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Everything on My Wish List to Bring Clean Girl Energy Into 2025: Why I Choose My Everything Shower Essentials from Lush

Aesthetics & Trends

December 04, 2024

If you scroll through social media, there’s that one aesthetic that stands out from the rest of the tornado of microtrends: the clean girl aesthetic.

She’s mastered the slicked back hair trend that’s perfectly shiny, makeup that looks so natural and as if she doesn’t have it on, minimalist yet classy outfits that look effortlessly thrown together, layered jewelry and an ear stack, a cute school tote bag, and an air of confidence and warmth. She also just looks so easily put-together and perfect, and you just know she smells amazing.

A key to this is the everything shower. You know what this one is: expanding further from the basic shampoo to body wash, this includes a scalp cleanse, body scrub, dry brushing, all the health and wellness goods that you can possibly think of.

There’s nothing like an everything shower to put me in the best mood. I love stepping out smelling like the most fragrant gardens to exist in the world, and this genuinely can pull me out of any funk and get me feeling all positive and energetic.

To achieve such a feeling, I always find myself going to LUSH- no one does it like them.

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Lush is synonymous with all things fresh and organic, except to them, it extends beyond a marketing buzzword. Built around a philosophy of harnessing nature’s best to create products that are genuinely good for the skin and also the planet, Lush’s products are the definition of goodness.

We believe in making effective products from fresh, organic fruit and vegetables, the finest essential oils and safe synthetics.

We invent our own products and fragrances. We make them fresh by hand using little or no preservative or packaging, using only vegetarian ingredients, and tell you when they were made.

We believe in buying ingredients only from companies that do not commission tests on animals and in testing our products on humans.

We believe in happy people making happy soap, putting our faces on our products and making our mums proud.

We believe in long candlelit baths, sharing showers, massage, filling the world with perfume and in the right to make mistakes, lose everything and start again.

We believe that all people should enjoy freedom of movement across the world.

We believe our products are good value, that we should make a profit and that the customer is always right.

-Lush

To learn more about Lush and its story, read a note from Lush Co-Founder and Inventor Mark Constantine here.

Without further ado, below are my absolute favorite essentials that I cannot go without for my everything shower to feel so clean, fresh, and thoroughly good:

Step 1: The Rehab Shampoo

Nothing makes me feel better than a refreshing cleanse, and the Rehab shampoo does the best job in making me feel like a brand new person.

Infused with mint and rosemary, this is the wakeup call that I need every AM shower, and the perfect reset for the PM shower. With added scents from the fruit juices that are used in the base of the shampoo like pineapple, papaya, mango, and kiwi, I love that my hair is naturally nourished.

Even if your hair has been heat-styled, bleached, dyed, or has gone through some seriously stressful times, the Rehab can help heal it. With scalp-stimulating herbs and olive oil to soften and hydrate the hair, the Rehab is all about using goodful ingredients to give your hair back some life.

After showering, my hair genuinely feels so clean throughout and so much shinier. Out of all the shampoos I have tried, this one doesn’t stress out my scalp, and keeps my hair feeling healthy and strengthened.

Step 2: The American Cream Conditioner

I can never skip conditioner in my routine; when I say that the American Cream Conditioner genuinely changed the texture of my hair to go from easily dried out and tangled to silky smooth, I’m not even exaggerating.

If you want to smell like the sweetest manifestation of a daydream, this scent is for you. The American Cream scent is hard to describe in words; it almost feels like a fantasy of what one would imagine the fluffiest clouds or a garden of the most fragrant flowers with neverending sunshine rays would smell like.

The strawberry-vanillla scent is almost addictive, and when I say I turn heads after meeting up with my friends straight from a shower, I mean it.

With scalp-clarifying lavender and oranges, this is all about giving a shiny boost to the hair, while honey adds moisture to the hair to stop breakage and dead ends. True to its mission of using genuinely good ingredients, Lush sources its honey “directly from apiaries local to [their] manufacturing centers in British Columbia and Ontario.”

Step 3: The Sleepy Bear Shower Gel

While your hair is getting the proper leave-in from the conditioner, it’s time to lather up in the world of soothing lavender.

The night gets darker fast in the winter, and I constantly find myself reaching out to days where I can stay in and put on my coziest pajamas with my favorite TV show playing. The Sleepy Bear Shower Gel is a must for those times.

With the most calming yet rejuvenating blend of lavender, chamomile, and neroli oils, I always end my showers feeling so much more relaxed and ready to take on everything, and truly wash my stress away. What’s more, the blend of oat and lavender flower gives a gentle cleanse to the skin, making you feel oh-so-clean.

The bottle itself is the coolest deep purple with some shiny glittery feel, making it feel like a bottle of magic.

Step 4: The Curl Power Hair Cream

I’ll be honest; having stuck to haircare brands only to treat my hair, Lush was a new experience, but after trying this hair cream, I am genuinely never going back. All doubts have been blown out of the water– literally.

The Curl Power Hair Cream is perfect for those with textured hair. With the richest, thickest blend of cocoa butter and argan, coconut, and jojoba oils, this cream is all about protecting hair of all types from curls, coils, to texture.

With soy lecithin and hydrolyzed wheat gluten adding protein to the hair and a frizzle of molasses to hydrate the hair and really lock in moisture to the locks, this keeps you hair as healthy as can be.

I am obsessed with how well this softens my hair. My hair tends to get tangled up a lot, and brushing it out is what causes the most damage. After applying this cream, my hair has noticeably gotten so much softer. After showering, I immediately put this on, and it has given my hair the most natural yet professional-looking blow-out look.

Step 5: The Handy Gurugu Hand Cream

Winter is here, and that means your skin is prone to getting more dry and cracked. Although body lotion is a lot more common, you can’t forget about your hands!

This pot of hand cream is genuinely my go-to at any time of the day. I am obsessed with how creamy and thick the consistency is; it makes my hands feel so nourished. The rich blend comes from cashew, almond, and pumpkin seed butters, which is packed with super powers to heal even the most cracked, dry hands.

I also appreciate that Lush uses fair trade organic shea butter in this cream. Made from a Ghanaian women’s cooperative using traditional methods, this hand cream is just packed with good.

I really like that this doesn’t make my hands feel greasy or creamy afterwards; it absorbs quickly but keeps your hands feeling smooth and soft for a long time.

I love popping this in my pencil case or purse and carrying this around with me. It’s so important not to neglect the care of your hands, especially because they are exposed to harsher conditions all the time.

All images are credited to LUSH.

Kate J.
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Kate is the Creative Director of The Teen Magazine.

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