I love being a ginger! (Lush Ginger Dusting Powder)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush Ginger Dusting Powder
Date:	26/06/09 (46 review reads)
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Advantages: Beautiful fragrance and light texture

Disadvantages: No longer available

Whilst I'm on a whole reviewing trip about Lush dusting powders I might as well do a third one for luck! This time it's Ginger. This is another dusting powder which regularly sits on my shelf ready to be used. This one I don't use so often as it's now discontinued and I only use it on very special occasions or whenever I'm wanting to put a bit of sparkle into my day!

Ginger is from Lush's Ginger Fragrance line and is one of their finest Dusting Powders both for its fragrance and overall consistency. Unlike many other Lush powders, with an ultra-fine cornstarch and talc base, Ginger is easily blended to avoid a white streaked finish even on freshly towel dried skin (thank goodness for that!). This is especially true if you use a powder puff to apply Ginger, but also applies when simply pouring this powder into your hands for a quick direct application.

Even when faced with areas that are still noticeably damp from your shower or bath, should whiteness appear once dried, you can quickly use your fingers to rub it in the rest of the way, sans looking as though you've been playing with sticky floured dough. Now this you don't get with Bee Have where you just end up with unsightly white clumps.

In addition to its rich baby soft base powders, Ginger also contains a touch of golden glitter, leaving a delicate shimmer here and there on the skin which is perfect to make you feel quite special! Yet while Ginger contains more golden sparkles than Lush's fairly impotent Bare Naked Lady Dusting Powder, glitter haters don't have a great deal to fear, the subtly glimmering result won't be long lasting which in the grand scheme of things really isn't that bad at all!

On the other hand, Ginger Dusting Powder's fragrance is potently enduring, with a little going quite a long way aromatically, the exotic spice of rejuvenating ginger combines with spry juniper berry, "floral-green-violet" mimosa, traditional rose, sweet geranium, and sensual jasmine to create a flirtatiously passionate perfume that knowingly bats its lashes even as it simultaneously tries to play shy and hard to get.

Meanwhile, not only do you smell lovely, but this blend of essential oils is aroma therapeutically designed to simultaneously calm, stimulate, and inspire confidence. And good thing this mood-altering scent lasts all day and night on the skin, not only does a spritz of perfume become optional with this powder, but Lush's cheap powder pots do not travel very well whether for short distance touch ups or long distance journeys, leaking constantly, sans reprieve. So you may actually want to take a bottle of perfume with you just in case! Maybe opt for Lush's Ginger fragrance to continue the mood!

And if you don't believe me, try this, turn your closed pot upside down and shake it over your sink. You'll find that you could probably apply just as much to your skin while the pot is closed as you could when it's open. What a shame that anyone would take this luxuriously rich product and force it to run about in cheap, shoddy packaging. But Lush so far have never listened to the users opinions on this packaging and still produce these awful little tubs.

But don't let the packaging put you off though as Ginger is probably one of best dusting powders you are ever likely to come across and if you can forgive the packaging flaw you will no doubt love this powder forever! It leaves you dry and comfortable all day with a scent that lingers around for hours, which by the way you never get bored of! It will also no doubt keep your skin soft too which is always an added bonus!

"Dust your body in with warm, spicy, sensual Ginger powder, apply a little lightweight clothing then head off for the evening in a fragrant cloud of eastern blooms and West Indian warmth. On cold days, comfort yourself with a dusting of Ginger before you put on your woollies and imagine you're in a spice garden, not a suburb."

Unfortunately Ginger is no longer available in store as I said above but fear not folks you can obtain this on EBay, albeit not as regularly as you could do with Lush but it does keep re-appearing so my advice is to buy a pot as soon as you can!

Summary: I'm proud to be a ginger!!