I am waiting impatiently for Lush's new Wash Behind Your Ears to arrive in the US. "You’ll want every inch of your body to smell as addictively fresh and familiar as this jasmine and rose gel - even your ears! So lavish your skin in a bouquet of floral fragrance and be uplifted by notes of neroli, while conditioning organic sunflower oil leaves skin feeling soft and sunny." It also has "fresh carrot infusion" and "gardenia extract". Currently listed as "coming soon" at Lush UK.
Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess, the brand’s yearly limited edition summer fragrance, is back, featuring new packaging for 2017, plus a new Eau de Parfum concentration…
A trio of "Liberty Print" soaps: "Be spoilt for choice with our Trio Set of premium Soaps, in the beautiful scents of Bergamot, Lemon and Fig. Designed to tingle the senses, the individually wrapped soaps come packaged in our iconic art deco style Liberty Print wrap, making them the perfect gift or bathroom shelf accessory." £20 at Liberty London.
As long as they’ve been around, Lush have excelled at rethinking everyday bath and body products as novelties. Bubble bath in a solid orb? Body scrub molded into a palm-sized square? A heart-shaped bar of lotion? Check. Now they’ve transformed the most basic self-care ritual of all with a “solid toothpaste alternative” called Toothy Tabs.
Toothy Tabs are small pellets about the size of aspirin tablets, packaged in a container not unlike an actual aspirin bottle. You pop one “tab” into your mouth, chew it lightly so that it breaks up a bit (don’t swallow!), and then start pushing it around with a wet toothbrush. The tab will dissolve into a gently abrasive foam that really does an effective job…
Well! I’ve already dropped some hints, but this week is actually my ten-year anniversary at Now Smell This. My very first post, a review of Lush’s Bathos Bubble Bar, went live on December 17th, 2006. I’ve used countless body products over the past decade, but I’m still shopping at Lush, so this review is a return to my (scented) roots.
Since this a busy and often stressful time of year, I’ve decided to focus on two lavender-fragranced products. Lavender (as you most likely know!) is recommended in aromatherapy as a calming influence…