Outback Mate Soap

Outback Mate was the second soap that I ever bought from Lush; the first one being Rock Star. The thing that drew me to Outback Mate was how beautiful it looked. It has this gorgeous light blue exterior and on one side of the soap it's dark blue with etches that made the dark blue side look like the waves in the ocean.

The name of this soap refers to the the Australian outback and the link to Australia and this soap is that eucalyptus - which is the main ingredient in this product - is grown in Australia. The eucalyptus plant has a very minty smell and this combined with peppermint oil and lemongrass oil creates a gorgeous mint aroma with a hint of pine.

For those of you who are regular readers of my blog, you will know that I absolutely love two scents: citrus and mint. Sure, they might be the two of the most over-used aromas in products, but I just love them too much to care.

Eucalyptus has also been used in products such as Vicks vapour rub or Tiger Balm as the plant has soothing and relaxing qualities. Outback Mate has a slight - and I mean slight - resemblance to the aforementioned soothing balms, but not enough for you to make you feel like it's medicine or enough to put you off it. It's a very subtle mint smell.

The mintiness makes this a brilliant soap for the summer as the refreshing and cooling ingredietns help you feel invigorated.

Some Lush soaps haven't really agreed with my skin and Outback Mate is - unfortunately - one of them. Not in the sense where my skin goes itchy or blotchy; but the soaps make my skin feel taut and if you have read my reviews of the Rock Star soap and the Sunrise soap, you will know that they had the same effect. It kinda makes me feel sad because I see loads of Lush fans saying how amazing their soaps are and I can agree with them, but only to a certain extent. Maybe Lush need more moisturising properties in their soaps? Maybe they can make a whole soap range dedicated to the people who skin feels taut after using them *I'm kidding... I think*.

It's because of this that I can't really tell you whether Outback Mate is moisturising or not.

I can say this though: whilst I was using it in both the shower and on just my hands, I noticed that the smell of the soap lingered on my skin for a good half an hour which was amazing because the smell of this soap is just gorgeous.

The other thing that I also noticed was that Outback Mate didn't lather up as well as I thought it would do. It still produces a soft blue foam that you can wash your body with, but normally I don't have to stand there for a good few minutes working the soap up before I use it.

Maybe it's because I'm using the 100g as a whole? I've seen people cut their soaps into small 25/30g chunks and claim that it works better that way, I will have to give that a go and once I have, I will update this post to let you know what happens.

Even though the soaps from Lush leave my skin feeling taut, there's something about the range as a whole that just makes me keep coming back for more. I love the smells of the soaps and Outback Mate has such a bloody brilliant smell that I just want to finish my 100g bar so I can buy a 250g and I'll have even more mintiness to revel in.

Description on Lush:

Get clean down under with this zingy blend of eucalyptus, lemongrass and peppermint. Wake up with a smile on your face, or put one there with tingly peppermint, and lemongrass to uplift. Eucalyptus clears and cheers in this refreshing soap that's perfect to wash away the blues.

Ingredients:

Eucalyptus Infusion, Glycerine, Rapeseed Oil and Coconut Oil, Sorbitol, Water (Aqua), Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Perfume, Eucalyptus Oil, Sodium Stearate, Lemongrass Oil, Peppermint Oil, Sodium Chloride, Titanium Dioxide, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium Hydroxide, Citral, Citronellol, Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, Limonene, Soft Blue Glimmer Lustre, Colour 42090

PricE:

£3.50/100g
£8.75/250g
£17.50/500g

Vegan:

Yes

Rating:

xoxo

Kirsty