Lush Fresh Farmacy

Several weeks ago, after an additional week or so of browsing the Lush website, I went off to Preston armed with a list and the intention to buy either the Angels On Bare Skin cleanser or the Fresh Farmacy one. I knew I wanted an exfoliator of some kind but I've also been going through a rebellious skin phase again (hoped I'd grown out of all that now) and, going by the online description, I thought Fresh Farmacy might help me out, too. Unlike the picture on Ciao, the slab of it that I saw in Preston doesn't have any reddish-orange bits on the top and it's actually moulded and scalloped a ... more

After hearing so many good reviews of Fresh Farmacy I thought it was about time I gave it a try so when my cleanser ran out (I had seaweed cleanser from The Body Shop) I decided to send my other half off on one of his usual missions to Lush. I had smelt this on a previous trip so knew that the smell was acceptable enough for me to use it. Almost all of their cleansers stink in my opinion. They are either really over the top lavender or smell of fish! Yuck! Anyway, I asked my other half to buy roughly 100grams and to ask for some testers of moisturisers (two that I wrote down for him) and sent ... more

During my recent voucher spending spree, (no not the Lush one, the Boots one!), I decided to be a bit sensible (I can if pushed hard enough you know!) and buy one or two items that I use everyday as well as ‘luxury’ type things…….don’t panic….you’ll be reading about them on here at some point too! One such item was my usual Olay daily facial cloths; however the ones I went and bought weren’t my usual ones, as by mistake, I picked up the dry/normal skin instead of the sensitive ones. I used them as normal that night and was non the wiser to my error until the middle of the night when I woke up ... more

I have always had pretty good skin. I don’t very often get spots and I have always looked young for my age, so I’m told. Sadly, though, I very rarely go anywhere to show my good skin off. It’s almost guaranteed, though, that the minute I decide to do anything even remotely special, I’ll get a crop of monster zits on my chin. It’s the law. The combination of oily T-zone and stress causes volcanic eruptions of Pompeii proportions on my face. These very circumstances came to pass the day before I was due to go to the Ciao meet in Birmingham. Sure enough, the pre-meet ... more

As you may have guessed already, I’m a bit of a fan of Lush products. The main reason for that is not, however, that I simply like the unique smells of their bath bombs, or their policy against animal testing, or even the fact that they use as many natural products as possible while reducing chemicals to an absolute minimum. It’s because from my experience, lots of Lush products simply work. I’ve always had rather sensitive skin that was prone to blemishes, and when I entered puberty, the added problem of impure skin and a proneness to annoying and unsightly spots joined in to make life even ... more