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Some people have very complex requirements from their health and beauty products.
Mustn’t be tested on animals. Must contain certain herbal extracts. Must be from a certain brand. Must be a certain colour.
And so on, and so forth.
I’m ashamed to admit that I’m lured by rather more facile things – advertising campaigns and special offers for instance. When you’re wandering around the supermarket these days, something different seems to be on offer every week, so “damn your eyes” brand loyalty – I’m fickle and proud of it.
The picture nestled above this review does not actually show the product I purchased. Currently marketed in a range of two or three different colours and fragrances, I opted for the Revitalising Oxygen variety of the new Lynx Re-Load
range, which is an icy blue colour.
My first observation about the product was how badly designed the bottle is. One side of the plastic is moulded into finger holds and the other side has a little patterned area, both of which combined are supposed to aid grip. This is all very well and good in theory, but if you were to grip the bottle how the design is suggesting, you would probably jettison most of the contents onto the shower floor in one hit. I’d also hate to have little hands – the design is clearly orientated to those of us with big digits. The bottle has no hook on it – so when you’re in the shower, you struggle to find somewhere to put it. I think this works on the basis that all the gym bunnies and footballers have communal showers, where suitable protrusions are quite hard to find (unless of course, one of your fellow shower users harbours a secret desire for you). I find this really irritating – my shower has a perfect little hook for gel bottles, but I either have to stand this stuff on the floor, or balance it precariously on a little shelf.
The bottle has a hard, sharp, black plastic cap, which is pretty difficult to flip open. Whilst I appreciate that they have tried to make the bottle sturdy, if you’ve got slippery hands, this bottle can be quite difficult to get open. The edge of the flip-up lid is also quite sharp – too much brute force will result in it becoming jammed between you fingernail and your finger. Ouch.
The gel smells not unlike a bathroom cleaning spray that they used to sell in Sainsbury’s. I suppose it is quite masculine in a way, but it is a very non-descript smell that reminds me of very little. There is a hint of pine in there, a hint of something herbal and a hint of chlorine. I did give it a bit of a sniff in the supermarket, but I have to say that it smelt much nicer from outside the bottle than it did when it was smeared all over my privates.
The Lynx gel is quite unlike any other shower gel that I have used. It is quite thick in consistency and is almost oily in texture. It also takes quite a while to lather it up. If you’re not careful, the little dollop that you plop into the palm of your hand will just be washed away by the shower water. I find that I have to stand away from the water and start rubbing it in, before I add too much water. This is the only way to lather it up properly, but it does mean that whichever part of your body gets smeared first, also tends to be rather “over-oiled” (a handy clue there, for certain circumstances).
The Re-Load gel is advertised as giving you a kick and revitalising your body. I haven’t really identified either of these claims as being true. It smells fairly nice, it feels fairly nice and it does wash the mud off your knees – but then the same thing could be said of any bog standard shower gel. The gel is also dermatologically tested to be pH neutral, but I haven’t really noticed any difference on my skin, after having used this. A similar product on the market is the Adidas Sport shower gel, which is an infinitely superior product. The bottle is slim, groovy and well designed, the gel smells horny and it really does wake you up.
As with all these branded shower gels, Lynx Re-Load is also rather over-priced. I paid £2.19 for a 250ml bottle and for the money, I would have expected something a bit more exciting and interesting. As for those adverts where the guy uses Lynx and then gets surrounded by a horde of beauties – suffice it to say, I think this is unlikely. Ten minutes after showering in Lynx, I can’t smell it anymore – so I doubt anyone else could either. Once again, if you compare this to Adidas Sport, Lynx is very disappointing. I also prefer combined body and hair gels – Lynx is only suitable for your body (although my hair hasn’t fallen out after being washed in it. Yet.)
As you might have guessed, I’m not a fan of this product. Over-priced and over-hyped, this stuff is a waste of money. I’ll be sticking with Adidas from now on.
Not recommended.
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