Have yourself a very merry Christmas, make the yuletide gay, and deck the halls with boughs of holly (go lightly) with these divinely scented gifts from LUSH cosmetics. If you’re looking for a cheapish, good value and yet still impressive gift for a colleague, friend or family member for under ten dollars, you can’t go past a soap or body lotion I think. Here are some great ideas and I’ve shot them with some of my own family Christmas decorations and my beloved Christmas heirloom nativity set. Hope you enjoy!
I couldn’t resist enlisting the help of this fairy doll to shoot holding this magic wand. This pink star Magic Wand Bubble Bar ($9.95) is a bubbly soap on a stick with ribbons attached that you can re-use in the bath time after time, as Cyndi Lauper would say, so it’s also better value than a single-use product. You wave it under running water and allow to dry out for next time. If you’re giving it to a little person, why not give it with a fairy doll like I’ve done below? That’d be such a cute gift!
Limited edition Snow Fairy shower gel is here for a good time but not a long time so wing in and buy some soon. It has a sweet scents and shimmery look to the pink, scented shower gel.
I’m getting very festive now, with Santa Bath Bomb, Snowman Fun, Yog Nog, Rose Jam, Santa Baby, and Cinders Bath Ballistic.
The Santa Bath Bomb turns your water from bright red to vivid green!
Yog Nog ($6.90 per 100g) is a soap mimicking the famous drink, containing moisturising soya yoghurt and festive spices such as clove bud and ylang ylang and dusted with aromatic cocoa powder.
Cinders Bath Ballistic is a sweet and spicy bomb inspired by fireside parties; it has literally crackling popping candy alongside cinnamon leaf oil to recreate a burning crackling fire.
Snowman Fun ($9.95) is the perfect way to make like Elsa and Anna in Frozen and say “Do you want to build a snowman?” You can actually build this from mouldable soap and it has real coal for eyes and carrot-scented orange just like a real snowman’s nose.
Santa Baby Lip Tint ($9.95) is a small metal tin containing a hydrating lip tint to apply using your fingertips and scented with cherry and date extract for a festive air.
Rose Jam will be familiar to many of you as it’s a classic shower gel of theirs, and very popular at Christmas time with its rose scented gel for the shower or bath. It contains argan oil, goji berry, Sicilian lemon, rose oil, and Rose Absolute fragrances. $9.95 per 100g.
Holly Go Lightly bubble bar ($9.90) is one of the best they have out this season, with its cute holly leaf-and-berry topped silvery Christmas pudding design. It has a festive spice fragrance and is large enough to cut into three or four pieces to use a few times in the bath.
Snow Angel ($8.50) is the star of the show; a gold angel that would be as at home atop your Christmas tree as in the bath. It has quite a spectacular bath effect, too – this bath melt dissolves into a snow flurry when it hits the water, covering the bath in white foam before the big reveal: a sparkly golden glow. It contains hydrating cocoa butter and blend of rose, benzoin and cassie absolute giving it a light floral and marzipan scent.
Celebrate Body Lotion is my favourite product in the range, with its rich and luxurious body lotion and citrus scent. It has lime oil and Brazilian orange oil to give a zesty fragrance and cocoa butter and almond oil to moisturise.
12 days of Christmas ($99.90) is an ultimate giftset; a cardboard hardcover boxed set with twelve full-sized products inside to use in the run up to Christmas, and beyond.
All prices approximate, see www.lushnz.com for more info and where to buy.
Words and photos, Megan Robinson
25th November 2014
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