LUSH Review, 1st LUSH purchase

So, as stated in the title,this blog is kind of a review of the LUSH products I ordered in February. It was my first time purchasing anything from the company, and I ordered online because the nearest store is over 1 1/2 hours away. Any pictures in this blog are from the lush.ca site, as my computer refuses to upload anything, so I don't have any of my own pics to put up. I do not own the pictures.

I ordered the Enchanted Eye Cream, Vanillary Solid Perfume, Vitamin E Toner Tab, and Vanilla in the Mist soap. Also on this order, for my sister, was Karma Fragrance (sample size), Ambrosia shaving cream, Lovely Jubblies (yes that's a lotion for the girls), and Floating Island Bath Melt.

So, the first item, the main reason I wanted to order from LUSH, is the Enchanted Eye Cream.

It comes in a small bottle with a pump, the size is 45 g. The featured ingredients are almond oil, and lavender honey water. It claims to be a "gentle, soothing cream to minimize fine lines around the eyes" I have been using this both morning and night since I received it mid-February. It has a very light texture, and smooths easily over the skin, without any greasy feeling. I previously had been using an Olay eye cream which was doing absolutely nothing for my dark circles. Enchanted has helped with dark circles, and the skin around my eyes just feels much more moisturized than with any other product I have used before. Since it's only been about 2-3 weeks since I received it, I will update if my opinion on it changes.

Next is Vanillary Solid Perfume. The solid is the 2nd from the right. It's contains 12g.

It's got a solid lotion type of appearance, and it is pale yellow with little black flecks in it, sort of like french vanilla or vanilla bean ice cream. You just dab the solid on your pulse points and let it melt a little bit, it melts at body temperature. I normally can't wear perfumes, the alcohol and artificial scents give me migraines, but I decided to try to solid perfume to see if maybe there was something out there I could use. The perfume has a very heavy vanilla and jasmine scent with a touch of a caramel type scent. By heavy, I don't mean overpoweringly strong, but sort of like a rich dessert. The site says "Vanillary is a grown-up gourmand. Its character really warms and develops on the skin..." The main ingredients in this scent are vanilla absolute, jasmine absolute, and tonka absolute, and those are definitely the main scents of the perfume. I don't usually like jasmine anything, but I do really like this perfume as an occasional scent. I feel the scent is too rich to wear all the time though.

The 3rd item I bought was a Vitamin E Toner Tab. I bought this to try because it was just $1.95.

The toner tab is meant to balance skin and keep it from being too oily or too dry. The two main ingredients are Vitamin E oil and lavender oil. Lavender is supposed to help calm to skin, and keep it clear. The way to use this is to fill a medium sized bowl with hot, but not quite boiling water, and to drape a towel over your head and drop the toner in and steam your face until the tab stops fizzing. When I did this it irritated my face, perhaps my steam was too hot, I don't know. However you can save the water instead of throwing it out, and keep it in a little spritzer in the fridge for a few days and use it as a regular toner. I kept a little of the water in a small bottle I had and wiped it on my face with a cotton pad after cleansing, and I found this worked much better than steaming for me. It really did help keep my skin clear and balanced.

The final item from my part of the order is Vanilla in the Mist soap.

The first thing I'm going to say about this soap is that it is not as bright yellow as in the picture. It is a much darker, almost dark mustard-y colour.  Vanilla in the Mist is supposed to have a vanilla latte scent to it, which it does. When I first tried this soap on my hands, I couldn't stop smelling my hands for about 20 minutes, they smelled so good. Then after that the scent became too sweet, and I wasn't sure if I liked it. But I decided to give it another shot as a body soap, and I actually really like it. The smell isn't quite as strong on the rest of my body as it is on my hands, and doesn't get overly sweet. It soap is very creamy, and it lathers really well. The only thing I really don't like is that the lather is yellow....as in bright creamy yellow. I find the lather is not as yellow when you cure the soap, and the scent is not quite as strong. I will be repurchasing this soap, but not necessarily right away.

Sea Vegetable

Also with the order they gave 2 samples: Reincarnate solid shampoo, and Sea Vegetable soap.

Reincarnate

 I love Sea Vegetable soap. It has such an amazing scent, like being at the beach. It's got a breezy lime-lavender scent. It's exfoliating as well due to the sea salt on the top, and I actually do love the seaweed that's in it.  I originally wanted to purchase this, but wasn't sure about the lime-lavender scent since I wasn't able to smell it beforehand, so I'm glad that it was one of the samples. I want to go into an actual shop to get this so I can get a huge chunk of it instead of the standard online shop size.

I also tried the Reincarnate, and while it made my hair very shiny, it also dried it out. It is too harsh on my very dry curly hair. The shine it gave was amazing though.

Now for my sister's part of the order. I only used the Lovely Jubblies and it's a really nice lotion, and it does smooth out the skin and moisturize really well. It has a very strong rose scent. I wouldn't call it overpowering, but you definitely know it's there. Because of the strong floral scent, if I were to purchase it for myself, I would probably use it at night. The Karma perfume made the entire box smell like it, and even a couple of the containers absorbed the scent. It didn't get into any of the other products, just scented the outside of the containers. I think it may have leaked a couple drops during shipping. Karma is a very strong scent, too strong for me, but it's very much my sister's kind of scent. The smell is not as overpowering on her as it is from the tube. I haven't smelled/tried Ambrosia shaving lotion, so I don't know how that is, but my sister's Floating Island bath melt smells kinda like incense-y play-dough. I personally don't like the scent.

So that was my LUSH purchase from February. As we speak I am having more LUSH goodies shipped to me :) Again it's a split order. For myself I've ordered Gentle Lentil solid shampoo, Okra conditioner, Aqua Marina cleanser, Imperialis moisturizer, Wiccy Magic Muscles massage bar (and a tin to keep it in), Token to the Forest Gods toner/sauna tab and a Geo Phyzz bath bomb. My sister ordered Smell of Freedom perfume, Dragon's Egg bath bomb, Think Pink bath bomb, and Big Blue bath bomb. I will probably review these after I have used them for a few weeks, and perhaps have my sister review hers. There are many many things I wanted to try from LUSH, but I felt the skincare and haircare were more important than bath bombs to me right now.
Hope this review is helpful.