Maypole Body Lotion

Although I would never claim to be a huge fan of mint, there is something delicious and rather satisfying about a mint fragrance that has a buttery element to it. While I'm not a fan of soaps as a whole, and I find it very difficult to get that excited about any new ones that Lush bring out, I have to say that Maypole was definitely one that piped my interests a little to begin with.

 

Sharing its scent with the aforementioned soap, Maypole Body Lotion is exactly like its older sibling - a creamy, mouth-watering combination of peppermint and Canadian maple syrup. There is something about this combination that removes that unwanted harsh smell that you'd normally associate with mint-dominated fragrances, and instead offers a velvety blanket of peppermint that is slightly cushioned by the sweetness of the syrup.

 

Imagine a buttery mint or mint-flavoured toffee, and you might begin to understand the scent that this body lotion offers. While those that oppose mint smells will still dislike this release, consumers that are looking for something both refreshing and comforting, will probably quite enjoy what this product has to offer. 

Released as a one-off special in the Lush Kitchen, this limited edition is the perfect accompaniment for this time of year. In the autumn weather, the sweetness of the syrup comes alive with the heat of your body, and you'll feel like you're wrapped in a sugary blanket of warmth and comfort. During the winter months, the mint will not only stimulate your muscles and relieve a little tension, but will work on leaving you feeling refreshed while you're cocooned under layers of clothing. 

 

Sporting a medium thickness, this limited edition is fairly straight forward to apply across the body, and you won't find that it takes very long to be absorbed into the skin. I would recommend that once you're massaged it across the areas you wish to moisturise, you leave a good 10-15 minutes to allow the product to disperse into the skin before reapplying any clothing.

 

Once on the skin, the peppermint tends to dissipate within about 10 minutes, and you're left with more of a creamy, sugary smell with just a hint of mint in the background. Within about 40 -50 minutes, I wasn't able to detect much of a smell at all, and I had to reapply the body lotion If I wanted more of the fragrance.

While the aroma was fairly short-lived, I did find that the lotion did have an impact on my skin for a good few hours after application. My hands in particular, which seem to receive the brunt of the colder weather, were still smooth and soft some three hours later, and I found that I only needed to reapply it once more throughout the day to keep them in good condition. 

 

Having said that, I did notice that my skin needed to be moisturised again the following day, as the body lotion doesn't seem to heed long-term results. Unlike Sympathy For The Skin, I didn't noticed the condition of my skin change and improve over time, so I don't believe this lotion is overly nourishing for those who have fairly dry complexions.

 

Overall, those who want a body lotion that will keep them moisturised for the day ahead, Maypole may be one you want to try - if it ever makes an appearance again. However, there are lotions that are far more effective, and much more appealing to me that will probably prevent me from purchasing this again any time soon.Quantitative Ingredients: ?Vegan?: Yes.

2017 Price: £13.95 for 225g.

Year Of Original Release: 2017.

 

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Maypole Soap

First impressions can often be misleading, and this was definitely the case when I first set my eyes on the rather wonderful Maypole Soap. Presented as long cylindrical slabs in the shop, this stunning looking soap looks very much like a watermelon, and I was expecting a very fruity smell to come from the slice I had purchased on opening day. 

Overwhelmed with the amount of new products that I had bought during my initial visit to the Oxford Street store, it wasn't until a couple of weeks later that I found myself unwrapping my slab of this soap...and being completely floored by the aroma that greeted me out of the packet. 

While I don't know why Lush have combined the symbolism of the maypole with this particular fragrance, all I can say is that it works. Containing both peppermint oil and maple syrup, this product has a stunning scent that reminds me very much of mint humbugs or the rock you find in seaside shops. 

The peppermint is very much at the forefront here - offering a refreshing, uplifting and very clean-smelling soap. Alongside this is the maple syrup, which not only prevents the mint from being too sharp or overbearing, but adds a rich, honeyed sweetness that makes this soap smell so good that you'll find it difficult not to sink your teeth in and take a bite. It's a very 'foody' smell overall, but unfortunately that doesn't make it edible for the consumer. 

As well as adding to the wonderful scent, the latter ingredient also works on improving the condition of your skin and adding a radiance to it to give your body a natural, healthy glow. The rapeseed and coconut oil then work on nourishing and moisturising the body - leaving pores clean and clear and feeling really smooth.  

What impressed me about Maypole was how generous it lathered up in the shower - producing a thick, creamy lather to massage all over your body. A little amount of water produced a surplus amount of foam to work with, and for those that like this scent, the smell does linger on your skin for many hours after use. It also  permeated my bathroom for hours, so if you love this fragrance, you'll be able to enjoy it long after you'd left the shower. 

The product leaves your skin feeling really clean and soft, although it did dry my hands out a little when I was massaging this between my palms. I focused mostly on using this soap on my legs and found that it worked as a great alternative to shaving cream. It kept my legs moisturised and lubricated but taut enough that I didn't cut myself whilst shaving. 

A 100g block will set you back £3.10, which makes it one of the cheapest soaps you can buy from Lush, and definitely a bargain given its productivity and fragrance. It is also quite a compact soap so will last a lot longer than the softer variations you can get. If you keep this dry between uses, a chunk could easily last you up to two months, which makes it good value for money. 

I would love for Lush to bring this out in body lotion format as it's simply stunning - a soap that I will buy again and again and use throughout the entire year. While I think it'll work well as a product to cool and refresh you in the hotter months, it would be equally comforting in the colder months. A wonderful new addition to the Lush family, I say.  

Quantitative Ingredients: Rapeseed Oil, Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Cocos nucifera), Water (Aqua), Glycerine, Sorbitol, Perfume, Canadian Maple Syrup, Sodium Chloride, Titanium Dioxide, Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), Peppermint Oil (Mentha piperita), Sodium Stearate, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium Hydroxide, Colour 17200, Colour 14700, Colour 45410, Colour 42090. 

Vegan?: Yes. 

2015 Price: £3.10 for 100g.

Year Of Original Release: 2015.

Scent Family:Maypole Body Lotion
Maypole Soap
Salt And Peppermint Bark Body Scrub

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Maypole Soap

First impressions can often be misleading, and this was definitely the case when I first set my eyes on the rather wonderful Maypole Soap. Presented as long cylindrical slabs in the shop, this stunning looking soap looks very much like a watermelon, and I was expecting a very fruity smell to come from the slice I had purchased on opening day. 

Overwhelmed with the amount of new products that I had bought during my initial visit to the Oxford Street store, it wasn't until a couple of weeks later that I found myself unwrapping my slab of this soap...and being completely floored by the aroma that greeted me out of the packet. 

While I don't know why Lush have combined the symbolism of the maypole with this particular fragrance, all I can say is that it works. Containing both peppermint oil and maple syrup, this product has a stunning scent that reminds me very much of mint humbugs or the rock you find in seaside shops. 

The peppermint is very much at the forefront here - offering a refreshing, uplifting and very clean-smelling soap. Alongside this is the maple syrup, which not only prevents the mint from being too sharp or overbearing, but adds a rich, honeyed sweetness that makes this soap smell so good that you'll find it difficult not to sink your teeth in and take a bite. It's a very 'foody' smell overall, but unfortunately that doesn't make it edible for the consumer. 

As well as adding to the wonderful scent, the latter ingredient also works on improving the condition of your skin and adding a radiance to it to give your body a natural, healthy glow. The rapeseed and coconut oil then work on nourishing and moisturising the body - leaving pores clean and clear and feeling really smooth.  

What impressed me about Maypole was how generous it lathered up in the shower - producing a thick, creamy lather to massage all over your body. A little amount of water produced a surplus amount of foam to work with, and for those that like this scent, the smell does linger on your skin for many hours after use. It also  permeated my bathroom for hours, so if you love this fragrance, you'll be able to enjoy it long after you'd left the shower. 

The product leaves your skin feeling really clean and soft, although it did dry my hands out a little when I was massaging this between my palms. I focused mostly on using this soap on my legs and found that it worked as a great alternative to shaving cream. It kept my legs moisturised and lubricated but taut enough that I didn't cut myself whilst shaving. 

A 100g block will set you back £3.10, which makes it one of the cheapest soaps you can buy from Lush, and definitely a bargain given its productivity and fragrance. It is also quite a compact soap so will last a lot longer than the softer variations you can get. If you keep this dry between uses, a chunk could easily last you up to two months, which makes it good value for money. 

I would love for Lush to bring this out in body lotion format as it's simply stunning - a soap that I will buy again and again and use throughout the entire year. While I think it'll work well as a product to cool and refresh you in the hotter months, it would be equally comforting in the colder months. A wonderful new addition to the Lush family, I say.  

Quantitative Ingredients: Rapeseed Oil, Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Cocos nucifera), Water (Aqua), Glycerine, Sorbitol, Perfume, Canadian Maple Syrup, Sodium Chloride, Titanium Dioxide, Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), Peppermint Oil (Mentha piperita), Sodium Stearate, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium Hydroxide, Colour 17200, Colour 14700, Colour 45410, Colour 42090. 

Vegan?: Yes. 

2015 Price: £3.10 for 100g.

Year Of Original Release: 2015.

Scent Family:Maypole Body Lotion
Maypole Soap
Salt And Peppermint Bark Body Scrub

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Canadian Maple Soap

The biggest bane in my life right now, is soap. Body lotions, shampoos, massage bars, shower gels and jellies all seem to be fairly easy to use up, and I find that after twelve months my collection may not have gotten smaller, but the products I own are fresher and more up-to-date. However, my soap collection just keeps expanding at an alarming rate, and by the time that I've finished a 100g block, there's four or five more added to my stash. For this reason, I've made it my goal to reduce my collection by 50% before October of next year. 

On my journey of reduction, the first soap to grab my attention was Canadian Maple, which is surprising given that it's one of the most boring soaps to look at. My block was a creamy beige colour all over, although reading other people's reviews, most pieces are normally decorated with sugar crystals on top - adding an exfoliating element to the soap. 

What first attracted me to this product was it's scent; a warm, sensual aroma that's proven to be great company during these colder months. Made using both coconut oil and maple syrup, this soap is soft to touch and creates a similar texture of lather in the shower. Although it can be a little rigid to use, it's not as stubborn as some soaps, so produces a satisfactory amount of foam to wash yourself with.

To me, this soap didn't smell that far off of Angel's Delight, a particular favourite of mine. It possessed the same sugary scent, just without the sweet sherberty element that makes the above soap rather superior to most that Lush have released. For this reason, it pales in comparison to other, stronger-scented soaps. 

Unfortunately, this soap is glycerine-based, which means it's nowhere near as creamy as it could have been, which I think, would have made it so much more appealing. Canadian Maple does lather up fairly easy, and leaves your skin feeling rather soft, but it's not as moisturising as other soaps I've used from Lush recently. 

Despite it being a gentle and soothing product that leaves your skin silky and smelling sweet, I don't feel that this soap is particularly cleansing, and I tend to use it after I've already lathered myself with shower gel - making it a rather pointless product to buy. 

This is in no way a bad soap, and it does it's job fairly well. However, it pales in comparison to most other Lush soaps, and doesn't offer you anything particularly special to make you want to buy it again. I was a little dissappointed that the maple syrup element wasn't more prominent it's fragrance, although this could have been due to it's age. 

I would perhaps be tempted to trial a small fresh piece of this, just to see if age has had anything to do with the lack of scent. However, it's not a product I would rush out to buy again. 

Quantitative Ingredients: Water (Aqua) , Propylene Glycol , Rapeseed Oil , Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Helianthus annuus; Cocos nucifera) , Maple Syrup (Acer Saccharum) , Sodium Stearate , Sodium Laureth Sulfate , Sodium Hydroxide , Benzoin Resinoid (Styrax tonkinensis pierre) , Styrax Resinoid (Liquidambar styraciflua) , Tangerine Oil (Citrus reticulata) , Sodium Chloride , *Cinnamyl Alcohol , *Linalool , Perfume , Coffee Sugar Crystals.

Vegan?: Yes.

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Canadian Maple Soap

The biggest bane in my life right now, is soap. Body lotions, shampoos, massage bars, shower gels and jellies all seem to be fairly easy to use up, and I find that after twelve months my collection may not have gotten smaller, but the products I own are fresher and more up-to-date. However, my soap collection just keeps expanding at an alarming rate, and by the time that I've finished a 100g block, there's four or five more added to my stash. For this reason, I've made it my goal to reduce my collection by 50% before October of next year. 

On my journey of reduction, the first soap to grab my attention was Canadian Maple, which is surprising given that it's one of the most boring soaps to look at. My block was a creamy beige colour all over, although reading other people's reviews, most pieces are normally decorated with sugar crystals on top - adding an exfoliating element to the soap. 

What first attracted me to this product was it's scent; a warm, sensual aroma that's proven to be great company during these colder months. Made using both coconut oil and maple syrup, this soap is soft to touch and creates a similar texture of lather in the shower. Although it can be a little rigid to use, it's not as stubborn as some soaps, so produces a satisfactory amount of foam to wash yourself with.

To me, this soap didn't smell that far off of Angel's Delight, a particular favourite of mine. It possessed the same sugary scent, just without the sweet sherberty element that makes the above soap rather superior to most that Lush have released. For this reason, it pales in comparison to other, stronger-scented soaps. 

Unfortunately, this soap is glycerine-based, which means it's nowhere near as creamy as it could have been, which I think, would have made it so much more appealing. Canadian Maple does lather up fairly easy, and leaves your skin feeling rather soft, but it's not as moisturising as other soaps I've used from Lush recently. 

Despite it being a gentle and soothing product that leaves your skin silky and smelling sweet, I don't feel that this soap is particularly cleansing, and I tend to use it after I've already lathered myself with shower gel - making it a rather pointless product to buy. 

This is in no way a bad soap, and it does it's job fairly well. However, it pales in comparison to most other Lush soaps, and doesn't offer you anything particularly special to make you want to buy it again. I was a little dissappointed that the maple syrup element wasn't more prominent it's fragrance, although this could have been due to it's age. 

I would perhaps be tempted to trial a small fresh piece of this, just to see if age has had anything to do with the lack of scent. However, it's not a product I would rush out to buy again. 

Quantitative Ingredients: Water (Aqua) , Propylene Glycol , Rapeseed Oil , Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Helianthus annuus; Cocos nucifera) , Maple Syrup (Acer Saccharum) , Sodium Stearate , Sodium Laureth Sulfate , Sodium Hydroxide , Benzoin Resinoid (Styrax tonkinensis pierre) , Styrax Resinoid (Liquidambar styraciflua) , Tangerine Oil (Citrus reticulata) , Sodium Chloride , *Cinnamyl Alcohol , *Linalool , Perfume , Coffee Sugar Crystals.

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