This weekend I am happy to announce two new features in The
Gilded Lily’s line-up. While you won’t see the second one until tomorrow, today’s
fun review feature is called Throwback Thrillers.
Every year, dozens of great beauty products get
discontinued, leaving us to do whatever we can to find a decent substitute.
Luckily, certain websites like Ebay and Amazon.com will occasionally crop up
old favorites.
The products featured in Throwback Thrillers will be things
that are gone, but not forgotten. And if you like the review and happen to see
them being sold somewhere, seize the
last chance you may ever have with it!
Note: While I do encourage trying to find a favorite that’s
gone away, please realize that certain products, though they might still appear
on Ebay and the like will not be good to use if they’ve been gone for too long
a time. Please keep in mind the different shelf lives and expiration dates of
individual products and don’t buy anything that could be harmful or useless.
Also, don’t keep anything that’s clearly seen previous use. Yuck!
On to the review!
Lush products don’t usually make it to websites like Ebay,
due to their short shelf lives. Lush’s Summer Pudding Soap was only recently
dropped from stores, so you might still be lucky. It was inspired by a popular
British dessert made up of juice soaked cake and seasonal berries. The beige
parts of the soap are filled with exfoliating ground almonds and often peppered
with dried cherries… though I’m kinda sad, because from what I can see it looks
like the last hunk of it I’ll ever own didn’t come with any. =(
It is a very fragrant soap, very sweet and fruity, with a surprisingly
pleasant hint of… porridge? It’s a bit difficult to describe, but the end
result is very nice. It lathers very nicely as you can see from the above image
(my main complaint with several Lush soaps is how little they lather) and the
ground almonds plus the natural essential oils leave my hands feeling softened
and cleansed. Hope to see this one return someday!
Ingredients: Water, Propylene Glycol, Rapeseed Oil and
Coconut Oil, Ground Almonds, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Glace
Cherries, Perfume, Almond Essential Oil, Buchu Oil, Juniperberry Oil, Lemon
Oil, Glycerine, Sodium Chloride, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium
Hydroxide, Titanium Dioxide, Gardenia Extract, *Limonene, *Linalool, Methyl
Ionone, Colour 17200, Colour 14700
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