My Sweet Heart (Lush Soft Coeur (The Honeymooner) Massage Bar)

Member Name: snow_white_forev

Product:	Lush Soft Coeur (The Honeymooner) Massage Bar
Date:	10/09/09 (24 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Divine scent

Disadvantages: Soft centre crumbles quickly

I love Lush, I love talking about them, sharing friends' goodies and could easily spend hours in their store...I've defiantly caught the Lush Bug which is almost as contagious as Swine Flu (maybe not life threatening but certainly dangerous for your bank balance). After loosing my Lush virginity, for months everything I bought from their addictive store I believed to be the best thing since hair straightners and for over a year now I have been gradually working my way through everything they ever dreamt up. My opinion on Lush products has recently become more balanced and I now realise that some of their products don't live up to the hype but when Lush gets a product perfect nothing compares to it! And their greatest invention has to be their massage bars, which I now can't live without.
 
The Soft Coeur massage bar is by far the most romantic in the range, shaped into a small cream heart with a visible sweet chocolate coloured gooey centre. This massage bar is also referred to as Honeymooners, due the presence of honey and because of its romantic aroma. Its smell is utterly divine; a soft sweet mix of honey, chocolate and vanilla. The scent is very similar to the Honey I washed the kids soap but with vanilla undertones. A totally heavenly scent, very soft, young, feminine and full of sex appeal and once applied to the skin the scent is surprisingly long lasting and can easily work as a perfume too.
 
It has a luxurious list of ingredients that include Cocoa butter, Shea butter, Almond Oil, Sweet Orange Oil, Cocoa Powder, Bergamot Oil and Honey. These ingredients really result in a luxurious treatment for the skin, leaving it feeling soft and smooth but they also have a wonderful relaxing effect on the mind. For example, the bergamot oil helps to sweetly scent the product but is also known for its natural relaxing qualities and is often used in the treatment of mild depression, anxiety and SAD disorder. And honey has been used by powerful sexy women for 1000s of years; Cleopatra famously bathed in honey and asses' milk and du Barry, an infamous mistress of Louis XV of France, used honey as a face mask whilst Poppea, the second wife of Nero, used a mixture of milk and honey to perfect her complexion.  

The massage bars are Lush's sensual answer to massage oils and they recommend snapping some of the bar off and melting it in your hands and slowly rubbing it all over your partner for luxurious rub. Whilst they are certainly great for a massage I use mine more often as a moisturiser and skin conditioner and rub into the skin myself after a bath or shower, so don't be put of buying this if you don't have someone willing to pamper you with a massage. I also quickly rub a bit over my neck before a date or sexy night in, as my partner finds the scent utterly irresistible.

This is Lush's smallest massage bar and this is reflected in the price, £3.96, making it one of their cheapest (the average price is about £5). However, due to its small size it doesn't last as long as the others. The Soft Coeur massage bar is also the trickiest to use as the soft gooey chocolate centre disintegrates very quickly and after the first few uses crumbles, leaving lumps on the skin and floor. As a result if you are using it for a massage I would recommend putting a towel under you to protect the sheets. The chocolate centre also leaves brown marks on the skin, but these brush off after the skin absorbs the oil so don't worry too much. Despite these problems I will still continue to buy it due to the heavenly scent which is perfect for special occasions.

The massage bar, like the rest in the range, absorbs very slowly into the skin, so if you need to get dressed quickly after your shower, then I probably would not recommend using this. I love nothing more than to rub this all over and put my fluffy dressing gown and relax on the sofa and let it slowly absorb - my dressing gown now smells of Lush! As it absorbs many have complained that the skin feels 'greasy' for ages but once absorbed the skin feels so fresh, young and very, very soft. I personally feel it is far more nourishing to the skin than their traditional moisturisers, but not as quick to apply.

I was very tempted to give this product the full five stars but I've had to knock one off, because whilst its scent is pure romantic heaven the difficulties in applying mean that it is not as good as their Heavani massage bar (£4.95), which also has a sweet romantic scent but doesn't leave any brown marks or crumble as quickly.

Summary: Perfect for pampering