Lush Massage Bar; Each Peach & Two's a Pear

Hi Everyone, I hope you're all keeping well! Today's review is for one of the Lush Massage Bars, more specifically Each Peach & Two's a Pear. If you're not familiar with the massage bar concept, basically it is a bar, not dissimilar looking to a soap, that is largely made from shea & cocoa butter, that when warmed up, or massaged onto skin melts slightly, leaving a layer of the product over the skin. The Each Peach bar also contains avocado butter, and mango butter, which I understand is softer than cocoa or shea butter, and more moisturising. Alternatively, as opposed to using this for massage, it is also wonderful as a solid moisturiser, which is what I used it for.
Unlike the name might suggest, it smells neither of peaches nor pears, but is super citrussy...but a sweet citrussy. This might have something to do with it containing essential oils of lime, mandarin, orange and grapefruit...just a guess! It smells seriously good, I love it, and it does hang around, so you smell of it for many hours afterwards....lovely.
It moisturises really well, but what I will say, is this is not one you can use after a shower, then get dressed and ready to go out...the butter on your skin takes a while to sink in, and you'd no doubt get it all over your clothes and they would stick to you etc etc...not the best idea! This is much better to use in the evening, or before bed, when you're only putting your jim jams on, and not venturing out. This might be a big issue for some people, but as I tend to have baths or showers just before bed this worked really well for me. I used it in place of a more regular style body lotion/moisturiser (one that I might be using if I were showering before going out, so that I could wear clothes straight after!) I rubbed the bar over my arms, legs and body, and rubbed in the oil that remains. You'll find that you will need to more evenly distribute the oil, as more is left on the warmer bits of your body, for example, I have found that my shoulders and the tops of my arms are a lot warmer than the rest of my arms so I start there to warm the bar up a bit then work down. It should also be mentioned that the ease of use of this bar is affected by the weather, more specifically, the ambient temperature. When it is colder it takes a bit longer to work the bar into your skin...and is good to start off on the warmer bits of your body to warm the bar up, and conversely, when it is hot, it is far easier to use, but can get liquidy very quickly if you're not careful. You will definitely need some kind of receptacle in order to rest the bar when it gets a bit too slippy, and store it in between uses. For this I used the conveniently shaped tin sold by Lush:
This tin is available for £2.95 and is made for such a purpose. It is also free if you buy two massage bars, which I did, so this is where my massage bar consequently lives. Equally some kind of small tupperware style container would be perfect for this. If you plan to keep your massage bar in your bathroom, then the tin may not be the best choice for you, as it will start to rust if kept in a damp atmosphere, but if like me, you keep it your bedroom, then the tin is great. Also a great solution if you wish to travel with it...you would not want to put this loose in a bag, or where it is in contact with other things, unless of course you do want bits of massage bar all over them!! Is also appealing, as this is sold as a "naked" product, so after you're done, there is no bottle to throw away, or more hopefully recycle, just the re-useable tin.
Overall, I really loved my bar of Each Peach, and was really gutted when I finished mine up. I'm currently working on the other massage bar I bought; Fever, but i'm not loving it as much as I did Each Peach. Will I re-purchase? As soon as my Fever is done, then I most definitely will. Have any of you tried any of the Lush massage bars? What's your favourite?


On a separate note, but still Lush related, I had these two little trial sizes of the Imperialis and Skin Drink moisturiser which I used up as part of my project infinity. The moisturisers weren't for me, but the empty tins are each redeemable for £1 off the corresponding full sized moisturiser. Is anyone in the UK interested in trying one of these out, or is it in fact your moisturiser of choice? If so, i'm happy to send on the little tin to you for you to cash in at your local Lush...leave a comment below with your email address and i'll be in contact re popping one of these in the post to you.

That's all for now beautiful people, y'all take care now!

Ems xx