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♥ LUSH Exclusive Body Lotions!

I think we've all been waiting for this day, ever since the batch of exclusive shower gels were released and everyone had that little piece of the Kitchen back. I've definitely been waiting for the next release of exclusive products and I am very pleased with the decisions! The body lotion mystery started on the 1st of August when the LUSH Kitchen Instagram account posted a video of Mark saying, 'and now it's body lotions!' with a caption that ask people what they wanted. The requests came in thick and fast, there are over 3000 comments on that post! That's the most interaction that the LUSH Kitchen have had in a long time, as most of their posts barely reach 100 comments nowadays. Finally, after what felt like a life time of waiting, the scents have been released! I know that every single one of these scents was very highly requested and I already can't wait to get my hands on some tubs!

Let's dive into the products that will be emptying most of our bank accounts!

*Please note: the ingredients depicted in the images may not be in the final product, but the images should depict the scent based on other products within the same scent family.*

Pictured - Gardenia, Clove Bud and Ylang Ylang

Yog Nog

THIS is one of the lotions that I requested! I absolutely adore the Yog Nog scent and I would really like to see more products in this scent family. I feel like the Yog Nog scent is slowly dying out. If you have never smelt Yog Nog before, the combination of clove bud oil, ylang ylang and gardenia may sound like a floral combination, but it's very much not! Yog Nog smells like a creamy Christmas bakery! The scent has been in a couple of products, the bath bomb was gorgeous, although the bath art was nothing special, the liquid and solid perfumes sell on eBay for a ridiculous price and the shower roulade didn't really kick off well due to the format of the product. I'd say the only product that did really well was the soap as it also looks extra pretty! I don't feel like the products have done the scent justice, I think a body lotion would suit the creamy nutmeg scent very well. I also think this scent would be perfect in a shower gel or cream format too. I imagine that this lotion will be the first to sell out. I will definitely be buying a tub or two of this, it would be rude not to as I asked for it!

Pictured - Honey, Beeswax and Sweet Orange Oil

Noni I Washed the Kids

A Honey I Washed the Kids scented body lotion is another product that I have been pining for for a while and another one that I requested! LUSH have changed the game with this one a little bit, removing the honey from the ingredients list and using noni instead to make the product vegan for everybody to enjoy! Although I am pleased about the removal of honey, I really hope it doesn't effect the scent much. I am hoping that the scent of this lotion will be more like Scrubee and the soap, in oppose to It's Raining Men. This scent family is loved by many, I can see this lotion selling out very quick. A Noni I Washed the Kids will definitely be getting added to my basket!

Pictured - Nettle, Avocado and Cocoa Butter

Avocado No Wash

I'm not surprised to see Avocado No Wash on the list. I feel like this is a scent that most Lushies are just falling in love with due to their only being one product in store with the scent and following the release of the shower gel, everybody has gone mad for it! I really like the scent, I had tried it in the original form of the co-wash but I found it done nothing for my hair, so I love being able to get my Avocado Wash fix in a different format. I think the scent in a body lotion would be perfect for the spring time, the gorgeous sweetie scent is so uplifting and fresh. If you didn't manage to grab yourself a bottle of the shower gel and are curious about the scent, pop into your local LUSH and give Avocado Co-Wash a sniff, it's amazing! Yet another lotion that will be coming home to me!

Pictured - Aloe Vera, Lime Oil and Neroli

Calacas

It's no secret that Calacas is one of my all time favourite scents, the sweet lime fragrance gets me everytime! I think every Lushie has tried something Calacas scented, if you liked Monsters Ball or Man in the Moon, you'll like the lotion! If you didn't already know, Calacas body lotion has been released previously, due to a high popular request for it, so I already have a tub. I wouldn't say it's my favourite Calacas scented product ever, because it smells quite watery, however, this lotion was created back in the days when the LUSH Kitchen were churning out brand new products on a daily basis. It's not new news that the products weren't perfect and were sometimes rushed due to demand, so I expect that this batch will smell a lot better. I'm very torn on whether to purchase a tub or not due to that reason. I would be very annoyed if I missed out and this batch smelt as strong as the shower gel but I would be equally as disappointed if I purchased a tub and it was the same as my other. I think Calacas will be added to the maybe pile.

Pictured - Cocoa Butter, Bergamot and Cocoa Powder

Yuzu & Cocoa

I actually can't believe it has taken LUSH this long to release a Yuzu & Cocoa body lotion in the UK. It missed out marginally the first time we were asked what scents we would like to see made into lotions back in the good old days of the Kitchen and was never created, despite them making Maypole, which wasn't a winner either. The Japanese Kitchen made a batch and they sold very well, some people from the UK and NA managed to get tubs for themselves, but the extra fees were ridiculous! I think Yuzu & Cocoa will be a big seller, there are no products left in stores that carry this scent due to the shower cream and the bubbleroon being discontinued and I know that this scent is very much loved. I won't be picking up a tub of Yuzu & Cocoa as it's really not a favourite of mine. I have a 100g bottle that is about two years out of date that I never ever reach for, so I know I won't reach for the lotion.

Pictured - Patchouli, Vanilla Pod and Black Pepper Oil

Lord of Misrule

Another beautiful scent that would be perfect in a body lotion! I own the Lord of Misrule body conditioner and it it one of my most treasured possessions. I am so pleased that LUSH are releasing this scent in a lotion as I multi-purpose my body conditioner for lotion also, which means that the tub is getting less and less. Now I can double up on the scent and still have plenty of product left! It goes without saying that I'll be picking up a tub of this gorgeous vanilla, patchouli and black pepper combination! Lord of Misrule is one of my go to scents and is one of the bath bombs I try and stock up on as I adore having a good LOM bath!

Pictured - Shea Butter, Coconut Oil and Cocoa Butter

Butterball

I can't believe that they are making this gorgeous, creamy chocolate scent into a body lotion! Again, I have the body conditioner in this scent and I adore it! I always pushed the Butterball scent to the side as I find the bath bomb and Butterbear rather boring as I am all about the bath art, but I grabbed the body conditioner when I saw the chance and I am so pleased I did. It made me fall in love with the scent. I managed to grab a shower gel too, but that I'm not so impressed with as the cocoa butter is quite chunky and very much resembles a wet bowel movement when you try to use it. However, consistency issues aside, it does smell beautiful and I can only imagine that the body lotion is going to smell just as good! I will definitely be purchasing a tub of Butterball and I can't wait to cover myself head to toe in it!

Pictured - Dried Sultanas, Oilbanum Oil and Dried Cranberries

Sultana

Again, I'm not surprised that Sultana is being made into a body lotion as it is another very loved scent that will make a lot of people happy. Sultana is one of LUSH's oldest scents, being the scent of Blackberry bath bomb which was the oldest surviving bath bomb up until it's discontinuation last year. I have never been a fan of the scent, I wasn't keen on Blackberry and I didn't like the scent of the soap. I did purchase a bottle of the shower gel, purely for FOMO! I didn't want to not purchase a bottle and then somehow fall in love with the scent and not be able to get one. I didn't fall in love with the scent, I still don't like it very much so I won't be getting myself a tub of Sultana.

Pictured - Tonka, Cocoa Butter and Fresh Strawberries

Yummy Mummy

This is a product that a lot of people have been waiting for. After the chaos around the Mothers Day release last year and everybody getting on their high horse about the body conditioner not being released, I'm surprised that they haven't made this quicker. Yummy Mummy is another very loved scent that I'm not fond of. I have a 250ml bottle of the shower cream and a Peeping Santa stored away, but it's not a scent that I reach for often nor ever crave. I think Yummy Mummy is going to be another popular product, especially due to LUSH not releasing the shower cream this Mothers Day and having no Kitchen release like we would have expected in previous years. I won't be picking up a pot as I don't think I'd ever reach for it.

Pictured - Honey, Vanilla Pod and Fresh Strawberries

American Cream

And yet another lotion that I am not surprised is making it's way online! Anything American Cream scented sells out fast, the lotion always sold out quick in past Kitchen releases, American Pie never stuck around for very long and the shower gel went out of stock sharpish a couple of months ago. I still have my original pot of American Cream body lotion from my first ever LUSH Kitchen order way back when. I use it so super sparingly as I don't want to be without it! I would love to pick up another tub but I just don't know if I can justify it as I already have a tub. I know I am saying this now, and when they're released I'll purchase ten, but humour me! The lotion I have still smells as good as the day I bought it, the perfect creamy scent of fresh strawberries, vanilla and honey. My ultimate favourite scent that LUSH have ever created!

What do you think of the lotion choices? Did any that you requested make the final cut? What do you plan to treat yourself to when they become available? Let me know down in the comments below!

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**Disclaimer: All views and opinions are my own. All photo credit to LUSH Cosmetics and @markatlush**

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♥ LUSH Kitchen Exclusive Shower Gels - Review

What a couple of weeks it has been in the LUSH community! I haven't felt such a buzz for a long time, it's been so nice to see people excited about LUSH again and the groups being busy and everybody chatting again! If you've been living under a rock, LUSH released 7 limited editions liquid shower gels on Friday. Not only is this a very long awaited release due to the lack of liquid products we have been given since Christmas, but it's also really exciting as three of these shower gels have never been released before.

In the old LUSH Kitchen days, products were available until they sold out. This meant that they would either sell out in minutes or could take days, sometimes even over a week if the product wasn't super popular. This caused a lot of strife for both us, the customers and LUSH themselves. On days where super popular products were being released, the website would crash and there would be so many people left disappointed as they never got to purchase the products they wanted. This caused LUSH to change the game a little. They promised us we would have bigger batches of products that would be available for a longer time. I really believe that LUSH have stuck to this, as all the shower gels are were still available for a short while after release and I can guarantee if these had been released back in the old days, they would have gone in seconds.

LUSH also released another batch a week later to give everybody a fair chance at being able to purchase what they would like. This was another thing that never happened with the LUSH Kitchen, once something was gone, it was gone. I placed an order on the first release day and I also managed to place another order on pay day too, so I'm very pleased that LUSH gave us the opportunity to stock up!

Anyway, onto the gels themselves!

Just a side note, I didn't purchase Flying Fox as I absolutely despise the Lust scent family which this shower gel shares the same fragrance with and I also didn't purchase a Karma, as I already have over half a bottle and I don't see myself running out of it any time soon.

Pictured - American Cream shower gel

Oh my gosh. If you have read a previous blog post of mine, 'My Favourite LUSH Scent Families', you would know how bloody ecstatic I was when this shower gel was confirmed! I feel like all my LUSH prayers have been answered and we are finally getting through to the people at the top to give us what we need! I used to request Flosty Gritter bubble bar every single week back in the Kitchen days. Without fail, I would look at the Friday menu, be slightly disappointed that it wasn't listed and then comment requesting it, again and again and again, for months straight! I was so dedicated to getting more products in my collection with the American Cream scent and as bubble bars are one of the products I know I can stock up on and they will perform perfectly even after a year or so, I really wanted Flosty Gritter to come back. I never thought that LUSH would actually make this beautiful scent into a shower gel, but I am so pleased that they have! I think this is my favourite from the bunch. The scent is gorgeous, a little lighter than I would have liked, but you can still smell it on your skin after using it, which is perfect! It lathers up beautifully and easily with the tiniest little drop! American Cream shower gel is a massive success for me and I am so pleased that I picked up three bottles!

Pictured - Calacas shower gel

Calacas holds a special place in my heart as it was one of the very first LUSH Kitchen shower gels I ever bought and was also one of my very first 250g size bottles, which started the collection I have now. I have loved this scent ever since first sniff and was so pleased when Monsters Ball came for Halloween in 2016 and when Man in the Moon was released last year. Calacas is one of my go to scents, I love it when I'm feeling a little down, something nice to cheer me up! I would use this in every single bath and shower if I could! I'm really pleased that LUSH brought Calacas back as I was down to about a third of my bottle left and even though I wanted to use it so often, with the loss of the Kitchen, who knew when it was going to come back! I am so super pleased that I picked up three bottles! If Calacas ever makes it to stores, I would still buy more. This is one of them shower gels that I know I will get through quickly if I have enough of it, so I wouldn't mind having a few back up and a 1kg bottle would be amazing! I'd also like to try the jelly as I've never had the chance to, so LUSH if your reading this, Halloween? Please?

Pictured - Sultana shower gel

Unpopular opinion here, but Sultana has never been a scent that I've been particularly fond of. I never reached for Blackberry bath bomb often as I wasn't keen on the scent on cold sniff so I never bought it until it was being discontinued and even then, I masked the scent in the bath with other stronger scents. I had no wishes to purchase a bottle of the shower gel, but the addict inside of me was screaming 'What if you love it!' and 'What if you decide you want a bottle when it's too late and then you have to pay Depop or eBay prices!' So I caved and bought a bottle. While I'm still not that fond of the scent, I do like it more than I thought I would! I thought I would sniff it and gag and put it up for sale straight away, but surprisingly, I was intrigued! I have heard a few people say that Sultana smells better in use than it does in the bottle, and I absolutely agree! On cold sniff, it smells like Blackberry bath bomb, very strong and very rich, but in use it smells more like Bewitched, the same scent but sweeter. I actually like this a lot more than I thought I would and will be keeping hold of my bottle.

Pictured - Avocado Wash shower gel

This shower gel is not to be confused with Avobath, Avoshower or Avowash as it is very much different! Avocado Wash shares the same scent as the Avocado Co Wash shampoo, which if you go into a LUSH store and sniff, then pick up an Avobath, you will see that these are very different scents. I was so silly to even consider buying only one, maybe no bottles of this beautiful shower gel! I told myself that I would pick up two American Cream and two Calacas and maybe an Avocado Wash if I had any spare money. I did purchase one bottle with my initial order, but as soon as all the shower gels were restocked and I had been paid, two more of these went right into my basket and I have no regrets at all! I have seen quite a few people compare the scent of this gel to a Twister ice lolly, which if you're not from the UK, you probably have never heard of (google it, they're my favourite ice lollies ever!) but I disagree. I think this smells like a Refresher chew bar, super sweet and beautiful! I love it! I'm so pleased I have three bottles of this, hopefully it'll last me a while! Avocado Wash lathers up so well, just like the others, a tiny smidge really does go a long way!

Pictured - Grass shower gel

I feel quite ashamed to say that in all my years of being a LUSH fanatic, I had never owned a bottle of Grass shower gel! I know, how can I call myself a LUSH fan! Earthy scents aren't my favourite, I much prefer a sweet, fruity or citrus scent, so I never picked a bottle up when it was in the Kitchen. Just like with Sultana, I had no intentions of picking up a bottle until it was getting closer to the restock date and I wondered if I would like it. I am pleased that I bought a bottle so I don't have the regret of never trying it, but straight off the bat I knew this wasn't a scent for me. I actually like Grass bubble bar and I have purchased a couple before now and used them up, but to me, Grass shower gel smells more like my Supertramp bubble bar, which I'm not a fan of. I do detect the grassy element in the scent, but there is another ingredient in there that overpowers it and I think it's that that I'm not keen on. The scent of Grass doesn't change much when you're using it, you still get that very earthy and muddy scent, which still overpowers that fresh mowed lawn fragrance. I think I may keep hold of this bottle purely for cocktailing, but I can't imagine it will be one I will reach for very often, if at all.

Overall, I am very impressed with these gels! I love the new formulation that LUSH are using to make their liquid gels self preserving, it makes them lather up beautifully and means you only need use a tiny amount to cover your entire body. Although them being a little runnier in consistency, this doesn't make any difference to how the gels work at all and I'm putting it down to the really hot weather we are experiencing in the UK at the moment. There is also quite a lot of separation, but I am not concerned about this in the slightest, this is what you get with handmade cosmetics and is easily solved by a good shake! Being so impressed with these gels makes me excited to pick up some more mainline gels once I run out, so I can try the self preserving version of those too.

I'm really happy that LUSH have finally taken the time to listen to their customers and give them what they want. It's about time that they made the products their consumers want, in the scents requested. I feel like we are finally getting somewhere after the devastating close of the Kitchen and it has been so lovely to see such a buzz in the community again. Dare I ask for perfumes or body sprays (especially American Cream!) next?!

Did you pick up any of the shower gels? If so, what do you think of them? I'd love to hear your thoughts so let me know down in the comments section!

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**Disclaimer: All views, opinions and photos are my own.**

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