… This is not your usual excess butter story …
Daughter #2 turned 14 recently and one of her friends gave her a bath bomb from a store called Lush. Lush makes all sorts of natural beauty products, bath bombs being but one of their many and varied product lines. Fast forward to last night and daughter #2 says she wants to soak with her bath bomb and that she’d like to do it in Mum and Dad’s jacuzzi tub. She’s 14, so she fills the jacuzzi on her own, hits the jet button, plops in the bath bomb and she slides into the bath. About five minutes later I hear my wife yelling up to #2 for her to make sure the bathroom exhaust fan is on 'cause “that bomb f#cking reeks of perfume and we’re all getting dizzy downstairs from the smell of it.” About 30 seconds later I hear a slap bang rattle rattle and a shriek from upstairs followed quickly by a desperate “Mooooooom!”. The kind that can only come from a child in grave trouble.
— it was not a bath bomb —
My wife is greeted by a shrieking 14yo who’s pink from head to toe and covered in a greasy pink slime and glitter. There’s pink slime and glitter all over the jacuzzi, all up the walls and all over everything she tried to grab. There’s pink slime and glitter on the bathroom door knobs and in the sink. There is now also pink slime and glitter all over the shower.
It turns out that the offending beauty product was a “Snow Fairy Sparkle Jar”
(not my picture)
It’s a star-shaped container of glittery powder and the container is made from cacao butter. You’re supposed to sprinkle out the glitter powder lightly on your skin “for an iridescent glow” and apparently there’s enough there for several months of use. Once the powder is all gone you can then melt the container (in very small pieces) to rub into your skin as a nice smelling moisturizer and simultaneously help the environment by not having to throw out the container. You’re not supposed to toss the whole thing in a hot jacuzzi tub!
Does anyone know how to clean cacao butter residue off bathroom tiles? (Hence the keto tie-in since there are many cacao butter fans here).
Sheesh!