Grease Lightning | Lush Skincare

 

You don't get spots? Ever? Not even one little one every so often? Okay, well I don't believe you. We're all human, spots happen to even the best of us ..unfortunately. It just so happens that the little buggars seem to be very fond of my face and like to make camp there quite often (sucks to be me!).

 

This 45g bottle from Lush has come in very handy recently and works as an exceptionally effective spot treatment. Like all Lush products it contains a very intruiging concoction of natural ingredients, just a couple of the components of this one include: tea trea, witch hazel, aloe vera, and seawater - all antibaterials and antiseptics that work together and create visible results quickly.

 

What Lush says:

"This product goes on invisibly, whilst the ingredients set to work on your spot to help stop it in its tracks.The seaweed gel will make sure that the skin around your spot isn’t disrupted too much, so that when the spot starts to retreat, you won't be left with a damaged circle of dry skin"

 

Named 'Grease Lightning' because it works at super speed, this works great as an over night treatment and 9 times out of 10 in the morning I've found a spot to be dramatically reduced in size and redness and by the 2nd day it is more or less gone. The reason I say it works best as an 'over night' treatment is because of the one issue I have with this product and that is that although it is a clear gel when it comes out of the pump (and Lush themselves claim that it is 'invisible'), after it has dried onto the skin it is not completely transparent and does dry as a slightly visible film over the applied area. It is also not great to use underneath make-up either as it can create a kind of 'flake' over the skin (the product is a 'flake', not your skin) as it doesn't sink in.

 

Just because it doesn't make such an effective day time treatment doesn't mean that it can't work wonders over night when nobody can see your face though! I simply apply it to a spot before bed and then wash it away in the morning and find that my spot has shrunk down and is on it's way out of the door, thank goodness! It doesn't dry the skin out or have any other adverse effects on the area, simply fights the spot and leaves the rest of the skin in peace. Before using this treatment I would use just tea tree oil on it's own, but this is like 'tea tree oil ..and friends', so it has more intense and effective results for a very similar price to a bottle of tea tree oil - plus this doesn't have any strong or overpowering fragrances either.

 

If you're interested then you can buy it online from Lush here: link, or can purchase it instore too.

Price: £5.95/45g.