Nakedness + Mud = Great Combination! (Lush Mud Flats Soap)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush Mud Flats Soap
Date:	19/06/09 (140 review reads)
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Advantages: Smoothing and softening

Disadvantages: Nothing really!

It always makes me wonder when Lush discontinues a product but then will try and replace it with a different item. Why not just leave the item alone?! Especially when they are incredibly popular! I understand things have to change but how much can you change a shower gel or a soap?! I first came upon Mudflats when they first released it and was able to get a good chunk in store, now it's not a particularly pretty soap, a big piece of caramel brown soap is hardly what you call "pretty" but the fact that it had a great write up made me want to try it! The fact that it was all about detox for the skin impressed me straight away and the fact that I loved Narcotick Shower Gel made me buy it instantly!

In spring of 2005, Lush discontinued the vast majority of their shower gels to make way for their line of Shower Jellies. Quite a few Lush customers (including myself) were very unhappy to say goodbye to these gels, especially when the trade-off was user unfriendly jellies, none of which shared the same fragrances or skin care properties of Lush's classic shower gels (and the fact that they ended up straight down the plug hole just made you even more annoyed!). Just over a year later, Lush decided to make amends by launching several soaps that recalled the essence of those lost shower products.

One of the products that got cut was the lemon, rose, lavender, tea tree, sage, and rosemary Narcotick Shower Gel, a mighty deodorising and de-spotting wash that could also double as a shampoo for oily hair and itchy scalps. Please welcome to the shelf Mud Flats soap, whose fragrant ingredients are identical to Narcotick's bar for the replacement of lemon juice with Rhassoul mud. Where tea tree and lemon combined with herbs to create a rather sharp, medicinal scent in Narcotick, Rhassoul mud adds a milder, earthier note.

Summed up, Mud Flats is like a mud bath at a Mediterranean spa, but moved to the shower. A softer soap than most, you can even squish it between your toes! Of course, this also means that it can be a bit messy, leaving globs of brown mush on the shower floor, but they're easily rinsed away and no harm done. And don't forget because it's softer than most it can quickly melt, especially left in your shower unattended!

Besides, it is, after all, a mud soap, so you can't blame it for behaving like one, can you? The only disappointment is its failing to be the deep cleansing detoxifier that one might expect it to be, especially when compared to its elder sister, Narcotick. As a mud soap you expect it to have wonderful detoxing qualities one might find actually at a spa! Yet while Mud Flats soap fails to do the business on body acne, it succeeds in softening the skin like no other. Where Narcotick could be a bit drying for all but oilier complexions, Mud Flats leaves all skin types feeling intensely conditioned. I challenge anyone to take a Mud Flats shower and not find themselves stroking their arms and legs all day long while feeling rather smug that they only paid £2 for what would otherwise be a £50 luxury body treatment.

What Lush say:-

"Take a little bit of mud, add a pinch of lavender, a sprig of rosemary and lather up. Like a purification ceremony to start your day, washing with Mud Flats is cathartic, detoxifying and takes you to a whole new level of clean. A crisp, earthy aroma hits you the instant the water begins to flow; so let all your tension go and allow relaxation to set in. Note: This product may melt and is NOT guaranteed to arrive solid during the summer months!"

Unfortunately Mud Flats is no longer available to buy from Lush and it was discontinued and never put as a retro item which was a shame as apart from it's lack of cleansing in the skin, the fact that it made the skin so incredibly smooth was worth every penny! I have been able to buy bars of Mud Flats on EBay since it was discontinued so I would seriously recommend anyone to have a look on there and to try this fab soap!

Summary: Roll around in some mud!!