I consider myself a very down to earth, laid back individual. Very few things can spike my anxiety to critical mass. One of those things is driving in the snow. Back when I was a youth of 19 (get off my lawn) I was in my final year of community college, before I moved out to the city I currently reside in. One snowy December night, my literature teacher dismissed us early, citing worrying weather as a reason. "I don't want you getting into any car accidents!" he warned with a chuckle. Oh the damn irony of that statement. Twenty minutes later I was in a gas station parking lot with a busted right bumper, standing next to the girl I hit and the two of us glaring at the douche waffle (to be polite) who cut her off, causing her to slam on her breaks and me to skid into her through a patch of black ice. Though the gas station attendant was nice enough to bring us paper cups of hot chocolate, I was still peeved...and scared.
Though I walked away with a slightly damaged bumper, a bruised sternum, and a doubled insurance rate, it was enough to put the fear of god in me when it came to driving in the snow. Even years later (not that many, I'm not THAT old) it still scares me a lot. So after one particularly rough morning where I white knuckled my steering wheel all the way to work, I knew I needed something to soothe my rattled nerves. Enter this little guy!
The Christmas Hedgehog is a bubble bar I received in my staff box. A new product to this year's Christmas range at Lush, Christmas Hedgehog has the same scent as last year's Noriko soap, which was composed of lavender and ylang ylang. His little body has a thick layer of shea and cocoa butter "frosting" (from the Luxury bath melt) for supreme amounts of hydration for thirsty winter skin. And when it comes to relaxation, nothing says it better than a hydrating, soothing bath with lavender and ylang ylang.
I'm quite fond of the two scents together, and when I came home I hastily took off my snow soaked boots, threw my coat off, and grabbed this guy out of my ceramic dish of Lush goodies, intent on sacrificing him to the bath gods (for good instead of evil of course).
So as some of you guys know, I usually only crumble half a bubble bar into my tub, because my tub is small and it seems to be enough for me. Well, when I crumbled half of this little guy into my tub, I was met with a disappointing lack of bubbles. I was actually quite shocked to find there were little to no bubbles at all! So I did something I never do, and that was to use the entire bubble bar. Even after the entire thing was dissolved, even after swishing my arms around vigorously to agitate the bubble mix, and even after the tub was filled all the way, there were still way less bubbles than I was used to. Other small bubble bars that I used half of (like Dorothy) had given me plenty more bubbles than this guy.
The water was nothing too spectacular. A cloudy snow color with a light dusting of bubbles. I was disappointed with the bubble turnout, but I can't deny that the scent and the softness it left on my skin were spectacular. Also it did calm down my anxiety from speeding home at a vicious 25mph in the middle of a damn blizzard, so I can attest to the relaxing properties!
Overall I have to say I was quite disappointed with this bubble bar. While it worked great as a bath melt and stress reliever, it didn't live up to the notion of a bubble bar, having produced barely any bubbles. But at my shop we've been selling out of The Christmas Hedgehog quite quickly, so it works for some people! The hedgehog I got in my staff box was also quite a bit smaller than the ones available to the public, so that could've also been a deciding factor in my less than stellar experience. Plenty more bubble bars where that came from though!
**The Christmas Hedgehog is certified Vegan
***Purchase The Christmas Hedgehog at your local LUSH store or online here
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