Monday, April 26, 2010

Review: Lush: Slammer Shower Gel (Retro)


Slammer Shower Gel is a Retro product, which means you can only order it from the UK Lush website from the Retro section.
The Retro section contains a lot of products that used to be a hit in their day, were discontinued for some reason, and were brought back because of high demand.
Before, you were only able to buy 500g bottles of Retro Shower Gels, but now you can buy 100g bottles of Retro Shower Gels, Shampoo's and Conditioners!

Ingredients:
Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Fresh Lime Peel Decoction (Citrus aurantifolia), Fresh Scottish Sea Water (Aqua), Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Fresh Lime Juice (Citrus aurantifolia), Honey (Mel), Lime Oil (Citrus aurantifolia), Rock Salt (Sodium chloride), Litsea Cubeba Fruit Oil, Lemon Oil (Citrus limonum), Perfume, FD&C Red No.4, Methylparaben, Propylparaben.

Lush UK website description:
An early-morning citrus slap in the face for days you'd rather stay asleep. The alarms are tingling, beeping and buzzing, your partner pours coffee down your throat through a funnel and plays The Jam very loudly, but nothing will stir you from your work-day slumbers. This is when you need a bottle of Slammer waved underneath your nostrils. Be invigorated by its sharp lemon and lime bubbles. Your brain will flicker and come to life with wafts of stimulating litsea cubeba oil. Your skin will tingle with refreshing sea salt and be soothed with honey; you will be wide awake and smelling fresh as a lime tree. Start the day with a Slammer (The virgin kind).

To me it smells like a whole basket of citrus fruits: limes, lemons and grapefruits in various shapes and sizes.
It doesn't actually have grapefruit in it, but that's not the point.
The point is that showering with Slammer is like taking a fruit basket and a juicer with you in your shower, like your are squeezing the fruits above your body and let the juice splash on your skin.
Slammer's extremely fruity and juicy and zesty.
You can smell the juice of the limes, lemons and litsea cubeba, but you can also smell their peels (luckily without the bitter smell, I really HATE bitter!!!).
Slammer just smells lovely!

Slammer is a really refreshing Shower Gel that gets me awake and happy.
Its scent energises me and I feel ready to take on the world.
The Shower gel is a bright orange (though mine has faded into a dark yellow/very light orange), and it makes your skin nice and smooth.

Slammer Shower Gel is much more hydrating and smoothing than say The Comforter Shower Gel.
This is probably because of the salt that's in the Shower Gel (the salt in Rub Rub Rub makes my skin feel soft and smooth as well).

Verdict: Extremely juicy, citrusy Shower Gel that makes me awake and happy and my skin smooth and soft.
I really recommend this!!!

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