When I first set my eyes on these massage bars back in 2012, I immediately fell in love with the design. What more can you ask for than a sensual, exotic-scented massage bar, shaped to look like one of Salvador Dali's 'Melted Clocks'. There's something extremely appealing about this product; it's almost a celebration of the romanticism of the 1920's/30's, and gives me that same nostalgia that I got when reading Brian Selznick's 'The Invention of Hugo Cabret'.
Depending on when you purchased your Midnight Massage Bar, you might have one of two different shades. Earlier releases boasted a beautiful, rich peachy coloured bar with gold lustre decorating the face of the clock. However, when the bars were re-released for the Christmas 2013 retro range, the bar seemed to have lost it's glow, and is now a much more paler in colour. As the name suggests, this product can be used to aide a full body massage for one or more lucky people. However, it can also be used as a luxury alternative to a body lotion, which is what I tend to use it for. To melt the bar you rub it between your hands; your body temperature heats the oils up and causes the bar to melt slightly. Then simply use your fingers to glide over your skin and massage the oils across your body.
What I found with Midnight Massage, is that it's rather stubborn at giving away it's oils. Whereas Close To You or From Dusk Til' Dawn tend to begin melting immediately when in your hands, this bar took a little while to get to work. I tend to smear the massage bar across the areas of skin that I want, and then use my hands to spread the oils out across my whole body. However, with Midnight Massage, I had to rub it between my hands and then apply the oils this way, which took a little longer than usual.
Much like all of Lush's other massage bars, this one has a ton of wonderful ingredients to give your skin a feast; cocoa butter, shea butter and olive oil are all present to help moisturise and remove dry, scaly skin; exotic fruits like figs, carob pods and quince fruit have been added as they are rich in antioxidants and good for the skin. Lush have then chosen a refined, sexy jasmine scent that will linger on the body long after your massage, ensuring the persistence of memory.
This bar is also one of the longer lasting ones. I got a good 15+ uses out of it, whereas some bars I only get 3-4. Furthermore, it holds it's shape really well so you won't have it crumbling or turning into a gloopy mess.
Despite all of these attributes, I wasn't overly keen on the fragrance that Midnight Massage bar had to offer. The scent reminded me a little of when old Lush bath bombs begin to age and their scents somehow merge into one, unremarkable smell. Additionally, the bar was rather difficult to manoeuvre across the skin and I had to reapply the bar a few times just to get enough oil to moisturise my skin.
Quantitative Ingredients: Cocoa Butter, Fair Trade Shea Butter, Fair Trade Olive Oil, Perfume, Fig, Carob pods and Quince Extract, Fair Trade Vanilla Absolute, Jasmine Absolute, Olive Leaf Absolute, Petitgrain Oil, *Benzyl Salicylate, *Cinnamyl Alcohol, *Geraniol, *Benzyl Benzoate, *Benzyl Cinnamate, *Farnesol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Benzyl Alcohol, Lustre Radiant Gold, Edible Lustre Radiant Gold.
Vegan?: Yes.
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