Snow Showers Shower Jelly

If you'd asked me six months ago, what I thought about the Snow Showers scent, I'd have probably shrugged my shoulders and uttered the words, 'It's alright'. I'd acquired a large 500g bottle of the shower gel, and invested in a couple of pots of the jelly when it came out during the December retro range. However, it wasn't until I began to use both of these products, that I came to realise how much I loved the scent.

Featured in both their Golden Wonder seasonal Ballistic and their new Celebrate Lotion, Christmas is the perfect time to bring back this popular shower jelly; it's a great scent to wash away those seasonal blues with. Unfortunately, it took me  close to four months to actually experience this amazing product, due to the back log of products I had to get through first. Now that I've finally shared a shower with this beauty, I will be stocking up each and every time Lush release this. 

Snow Showers Shower Jelly is a luxuriously refreshing, milky-white, snowy shower jelly scented with wild oranges and cognac. It has a bright, citrus kick to it which makes it refreshingly zesty and a great product to spruce those senses up throughout the coldest months of the year. Containing a mixture of orange oil, cognac oil, and lime oil, this jelly offers both a strong scent to bathe in and a gentle texture to soften and moisturise you skin. It also features softening elderflower and seaweed gel and lathers up a treat to clean body and hair with. 

One feature that makes the shower jelly effective in the bathroom, is that it can be stretched further than the regular shower gel version might. You only need to break a little bit off, and the lather it creates will clean your entire body from head to toe. Whether it was me being greedy, or whether it's a product default, I found that when I used the shower gel, I ended up using twice the volume that I did when using the jelly format. This makes it much better value for money than it's liquid counterpart. 

There are several ways that you can use the shower jelly. Firstly, you can rub the whole block, or a broken-off piece, directly onto your skin. However, I find that this is fairly ineffective as it does not create much of a lather and the jelly becomes too wet, making it slippery and difficult to hold on to. What I find works for me, is breaking off a grape-sized piece and then rubbing it into a sponge or shower-puff, before lathering all over my body. This tends to help the jelly foam up, wherein the puff them holds the lather whilst you clean yourself.  

After using this, my skin feels really soft and refreshed, and the scent lingers for a while on my skin. Furthermore, I have tried freezing this product and then using it in the shower, and have found that it makes a wonderful addition to your routine when the weather is hot and you need cooling down, while still wanting to clean yourself under hot water.

Unfortunately, despite the beautiful fragrance and how soft it leaves my skin, there are drawbacks to this jelly. Firstly, Snowshowers is a limited edition product, so don't get too attached; you may find you'll only be able to use it once a year! Secondly, and probably the biggest issue, is that shower jellies are hard work to use in the shower, and I often get rather frustrated at how many times I drop or lose my piece of jelly down the plughole. Shower jellies are much more fiddly to use, and I always revert back to my shower gels when I can. This is something I've gotten used to over time, but it's never going to be easy as using a gel. 

I love that Lush are trying to find new and creative ways to present their products in, and I recognise that this jelly is more economically sound, as it's sold in a pot that is recyclable, unlike their shower jellies. However, I see no reason why Lush couldn't do the same for their shower gels and simply re-home them in shower jelly-style tubs. Having said this, I won't be able to resist purchasing a few tubs of this when it comes back into the kitchen this week. 

Quantitative Ingredients: Fair Trade Organic Sesame Oil, Glycerine, Elderflower Infusion, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Propylene Glycol, Carrageenan Extract, Perfume, Sweet Orange Oil, Cognac Oil, Lime Oil, Titanium Dioxide, Citral, Limonene, Linalool, Methylparaben.

Vegan?: Yes. 

2014 Price: £7.95 for 240g.

2015 Price: £7.95 for 240g.

2016 Price: £7.95 for 240g.

2017 Price: £7.95 for 240g.

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