Review: Aqua Mirabilis Body Butter from LUSH

The Body Butters from LUSH are basically solid moisturizers that you use in the shower. They usually contain solid cocoa butter and sheah butters and most of them also contain exfoliating ingredients such as ground almonds. You can also find non-exfoliating ones such as King of Skin.

The Body Butters should often be used on damp skin. You use them in the shower after you have used your soap or shower gel. After I have used mine I rinse my body to remove the exfoliating bits and any excess of the body butter. Be careful not to rub your body with the towel when you are drying yourself. This will remove the moisturizing body butters from your body, instead gently pat yourself dry to ensure that you don't remove too much of the Body Butter.

So what do I think of Aqua Mirabilis?

Aqua Mirabilis contains cocoa and almond butter to moisturize and ground almonds to exfoliate your body. It works great as an exfoliator but I find that it is a little bit harsh on the skin. I usually use this on my legs and gently on my arms but it is way too abrasive to be used on the chest area and the stomach area.

I have previously used Buffy an other exfoliating Body Butter from LUSH and found that it left a greasy residue on the skin after I used it. I am glad to say that Aqua Mirabilis doesn't do this and after I have used it my skin feels very soft.

Aqua Mirabilis also contains sandalwood and rose oil which gives this Body Butter a dry and woody kind of scent. I cannot make out any rose in the scent but there is also a nutty note in the scent that I think comes from the cocoa butter since I can feel this in almost every solid moisturizer from LUSH.

Overall Grade: This is so far my favorite Body Butter from LUSH. I think that this is more of an exfoliator than a moisturizer and a little too abrasive on the skin. It makes my skin feel soft after I used it and I will definitely buy this again.

Source: LUSH UK


I paid for this product with my own money and it is my own opinion. I am not affiliated with this company.