The first time I went in there, I was in heaven. I knew it was the largest Lush store in the world but to actually see it was incredible. I managed to go again in May.
This time, I prepared for the massiveness of the store and I knew exactly where I wanted to go; straight up to the top where all of the bath products are: and this time, I was after the exclusive bath oils and melt.
For those of you who have been to Lush Oxford Street, you will remember the beautiful table that is full of the exclusive bath oils. The colours are vibrant and range from blue to pink to orange to purple. It's a fantastic spectacle.
Basket in my hand, I was wrapping up whatever I could, whatever caught my eye and the Monsieur Gustave bath melt was one of the products that I just couldn't ignore.
I finally got to use this beauty in my bath a month later. Bath melts and oils can be used to moisturise skin when it's feeling particularly dry and it can be used in bath cocktails to just add that nourishing element.
When I popped Monsieur Gustave into the bath, I knew that it was going to take ages to melt because of my previous experience with bath oils, so I found a comfy position, got my phone out and got ready to video and take pictures of the experience. It took 15 minutes to fully melt.
Beautiful purple oils danced across the surface of my bath, creating magical glittery patterns all around me and I watched, fascinated as the dark purple bled out from the bath melt.
I noticed that I could smell tobacco. At first I thought that couldn't be right, but I looked up the ingredients and noticed that tobacco absolute was on the ingredients list. I was surprised to say the least. Some of you are probably thinking 'ew, I do not want to bathe and come out smelling like tobacco'. Well guys, I'll stop you right there, it smells gorgeous. With rose absolute and lavender oil mixed with tobacco, Monsieur Gustave gives off a woody scent with a very slight floral smell hidden underneath. It wasn't the strongest scent ever which was slightly disappointing, I expected it to be much stronger after my previous experience with bath melts and bath oils, but it was strong enough to relax me and my aching bones.
After Monsieur Gustave had finally melted, the water had settled a very light purple, almost bordering on pink; it was gorgeous. So I turned off the recording, put my phone down and picked up my book, letting the beautiful smell and colour help transport me to the world that I was reading.
Once my bath time had finished, I took out the plug and let the gorgeous coloured water go down the drain. I noticed that the bath melt had also left purple stains around the edge of the bath, but like any bath product, this was easy to wash off.
I towelled myself down however, I noticed that there were pink stains on my towel from the bath melt, I then realised that some of the oil had stuck to my skin whilst I was in the bath. I tried to not let that ruin my beautiful experience of Monsieur Gustave but it was when I looked down at my hands later on in the day that I realised the bath melt had stained my fingernails. I was not happy.
But... The smell did linger on my skin for a good couple of hours so that made me happy. It didn't overrule the fact that my nails were now stained, but walking around the house smelling of this product kept transporting me back to my bath.
After a couple of days and some intense scrubbing, the pink stained nails had gone.
This is a fantastic bath melt and when you go to Oxford Street, I 100% recommend that you pick up this product. Sure, it stained my nails but looking back, it wasn't really a big problem, it was just slightly annoying. Monsieur Gustave smells amazing, looks amazing and makes your skin feel amazing. So what more can I say? Head to Oxford Street right now and go and pick up a handful of these little purple balls of amazingness.
Demo:
Description on Lush:
L'air du panache. Without question, without fail, and invariably, exceedingly lovely.
Ingredients:
Organic Shea Butter, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Laureth 4, PEG-6 Caprylic/Capic Glycerides & PEG-60 Almond Glycerides, Lavender Oil, Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Perfume, Organic Jojoba Oil, Rose Absolute, Tobacco Absolute, Benzyl Benzoate, Citronnellol, Geraniol, Limonene, Linalool, Colour 45410, Colour 42090:2, Colour 45410:2, Purple Lustre
Price:
£2/each
Vegan:
No
Rating:
xoxo
Kirsty
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