The addiction continues: Lush temptation!

Although I'd heard of it before, this weekend I had my first real Lush experience while visiting some old college friends for Memorial Day weekend down in Santa Barbara. I had a quick stop I needed to make to the mall on the way to my friend's nursing school graduation/RN pinning ceremony. Honestly, it was a sick decision on my part to only allow myself 20 minutes in one of my favorite time-sucks (aka, the mall), but I guess I'm a bit of a masochist. It caught my attention on the way back to my car to get to my friend's graduation party. LUSH!

If you haven't already checked out this store, you must immediately find the nearest location and make a point to check it out next time you're in the area. Lush is an organic, vegetarian (and mostly vegan) bath and body care store and a perfect example of what many of my dreams have been about of late :P

Of course, I didn't have time to spend more than a brief couple minutes surveying the store to see if it was worth returning for. I decided that it was definitely worth it and promptly dragged one of my friends back there with me the next day. Let me tell you, this place is HEAVEN for soap geeks and body product fiends! I've been thinking about playing around more with solid perfumes and lotion bars so I treated myself to a great massage bar, but otherwise managed to exhibit uncharacteristic willpower and didn't allow myself any of the other temptations, such as a yummy new face cleanser or bath bomb.