Lush Porridge Bar Review

I go into Lush frequently and picked up and put down this product so many times. I love the smell of it, like freshly cooked baking its sweet and yummy. The scent is right up my ally! I was eager to try it out since it promised exfoliation as well as being a yummy body wash.

Initially I loved it! It had a good ratio of oats to soap and lathered well and left my shower smelling amazing. However, after the first couple of washes the oat to soap ratio was about 90:10. The oats scratched my skin and there was so much of the oats that there ended up being no lather - it was better repurposed as an exfoliation bar than a bar of soap. The oats were whole and also be prepared for the mess they leave in the shower! I thought I may have gotten a bad batch it was that bad but the staff at Lush a shored me it was mean't to be this way.

It ended up in the bin as I felt it was to harsh for my skin and wasn't working how it should. Its a shame as the product did sound amazing! Unfortunately I have found the first Lush product I do not like nor would I repurchase.

I got this loving what it promised. I have very dry sensitive skin so the fact that it promised to gently exfoliate and cleanse while making my skin appear brighter and keep it clear. Gimme, gimme, gimme please! I have made a face mask with oats in it so thought wow it's got to be good with that in it surely. I bought a small $8 lump of it and immediately took it home to try it out. First impressions was mmmm yum this smells amazing, just like caramel like it says.

Upon wetting it, and rubbing it all over my skin a milky substance spreads with it. It's like a milk bath. I find the oats actually clog up our plug hole in the shower and that the soap itself melts away if it's under hot water for too long. Once I rinsed off the excess my skin did feel like it had been polished smooth with out the rough scratchy feeling of a scrub.

This is all in the most part good stuff, however, a day later my skin felt drier than it had before I started using it. It started peeling and flaking. I didn't think much of it but after using this soap for two weeks my skin was in worse condition than it was starting on this journey. I found the polished look was just the feeling after using it but then it starts the process of drying and peeling after every wash. My skin needed urgent attention after this. I was prescribed fatty cream to apply daily to get the moisture back in to dry, cracking and bleeding skin! It's supposed to be for sensitive skin! I would think it would be better for those with oily sensitive skin rather than dry.

2 kisses to would I use again 1 kiss to did it do as said 1 kiss to would I recommend

On a trip to lush I was chatting to a sales lady. My skin was dry and a bit itchy. She suggested using this and she got great feedback about it.

I found it wasn't any good for exfoliating. I didn't like how the oat pieces fall. I do enjoy the fragrance. It's a sweet delicious smell. As for gentle it is. My skin didn't react to this yet it didn't help with the dry itchy feel either.

I recently did a lush haul and this was part of it. I got a nice big bar, I think it was 100 grams and so far, I've had 5 showers with it and it's well over half gone. Economical it is not. I even store it outside the shower when not in use.

It is extremely gentle on my skin, so thumbs up for that, but the mess it leaves in my shower is ridic. I have to give the shower a shower once I've finished! The oat bits do feel very nice on my skin while I'm using it but I honestly can't be bothered with something so messy that I have to clean up after myself once I've used it. Def not on the repurchasing list - Sorry Lush

This product is meant to be good for sensitive skin but when I used it it made my skin red and rash. The soap has big oat bits in it which does exfoliate the skin. The soap doesn't last for too long because it lathers up quite a bit. The smell is amazing which would probably be the only reason I would buy it again

When I finally opened this from a pack I bought at the New Year sale, it looked a bit sticky and yicky. But when I opened the pack? Pow!! What a divine scent!

The soap itself is an odd pale colour, and when it hits the water it becomes very grainy on the outside. It is sweet and creamy as it claims to be, and is easy to handle and use.

I find it a little exfoliating, without being harsh, and is quite invigorating on my skin. I certainly feel clean and soft after using it.

In spite of being creamy, it doesn’t dissolve very fast, so the bar was lasting well. However I got sick of all the detritus in the bath after using it, and I don’t like washing lumpy stuff down the drain, so I threw it away. And that was the deal-breaker for me - I don’t like bits floating around and sticking to the bath after I’ve let the water out.

To be honest I think I’d rather just stick to Miranda soap.

I love the Lush range of soaps, I think their very ingeniously created with alot of thought. This porridge soap is one of the few that I dont like unfortuanitely, it is quite dull and lifeless too look at, when washing with it, it becomes quite harsh and sore whilst rubbing it on skin, can be quite irritating. Not a fan, i dont think i'd buy again

I got this soap in a Christmas gift pack from Lush. This soap does what it says it will in terms of exfoliating and making you clean. My skin is quite sensitive at times and this was nice and gentle on my skin. This soap smells good, I really liked the scent. The only downside of this was the bits in it. There were so many freaking bits in this soap. The bits did a really good job of exfoliating my skin but oh my gosh I and then the shower floor were covered in them. I used the whole bar of soap up but to be honest I wouldn't repurchase this because the bits drove me insane.

I was gifted this by a lovely member of this site. I have to say that as soon as I opened the package I was greeted by the lovely scent of caramel and a sort of cinnamon type of scent. It smells really nice. I use this with a shower puff and my only complaint is that the bits of oat get stuck in my shower puff and that there's a bit of SLS in it which I prefer if it didn't. But other than that I haven't had any allergic reactions to it and it smells really nice. I have it in the shower and my family likes to use it. Unfortunately it doesn't scent my skin but it is pleasant to use. I probably wouldn't repurchase because of the SLS and because I would prefer to try out more Lush's other soaps but in the meantime I'm enjoying using this in the shower.