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I should Coco |
| Date: |
15/01/08 (74 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: Smells lovely, softening on the skin
Disadvantages: Not very "soapy", too much dessicated coconut
I Should Coco is one of Lush's longer lasting soaps that has survived the irritating and numerous product purges the company seems to have a yen for. It is a simple coconut scented soap designed to moisturise and exfoliate the skin in a gentle way, and its a nice pink and white colour, like those pink and white coconut tablet-y sweets you get.
Ingredients
Limonene , Linalool , Colour 18050 , Coriander Oil (Coriandrum sativum) , Creamed Coconut Infusion (Cocos nucifera) , Desiccated Coconut (Cocos nucifera) , EDTA , Glycerine , Orange Oil (Citrus dulcis) , Perfume , Propylene Glycol , Sodium Chloride , Sodium Palm Kernelate , Sodium Stearate , Tetrasodium Editronate , Titanium Dioxide , Vetivert Oil (Vetiveria zizanoides)
This one has both coconut infusion and dessicated coconut...the former great for smoothing and moisturising the skin, and the latter great for exfoliating it. Orange and coriander oils are great for toning the skin.
The scent
Sweet and coconutty. Fairly simple really. Its a nice, mild smell if you like the smell of coconuts, and it lingers on the skin but softly so, not in a cloying way. I cant think of much else to say about the smell of this one, to be honest, its one of Lush's less complicated smell, just simple coconut soap.
Using it
I Should Coco is nice to use at first, when the dessicated coconut is sitting on top of the bar, and you can both wash and scrub. I find that as the bar wears away, you are left with more coconut and hardly any soap at all, so its more just a skin scrub than a soap really. It can also seem quite harsh on the skin when it gets down to this point, and it makes the soap fairly poor value for money, even for Lush soap. It doesn't lather very well either. It does soften the skin quite nicely, however, and the smell left on your skin is lovely and sweet in an unobstrusive way.
The damage
At £2.15 for 100g this is one of Lush's cheapest soap. Unfortunately most of Lush's soaps have a tendency to disappear quite quickly, more so than normal soap which tends to be harder. So they tend to work out quite bad value for money and better for treating yourself than using all the time. It helps to keep them somewhere dry, not in a sloppy wet dish by the tub.
All in all, I should Coco is not one of Lush's better soaps...why it has lasted so long when so many far better products have gotten the boot is beyond me. It has a lovely smell, but as a soap it just doesnt work that well.
Summary: Well at least it smells nice!
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