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for Lush Porridge Soap

Rating Summary based on 10 reviews

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  • 74 of 74 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 moistbabe

    Member since 10/05/2008

    Reviews written: 302

    4 Stars Feel your Oats! 05/02/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages moisturises well, exfoliates well, smells divine

    Disadvantages Disadvantages makes a mess of your bath

    Looks aren't everything It is fair to say that Porridge Soap is not the best-looking offering on the shelves of Lush. Amongst all the more colourful, funkier products, it looks somewhat drab. It isn’t sparkly and it isn’t glittery. It’s a sandy brown colour, studded with flecks of oatmeal. In appearance it reminded me of a slice of that great Yorkshire delicacy, ‘Parkin’, a soft, sticky cake made with oatmeal and treacle. However, the moment I picked it up and had a sniff, I realised this was the soap for me. It really did smell like porridge, or more specifically it reminded me of the aroma ... more
  • 47 of 47 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 charlsayslol

    Member since 01/03/2006

    Reviews written: 384

    5 Stars Golden Syrup in the Shower 31/10/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Smells gorgeous, not too expensive, great brand, little packaging

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Like many Ciao users, I used to be a total Lush addict. For some reason, however, I hadn’t bought anything from them for a few months until a few weeks ago, when I found myself irresistibly drawn to venturing into its sweet smelling domain once again. What tempted me in was the Fresher’s Box offer, which gave you eight Lush items for only £10. Of course, you couldn’t just pick whatever eight items you wanted, but the choice was still pretty good: one facemask, one shampoo bar, two toner tabs, a moisturiser sample, a body scrub and two 50g pieces of soap. The overall savings wasn’t immense when ... more
  • 36 of 36 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 pink_champagne

    Member since 08/06/2003

    Reviews written: 1123

    4 Stars Shhhhh....don't tell Goldilocks! 07/11/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Creamy, Sweet smell, leaves skin soft

    Disadvantages Disadvantages oats can feel harsh and are messy

    I bought this soap online - I was intrigued by its appearance, full of oats and reminding me of a flapjack, but when I clicked on the description and saw it contained orange juice and orange oil, I decided I had to have one, being a lover of citrus scents. When it arrived I took it out of the packaging and rather than the orangey scent I had been anticipating, I was met with a rather strange smell - the soap has a creamy, sweet scent and I wasn't sure that I liked it all that much. The soap is a beige colour and has lots of oats running through it. I found it to be quite soft, and malleable ... more
  • 32 of 32 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 sexybeest

    Member since 19/03/2009

    Reviews written: 121

    5 Stars Lush Porridge Soap 19/01/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Smells Great, Scrubby Yet Never Harsh On My Skin, Effective & Will Last Me Ages

    Disadvantages Disadvantages I Dont Think Everyone Will Be Keen On The Scent.

    When it comes to Lush products Ill try anything once - if it turns out to be rubbish I wont bother buying it again but more often that not I love the products so I end up going back time and again to try more. Soaps are one of the few things from Lush that I think I can safely say I have tried most of now and Im always amazed when I find a bar that I havent heard of before which is what happend a few weeks back with quite a few bars when I was browsing their website. One of the bars that caught my eye was this 'Lush Porridge Soap' which looked like such a weird idea but at the same time I ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 Absinthe_Fairy

    Member since 03/01/2011

    Reviews written: 1019

    5 Stars Not too rough, not too smooth - this soap's just right 20/07/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Exfoliating, moisturising, lasts for ages, smells yummy

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The oats do get all over the shower floor!

    I was in Lush looking at all the soaps, and I decided I should give one of them a try. I went for Porridge as the concept was rather interesting! Porridge Soap is based around the concept of, well, porridge. The cake in the shop has the word 'porridge' on top and looked good enough to eat. It was a cold day in January when I bought this soap, and I hoped it would remind me of the real thing - comforting and warming on a freezing morning! The soap is pale brown in colour and contains dark brown bits which turned out to be oats. Pretty authentic porridge then! The soap smelled absolutely ... more
  • 40 of 40 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 xxfoxyredxx

    Member since 01/10/2006

    Reviews written: 1114

    4 Stars A porridge purely for the ladies! 22/10/2009
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Gorgeous smelling, hydrates and softens skin

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can leave bits in the bath

    I bought this soap with one thing very apparent in my mind. Actually you lot on here! I'd read alot of reviews about this soap and I was in two minds about buying it due to mixed reviews and I picked it up, put it back down, picked it up and put it back down and found it very difficult to buy! lol In the end I thought there's only one way to find out if this is any good and so I needed to buy it! I did! Appearance wise it's a beigy/brown colour. When you first have it texture wise it's a bit rough but once you start using it, it loses that and becomes a smooth looking and feeling soap apart ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 bamamo

    Member since 20/02/2008

    Reviews written: 213

    5 Stars Cleans as well as it smells 29/10/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Smells devine, works nicely, cheap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not the prettiest, oat pieces get everywhere

    NO IDEA WHY CIAO PUT THIS IN PORRIDGE GRAINS, BUT WHATEVER Lately, life has been blah. So I popped into Lush for a few treats for myself. I'm not a diehard Lush junkie, but seems like every time I go in, I realise there are more things I want than my wallet will allow. Maybe this is why I don't allow myself to go more often, but I'm pretty sure there are worse vices! Well, this visit one thing I made sure that I was coming away with was their Porridge Soap. Okay so it might not be the prettiest, it might not be glittery and quirky and in a fun shape, but it smells deeeeeelish! I'm not one for ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 leeanne160480

    Member since 15/08/2008

    Reviews written: 645

    4 Stars Lush Porridge Soap 24/04/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages .

    Disadvantages Disadvantages .

    like the shop Lush and like that you can nip in and get a chunk of Soap. The Soap is in large rounds, a bit like Cheese and although there is 100g Bars all wrapped in greaseproof paper, it you wanted a larger or smaller chunk then the staff will cut you a piece. I had this in my cupboard for a while and only got round to using it this week. This was a square-ish lump which was quite wide and large enough as well. Looking at it it looked like it would be quite hard to use due to the size, and I imagined me trying to lather with this and the corner bits annoying me. It was a bit tough the first ... more
  • 16 of 16 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 katykicker

    Member since 11/12/2005

    Reviews written: 1375

    4 Stars Porridge anyone? You'll smell good enough to eat! 16/01/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great scent, looks different in the bathroom, cleans well.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Some bars have very large oats.

    Lush Porridge Soap is a lump of soap made by Lush which is available in a variety of sizes and if purchasing in store it is sometimes possible for you to select the block size that you would like. The bar contains porridge oats & molasses and this means that when washing yourself oats and bits may get anywhere and everywhere but this is one of the things that I love about Lush products & when using them it's definitely best not to be in a hurry once finished in the bath or shower as you may well need to give the bathroom a good clean - It's definitely worth it though! Porridge Soap does not ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    broken_wings

    4 Stars Good enough to eat for breakfast. 08/02/2010
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Lovely smell, moisturising

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Melts far too quickly

    Porridge soap is a soap that I'd previously smelt in the Lush store and thought... nah don't want it. However after reading many reviews and watching many videos, plus the fact that sometimes when you're in Lush, the smells are so overpowering that sometimes you don't know what you're smelling anymore. I decided I would give it a go and buy a piece of Porridge. Now I'm not sure about other stores but the one I go to seems to have two different types of this soap - One with a layer of oats at the top and one with oats all the way through. Having had a very stressful time in the past with a ... more
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