Retro Lush is the newest (yet oldest) of products that Lush has
recently made available to customers.
You see, Retro Lush is basically
old products that new members have likely never seen, as far back (maybe
even older) as the '90s. Some of these products have revived, available
to buy! Seeing how I'm semi new (around a year or 2) to the Lush world,
everything in the Retro Lush collection was new to me. I'd never seen
any of these things, and I wanted them all. Instead of draining my
wallets funds though to zero, I instead picked up some items that I
imagined I'd like best of all. Melomint Retro was one particular bubble
bar that caught my eye right off the bat, simply because it had this
watermelon roll type appearance to it. I first thought that Melomint
would smell like a fresh slice of watermelon which is one of my favorite
scents in the summertime. Once I got a closer look at the product
description of Melomint, I was surprised to find that looks can be
deceiving when it comes to Melomint. Why you might ask? Well because
Melomint does not smell like watermelon, there is not even a hint of the
scent in it. They sure had me fooled; still though intrigued
nonetheless.
Appearance On The Site:
Melomint is a 3.5 ounce bubble bar, which is meant to be crumbled
under running bath water. On the website it looks like a delicious
pastry, or an old fashioned Bonkers candy (God I miss Bonker's), It has a
lime green outer shell wrapped around a perfect watermelon colored pink
center. Quite frankly it looks good enough to eat.
Appearance In Person:
Melomint arrived to my door sealed in newspaper like paper, with clear
wrap over it. I unwrapped it and inside sat a complete resemblance of
what I saw on the Lush website. The lovely roll looked like watermelon
to me. However in person I was easily able to detect black seeds, or
chocolate in the bubble bar. I wasn't sure what they were, but we would
soon find out.
The Scent:
No watermelon here folks. According to the site, Melomint smells like
mentos candy, with a pepper-minty zing to it, to wake you up and give
you some energy on those hot summer days that tend to drain the life
force out of you.
It seemed too good to be true really. I imagined that this bubble bar
would be great for those long hot days after work. A nice dip in some
cooling minty bubble sounded all too good.
The Scent In Person:
Melomint smells like mint, toothpaste, menthol, and everything else
minty that you could imagine. It truly does throw you off because you
expect to smell melon, and you get a heap of mint. No melon whatsoever.
The scent is not a horrible scent at all. In fact I found it to be
enjoyable, especially for those hot days of summer. I imagined that the
Melomint Bubble Bar would soothe skin, while leaving you feeling
refreshed and cool.
My Use:
I started a bath, and cute Melomint in half. I knew I would not need
to use the whole bar, because Lush Bubble Bars tend to create a ton of
bubbles, without having to use the entire bar.
As the water ran, I crumbled one half under the water, and waited to see what would happen.
The first thing I noticed was that the water began to turn a nice
color of watermelon pink. As fast as I noted the water color change
though the bubbles began to sprout up like foamy streams of clouds.
Jackpot!
In less than 2 minutes my bath was a large fluffy tub of bubbles. I
did not hesitate to jump in and enjoy the soothing silky feeling of the
water.
The scent of the bubbles was as promised... minty. The scent was nice,
but definitely not what expected from Lush. It was as if they screwed
up and dropped mint into it, because the black seeds that I noted
earlier was actually some sort of small black and brown melon seeds. How
strange to add melon seeds into a bubble bar that looks like
watermelon- yet smells like a frigging Halls cough drop.
I liked it, but at the same time I wasn't thrilled with it, because
the more I thought about it, the more I smelled cough drops.
The bubbles as plenty as they were, died out really fast. No less than
10 minutes later and there was not a drop of bubbles left in my bath.
After getting out, the minty smell was gone as soon as I dried off,
which was nice, but for those who actually enjoy a minty fresh scent, it
was gone way too fast.
Overall:
Sub-par in my opinion. Bubbles don't last, has a cough drop scent, and
leaves behind seeds in the tub which are annoying to clean out because
they are slimy.
I do however think Melomint would be great for those with a cold,
looking to open up the sinuses. Other that that though, it's not a
bubble bath that you would fall in love with. It just reminds me of when
I am sick. Cough drops and Vick's.
*Melomint is a limited time only bubble bar. As of now they are out
of stock on the website, but I am sure they will bring it back for a
short time. If not you can always scoop this bubble bar up at Lush
stores, or online at Ebay.
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