms such as Discord. In this range, there are a selection of both Body Sprays and Perfumes. The Body Sprays that will be available to purchase are Golden Pear, Sticky Dates & Tramp. The fragrances that will be on offer are Creamy Candy, Super Milk (that some of you may know due to the product becoming quite viral on TikTok), Tender Is The Night and  the ooky spooky Toil & Trouble. If you like the sound of any of the scents listed above and you want to get your hands on them then you won’t have to wait long. The Lush X Community range is available to purchase on the 21st November on the Lush App and are available to purchase from the Lush Website from 23rd November. 

Sticky Dates Body Spray

The wonderful people at Lush gifted me the Sticky Dates Body Spray from the Lush X Community Range. 

Sticky Dates Body Spray contains Carob Resinoid, Benzoin Resinoid & Sandalwood Oil to create a truly delectable scent.  

When I initially sprayed the Body Spray, I was hit with an intoxicating yet comforting Sticky Toffee scent that is to die for. The sweet Toffee scent was the first sort of note to come to my nose which is mainly from the Carob Resinoid. After a while, the other two notes blend together to create a beautiful scent that is just like the Shower Gel. The best way to explain this scent from when I sprayed until well the next day is to imagine the scent of a sticky toffee pudding that had just been freshly baked. Crisp and charred on the top and gooey and sweet on the inside. The fact that they’ve made a scent that’s so delicious and edible in a fragrance format is truly wonderful! 

I did notice that after a fair few hours (around the 6-7 hour mark), a distinct smoky yet still toffee pudding scent was happening on my skin which I adored. I guess in regards of comparing this to other Lush scents, imagine The Experimenter mixed with Sticky Dates.  

The lasting power of this Body Spray is truly amazing! I sprayed it at 9 in the morning and I could smell it by midnight. I had ran about, caught trains, used other scents on my body and done a plethora of other things and I could still smell it quite clearly and strongly on my body. I did also spray it on the top of my T-shirt that I wore whilst I was away at the beginning of the week (which is when I decided to review Sticky  Dates Body Spray). I haven’t fully sorted my bag out but every time I open it I get a massive whiff of the Body Spray which I truly adore. 

Now I know what all you Lushies are thinking! Is it similar to any other scents? Honesty not really. The nearest is say is Yog Nog but even then there is a definitive difference between the two. Yog Nog is more creamy whereas Sticky Dates is rich and comes across slightly spiced. Turmeric Latte could be a good one to layer it with but even then there’s a definitive difference again. Turmeric Latte is comforting yet soft with a sort of Oat Milk note behind it whereas Sticky Dates has an element of comfort but is definitely spiced and ready to party. It also has that sort of toffee cooked for hours note which Turmeric Latte definitely doesn’t have. I do love both of them though. I guess the easiest way to describe it is via the analogy that I’ve made previously in the post. 

Would I recommend you buying it? Oh my god definitely. It’s Winter in a Body Spray bottle. It’s Gourmand. It’s a pudding that you can wear. It’s a scent that strangers will  compliment you on. Trust me, it happened to me. If you like the Sticky Dates scent at all then buy it as soon as it drops on the app or online. I can totally see why it has been released into the Lushiverse! 

(I haven’t been told the prices of these fragrances so you’ll have to wait until Tuesday to find out!) 

Again, thanks to Finley and the Community Team for sending me this Body Spray! Will you be picking up any of the Lush X Community Fragrances? Let me know down below!

Thanks for reading! 

Jamie x 

The product in this post was sent to me via PR. All views and opinions are my own. 

Lush Eid Range 2022 First Impressions

Hey everyone! 

Welcome to a brand new blog post. I thought that today I would talk to you all about the Eid range from Lush. 

Sticky Dates Shower Gel

Who doesn’t love to get sticky? I love a good shower gel so I was excited to see what this gel was going to be like. This Gel contains Organic Date Syrup, Vanilla Pod Infusion, Fresh Orange Juice, Carob and Benzoin Resinoids and Sandalwood Oil. To me, this pretty much smells of a slightly sort of burnt caramel and sticky toffee pudding hybrid which I absolutely love. I’m a massive fan of anything sweet that has a slightly smoky/burnt/complex hint to it. This gel also boasts a low lather formula but to me it is more of a foam texture when lathered up more than anything else. Definitely worth going in and sniffing! Priced from £8. 

Light The Night Bath Bomb 

Let’s turn off the light tonight. This bath bomb contains Jasmine and Vanilla Absolutes, Labdanum and Olibanum Resinoids, Rose Syrup and Pomegranate Molasses. To me, it’s not the most amazing bath bomb. It’s very Jasmine heavy and if you love that then definitely get it but to me it smells of cheap Conditioner and I really wished that you could detect more of Rose and Pomegranate but sadly it’s just Jasmine, Jasmine and more Jasmine to me. Priced at £6.

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Have you checked out the Eid range? 

Thanks for reading! 

Jamie x