Sunday, March 8, 2015

Lush Life: Soak 'N Float Shampoo Bar


I have been curious about these fellas since the new lot rolled out recently. I chose this one for two reasons: it smells amazingly like charcoal and bonfires and it helps with flaky, itchy scalp. Once again, Adam points out my incongruencies: how if we have been sitting around a fire I will say "Ew! I need to wash my hair before bed!" and then... I wash it with a bonfire scented shampoo..... Poor poor guy. This one smells like a CLEAN bonfire. It ran $10.95. Count me as initally skepical. A solid shampoo seemed too close to washing my hair with bar soap. However, all skepticsm has been laid to rest. I quite enjoy it. I took the bar and started briskly applying it to my wet hair in the shower and bubbles flowed out like a cloud. As soon as I realized just how much lather had generated in such a short time, I put it back on the shelf and began shampooing with just the bubbles. It rinsed squeaky clean and the fragrance (though glorious) quickly submitted to the fragrance of my conditioner. Which in this case, is probably for the best.


I will most certainly repuchase this shampoo bar, and maybe try a few others. The cost is a tad high, but at this rate it will last me eons since I only wash twice a week (the Lush catalog states it will last 80 washes, I believe it). I cannot attest to flake control at this stage in the game. Give me another washing or two and I will let you know. It does leave my hair clean and soft.

Have you tried a shampoo bar? Thoughts? Recommendations? The lavender one is being eyed next.

9 comments:

  1. Great review! I definitely want to try one. My mom used a peppermint solid shampoo from Lush for many years, until they discontinued it. I got her hooked on it when I lived in the UK. She swore that it was the best ever for her thin/fine hair.

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    1. Ooo! Peppermint! I hope that one makes a retro come back! I have fine thin hair so maybe that I why I like it :-) I hope you try one, I would love to hear what you think!

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  2. It looks like mayo and cheese and bacon!! I want to eat it. :P

    This sounds sort of wonderful. 80 washes? Dang! Solid shampoobhas my interests piqued.

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    1. well Lolo ..it is Lush so eating it might not be so bad after all. Maybe not bacon good though .... :p

      Julie, I used the bar for oily hair and liked it. It's GREAT for travel. I bought it for my last trip to Russia and it worked marvelously.

      You only have to wash your hair twice a week. ohhhh how jealous I am!

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    2. All the food references to this bar in IG were cracking me up! Once you smell it you won't want to eat it.

      Sunnee, that is a great idea for travel! Leave more room for my liquids. Plus it gives me an excuse to buy the travel tin.

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  3. I love Lush's shampoo bars. I'm currently using Brazillant and Copperhead. I don't think I will ever use another shampoo again.

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    1. Jackie I am falling in love too!! I just looked up Brazilliant and it is recommended for curly girls, woot! Getting that one next. Do you have your hair henna dyed? I got mine done at Lush once and it was an interesting experience :-)

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  4. I've strongly resisted their shampoo bars, even going so far as to turn down a free bar offered to me by one of the women who helped bag my purchase (I spent quiiite a bit while getting prepared for holidays and birthdays and, let's face it, myself). It just seems too unnatural for me to rub a solid bar against my hair.
    It also doesn't help that I like matching scent shampoo and conditioner combos, and I'm just not willing to shell out the money for both a shampoo and conditioner from Lush. Even with the amount of uses they say you can get, something in my brain puts up a blockade to spending that much on two items.

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    1. Turn down a free one?! But you need to try it for blogging purposes!!! ;-)

      I had a blockade up too initially but my shampoos and conditioners can never match up since I use the Curly Girl method. I significantly freed me up for experimentation. I do want to try American Cream next. The Lysh prices in general can be kill joys. But they make for lovely treats. And I only got to a stylist once or twice a year for trims or highlights. That saves me money that I can put towards product. <3 BBW has a nice spearmint eucalyptus shampoo.

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