Lush storage

I had a tweet not so long ago from Sherrie asking me how I stored my Lush products, in particular my soaps, so I thought I'd do a quick little blogpost on it.

Like me, Sherrie doesn't like leaving used ones on the side of the bath/shower because as anybody who has used a Lush soap before will know, it goes a bit skanky and slimy. I always throw mine away if I don't use it all in one bath or shower. It sounds wasteful, but I very, very rarely have some leftover, and this is why:

Whenever I buy a chunk of soap from Lush, I cut it up into small slices. They are soft enough for a regular, sharp, kitchen knife to cut through, and the creamier the soap is, the bigger the chunk - simply because they melt away quickly. Once I have lots of chunks, I put them in a big bowl/jar, with a lid on, and store them in my bathroom away from the sunlight. I'm not too bothered about mixing up the scents either, because when it comes to actually using them, the original scent is what comes through. However, that could be because the scents that I love from Lush are the same, sweet and fruity scents. I just grab a chunk and head off to the shower or bath. I'm not usually fussy which chunk I pick out, but I am a bit annoyed that I only have one of my favourite 'Honey I Washed The Kids' left. I must invest in more!

I'm lucky enough to be able to fit a substantial shelving unit in my bathroom, so my soap jar sits on top of that. I use the same process for my bath ballistics, bth melts and bubble bars too, though the jar I'm using at the moment is a touch on the small side! I never use a whole bubble bar so I cut those in half (except The Comforter, which gets cut into 3 or 4 pieces), and in they go. Again, the lid is imperative because it keeps the texture and smell locked in. We do't want crusty bars of nothingness now, do we?

With my body butters and massage bars, I buy the tins from lush, cram as much in them as possible, then they get chucked in the pretty hatbox that is stored on the shelf underneath. This is where any Lush things with their own packaging lives, like the shower gels and skincare items, as well as the shower jellies that come in their own plastic tub.

At the moment it is housing my regular skincare items, because I haven't bought anything from Lush for quite a while! Writing this post has reminded me that I'm long overdue a splurge.

So there we go, my Lush storage. I hope some of you found this helpful, as I know that when I first buying things from Lush I ended up with loads of yellow bags hanging around on windowsills or in drawers. Not pretty!

How do you store yours?

xoxo