Good Riddance (Lush Haagenbath)

Member Name: MagdaDH

Product:	Lush Haagenbath
Date:	19/06/09 (26 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: very moisturising

Disadvantages: horrible scent, dirty appearance

There are very few Lush products that I can say I don't actually like at least sometimes but this is definitely one of them. There are even fewer that i actively dislike, but again this is one of those.

Haagen Bath is a pale pink, minty ballistic studded with chunks of chocolate melt. Now, it's hard to think of something that is less of My Thing (liquorice, perhaps).

In my book, chocolate is for eating, not bathing in. I can just about tolerate chocolate or fudge face mask, but a chocolate bath? Yuck. Still, Lush managed to convert me to many scents I always though I hated, so it was worth trying.

But the dominant scent of Haagen Bath is MINT. Now, bathing in mint didn't appeal - but one of the most wonderful Lush ballistics (Magic) has mint in it, and it doesn't harm it at all, so it was worth trying.

But it wasn't good.

Haagen Bath fizzes slowly, to produce murkily pink water with a layer of scummy foam on top. This wouldn't be a problem if the smell was nice - but it isn't. It's like bathing in toothpaste with a hint of After Eight.

I didn't like it at all.

The ballistic is packed with a lot of butters and oils and it does leave the skin well moisturised, but the same effect can be achieved using any of the Lush melts and there is no need to suffer the toothpaste effect.

This has been discontinued (to a chorus of criticism from Lushies) but as far as I am concerned it's a good riddance.

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I have spent a while hunting for ingredient list all over the Internet but with no luck - but it doesn't really matter as the main point is very clear.

Summary: not for me