Any of you who read my reviews regularly will know that I'm a massive fan of the shop Lush and I've been trying to sample almost every product they make. Quinquereme of Nineveh was a soap I bought from Lush's Retro section after I heard it was about to be discontinued. ***What is Lush?*** Lush is a store that makes toiletries and cosmetics, using natural and organic ingredients where possible and minimising packaging where they can. It started out as a mail order company called Cosmetics to Go, but this failed and the new store, Lush, opened in Poole, Dorset. Later branches of the shop opened in London and beyond, and there are now Lush stores all over ...  Read the complete review

'Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine' I have to begin this review by admitting that I have never been into a Lush shop in my life. Whenever I've come within sniffing distance of any of their shops, I'm absolutely repelled by the overwhelming sickliness of all those perfumes mingled together into a headache inducing miasma. I would add, that I feel exactly the same about Body Shops and give them a wide berth too. That being said, my daughter loves their products and as there's a Lush ...  Read the complete review