hive mind: Lush?

[anotheranon]

Over the years I've heard a lot of good things about Lush bath/body products - as in, people positively raving about them, collecting them, trading with friends.

And while I love good bath products and am charmed by their witty product names (Buffy the Backside Slayer), my only experience with Lush has been negative - I got some bath gel that smelled divine but that made me itch. For all I know the bath bombs that came with it are still lurking somewhere in my linen closet, but I'm reluctant to bother looking for them.

However, I'm not in love with my shampoo or conditioner and am looking for other options. Any reason I might give Lush a second look, or would that just be poking the stick in my eye again?

Comments

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

I get not wanting to try something after a bad experience, but I love the Cynthia Sylvia Stout shampoo. It's supposed to "help fluffy hair shine and behave like it should", I actually have oily straight hair with the remnants of an ill-advised body wave I'm trying to grow out, it is the best shampoo experience I've had since - I don't know when. Usually a shampoo will work for a while and then I have to move on, like my hair develops an immunity to it. Isn't that weird? This stuff smells neat too.

I can pick up an empty plastic travel bottle and decant a sample for you if you like. I can't mail it till next week though.