New Lush product - Honeywood Shower Gel

Posted by Jennifer W. Miner Aug 12, 2006

There was a grand opening of a new Lush store at Universal CityWalk in, well, Universal City. The directions were to wear black and a funny wig, but we're talking August in the San Fernando Valley. A hundred degrees in the shade. So, somehow, I forgot the dress code...but I was not turned away at the door. Lush employees are much too friendly to do something like that.

Inside, the mood was beyond festive. Women and men of all ages walked around with facial masks on, hand massages were being given in one corner, and there were bath bomb demonstrations in another. Many, many people wore wacky wigs of fuchsia, chartreuse, and other colors not usually associated with hair. And then there were my poor kids who, in a moment of maternal delinquency, I put in goofy hair bands that made them look like slightly intimidated sea anemones. Before you feel too sorry for those sea anemones, you should know that their hairdos entitled them to the grand opening Lush giveaway of a new one-time-only Lush product, Honeywood Shower Gel. Honey is the first ingredient, and the several honeys listed are from Hungary, Greece, and Yorkshire. That's a lot of honey for one shower gel, yet it is somehow not overwhelmingly sweet. Orange peel and bergamot fruit oils are among the other organic ingredients. The scent of this shower gel is just wonderful. I can't get enough of it!

I usually have three Lush soaps in my shower; Karma, Happy soap, and Honey I Washed the Kids. Now, combining the new Honeywood with Honey I Washed the Kids is a no brainer, considering that honey is the primary scent of each. In fact, I would say the two are meant for each other; bergamot and orange oils are also in Honey I Washed the Kids. The new shower gel also combined well with my Lush Rehab shampoo, and the Happy Soap, which is primarily a citrus scented soap. As a cocktail, the two together smelled something like sweet oranges. It brought to mind honey-sweetened orange herbal tea. However, Honeywood Shower Gel mixed with the Karma soap was nasty. While orange oil is in both, in my opinion Karma's patchouli oil clashed with the Honeywood. It smelled like a dorm room. Yuck! ...So, of course, I had to start my shower all over, with more Honeywood Shower Gel, and more Honey I Washed the Kids. It only makes sense.