N-Spa Raspberry Milkshake Shower and Bath Gel:

I was in Asda the other day looking for a hand wash when I spied their range of N-Spa products looking all alluring on a near by shelf. I had read many a review about this range with the writers literally raving about wonderful these products were. I selected a very pink bottle of Raspberry Milkshake Shower and Bath Gel, popped it into my trolley and took it home full of high expectations for my next bath time.

The 500ml bottle of this shower and bath gel is completely clear allowing you you to see the very vivid, hot pink contents. My bathroom is currently hot-pink, {or sexy pink as I call it}, after being painted using left over bedroom paint so this looks the part on my bathroom shelf. It has a very practical black plastic flip top lid which allows you to squeeze the required amount of product into your bath. Be careful though as it can squirt out at quite a rate essentially wasting a load of your bubble bath!

The bottle has rather a lot of bold black text on the front, giving the name of the product, the N-Spa logo and the volume of the bottle as well as some kind of weird blurb. I've seen these blurbs described as "quirky", "witty" etc. but to be honest it seemed like nonsense to me and didn't really add to the attraction. My bottle says, "Imagine" said the wise man, "that the moon was made of raspberry. Would all the socks be pink and all the flowers meringue? Perhaps... and when evening falls shall we slide down the crescent laughing as we splash into warm waters of sweet milk, how enchanting life would be." Umm. OK. Should start, "Imagine" said the 70's hair rocker after taking a truck load of acid ...

Well each to their own I guess.

On the back there are directions for use, more weirdness, the ingredients and a warning not eat the product which I guess is aimed at that crazy "wise" man! They have tactically written the ingredients in teeny tiny writing and this makes the list look less long and less full of nasty chemicals and parabens. There is actually an ingredient in this with a name that is 27 letters long! If you have sensitive skin or aversions to certain chemicals I would carefully check the back of the bottle out, I care less about this sort of thing than I used to but I know a lot of you care about it.

After opening the bottle and taking a good whiff I get a lovely juicy, fruit scent at first which actually makes my mouth water but it quickly gives way to a very artificial raspberry scent. I was complaining about this to the other half when he pointed out that it was "raspberry milkshake" and that it did in fact, smell like raspberry Crusha! The scent stays pretty much the same when added to water and the fragrance did manage to fill half my flat so it's quite strong.

Being such a vivid pink I expected this to make my bath water pink too but it didn't; my water stayed completely clear and boring. It did make a load of fluffy white bubbles though which was nice and the water was made lovely and soft.

Being a shower and bath gel I can also use this as a body wash too which is a good thing as it means I can use it up faster.

After getting out of the bath my skin felt quite dry which is a shame as I was expecting lovely smooth skin based on other reviews and the N-Spa website. The scent didn't last on my skin once I was out of the bath either which would normally be a negative thing but to be honest I didn't really want to go around smelling of fake raspberries.

I paid £4.00 for this in Asda and as far as I am aware N-Spa products are only available from Asda.

I really wanted to like this but unfortunately I was so disappointed as the smell was so artificial and I just led in my bath looking longingly at my Champneys bath floats and my stash of Lush products regretting buying this at all.