Soap Review: Lush's Sea Vegetable Soap

Lush's Sea Vegetable soaps key ingredients are coarse sea salt, arame seaweed, lime oil, lavender oil and seaweed absolute. Just looking at its blue and green layers of salt and seaweed made me want to buy it in time for summer. It really does remind you of the ocean. I expected it to smell a lot like the usual "ocean" scents but it smells differently.  

Aside from the weak scent here is why I enjoy this soap:

#1 Exfoliating Layer. I'm a sucker for exfoliants, so the salt layer at the top helps a lot in scrubbing off dirt. It can be a good or bad thing, depending on your needs but I wanted to have more salt exfoliants inside the soap. All of it was on the top layer and it melted after 2-3 showers.

#2 Seaweed. Not sure if this is purely psychological but having tangible seaweed in the soap makes it seem more natural. I'm not so sure what it does to my skin though.

#3 Cleans Effectively. After using this soap I always feel squeaky clean without feeling dry. I also used this soap to rinse off paint from my arms and legs, and it worked quicker than I expected. It does take a while to get a lather though.

#4 Longevity. Uncertain if that word applies to soap but 100 grams of this soap lasts more than a month. I bought this on March 13th and I still have half a bar remaining. It doesn't go soft too.

#5 Calming Effect. What I noticed about the past two bar soaps I've reviewed from Lush Cosmetics is that I always feel better and calmer after washing. Of course, taking showers always makes one feel better but the calming effect is really different. I also get a better night's sleep with this soap.

I am so excited to get a new soap from Lush that I'm becoming impatient because my Sea Vegetable soap isn't running out as fast as I want it to.

-Astrid

Soap Review: Lush's Porridge Soap

My soap for the month of March is Lush's porridge soap. I didn't know Lush had branches in the Philippines until I stepped in one last December. The woman recommended their best-seller which was for skin lightening. But I saw this one and it smelled nice and sweet, the kind you want to eat. I guess I figured why I wanted to take a bite out of it when I found out the ingredients. It's made of organic orange juice, pinhead oatmeal, rapeseed and coconut oil.

Porridge Soap fresh out of its wrapper!

What I Love:

#1 The Scent. It's a faint, sweet smell, nothing overpowering. The con being, you also want that scent to stay all day, but it doesn't.

#2 Rich Lather. It has a very milky lather, and I love the feeling specially when I'm rinsing and I see all the cream going down the drain. Feels like I'm delicately clean.

#3 Exfoliate. I mainly bought it for its exfoliating quality, some would say it's too harsh on their faces but I don't find the oats rough on my skin at all.

#4 After-feeling. There is something about this soap that makes me feel calmer, and soothed after using it. It always makes me feel better.

This is how it looks after a few weeks of use.

Cons:

#1 Can Melt Fast. Don't leave it wet in the bathroom because the soap is quite soft, you can always ask the ladies to chop the soap into smaller chunks to avoid waste. Also, because the soap melts faster, the more the oats come out. Some people may not like this but for those who want to exfoliate their skin, it's a nice exfoliating bar.

#2 Oats Everywhere! I always have lots of oat flakes  around the bathroom walls after a shower!

Lush sells their soaps for a minimum weight of 100g. This one was around 225php per 100g.
I really love this soap from Lush. Other products I've tried are their Christmas special, the Snowfairy Angel body wash and Sandy Santa Body Scrub both of which I totally loved! I'll have to wait for Christmas to get a new set. So far all the Lush products I've tried are really great, and I hate to say it but I have to stay away from their store if I don't want to end up hoarding soaps.

-Astrid