Lush Porridge Bar Review

I swear by this. Its such a great gentle exfoilator and smells beautiful. Just writing this review makes me want to buy some more. It made a huge difference when I was using it, as it was gentle enough to use each time I showered. It did leave my shower a bit messy, but its nothing a quick rinse can't fix.

During lushes pre boxing sale I went into the Lush Botany store for my first experience. I walked around, the staff there were friendly and gave a demonstation of Yuzu shower gel. During that time I decided to get Its Christmas box that had this and Rose jam both of which I really wanted to try after all the reviews. I unwrapped this box and instantly this soap scent hits you.

This soap bar comes in a creamy white solid bar form with flecks of oats in it. To me it smells like creamy porride with a nutty undertone. When I applied this to my skin it was creamy and lathered really well. I felt my skin being slightly exfoliated from the oats in it. The oats do fall out of the bar and can be quite messy. It didn't bother me though as I have many other messy products in my shower.

My skin felt soft and smooth after using this bar. I like that it's not sickly sweet. This smell lingers on me. I like to moisturise after having used this. I think its best to try and get this during sale season as they sell them cheap at an affordable price. I wouldn't hesitate to buy more of it. I really enjoyed this mellow scent.

This was another item I received in a Christmas gift box, I have seen the porridge bar several times on the website but it never appealed to me since it had the word 'porridge' in it. I'm no goldilocks, I'm not a huge fan of porridge let alone putting it on my body. So this sat around at the back of the lush stash for ages, unused, unloved, lonely. Until I decided It maybe wasn't so bad and I might actually like it.

So off I go to the shower armed with my porridge bar. It's a creamy looking bar with loads of seeds through it, I start scrubbing my bod with this bar and holy moly those wee seeds that act like an exfoliant are BRILLIANT!! I have really dry and horribly itchy skin on my lower back and top of my thighs so bad I will itch them till I bleed-literally. (Probably health related) Usually water aggravates those itchy patches but with the porridge bar It instantly calms the itching and I can enjoy the rest of the shower itch free! Yes it is a tad messy with all the oat bits in it falling out on the bottom of the shower but so worth it.

Afterwards my skin feels soft and slightly nourished and definitely itch free.

I feel so bad for the porridge bar being so unloved for such a long time as it really is the best thing I have bought in a long time. I have repurchased this and will do until probably forever even if I use other products I always start with this bar.

This bar is DELICIOUS! It smells so amazing I can never bring myself to buy anything else. Lucky for me then that the oats in this are soothing for my sensitive skin.

This bar lasted me a long time and made my showers wonderfully luxurious, as I nourished my body with caramel scented goodness. Because it's Lush, you can choose your size of bar, so you can get a wee piece to try or a bigger piece to treat yourself.

This wee gem came as freebie in one of my Lush orders so I hadn't intentionally purchased it or at the time knew much about it. Instantly I could smell a caramelly honeyish aroma that got my taste buds watering! I loved how this soap contains real oats and I did feel that it gently exfoliated my skin (not harshly as the oats go soft). I was super stoked to find out that this soap is also Vegan! The soap doesn't really foam up when used and it does't feel like a conventional soap i.e one that leaves the feeling of being squeaky clean. I doubt i'll be running to the store to buy another one straight away, but I would repurchase at some point in the future. I would definitely recommend it to anyone asking!

First of all, this soap smells AMAZING!! Just like oats mixed with honey and I imagine this would be goldilocks signature scent! Upon using it doesn't lather too much, but more forms a milky sort of film which you can use to rinse your skin. Its incredibly gentle and soothing and leaves my skin soft and lightly scented. The only downside is that it is MESSY! The oats fall out everywhere and I find that the soap doesn't last very long, so I haven't repurchased in a while as I find I get more use out of some of the other soaps in the lush range. The oats if worked into the skin before they fall on the floor do give a very light exfoliation. Overall I love the scent of this and how gentle and soothing it is on the skin. The downsides are that is messy and doesn't last very long. But if you have super sensitive skin I would give this a go- you can buy pieces as little as 100g to see if you like it!

This was my first Lush ever, and it started an addiction. Before i even opened the Lush parcel, i could smell this beautiful sweet scent, and i had no idea what it was until i opened this wee package of goodness.

So because it from Lush, you can chose what size chunk you get. i only got 100g, because this stuff is pricey! It came in a sweet little square slab, wrapped in the basic lush package. Nothing special.. but its from Lush so you know packaging is not an issue for me.

The soap is a beige colour, which sounds gross so lets call it a milky caramel colour is is grainy to touch because it is filled up with bits of oats.

The smell.. ah its smells sweet and amazing. It has caramel sweetness, and a warming oaty scent which just makes it smell so good!

So this soap is half soap, half exfoliating bar. I find the soap does an okay job of cleansing. It creates a slight lather, but not much foam which i actually quite like. It slightly exfoliates. but not really effectively, and it leaves chunks of oats everywhere!

Overall, this is an okay soap and an okay exfoliatior. It smells amazing, but isn't really wow'ing. Would i purchase it again? Honestly, even though i loved the smell and the idea behind the soap, it didn't really do a lot for my skin so i wouldn't buy it again.

I purchased this soap last year in the boxing day sale online. I recommend not keeping soaps for this long or maybe transferring them out of the plastic. Mine had kind of leaked in the plastic bag and was a bit messy. It hadn't gone mouldy or anything though so I just rinsed off the top layer and it was good to go!

This soap is a kind of beige colour with lots of oaty and seedy looking bits in it. I think it looks really appealing but in reality the bits are kind of annoying. I understand they are there for exfoliating but I don't really think they do the best job and I just am using this for handsoap anyway so exfoliating doesn't bother me!

This does smell really good. It doesn't remind me of porridge at all. It smells sort of creamy and sweet, not like a milk cream though if that makes any sense. It's not an overpowering scent at all, more just chilled and subtle.

I find this lathers up well and doesn't seem to dry out my hands. I do enjoy using this and have purchased it a previous time before. After using a lot of other lush soaps, it isn't my fave and I do prefer others over it but I could maybe see myself buying this one again in the future. I'd recommend giving this a sniff instore, I think the scent would appeal to most people. It just depends on whether 'bits' annoy you or not!

This soap smells great (as most Lush products do). Though instead of the super sweet candy scent they so a lot of this soap is sweet yet creamy, in scent, texture and colour. It lathers well and the oats really do do well for exfoliating, however I found myself going through the bar quite fast. It was also quite messy with all of the pieces falling off me, was a bit worried for my temperamental shower drain (but turned out fine). So all in all this isn't my favourite Lush product by far but it is nice. Would say it's good for people who don't mind spending that little extra and going through a product fast, and who enjoy feeling super soft.

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.