Too much hard work for one bar (Lush Mange Too Bar)

Member Name: sweetpea01

Product:	Lush Mange Too Bar
Date:	06/05/09 (80 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: It has moisturising qualities

Disadvantages: Its far to hard to use

Mange Too is the latest massage bar I have used from Lush and I don't know whether I can quite mke my mind up about it! Those of you who don't know what Massage bars are, they are solid blocks of skin conditioning ingredients like cocoa butter and shea butter that melt when they come into contact with warm skin. The idea is that they will "melt" onto skin and provide enough softness for someone to give their partner a massage.

"Mange Too" is Lush's punny way of letting you know that this is an edible Massage Bar, and the first of its kind, no less. Question is, though it's a veritable gourmet dessert of fresh bananas, white chocolate, honey, vanilla, and peppermint, who really wants to eat a Massage Bar?

On the skin, Mange Too can be overpoweringly sweet, with mint coming on strong alongside vanilla early on, and white chocolate moving to the forefront with time. This all-in-one, cooling, warming, stimulating and soothingly calming fragrance is not only powerful enough to rebalance your spirit and every opposing yin and yang energy contained within it, but it's also potent enough to act as its own perfume: don't be surprised if people enter the room asking who's been eating chocolate, even delivering such comments several hours after application.

The lovely, yummy white chocolate and honey fragrance changes into something very unpleasant once it actually gets onto your body. Other people have described it as "Play-Doh" and I'd have to say that really hits the nail on the head. I don't know why or how a product that's supposed to smell like white chocolate and honey actually smells like a child's toy, but it does. All of that lovely yummy sweetness completely disappears once Mange Too hits your skin and you're left smelling like Play-Doh for many hours after application.

As a Lush Massage Bar, it's not as fast melting as some of the others, rendering it not only easy to use for massages, but also particularly useful for regular use as a body lotion sans fear of over-application. But this is also a bad point, using this as a moisturising bar shouldn't be a hassle and this is the only Lush massage bar with which I have to do this and it's somewhat annoying, considering when you get out the bath your skin is naturally quite warm and normally the massage bar just glides on. But you really do have to press down on this bar.

Once you finally manage to get the bar properly on your skin the cocoa butter, shea butter, and mango butter work in tandem with moisturising banana and honey to leave skin feeling toned and nourished, penetrating the skin without leaving a greasy finish in its wake. In fact, though cocoa and shea butter tend to be heavier, richer oils, mango, honey, and peppermint are actually wonderful detoxifiers that aid in calming blemishes, making this an excellent choice for those who love to receive a good massage.

What Lush say:-

A tasty honey and chocolate massage bar.
Mange Too was given the same flavour and scent as our beautiful Honey Trap lip balm. Why? Well, sometimes we like to kiss the bits we're massaging, and it's really disappointing to find that they don't taste terribly good, isn't it. Mange Too (a pun in Franglais or Frenglish) is a massage bar to use in the comfort of your own home with someone you know intimately, but would like to know even more intimately than that.

Mange Too is available in store and online (www.lush.co.uk) and costs £5.63 which I think is highly over priced. Yes, I liked the bar once I could actually apply it (after rubbing it in my hands for a while) but the effort was far to great to then want to spend that amount of money again!

Summary: Many more massage bars to try!