Blimey this one's Limey! (Original Source Lime Shower Gel)

Member Name: 2Quizzy

Product:	Original Source Lime Shower Gel
Date:	15/12/03 (64 review reads)
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Advantages: refreshed clean skin, Great lime smell

Disadvantages: Small kids will chase you and try to eat you

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I suffer from perfume allergies. The problem is that it takes body warmth to bring out the allergic reaction in me. This means I have to use and wear a product before I can tell if I?m allergic to it. I can?t tell just by opening the bottle and sniffing it in the shop. This means my friends and family are constantly getting bottles of shower gel, shampoo and perfume I love but can?t use. It?s very depressing, very disappointing and rather expensive having to keep buying things you can?t use.

Original Source offers free samples to test and that's perfect for me. I get to try out a product and don't waste my money buying things I can't use. The samples come in small sachets that easily tear open.

Original source promises that all their shower gels will be: "A totally different concept in shower gels which encapsulates the very best of nature's pure oils to bring you the most invigorating, refreshing and totally stimulating stand-up wash you'll ever want!"

So What's it like?

On opening the Pure Lime the smell seemed faint until I squeezed it out of the sachet. The colour is a translucent pale yellow-green. This gel was slightly thinner than the others I've had, more like a shampoo than a "gel", but it lathered great. Really foamy. The scent once foamy was much stronger and very very limey. Slightly less sweet than the lemon gel, definitely a more stimulating scent! Lime oil is supposed to be refre
shing and rejuvenating and this gel certainly lives up to that. The smell is gorgeously limey, like drenching yourself in dissolved lime flavoured Rowntrees fruit pastilles. That's exactly what the scent is like too. Totally lime fruit pastille!

It worked well as both a shampoo and a body wash. Afterwards the scent stayed on my skin after drying and that night when I undressed I still smelt good enough to eat. I guarantee if you washed with this, painted yourself lime green and rolled in sugar even Rowntrees wouldn't tell the difference! ;)

This gel wasn't as astringent as the lemon. It didn't dry my skin or hair and my skin still felt soft and good at the end of the day without the need for moisturising cream.

Allergy wise, how was the Pure Lime? No problems at all for me, even though the smell lingered gently on my skin. Would I buy it? Definitely!

The aromatherapy guide says that lime oil: Tones the skin, Clear anxiety, Lessen apathy and mild depression, Refresh tired mind and uplift spirits. Well, it certainly made me feel really good all day.

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And on a trivial note..

lim·ey n. Slang
A British sailor. An English person. From the use of limes/lime juice on British warships in order to prevent scurvy, a Vitamin C deficiency that causes general weakness. Lime juice is used for similar purposes to that of lemon; fever, infections, sore throats, colds, etc.

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The product info:

Original Source products are not tested on animals. The company also regularly checks its ingredient suppliers to ensure that no ingredients used have been tested on animals since the company launched in 1997.

Original Source products can be found at all the main supermarkets, Boots and many others. This gel comes in two versions: a 250ml plastic bottle with a hook on th
e lid for easy hanging in the shower or you can stand it on a shelf like any normal bottle or a 500ml pump action standing clear plastic bottle.

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