Gal Friday | Desert Island Favourites

  Hi Gals, for quiet a while now I have been itching to share my favourite desert island products here, I'm a sucker for products that are like a Swiss army knife in a beauty crisis; I love the feeling of having a magical pot of something in my rucksack that I whip out and have fun with because it's so versatile and will sort out several grooming and beauty issues at once. So to encourage you all to go and find your favourite sunny island and get stranded on it, I want to talk about two Lush firm favourites, Lady Godiva shampoo bar and Ultra Balm.

    

   Lady Godiva Shampoo Bar

Saffron yellow in colour and of a creamy consistency which conditions and washes the hair at the same time, saving you time but also perfect for hand washing your smalls too (this might come in very handy if you get stranded on a desert island of course, Lady Godiva contains a lovely bunch of moisturising scalp loving goodies such as -

Cocoa Butter
Shea Butter
Jojoba Oil
Camellia Oil
Macadamia Oil
Cupuacu Butter
Extra Virgin Coconut Oil

For any lush fans this shampoo bar smells of Flying Fox shower gel and does not leave you with a greasy residue on your scalp, just shiny and clean hair and it's great for long hair and dry ends.

Ultra Balm

This stuff feels so decadent for an all purpose balm that's effective for dry elbows and knees, chapped hands, parched lips, dry cuticles and the ends of your hair it's like the Wonder Woman of moisturising products and I love things in tins, it contains three simple but effective ingredients 

Organic Jojoba Oil (Simmondsia chinensis) , Candelilla Wax (Euphorbia cerifera) and Rose Wax (Rosa damascena) 

Karma Perfume Review by Gorilla at Lush

                                       Sometime back I fell madly, deeply and truly in love with a perfume from my local Lush store in Preston, UK, I decided I had at last found my perfect match, the ONE, with a combination of heady scents such as patchouli, sweet orange, lavender and lemongrass oil, the scent of Karma was uplifting and calming at the same time. Think of it as the perfect antidote to looking just that little bit too spiky in your favourite tailored shirt's. Instead of a slightly messy or big and bouncy hairstyle, you can wear this warm sprawling eclectic fragrance, as a reminder that looking and feeling gorgeous is about being happy, relaxed and spontaneous.

So chapter two of this happy tale is having popped into Lush this morning I discovered this lovely fragrance has had quite a makeover you can now buy Karma as a solid, as part of Lushes Gorilla range, which make me ecstatic with happiness, why? Well firstly I have fairly dry sensitive skin and solid oil based perfumes last and last, secondly the little lipstick sized roll on, is soo portable and means the opportunity to reapply your Karma if needed is on hand all day long. Not only that I love the contradiction between the feminine fragrance inside and the black edgy packaging on the outside, you have perhaps gathered by now that I'm all about contradictions and hopefully that Karma perfume in my opinion is pretty sweet



P.S Lush believe in minimal packaging , the plain brown paper bag my item came in had a rather chic banana stamp on it and if I take back 5 black clean pots or tubes I will receive a free fresh face mask. I wonder if they will do a Karma fresh face mask by then? Ok maybe I could try something new, never good to get too fixated, even on a fragrance ..

                                     Sharon x x