You Had Me At Vanillary (Lush Vanilla Puff Powder)

Member Name: kerrypanda

Product:	Lush Vanilla Puff Powder
Date:	25/05/09 (119 review reads)
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Advantages: Smells gorgeous, lasts for ages

Disadvantages: None

This was a total impulse purchase for me, but then thats nothing new. I only ever go into Lush to buy one of their fresh face masks and I always seem to walk back out with a bag-full!

I was at the cash register and noticed a new display of products. The sales assistant told me it was the new Vanillary range. Sold! Vanilla is my favourite smell in the whole world.

The full Vanillary product range consists of the Vanilla Fountain bath bomb £2.69, the Vanilla Mountain ballistic £7.50, Vanillary solid perfume £6.00, the Vanillary atomiser £25.00, Vanilla Dee-lite lotion £10.50, the Heavanilli massage bar £4.95 and Vanilla Puff Dusting Powder £6.50.

I bought the Vanilla Puff Powder purely because of the scent. It's a gorgeous smooth blend of vanilla and jasmine, one of the best scent combinations in my opinion. (Apparently it also smells of tonka for any perfume buffs out there. I always thought tonka was a toy truck, but what do I know!?)

Here is the ingredients list. I've taken it from www.lush.co.uk,
Cornflour (Zea mays), Magnesium Carbonate, Talc, Perfume, Vanilla Absolute (Vanilla planifolia), Jasmine Absolute (Jasminum grandiflorum), Tonka Absolute (Dipteryx odorata), Powdered Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia), Vanilla Pod (Vanilla planifolia), *Coumarin, Hydroxycitronellal
* Occurs naturally in Essential Oils.

The dusting powder (not talc, I'll explain in a second) is packaged in a black card tube with white lettering, a plastic base with a sticker telling you who made it and when (no sell-by date), and the classic talcum powder "sprinkle" plastic top. It is a Vegan product.

This is not talcum powder. Talc has had some bad publicity recently. According to Google, in autumn 2008 new research was published that said women who use talcum powder every day to keep "intimately" fresh are 40 per cent more likely to develop ovarian cancer. Talc is made from a soft mineral called hydrous magnesium silicate, and that ingredient is not found in this Lush product.

I have very dry skin so I use this sparingly, but I think it will be refreshing to use in summer when we all start "glowing!" I use it more as a perfume actually, because the scent lasts for ages.

I am also using the sales assistants recommendation of sprinkling it in the bedsheets in the morning. When you pull the duvet back to get in bed, the sheets smell delicious!

She did also say that it makes a great dry shampoo. I haven't tried that yet, but the powder is very fine and doesn't leave a talcy residue on the skin so I can imagine it would work well on hair. I have found it makes a good kids' trainer freshener too!

I would definitely recommend this product. I was concerned that £6.50 might be a bit expensive for body dusting powder, but I bought this in April and I still have about half the tub left even though it's been used nearly every day.

Summary: Dust Yourself