I think it's only fair to start this review by putting many fans of Snowcake out of their misery and state that this brand new limited edition body lotion does not share the same scent as any of the popular products in this scent family. While there are lots of almond qualities about this seasonal release that may remind consumers of the aforementioned seasonal favourite, I happen to think that it is very different from the classic Snowcake fragrance.
Having said that, when I first gave Snowflake a sniff from the tub, and rubbed a little into my skin, there was definitely something present in this body lotion that reminded me of Snowcake. However, after using it for the past couple of weeks, I can safely say that I have noticed many differences about the smell that makes it unique from anything else that has come out before.
From the tub, the body lotion offers many subtle layers that work in unison with each other. First of all, there is definitely something very creamy and almond-like about the product. Coupled with the cocoa butter, the base layer of this smells very smooth and silky.
Alongside this, both the cedarwood and sandalwood help to intensify this base layer with their own grounded, woody notes. Although you aren't really able to detect either particularly strongly, you can definitely tell that there is 'something' there to thicken out the overall aroma, and add depth to the fragrance overall.
Yet, alongside this there is also quite a pronounced layer of both apricot and rose. While the latter brings about something quite warm and sweet and delicately floral (as you would expect from most of Lush's rose-dominated products) the apricot gives the body lotion almost a sharp fruity element as well.
In all honesty, there is something about the latter component that spoils this body lotion for me, although luckily the apricot scent disperses after settling on the skin for a while. In a way, I don't think the apricot really suits being here as it's not really able to flourish by itself and offer something super sweet and juicy. Instead, both this and the rose seem to clash a little to my nose, and the combination offers something a little strange and alluring.
Perhaps this was intentional, who knows. But what I appreciate is that it is certainly something very new to the range this year, and definitely doesn't offer an experience that would be limited to a particular season. Unfortunately, I cannot really see this scent working in most other formats so it's a little limited in this way.
What I did appreciate about Snowflake was that both the rose and the creamy notes of almond intensified from the warmth of my skin after I had applied it, and the apricot seemed to disperse quite a fair bit as well. These former two components then remained on my skin for a good couple of hours after application.
While this lotion is slightly on the thinner side, you really don't need an awful lot to cover a large area of your body. However, once the product has been massaged into the skin, it does tend to take a little longer than usual to fully absorb into the body. While you're not left with greasy skin, there is 'something' present on the surface for a good twenty minutes after you've applied the lotion.
After using this for a couple of weeks, I found that my skin began to look and feel healthier - particularly my legs that had began to show signs of being dry following the sudden change in weather. Despite how thin the body lotion was, I really felt as if it covered a thick coverage across the body, which will be vital during the colder months of the year.
As to whether I would buy this again, that would all depend on my mood at the time. It doesn't offer a scent that I particularly relish in, although I'm not by any means saying that the fragrance is at all bad. However, it did improve the condition of my skin, and leave it with a gentle radiance - all in matter of days/weeks - so Snowflake would be a good body lotion to use when the frosty weather begins to take hold. This is a product that does a good job but probably won't be one remembered in future months/years time.
Quantitative Ingredients: Almond Milk, Apricot Kernel Oil, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Rose Water, Glycerine, Organic Illipe Butter, Stearic Acid, Perfume, Fair Trade Almond Oil, Triethanolamine, Cedarwood Oil, Coriander Seed Oil, Sandalwood Oil, Almond essential oil, Tincture of Benzoin, Cetearyl Alcohol, *Citral, *Citronellol, *Farnesol, Geraniol, *Limonene, *Linalool.
Vegan?: Yes.
2019 Price: £10 for 100g, £18 for 225g.
Year Of Original Release: 2019.
As I've said in other product reviews that share the same scent, Butterball may have a lovely scent but there is nothing special about it in any way, shape or form. Yes of course it stands out above other cocoa butter smelling cosmetics; yes of course most products perform really well as you'd expect Lush items to do. However, there's just nothing that makes it stand out above all of the company's other wonderful smells, and so it tends to get ignored most of the time by myself.
Please don't for one second think that I am in any way saying that Butterball Body Lotion doesn't smell amazing: it does. However, this is definitely a lotion for people who appreciate the simpler smells from Lush. The scent of this body lotion is definitely not going to be one that sends consumers into a frenzy: it just is what it is.
Sharing its scent with the original Butterball Bath Bomb, this limited edition is one of ten body lotions to make an appearance in the Lush Kitchen this month. In all fairness, this was probably the one I was least excited about: not because I expected to dislike it, just because I assumed I would react very little to what it had to offer me. And I was right.
With a strong thread of cocoa butter and synthetic musk, this body lotion is both chocolately and vanillary at the same time. It's a creamy, slightly decadent fragrance that wraps around your skin like a warm blanket. It's as if someone has melted chocolate ice cream into a bowl and then added a generous helping of vanilla absolute on top. If you're into foody smells, this is definitely one you should try.
However, the smell you get in the tub is a terrible representation of how it smells once it's been applied to the skin. Before use, the lotion gave off more of a musky, vanilla smell, with just a hint of the cocoa butter underneath. Yet, when the lotion was applied to my skin, the smell exploded and multiplied tenfold, and I couldn't stop sniffing my skin for a good ten minutes afterwards.
On the skin, Butterball Body Lotion is much stronger; more rounded; and far more delicious. There is something rather dusty about the fragrance in motion, and I really felt as if this would be a product I would gravitate towards when the weather begins to drop in temperature. This could easily replicate a comfort blanket for those looking for solace in something sweet.
The amount of cocoa butter means that this body lotion also happens to be super moisturising, and I could feel the difference it made to my skin after a couple of days of use. My skin felt plump and more rounded, and I found that the dry patches between my fingers disappeared very quickly with continuous application.
Funnily enough, I was expecting Butterball to be one of the thickest lotions from the latest release, given how much cocoa butter has gone into making it so creamy and chocolately. However, I found it to be a little thinner than the other lotions, which meant that it absorbed into the skin slightly quicker than many of the other variations.
Furthermore, the fragrance lingered on my body for a good 2-3 hours after application, and my skin still looked and felt plumper afterwards as well. This is definitely more suited to the colder months of the year - for its smell is perhaps a bit too cloying to use during the summer, and the condition it leaves your skin is more suited when you're trying to rehydrate and condition your parched body.
Overall, Butterball fans will love this rendition of their favourite scents, and I definitely cannot fault how effective it is on the body. However, the fragrance itself is nothing special in my eyes, and I'll be continuing my love affair with Yog Nog while I find this lotion a new home.
Quantitative Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Almond Oil, Glycerine, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Jojoba Oil, Stearic Acid, Organic Illipe Butter, Triethanolamine, Ylang Ylang Oil, Synthetic Musk, Cetearyl Alcohol, Perfume.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £14.95 for 225g.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Angel Hair Solid Shampoo Bar
Butterball Bath Bomb
Butterball Body Conditioner
Butterball Body Lotion
Butterball Liquid Perfume
Butterball Perfume Oil
Butterball Shower Gel
Butterbear Bath Ballistic
Butterbear Shower Jelly
The Ex Factor Bath Bomb
Gentle Lentil Solid Shampoo
The Snowman Ballistic
Last year, the Lush Kitchen brought out a handful of limited edition body lotions, and Calacas was one of them. At the time, I thought it was one of the most exciting releases of the decade - for anyone who's a long time Lush fan will know just how popular the Calacas/Day Of The Dead range is to the community, and indeed myself. Some people had been waiting near on a century for the opportunity to lather themselves up with their favourite fragrance, and now it was finally happening.
Unfortunately, I found out very quickly that all of these body lotions had clearly been made with the same base ingredients, and a little perfume had been added to give the product its signature scent. This meant that the lotions weren't exactly of the greatest quality and the smell didn't stick around all that much to make it worth the hype that the company had been building up.
This time around, the body lotions have clearly had some time invested in them, because the colours they offer; the consistencies that differ; and the way my skin has responded to them all, is a clear testament that actually it was THIS release fans had actually been waiting for, and the previous must have been a warm up.
Yet despite this, Calacas is still one of the weakest ones out of the whole collection. That's not to say that it isn't a great body lotion, nor that Lush have done anything wrong. Just that I've come to realise that I don't ever think Calacas will ever truly make an amazing body lotion, and here's why...
Firstly, I should stay that I was both disappointed and excited by the colour upon opening the lid for the first time. On the one hand, the wonderfuly sultry shade of yellow is definitely a lot more interesting than the plain white lotion we received with the first attempt. However, the zestiness of the fragrance tells me that this lotion should definitely be a bright spring green to match the beautiful smell.
The lotion itself is fairly thick - a little thicker than the original Lush Kitchen release but not by much - and spreads across the skin with ease. Those with hairs on their arms may notice that it takes a little extra massaging to help it absorb into the skin in these areas. However, I didn't have any problems moisturising myself with this at all, and found that I could re-apply my clothes a matter of minutes after application. You don't have to worry about Calacas rubbing off onto anything else as your skin doesn't stay sticky after you've moisturised.
From the tub, the scent is definitely a step in the right direction. Whereas I felt as if the first Calacas release had a strong note from the base ingredients, which seemed to thwart the fruitiness of the lime getting though as much as it could, this one doesn't seem to have this at all. A quick comparison of the two ingredients list shows me that Lush have altered the base of this one now, so there's probably more featured in this lotion to hold and project the fragrance even further.
Having said that, there is still something slightly reserved about the smell of this lotion, and this is what leads me to believe that perhaps this particular fragrance is never going to hold up well enough in certain formats. While I love the Calacas family as one of my favourites, I really don't think that the lotion is a good representative of what this scent can do.
On the skin, the lotion leaves your skin wonderfully soft and smooth, and just like the other lotions in this release, I could notice a difference after only my first use. When using a little on my face, I could see a gentle shine that stayed with me for most of the day, and my face appeared slightly more radiant in the mirror.
Despite this, the scent didn't last particularly well on the skin. Within about forty minutes after application, I could no longer smell the gorgeous fruity lime aroma, while the perfume I had sprayed at the same time as applying the lotion was still going strong. As I had lathered up two arms with two lotions that day, it was disappointing to find that I could still smell the other lotion for almost two hours more, while Calacas had already crept away.
Ultimately, fans of Calacas will want to pick this up. While not as spritzy as the liquid perfume, the lotion does replicate the scent family well. The lotion is also great at improving the condition of your skin in short succession, and adds a little radiance to your body.
Yet, the scent doesn't last on the skin very long and isn't as vibrant or as zesty as it is in other formats. Having said that, I honestly don't think that Lush are to blame for this at all; I truly believe that this fragrance just isn't suited for some formats, and a body lotion just doesn't have the strength to hold and project that wonderful note of lime that we all love. While it's a step in the right direction, it's not quite enough to score a higher rating from me.
Quantitative Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Almond Oil, Glycerine, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Cold Pressed Grapeseed Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil, Stearic Acid, Fresh Aloe Gel, Organic Illipe Butter, Triethanolamine, Lime Oil, Olibanum Oil, Neroli Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Benzyl Salicylate, *Citral, *Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, *Limonene, *Linalool, Perfume, Colour 45350, Colour 42090, Colour 59040.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £16.95 for 225g.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Calacas Shower Gel
Calacas Shower Jelly
Calacas/Day of The Dead Perfume
Lady Catrina Soap
Man In The Moon Bubble Bar
Monsters' Ball Bath Bomb
Skullduggery Ballistic
Over the years the Honey I Washed The Kids range has slowly diversified, and my love for the fragrance has don nothing but grow and grow. While I would describe it as quite a foody smell, and I'm normally one to those people that have to be in the right frame of mind to want to use products like this, HIWTK is one of those rare exceptions.
Although Lush have described this limited edition as a 'honey-scented' lotion, there is something far more beautiful and delicious about this Kitchen exclusive, that makes this description seem far too simplistic for my liking. In fact, I would go as far as to say that, alongside Honey I Washed The Kids Body Spray, this might very well be my favourite format in this scent.
Upon opening the tub, I was greeted with a lotion coloured a gorgeous, summery shade of yellow, which not only brought an immediate smile to my face, but also made the product seem far too much like pudding for my liking. The temptation to grab a spoon and sample a mouthful was all too real: I had to remind myself of what went down last time I tried to eat a Lush product...
Noni I Washed The Kids was definitely one of the strongest lotions from the Lush Kitchen's latest batch. To my nose, I could smell a beautiful layer of sugary, sticky toffee laced with a sweet, fruity orange top note. Underneath this, there was a mild, buttery element from the cocoa butter base, although I wouldn't describe the smell of offers as being chocolately: simply creamy.
While there isn't any honey present in the ingredients list, and I couldn't detect any notes that reminded me of what honey actually smelled like, there was definitely a wholesome element to the lotion that reminded me of the thickness you get from the consistency and smell of honey itself. This warming hint of honey was what tied all of the components together and gave Noni I Washed The Kids such a strong and pronounced aroma.
After a little research into why the body lotion was called Noni I Washed The Kids, I discovered quite a lot about the noni fruit - an ingredient I really hadn't heard of before this purchase, but soon realised had been on sale everywhere when I was travelling around Asia. Doh! Looking like the cross between a mulberry and an alien invasion, this ingredient doesn't really offer much in the way of scent. Instead, the inclusion in cosmetics helps to add vibrancy to your skin, and soften but tighten the skin at the same time.
On the skin, the body lotion spread with ease, although it was a little thicker than some of the other lotions I had used the day before. As the product was so generous, I needed very little to lather across my whole body, and therefore a tub of this will last a lot longer than something far thinner such as Karma Cream Body Lotion.
Within seconds of massaging it across my skin, I found that the lotion had absorbed fully and left behind a gentle sheen on the surface. My skin felt instantly plumper and replenished, and I could notice from the first use that my body was really benefitting from the oils and butters present in the ingredients. Although I had to wait roughly around fifteen minutes before I was able to put my clothes back on, as the lotion was slightly sticky at first, I didn't mind so much because I usually moisturise myself before I go to bed.
What impressed me so much with NIWTK, as with Yog Nog, was that the fragrance lasted for a good few hours before I was unable to smell it. After applying it one morning before work, I would that I was still able to detect notes of the orange oil and toffee smell nearly four hours later, which makes it one of Lush's longest-lasting body lotions to date.
What is great about this particular lotion is that despite being a heavy foody smell, I can still see myself using this across all seasons: in the summer to elevate my moods with the uplifting orange element; in the winter as a fragrant blanket to warm up my body. This is definitely one that I would buy again, and I hope this release is not the last time we see this wonderful body lotion.
Quantitative Ingredients: Noni Fruit Decoction, Almond Oil, Water (Aqua), Glycerine, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Jojoba Oil, Stearic Acid, Organic Illipe Butter, Triethanolamine, Brazilian Orange Oil, Bergamot Oil, Titanium Dioxide, Cetearyl Alcohol, Amyl Cinnamal, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, *Citral, Citronellol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Perfume, Colour 19140:1.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £15.95 for 225g.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Golden Egg Bath Bomb
Gold FUN
Honey I Washed The Kids Bath Bomb
Honey I Washed The Kids Body Spray
Honey I Washed The Kids Liquid Perfume
Honey I Washed The Kids Solid Perfume
Honey I Washed The Kids Soap
Humpy Dumpty Bath Bomb
Ma Bar Bubble Bar
Noni I Washed The Kids Body Lotion
Santasaurus Reusable Bubble Bar
Shoot For The Stars Bath Bomb (2013)
Shoot For The Stars Bath Bomb (2016)
Sugar Mama Sugar Scrub
The Mum Reusable Bubble Bar
It's hard to believe that it's been almost five years since the first ever release of the Lord Of Misrule scent. When that brand new green bath bomb entered into my life, all the way back at the start of this blog's journey, little did I know that it would become one of my all time favourite products; nor did I predict that the fragrance would cement itself as one of the greatest, and most popular, smells that Lush have ever produced.
Over the years we've seen perfumes, body sprays, body conditioners and more being blessed with this scent, and now this body spray is expanding the family even further. After managing to prise myself away from the tub of Yog Nog that had been living in my bag ever since it had arrived, I was excited yet rather nervous to see how this limited edition fared well when compared to the other lotions in the collection.
Despite being obsessed with this fragrance, I would always be completely honest, and as objective as I can be, about any and every product that Lush bring out on release. So I'll say with a slight sadness that Lord Of Misrule Body Lotion didn't live up to the high expectations I had set aside for it, and certainly wasn't them firm favourite I was assuming it would be.
Firstly, I want to make it clear that Lord Of Misrule Body Lotion smells like a dream. There is no denying that this body lotion smells simply beautiful, and I'd happily buy myself another tub if I had the finances to do so. Having said that, for those with a strong nose for change, this body lotion doesn't offer a good replica for the fragrance at all, and fans wanting that richness that we all know and love will have to continue looking elsewhere for it.
In the pot, Lord Of Misrule smells like a patchouli lover's dream. My nose immediately picked up a strong and yet very dry note of the patchouli, and this is the dominant scent here. It's robust and wholesome, and suits the beautiful shade of green that the lotion is presented in. There is also a tiny hint at a spicy note of black pepper, which sits underneath the patchouli and compliments it wonderfully.
Having said that, I was a little perturbed to discover that the vanilla is incredibly weak, especially when compared to every other Lord Of Misrule product. Normally the inclusion of the vanilla absolute wraps itself around the patchouli and produces a soft blanket of sweetness - one that takes away a little of the sharpness of the other components present, and makes the fragrance so warming and comforting.
However, in this format the vanilla is more of an afterthought, and you can barely smell it in the tub. Strangely, on the skin, the cocoa butter suddenly makes an appearance, and a strong, chocolately note seems to envelop with the warmth of your body. While this settles down on your skin after a short while and does develop into more of just a sweet smell over time, it definitely isn't the Lord Of Misrule that I know and love.
Yet despite this, I cannot really fault the lotion as it is. Not only does it sport a beautiful shade of green but the lotion is thick enough that you barely need to use much to coat your whole body with. Feeling very similar to Sympathy For The Skin, this limited edition will coat your skin for a few seconds before being absorbed by the body.
Strangely, this lotion tends to leave your skin marginally sticky for around ten minutes after application. However, it's not sticky enough that you wouldn't be able to put your clothes back on beforehand, and the product certainly doesn't rub onto your clothing or leave you feeling uncomfortable. Furthermore, my skin felt instantly rejuvenated afterwards, and I could definitely feel how much plumper and healthier my skin felt after application.
Over the space of a few days, this lotion didn't appear to improve the condition of my skin, but it did leave it feeling smooth and soft to the touch. I chose to put this on before heading to bed, and I found that my skin did feel lovely and soft when I woke up in the morning.
Despite how my body felt after using this, I was a little disappointed that the scent didn't linger around for very long after use. To my nose, I couldn't smell this a little over an hour after putting it on, which is not very impressive given how long some of the other body lotions have lasted on my skin.
Ultimately, fans of Lord Of Misrule will appreciate and no doubt love this body lotion very much. However, there is a stark difference between the smell of this product and that of every other item currently available in the scent family. While I will cherish and use this lotion a lot, especially during the colder months of the year, I do think that Lush need to reformulate this a little and replicate the amazing Lord Of Misrule scent a little better.
Quantitative Ingredients: coming soon.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £16.95 for 225g.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Lord Of Misrule Bath Bomb
Lord Of Misrule Body Conditioner
Lord Of Misrule Body Lotion
Lord Of Misrule Body Spray
Lord Of Misrule FUN Bar
Lord Of Misrule Liquid Perfume
Lord Of Misrule Liquid Perfume
Lord Of Misrule Naked Shower Cream
Lord Of Misrule Perfume Oil
Lord Of Misrule Shower Cream
Lord Of Misrule Solid Perfume
Monsters and Aliens
Rough With The Smooth Body Scrub
Witches' Cauldron FUN Bar
With a total of ten body lotions being released from the Lush Kitchen this month, there was bound to be one that didn't live up to the expectations I had set. In fact, I don't think there hasn't been a Lush order where at least one of the products has stuck out like a sore thumb, and dampened my excitement a little in the process.
Sultana Body Lotion was actually one of the ones I was most excited about trying. With the recent release of the shower gel, and last year's Halloween Bewitched Bubble Bar, I have come to appreciate the scent an awful lot more than I used to. There is something so rich and comforting about the fragrance, and I couldn't think of a better way of indulging myself in the smell than by smothering myself with a body lotion to match my craving. Unfortunately, it didn't take more than me removing the lid and giving the lotion a quick sniff to realise just how underwhelmed I was about this release.
As to be expected from this fragrance, the collaboration of apricot, cranberries and currants help to make Sultana a very fruity concoction. Paired with a generous dosage of olibanum oil and what you get is a smell that is both richly fruity but also very sultry as well.
While it is called Sultana, it is the latter ingredient that normally makes the biggest presence when it comes to all of the products in this scent family. However, I found very quickly that the amount of olibanum present in the lotion was considerably lower than expected, and I didn't experience that rounded, almost sticky-sweet fragrance that I was expecting. Although the fragrance of the body lotion is still very similar to all of the other products with the same scent, I just felt as if it wasn't as rich or as decadent.
There is something about this lotion that suggests that this aforementioned ingredient has somewhat less of an impact on the senses, and the fruity elements present are definitely what's holding this smell together. On the skin, it was the apricots and currants that kept the aroma alive, and the olibanum tended to fade into the background rather quickly.
While you could smell the familiar combination of olibanum, apricots and currants, there was definitely something rather weak about the smell of this when compared to every other format I have tried. After applying this across my body, I was no longer able to smell it at all within the first thirty minutes - making it the weakest of the ten new body lotions. Furthermore, the lack extra oils and butters, as other lotions contain, Sultana was not as moisturising to boot.
The consistency of this body lotion was on par with the likes of Karma Cream and Ginger Body Lotion, and was really easy to apply onto the skin. In fact, you needed very little to moisturise your whole body with, and I found that the cream itself absorbed into the skin very quickly as well.
While it didn't offer any glean on the surface of the skin, it did leave my body feeling very moisturised and hydrated. Due to the lack of extra oils in the ingredients list, Sultana would definitely be an all-rounder: working with every skin type without irritating the skin or making it too greasy. If you're looking for something light, this would be a great lotion to go for, as it doesn't leave you feeling at all heavy of oily.
My main issue with this body lotion however, is the fact that the scent dissipated so quickly that I could barely enjoy the fragrance on my skin before it had completely disappeared. And while it worked well as a lotion, there wasn't anything extra special about how my skin felt afterwards - any better than what I could achieve with a regular body lotion.
This is certainly not a body lotion I would buy again, which is a shame because the shower gel was one of the highlights of the last Lush Kitchen release. Having said that, there was bound to be at least one body lotion that didn't live up to my expectations, and I not like I don't have another seven tubs of lotions to keep me going for a while.
Quantitative Ingredients: Almond Oil, Apricot Infusion, Cranberry Infusion, Currant infusion, Water (Aqua), Glycerine, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Jojoba Oil, Stearic Acid, Organic Illipe Butter, Triethanolamine, Olibanum Oil, Bergamot Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol, Butylphenyl, Methylpropional Hexyl, Cinnamal, *Limonene, *Linalool, Perfume.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £14.95 for 225g.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Bewitched Bubble Bar
Sultana Of Skin Body Conditioner
Sultana Of Soap Soap
I remember when I prized back the wrapper on my first ever piece of Avocado Cowash: it was like a sensory overload as my brain tried to decide whether I should sink my teeth into it or find some way to permanently attach it to my nose. Luckily, I managed to calm down long enough to do a little research into what it was and how it should have been used, and I went to bed that night without making a solid hair care product a feature at the dinner table.
Out of almost one hundred other brand new products that were released for the opening of the Oxford Street store, Avocado Cowash, alongside Cup 'O Coffee Scrub, became my highest rated releases. To this day, they are both up there as being some of my all time favourite products, so you can imagine how excited I was to be receiving a tub of Avocado No Wash earlier this week.
With the recent release of Avocado Wash Shower Gel, there was clearly a market for this scent family, which is why I was not surprised at all that this was one of the ten limited edition lotions that the Lush Kitchen decided to make. What surprised me even more though was how well the company were able to replicate the scent of the original Cowash when it came to this lotion.
To put it simply: Avocado No Wash Body Lotion smells identical to the original hair care product. Whereas the shower gel was a little stronger and the lime element appeared far brighter and and perhaps a little fruitier in this format, this limited edition lotion would fool anyone having to guess between the two products.
There is something so comforting and wonderful about lifting the tub to my nose and smelling the familiar thread of fruity lime compote. What makes it special is that there is something rather delicate and yet beautifully fruity about the scent of this lotion: it reminds me of a rich, lime cream cheese finish on top of a freshly-made cheesecake: it's so sweet and makes your mouth salivate without being at all zesty or overzealous with how much of the citrus element comes to play.
On the skin, this beautiful lotion reacts to the warmth of your body and produces a thick but not overly potent scent. While I would always be disappointed with a lotion that wasn't particularly strong, there is something about the gentleness of Avocado No Wash that makes it more appealing being slightly more reserved. I'm not for one second saying that this body lotion is at all weak in scent: just that it is delicate in the way it presents itself.
While it looks rather thick in the tub, this lotion was surprisingly easy to massage across the skin, and a pea size amount will easily moisturise both arms and hands at the same time. Within a matter of seconds, the lotion has absorbed into the skin, so you're not left at all greasy. However, it does leave a gentle shine on the surface for a good half an hour so you may get a few compliments regarding the vibrancy of your skin.
After applying it first thing in the morning, I found that I wasn't able to smell it near around the 90 minute mark, so it's definitely not as long-lasting as some of the other limited edition body lotions. Having said that, it does leave a lasting impression on the condition of your skin. After trying this out for two days in a row, I've noticed that my skin seems softer to the touch, and it doesn't appear as dry or as taut in the evenings.
The inclusion of the avocado oils and butters definitely have an impact here, as I found it moisturised my skin better than the likes of Sultana and Calacas. These, coupled with the cocoa and illipe butters means that those with oiler skin may wish to use this sparingly. I can imagine that it could cause your skin to become rather oily if used too often.
Overall, the only aspect that stops this body lotion being a full six out of six is the fact that the scent isn't as withstanding on the skin as some of the other lotions. Aside from that, it's the perfect replica of Avocado Co Wash and will definitely be giving me the many winter hugs I shall be craving come the colder months of the year. Another big success from the Lush Kitchen.
Quantitative Ingredients: Almond Oil, Rosemary Infusion, Lavender Flower Infusion, Nettle Infusion, Water (Aqua), Glycerine, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Jojoba Oil, Stearic Acid, Organic Avocado Oil, Avocado Butter, Organic Illipe Butter, Triethanolamine, Bergamot Oil, Litsea, Cubeba Oil, Olibanum Oil, Gardenia Extract, Cetearyl Alcohol, Propylene, Glycol, Amyl Cinnamal, *Benzyl Cinnamate, *Cinnamal, *Cinnamyl Alcohol, *Citral, *Geraniol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Perfume, Chlorophyllin, Colour 42090:2, Colour 19140.
Vegan?: Yes.
2018 Price: £15.95 for 225g.
Year Of Original Release: 2018.
Scent Family:
Avocado Cowash Body Spray
Avocado Cowash
Avocado No Wash Body Lotion
Avocado Wash Shower Gel
Don't Touch My Hair Hair Marshmallow
Melusine Bath Bomb
Minamisoma Shower Oil
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Having said that, when I first gave Snowflake a sniff from the tub, and rubbed a little into my skin, there was definitely something present in this body lotion that reminded me of Snowcake. However, after using it for the past couple of weeks, I can safely say that I have noticed many differences about the smell that makes it unique from anything else that has come out before.
In all honesty, there is something about the latter component that spoils this body lotion for me, although luckily the apricot scent disperses after settling on the skin for a while. In a way, I don't think the apricot really suits being here as it's not really able to flourish by itself and offer something super sweet and juicy. Instead, both this and the rose seem to clash a little to my nose, and the combination offers something a little strange and alluring.
After using this for a couple of weeks, I found that my skin began to look and feel healthier - particularly my legs that had began to show signs of being dry following the sudden change in weather. Despite how thin the body lotion was, I really felt as if it covered a thick coverage across the body, which will be vital during the colder months of the year.
