Sweetie Pie mkes me smell like a walking dessert (Lush Sweetie Pie Shower Jellie)

Member Name: duskmaiden

Product:	Lush Sweetie Pie Shower Jellie
Date:	19/04/09 (256 review reads)
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Advantages: Fabulous smell, novel nd fun

Disadvantages: does not dissolve too well

Lush is a shop that I used to adore but now prefer in small doses. The novelty value diminishes if you frquent it too much. Recently I visited the branch in Covent Garden branch and was drawn to the Sweetie Pie shower jelly due to its novelty factor and scrumptious smell.
Shower jellies are what they sound like. They are chunks of wobbly semi solid shower gels all ready for you to squish into your sponge and rub all over your body. Like all Lush products they are made of natural ingredients the bas for these wibbly wobbly slippery slidy blobs of fun being Carrageen seaweed gel which sounds weird but is supposed to be full of skin improving vitamins. The gels are available in four fun fragrances . Vegans will be pleased to know that three out o the four of th jellies including sweetie Pie are suitable for them as no animal by products are used in them.

I was attracted to Sweetie Pie because of its divine blackcurrant smell. It reminds me of Rowntrees fruit jelly and also the blackcurrant fruit pastilles and fruit gums I so much love but can't have because of Rowntrees being owned by evil Nestle. So showering in them sounds to me like a good substitute. Its supposed to have bergamot oil, coconut and sour cherry essential oils but these are downed out by the lucious blackcurrant smell . Its sickly sweet but I love it. It also looks like a black currant jelly with its lovely deep purple glossy colourirng. I could gobble it up now with a scoop of Walls Cornish vanilla ice cream but I'm not sure it would taste that nice! The picture on the website shows it to have little bits and pieces inside it. Luckily for me my chunk was bit free.
Its a fun product like most Lush products but does the jelly like consistency work better than a liquid gel or a bar of sop? I'm afraid to say it really does not. The feel of the jelly was quite nice and squashy in my hands but I found it really hard to separate and get the right amount.. I also found it did not dissolve that well in my hands even using a lot of water and a lot of rubbing. I tried a different tack rubbing it on a net sponge or flannel which worked better. However even still I found that at the end of the shower my bath still had blobs of undissolved pieces of gel which felt a bit of a waste to me. The other problem|I found with the product is that unless you use a net sponge it really did not lathe that well. It took a lot of work to lather and it was only wisps of blackcurrant lather which I did not find that mousturrisng however the scent does linger nicely both on my body and in the bathroom making me smell good enough to eat.

For my latest shower I decided to try putting the jelly in the freezer for a more invigorating experience like the shop assistant in Lush suggested. I found this made little difference . I did not feel more invigorated. Perhaps this may work better win a minty or citrus scent but not a sweet smll lik the blackcurrant. only making it a little cold when trying to scoop it out of the box
Its not too expensive when it comes to Lush products. My box was supposed to be £3.01 (its £2.15 on the website but you may get lees) and I've had three or four showers worth and it looks like I'll perhaps have another three or four showers maybe more . That's much better than a bath ballistic which is around £2 for one bath or a bubble bar that which is about £2.50 for two o three bathes. However the shop assistant that served me must have got her decimal points mixed up as I got this little box of delight for 31 pence. That's the same price as a bottle of value shower gel from a supermarket so at that price I can;t complain, as i got a real bargain. Thanks shop assistant for your little mistake. At the normal price I'm not sure if i would buy the product again. It is fun and it does smell fabulous but it can be tricky to use and does not dissolve well so I'd prefer either soap or a bottle of shower gel. Even better just get your partner to cover you in blackcurrant jelly and get them to lick it off or wash in Ribena. It would give the same effect!! Pass us the ice cream please!

Summary: A blsckcurant shower jelly