How To Use the Packaging-Free Products In Your Lush Gift
So you got a Lush gift full of packaging-free products (or, as we like to call them, naked), but now you can’t find that handy little card telling you exactly which thing fizzes, which thing lathers and which thing makes beautiful baths full of bubbles.
Not to worry. This handy guide walks you through how to identify and use each and every one of your new naked pals.
Use Lush Lens for Fast Answers
First, if you want to skip the scavenger hunt and make things even easier, download the Lush app and use Lush Lens. You can scan any one of your mystery items and it’ll instantly tell you its name, list of ingredients and the all-important how-to-use and how-to-store instructions.
But if you prefer to do it old school, scroll on to find all the answers you need.
How To Use Naked Bath Products
How To Use a Bath Bomb
Most of our bath bombs will be round, quite firm, and leave a little bit of dust (that’s the baking soda) on your fingers when you pick it up. But we like to get creative when it comes to shape, color and size. So to properly identify your bath bomb, give it a squeeze. It should feel firm, not crumbly.
Our great balls of bicarb work best if you fill your tub to the level you like, then drop in the bath bomb and watch it unfurl in a riot of fizz, color and scent.
How To Use a Bath Oil
A bath oil is often naked, but sometimes comes wrapped in cheesecloth or is perched atop a bubble bar. Either way, it should feel buttery and leave a little oily residue on your fingers when you pick it up. Our aroma and bath melts can be used like bath oils, too.
Just don’t mix it up with a massage bar, which is often in an oval shape and best used directly on the skin, rather than in the bath.
Bath oils work pretty much the same as a bath bomb: fill the tub and drop it in. But rather than a sudden fizz, the bath oil will slowly infuse your tub with buttery oils to leave skin smooth, supple and beautifully scented.
How To Use a Bubble Bar
Bubble bars might look a bit like bath bombs, so people often tell us that they get confusing results when they try to drop one into a full tub. Let this be your much-needed PSA: a bubble bar will feel a bit soft and crumbly when you give it a squeeze. Like a bath bomb, it’s often in a rounded shape but we sometimes get creative and turn them into cats, foxes, mermaid tails and so much more.
To use, start the tap and crumble the bar beneath the flow of the water. You’ll soon see a mountain of foam start to bubble up. Depending on the size of the bar and how many bubbles you want, you can always use part of the bar and save the rest for your next bath. And when you’re all done in the tub, rinse the bubbles away and towel off!
How To Use a Reusable Bubble Bar
Reusable bubble bars break the mold a bit. They can be firm like bath bombs, but often come with a wooden stick or a wax top that gives them away as a reusable bubbler.
These handy additions make it easy to hold on while you run it under the tap to make a bath brimming with beautiful bubbles. Rinse yourself off once you’re done, then you place the reusable bubble bar somewhere dry and draining so it can be used a few more times.
How To Use Naked Shower Products
How To Use a Body Butter
Our solid body butters can come shaped like buzzy little bees, crowns or scrubby squares. Often they have the same buttery feeling as a bath oil, but most have an exfoliating element like ground nuts or rice.
To use, take this into the shower with you and apply it at the end of your routine the same way you would a bar of soap. Scrub a little or scrub a lot, then make sure to rinse off any of the rough bits left behind on the skin. Many people don’t need to add a lotion when they hop out of the shower as the rich buhttps://www.lush.com/ca/en_ca/s?query=reusable%20bubble%20barstters in these bars will leave skin soft and smooth.
How To Use a Naked Body Conditioner
Our naked body conditioners make for a great, low-waste and travel-friendly alternative to the potted versions. That’s why each one comes in the shape of the iconic Lush pot. They feel firm to the touch and leave just the slightest bit of lotion-like residue on the fingers.
They’re also perfect for anyone who doesn’t love having to slather on a lotion after they step out of the shower. Instead, you smooth it all over your body and then rinse away for beautifully soft skin. Between uses, store it somewhere dry and draining like a soap dish and in hot weather you may wish to pop it in the fridge to avoid meltdowns.
How To Use a Naked Shower Gel
Like the name suggests, a naked shower gel is a packaging-free version of our beloved bottles, and often they come in the same shape. How does it differ from a shower jelly, a soap or a shower gummy? They’re about as firm as a soap, but add more hydration to leave skin softly clean.
To use, step into your shower and work up a creamy lather between your hands, or sweep all over damp skin for a luxurious, cleansing foam. Then rinse off for sweet scents and supreme softness.
How To Use a Shower Gummy
Jigglier than a bar of soap but firmer than a shower jelly, it’s the best of both worlds: the innovative shower gummy. It can come in just about any form, but if you want to tell it apart from the sudsy crowd, try sticking it right to a shower tile. A soap will fall, a jelly will bounce, but if conditions are right, your gummy will stick it out.
Go ahead and use it like a bar of soap as it’s not quite as delicate as its potted jelly cousins. Lather up directly on skin or between your hands, cleanse all over and then rinse off.
How To Use a Soap
Lush soap has taken on many forms over the years. Whether it was sliced right from a big block on the shop floor or molded into the shape of a poinsettia, it gets the job done. Oftentimes a Lush soap will feel firm, with a bit of give, and a slightly slippery — but not jiggly jelly-like — texture. The best way to check, though, is usually just by lathering up with some water.
We assume you’ve used soap before, but just in case: you can glide this nourishing bar all across your body in the bath or shower, or lather it between your palms for a more targeted approach, then rinse off.
How To Use Naked Body Products
How To Use a Massage Bar
A great alternative to bottled massage oil, our oval massage bars are a longtime fan favorite. Made of rich butters, they often come with additional perks like soothing scents or bumpy bits to ease the tension.
To use it (on yourself or others), you can rub it between your palms or apply it directly onto dry skin. The oils and butters will begin to melt on contact, giving you a slick canvas with which to begin your massage. You can use as much or as little as you like, then store somewhere cool and dry between uses (ideally in a product tin).
How To Use Naked Facial Products
How To Use a Facial Gummy Wash
Our facial gummies are yet another great way to cleanse without extra pots, bottles or tins. Just like their full-body counterparts (the shower gummy), facial gummy washes are firmer than a jelly but jigglier than a soap.
Use it just like you would a bar of soap: wet between hands and lather your face, then rinse away. After use, you can pat it dry and stick it to a shower tile (if desired).
How To Use a Naked Facial Oil/Naked Facial Serum
Our naked facial oils and serums used to come in a small oval shape but have been remolded to be easily broken into four equal pieces with a cute design on each one. They’re essentially packaging-free moisturizers best used after cleansing and toning.
To use, break off a segment and sweep across the face. If desired, you can use gua sha or facial massage techniques. Then work in the butters and oils with clean fingers, using upward strokes.
How To Use a Facial Soap
Our facial soaps look like smaller slices of the full-body variety. There isn’t much more to say, really — they’re a great, low-waste way to get skin clean and fresh.
To use, wet and lather between hands, massaging into damp skin before rinsing away.
How To Use Naked Hair Products
How To Use a Shampoo Bar
If you find a round, firm puck made of what looks like hard-packed sprinkles, chances are you’ve got a shampoo bar on your hands. These low-waste, waterless wonders are great for camping, travel or just reducing the number of bottles in your shower.
To use, wet your hair as normal and then you can rub it right in, or lather it up between your palms and massage into the scalp. Then rinse off as usual and make sure to store your shampoo bar out of the way of the water’s spray — ideally in one of our product tins or a dry, draining soap dish.
How To Use a Pressed Conditioner Bar
If you’ve come into contact with a firm, rounded oval product that doesn’t seem to immediately lather and doesn’t leave an oily or slippery residue, you most likely have encountered one of our pressed conditioner bars. Lucky you! Just like their shampoo counterparts, they travel well and help cut down on waste. But how on Earth do you use them?
Here’s our guide: hold the bar under warm water for a moment, then work between hands to begin releasing a creamy conditioner. When you feel like you have enough, place the bar somewhere dry and draining and out of the shower’s spray, then massage directly in your hair. Focus on the mid-lengths and ends, and comb through with fingers (if desired). Then rinse away as usual.
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We hope you love your new, nude buds. But if you ever find yourself in possession of a mysterious Lush object and this guide does not give you the information you seek, contact our dedicated Customer Care team for an in-depth investigation.