Ooooo so many pleasures! (Lush Pleasure Dough Bubble Bar)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush Pleasure Dough Bubble Bar
Date:	07/05/09 (76 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A great softening and soothing bar

Disadvantages: Little bits float around

My Lush obsession has become slightly over the top recently. To the point that I won't use anything other than Lush! Slightly weird and also slightly expensive! The fact that the products really seem to suit my skin is the only reason why I fork out so much on them. If they really irritated my skin I'd never touch the stuff. So for me warranting a lot of money on something which soon dissolves or ends up going down the drain!

I probably buy retro stuff quite often, probably placing an order about once every two months to stock up on my favourite items as you never know when Lush is going to whip them completely away from us!

Pleasure Dough was discontinued in 2000 but was shortly reinstated as a retro bubble bar as it proved so popular with the Lush community and this is one of my favourite Lush fragrances; a foundation of lavender, with orange blossom and rose top notes and a sprinkling of fresh mint (found here in actual shreds of mint leaves as opposed to typical oil) to open the whole aromatic experience up and give it an additional "fresh air" lift. It's amazing how light and delicate the scent is compared to what the bar actually looks like!

My lovely little bubble bar was delivered to my door along with its retro pals in the usual Lush box filled to the brim with popcorn (I actually throw the popcorn out to the birds!). It was in its usual yellow paper bag with the very usual Lush label. It's amazing how something so simple can bring a smile to your face!

Now Pleasure Dough isn't exactly pleasing to the eye, it isn't glittery and it certainly isn't pink and girly! Pleasure Dough is actually quite a yellow colour with flecks of the mint so it basically looks like you've dropped a ball of play dough on the floor and you've got bits of mud and sticks on it! What a wonderful picture I'm painting! But despite its quite masculine exterior its fragrance is nothing but feminine through and through.

Plus, the bubbles are divine, they last and last, and if you don't need spread them out while the tub is filling up, they'll overflow near the faucet (and that's a good thing!). Pleasure Dough also crumbles into the bath really easily, it's incredibly delicate so you don't have to use much force at all - this being said be careful with it as it could crumble completely before you even have it in the bath! The only negative here is owed to the browned shreds of herbs and flowers - these obviously don't melt and kinda float around but all is not lost!

Thankfully, though, the bits and pieces don't damage to Pleasure Dough is minima, this bubble bar's brown, dried and decaying herbal bits and shreds go entirely unnoticed underneath the mounds of glorious bubbles - which is fantastic as I am a firm hater in anything bath product filled with dead flowers! You don't even notice them on your skin however you do have to take them out of the plug hole when you've drained the water!!

And of course, to altogether rid your bath of these qualities, you can certainly sock this Bubble Bar in a cut off pair of tights to contain the bits, though if you were going to go to all the trouble to do this then buy a bubble bar which doesn't have foliage!

Apart from the truck load of bubbles this bar does wonders for the skin, it smoothes and softens and although you probably could do with a bit of body lotion after you get out the bath I think this does a pretty good job of making your skin baby soft. The bubble bar makes the water ever so soft to the touch and underneath the creamy bubbles lies a layer of what seems like white velvet.

What Lush say:-

Wake late, take breakfast in bed then rise at noon for a Pleasure Dough bath, scented with the blend of herbs and flowers adored by the 17th Century French courtesan, Ninon de Lenclos who lived an exciting life to the age of 90, sharing her secrets with a select band of protégés. She used her favourite, personal perfume of lavender, rose, peppermint and orange blossom to seduce her lovers, including two marquises, the Cond, the Duc de Larochefoucauld and the odd abb or two. She was noted for her style, taste and politeness (and other skills we wont mention) so were quite certain that shell be delighted we borrowed her recipe.

Pleasure Dough costs £3.43 and as it's a retro is only allowed online. Yes this is slightly more expensive than normal but for the sake of a few extra pennies this is well worth it! Stock up while you can.

Summary: A great all round bubble bar