Lush Jungle Solid Conditioner Review

I was looking for a new conditioner, and was keen to try out the whole 'solid' concept, so visited my local Lush and came away with Jungle and Big.

Firstly, I ADORE the the scent of this product. This smells simultaneously fruity and musky, like what a jungle would genuinely smell like if it was compacted into a small, green bar! The scent is absolutely beautiful.

Unfortunately, that's where my appreciation of this product comes to an end. In the shower it refused to come off on my hair at all - my hair honestly was 100% un-conditioned after minutes of application. Thinking that perhaps the product HAD applied properly, I attempted to wash my hair and detangle it, but it honestly felt like there was no product in my hair whatsoever. My hair was impossible to detangle.

So overall, although I love the idea and scent of this product, Jungle completely failed to work for me. It is now sitting in my pajama drawer making all my sleepwear smell beautiful.

Now anyone that knows me knows I am a massive Lush Addict, however I was so disappointed with this product. I didn't find this glided on my hair very well, and harder to wash out.

Maybe its because I have super awkward and dry hair but this actually stripped my hair of any oils it had prior to using this. It left my hair damaged, even more dry and a big mess to try and fix.

The smell wasn't all that great either, personally I didn't think it smelt like fruit at all, but one of those shampoo and conditioner bottles or bar soap you get when you stay at a cheap motel.

Sorry Lush, you know I love you but I just couldn't give a thumbs up for this conditioner.

I used to use the godiva shampoo and condition bar from Lush but seeing that it was no longer part of their regular line opted for this green solid bar.

It smelt wonderfully fresh in the store and the claims of it repairing my damaged hair and told it would be wonderful on my curls I purchased it with high hopes. However, those got dashed pretty quickly on the first use, it has a more rigid blend than other bars before that I have used and dragged through my hair rather than smoothly with a soft lather. It left the ends of my hair feeling really brittle and once done and dry my hair just looked yuck, it was flat and frizzy at the same time. I needed to wash it again straight away and opted to not use this bar again.

I bought this conditioner on the awesome lush boxing day sale along with a bunch of other products.

I combined it with the I love Juicy shampoo as they had similar fresh and fruity flavour profiles so I thought they'll go well together - and they did! My shower smelled like heaven!

What I did find though was it felt hard to get enough product off the bar and into my hair to feel like it was actually conditioned - which based on other reviews seemed common. My hair did feel vaguely conditioned once it was dry but not anything compared to using Lush's liquid conditioners.

Hopefully it gets a new life as a liquid conditioner one day and then I will try it again.

Works really well. I have long, thin, straight hair that often gets dry ends and this worked great. If it wasn’t so expensive I would still use it!