Some more Lush: The Olive Branch and Wasabi Shan Kui

I wrote a whole post called Colour Theory (not the proper theory itself but my thinking on how our approach to colour changes over time). It got ditched. Is this something you’d be interested in reading about? If yes, I’ll have another go.

Visited a local food festival which was nice but oddly had no artisanal bread stands, which it did last year. No one wants bread? Just cookies and ice cream and kambucha?

Anyway, Lush seems to be a Posse thing these days. Our store appears to have one of those mega filtration systems as it’s pleasant to visit and the smell doesn’t advertise itself blocks away.

I went recently to replenish the Sticky Dates shower gel which I now hope they never discontinue. It’s shower happiness.

I was running out of the lovely shampoo I had been using which I’ll no longer buy so that was another task: see if any of their weirdly named shampoos actually seemed like I might want to take it home and actually use it.

I came away with a medium sized bottle of Dates plus a small bottle of shampoo. I don’t like shampoo bars.

First off shampoo.

Wasabi Shan Kui is serious green. I’m one of those people who eats the blobs of wasabi you get with sushi – like popping candy. Not as many but I do dot them around the plate and pop them in my mouth. I like this especially when my sinuses are misbehaving.

The subhead for this is ‘spicy stimulation’. The ingredients list is too long to reproduce here. Standouts are wasabi and horseradish puree, sea salt, lemon oil, menthol crystals, gardenia and extra virgin olive oil.

It’s sort of scalp scrubby but because it’s salt it dissolves very quickly.

This smells like citrus wasabi and it’s really rather good. I sometimes get itchy scalp from shampoos themselves and so far this doesn’t do that. Rinses well too.

This is definitely a yes and I’ll buy you again.

Second up is The Olive Branch shower gel. Marketing guff: Smells like Mediterranean sunshine in a bottle. Eh, not really.

Actually it smells very gently floral. Probably because of a load of orange flower along with the olive. A lot of citrusy stuff – bergamot oil, lemon oil, mandarin juice – orange flower and cinnamon.

This was sort of meh. Very liquid rather than gooey, and a very very gentle fragrance.

It got used up (small Xmas stocking sized bottle) but won’t be replaced.

So, there you go. No good sourdough bread and a not very exciting shower gel, but a wonderful new shampoo. One out of three ain’t bad?

Plus, the sun’s out and it will be warm this week.

Pics: Pexels and mine