LUSH Mange Too Massage Bar Review

If you like Play-Doh and baby powder scents, this massage bar may be for you. Otherwise, choose another massage bar in the LUSH line. This one is gross!

I can't forgive LUSH for luring me into buying LUSH Mange Too Massage Bar. It is nothing it says it is and everything I don't like!

I didn't need a massage bar. I have enough STUFF to last forever. But, lured by the claims that this bar smelled and tasted good, I was hooked.

Let's get one thing straight. This has no taste. It tastes like oil. There is no sweetness, no flavor, nothing AT ALL.

This bar is intended to be used either for a massage or to hydrate and soften dry skin. After trying this, a massage is so far out of the question, it'll never happen. And I won't use this again even though it does moisturize.

I rubbed the bar across my skin and it did leave a veil of oils and hydration behind. Rubbing in the oils was easy and it softened my skin. A winner, right? Uh, no.

The scent! It is just so NOT what was described. There is not a HINT of anything that LUSH said there was. I couldn't quite discern what the scent was so I asked my husband to smell me. (He was scared. I only do that when stuff smells weird.)

He took a sniff and said, "Play-Doh." Yep! That is the scent! White Play-Doh! I admit, I used to like the scent of Play-Doh - when I was four! I don't want to smell like it now as an adult. And it's strong too! It doesn't temper down to a light scent at all.

My son walked in and said. "Why does the whole house smell like baby powder?" Yep. It smells like baby powder too. If there is one scent on this earth I really hate, it's baby powder. I didn't like it when my kids were babies and I despise it now.

So, here I am smelling like Play-Doh and baby powder and looking oh so forward to my bath later to get this stuff off of me.

The bar does soften my skin but the scent makes me sick.

Every ingredient in this bar is natural except for the perfume, which I wish they would have left out!

I enjoy trying new LUSH products and I have never tried one I really, really didn't like. Until now. This massage bar stinks. Seriously. Maybe I got a "Play-Doh" batch but I didn't pay nine bucks and shipping to smell like a nursery school or, worse, a baby's diaper! Yeck.

As far as performance, it works the way it should and I can't take that away from it. However, I won't be using this bar again under any circumstances.

2 disappointed stars.