New products
I spent some time (and money!) in the Portland store today, and got a copy of the new Lush times, and it looks like there are several new products coming. I rummaged back through the community posts and didn't see anything about them, so here's a quick rundown, retyped from the product listings (pardon any typos, I'm trying to do this with bifocals and they suck).
Ballistics:
Dream On
"Everyone knows someone with really difficult skin. The Dream On is going to be a godsend for them. It's got all of Dream Cream's chamomile and calamine powers, plus our water softening Ballistic mixture to calm seriously distressed skin (and tempers). Mo has added jojoba oil which is very close in structure to the skin's natural sebum, then calming tea tree, lavender and rose essential oils to add to its soothing abilities."
Ne Worry Pas
You can just imagine the looks on the faces of the Lush Ballistic makers when they found out that as well as stirring the mixture, scooping it out and putting it into the two halves in a mould, that they also had to put a minuscule magic grotto into each one. Fortunately, as Ne Worry Pas is scented with uplifting sweet oange and tangerine essential oils, they'll be smelling happy despite themselves. The plan is this: Take your Ne Worry Pas, whisper your worries into the grotto, then let them fizz away into the soya milky bathwater. After a lovely refreshing bath they'll disappear down the plughole forever.
Tea and Sympathy
If you've ever had a bit of a crisis in the UK, rushed round to a friend's house and blurted it all out you'll know that the standard response is for your friend to listen, nod and say "I'll put the kettle on." There's nothing like a cup of tea and a chat to put things into perspective. ... When your friends are out of town have a Tea & Sympathy ballistic instead. Calamine powder and jojoba oil calm you down, clary sage helps to give you an objective point of view and then in the middle, we put a chamomile tea bag to soak in the bath and soothe you even more.
Soap:
Mud Flats
You've never lived until you've been plastered all over with Rhassoul mud in a steam hot Moroccan bath then sloshed down with buckets of hot water and massaged with hot detoxifying oils. However the next best thing is a Mud Flats scrub in a hot shower. This squidgy soap is made with the finest Morroccan clay, used (as) a purifying skin treatment for years by the French and millennia by the Berbers. Deep cleaning detoxifying sage and rosemay essential oils are essential (in a different way) for getting sluggish skin into shape for showing off. (Note to Narcotick shower gel fans: This is even better).
Sexy Peel
It's one of those Lush products like Avobath which makes more sense when you say it. "I'll have a bit of Sexy Peel, please."... For a while we called it Marmalade because it does have chunks of citrust fruit peel in it, plus fresh lemon, lime and grapefruit juices. Everyone who remembers Back for Breakfast shower gel will want a BIG bar of Sexy Peel. Wash with it to give ytou sexy skin of your own.
Bubble Bar slices -
The new ones listed are already out: Pop in the Bath, Green Day, Temple of Truth, Marathon, The Comforter, Flosty Gritter and Sunny Side
Shower Jellies
Big Calm
If you were lying on a sun lounge, staring at the high, white cirrus clouds in an almost perfectly blue sky, sipping fresh pineapple juice, listening to the gentle waves lapping on the shore, you couldn't help but feel calm. That's what we've done our best to encapsulate into the Big Calm Shower Jelly. The scent of pineapple, the deep blue of the sky, a swirl of white intangibility and the sound of the shower pattering on to your shoulders is almost as good. Big Calm is the latest of our very popular have-a-break-in-your-own-bathroom products.
Deep Sleep
Another of the Lush themes is natural sleep enhhancement. The gorgeous sunset orange golden dusted Deep Sleep is our calming, chamomile and lavender shower jelly for the evneing. We felt sorry for people who would love to try the Golden Slumbers bath ballistic but didn't have a bath so this is the standing-up version, A hint of neroli essential oil takes your cares away as you sing yourself a lullaby and shower yourself to sleep
The Joy of Jelly
What a beautiful new jelly This one is lovely to look at, lovely to play with, delightful to smell. Our swirling pink and purple colored shower jelly has the same intoxicating fragrance as Sex Bomb to give you as much pleasure in the shower as you can have in the bath, and extra wobbly bits to play with. Super sebnusal jasmine absolute and relaxing ylang ylang in a tiger lily and rtosepetal jelly make the Joy of Jelly our most intriguing shwoer product to date. Make a date with some yourself.
Deodorant powders (new product line!)
Powdry
Powdry is a deodorizing powder with added stimulation to refresh your body and free your mind at the same time. Use it before (and after) your yoga classes and by the time you've got down from your headstand you'll feel as calm and clear as mountain aiure. This power powder smells of fragrant Middle Eastern incense, it's an absorbent, deodorazing body powder with stimulating lemon essential oil, juniper and olibanum.
All Things Coconut
If only all deodorants smelled like suntan oil! Its sweet coconutty scent makes All Things Coconut remind us of sunny days beside the sea, including pina coladas and beautiful oiled warm bodies. Powdered coconuts and tapioca add to beach-friendly deodorant powder a light but firm texture, keeping it in place ready to absorb odors and sweat.
Powder Puff
This may be our most beautifully scented powder ever, and it's definitely the finest deodorizing powder you'll find this side of Dorset. The intoxicatingly seductive sent of Tisty Tosty is finally available for the body . Soak in the bath first, get dry then dust yourself with our matching rose and orris powder. Orris is the percious perfume from the root of the Florintine iris; it's the most expensive ingredient you use, but if it makes you smell good, that's fair enough.
Mr. T
T is for tea tree, the Australasian herbal wonder plant which is packed into the first aid box of the Antipodeans. We use powdered tea tree herb in Mr. T for its antimicrobial properties, to help minimize odours caused by bacteria swimming around in our sweaty bits ... Lycopodium powder is antifungal for its great for between your toes - its other name is clubmoss, which makes it sound fluffier - plus it absorbes odors with its microfine powders. Use it to neutralize stronger pongs.
Lip balms (already out) Happy Talk, Lip Squeak
Ballistics:
Dream On
"Everyone knows someone with really difficult skin. The Dream On is going to be a godsend for them. It's got all of Dream Cream's chamomile and calamine powers, plus our water softening Ballistic mixture to calm seriously distressed skin (and tempers). Mo has added jojoba oil which is very close in structure to the skin's natural sebum, then calming tea tree, lavender and rose essential oils to add to its soothing abilities."
Ne Worry Pas
You can just imagine the looks on the faces of the Lush Ballistic makers when they found out that as well as stirring the mixture, scooping it out and putting it into the two halves in a mould, that they also had to put a minuscule magic grotto into each one. Fortunately, as Ne Worry Pas is scented with uplifting sweet oange and tangerine essential oils, they'll be smelling happy despite themselves. The plan is this: Take your Ne Worry Pas, whisper your worries into the grotto, then let them fizz away into the soya milky bathwater. After a lovely refreshing bath they'll disappear down the plughole forever.
Tea and Sympathy
If you've ever had a bit of a crisis in the UK, rushed round to a friend's house and blurted it all out you'll know that the standard response is for your friend to listen, nod and say "I'll put the kettle on." There's nothing like a cup of tea and a chat to put things into perspective. ... When your friends are out of town have a Tea & Sympathy ballistic instead. Calamine powder and jojoba oil calm you down, clary sage helps to give you an objective point of view and then in the middle, we put a chamomile tea bag to soak in the bath and soothe you even more.
Soap:
Mud Flats
You've never lived until you've been plastered all over with Rhassoul mud in a steam hot Moroccan bath then sloshed down with buckets of hot water and massaged with hot detoxifying oils. However the next best thing is a Mud Flats scrub in a hot shower. This squidgy soap is made with the finest Morroccan clay, used (as) a purifying skin treatment for years by the French and millennia by the Berbers. Deep cleaning detoxifying sage and rosemay essential oils are essential (in a different way) for getting sluggish skin into shape for showing off. (Note to Narcotick shower gel fans: This is even better).
Sexy Peel
It's one of those Lush products like Avobath which makes more sense when you say it. "I'll have a bit of Sexy Peel, please."... For a while we called it Marmalade because it does have chunks of citrust fruit peel in it, plus fresh lemon, lime and grapefruit juices. Everyone who remembers Back for Breakfast shower gel will want a BIG bar of Sexy Peel. Wash with it to give ytou sexy skin of your own.
Bubble Bar slices -
The new ones listed are already out: Pop in the Bath, Green Day, Temple of Truth, Marathon, The Comforter, Flosty Gritter and Sunny Side
Shower Jellies
Big Calm
If you were lying on a sun lounge, staring at the high, white cirrus clouds in an almost perfectly blue sky, sipping fresh pineapple juice, listening to the gentle waves lapping on the shore, you couldn't help but feel calm. That's what we've done our best to encapsulate into the Big Calm Shower Jelly. The scent of pineapple, the deep blue of the sky, a swirl of white intangibility and the sound of the shower pattering on to your shoulders is almost as good. Big Calm is the latest of our very popular have-a-break-in-your-own-bathroom products.
Deep Sleep
Another of the Lush themes is natural sleep enhhancement. The gorgeous sunset orange golden dusted Deep Sleep is our calming, chamomile and lavender shower jelly for the evneing. We felt sorry for people who would love to try the Golden Slumbers bath ballistic but didn't have a bath so this is the standing-up version, A hint of neroli essential oil takes your cares away as you sing yourself a lullaby and shower yourself to sleep
The Joy of Jelly
What a beautiful new jelly This one is lovely to look at, lovely to play with, delightful to smell. Our swirling pink and purple colored shower jelly has the same intoxicating fragrance as Sex Bomb to give you as much pleasure in the shower as you can have in the bath, and extra wobbly bits to play with. Super sebnusal jasmine absolute and relaxing ylang ylang in a tiger lily and rtosepetal jelly make the Joy of Jelly our most intriguing shwoer product to date. Make a date with some yourself.
Deodorant powders (new product line!)
Powdry
Powdry is a deodorizing powder with added stimulation to refresh your body and free your mind at the same time. Use it before (and after) your yoga classes and by the time you've got down from your headstand you'll feel as calm and clear as mountain aiure. This power powder smells of fragrant Middle Eastern incense, it's an absorbent, deodorazing body powder with stimulating lemon essential oil, juniper and olibanum.
All Things Coconut
If only all deodorants smelled like suntan oil! Its sweet coconutty scent makes All Things Coconut remind us of sunny days beside the sea, including pina coladas and beautiful oiled warm bodies. Powdered coconuts and tapioca add to beach-friendly deodorant powder a light but firm texture, keeping it in place ready to absorb odors and sweat.
Powder Puff
This may be our most beautifully scented powder ever, and it's definitely the finest deodorizing powder you'll find this side of Dorset. The intoxicatingly seductive sent of Tisty Tosty is finally available for the body . Soak in the bath first, get dry then dust yourself with our matching rose and orris powder. Orris is the percious perfume from the root of the Florintine iris; it's the most expensive ingredient you use, but if it makes you smell good, that's fair enough.
Mr. T
T is for tea tree, the Australasian herbal wonder plant which is packed into the first aid box of the Antipodeans. We use powdered tea tree herb in Mr. T for its antimicrobial properties, to help minimize odours caused by bacteria swimming around in our sweaty bits ... Lycopodium powder is antifungal for its great for between your toes - its other name is clubmoss, which makes it sound fluffier - plus it absorbes odors with its microfine powders. Use it to neutralize stronger pongs.
Lip balms (already out) Happy Talk, Lip Squeak