Might as well face it, you’re addicted to Lush

[anna_williams]

It all started out so innocently. A little Fresh Farmacy here to clear up the skin, a little Buffy there to exfoliate and moisturize, and a LOT of Flying Fox everywhere ‘cuz… damn that stuff smells good. Now I’m completely addicted to Lush. Of course it doesn’t help that they’ve opened not one, but three stores in the Metro area

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enjoy your new stuff!

[dracschick]

always nice to see you in LJ land.

hope you are well.

*hugs*
Chris

Re: enjoy your new stuff!

[anna_williams]

Thanks!

*hugs back*

!!!

[wombat1138]

[thought balloon] .oO(bath melts? wtf are bath melts??)

[pokes around Lush site] *coughsplutter* those lil' 1-oz thingies normally sell for ~$5 each??!?

Have you considered making your own? Just trying to strike a blow for do-it-yourself craftiness, though possibly this is not the best thing to encourage under all circumstances, considering that the wombatcave has several small mountains of homemade soap stored in various places....

Re: !!!

[anna_williams]

Now you know my pain. Do NOT try Lush. It's like crack; one hit and you're hooked. It's also more expensive. And I'm a freakin' cheapskate when it comes to beauty products! I have no idea how this happened to me.

As for making my own... I might try that. Although I think the hardest part will be finding all the absolutes/essential oils to make things smell pretty. But if the result is more economical...

Re: !!!

[wombat1138]

The wombat-consort is militantly opposed to anything "stinky", down to and including laundry detergent, so I may be forcibly immune from the charms of Lush on pain of exile from a ten-foot radius.

The oils, cocoa butter, etc. should be pretty easy to find online, though unfortunately I don't have any specific recommendations for sites to get them from. The most convenient way to get them would probably be to look for a nearby crunchy-granola-organic store-- can't recall whether Whole Foods has essential oils on the shelf, though that definitely wouldn't be the *cheapest* place to get them :b but they are on the WF website, as well as on the GNC website.

Based on various reviews, it sounds like the primary scents of Wicked are ginger and jasmine, although there's some disagreement about whether the minor notes are tonka bean or oakmoss (does the label list the ingredients?).

Re: !!!

[anna_williams]

The ingredients: cocoa butter, laureth 4, pink glitter, almond oil, perfume, ginger oil, jasmine absolute, oakmoss absolute.

You can catch the ginger and jasmine right away, but it takes a few more sniffs to get the oakmoss... at this for this batch anyway.

Me? Evil? Nah, couldn't be...

[tall_girl789]

Now why did you have to drag me into this? *POINTS* I didn't make you do anything you didn't want to do in the first place. We both know that we stole that box from that girl at Lush. She looked all dejected...

Re: Me? Evil? Nah, couldn't be...

[anna_williams]

Excuse me? Who was the one who said "Let's go to Lakeside and see if they have any Wicked left."

Oh right, it was YOU!

Re: Me? Evil? Nah, couldn't be...

[tall_girl789]

What? I was framed!

Besides, we needed to corrupt Jason, it was the real reason for going... ^O^

Re: Me? Evil? Nah, couldn't be...

[anna_williams]

Yeah. Sure, fine, whatever. ;)

[cdaae]

Haha. I'm a complete Lush addict too. They have a new website all about their discontinued products, and I'm scared to look at it because I'm so broke at the moment, and I'm afraid that if they do some limited edition re-run of some product from the past that I love, I'll burst into tears and make myself bankrupt on it.

[anna_williams]

Yeah, I know how that is. I had to stop myself from going nuts (and broke) during this years fresh from the past order.