{"id":597,"date":"2017-08-12T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/?p=597"},"modified":"2020-07-29T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T16:13:10","slug":"2428802","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/product\/2428802","title":{"rendered":"LUSH Alkmaar Soap."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I was lucky enough to get this lovely little Alkmaar soap from Lush in America from my boyfriend. Graeme was music-ing in the US and went to Lush and asked for something you couldn\u2019t buy in the UK. Really sweet of him, not sure where he got that idea from\u2026 it\u2019s not typical Graeme behaviour, usually I get socks or fridge magnets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought I would do a post on this because there\u2019s probably not too many people with it (unless your boyfriend also has random acts of kindness or you live in America). The soap is named after the cheese capital of the world, Alkmaar in Amsterdam. The reason for this being not because it contains any cheese (although that would be interesting, Stilton and Camembert bath bomb pls) but because of the way Lush soaps are sold. They are displayed like large blocks of cheese, cut on cutting boards, wrapped and weighed like a cheese market\/deli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The soap contains honeysuckle and jasmine, which means it smells gorgeous. I think Lush soaps always have that sort of same scent that lingers that makes them unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love the smell of honeysuckle and the smell actually lasts a while after use as well. I\u2019ve had this soap for a while but I don\u2019t want to use it up because it\u2019s hard to get (although, Graeme is back in America again in a few weeks!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love all the Lush soaps, they always make my skin feel lovely and aren\u2019t drying like most soaps. Alkmaar is also vegan too, I don\u2019t specifically buy vegan products so it doesn\u2019t bother me but it\u2019s a plus for any vegans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lovely product. Any suggestions as to what I can force Graeme to buy me when he\u2019s in America next month?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was lucky enough to get this lovely little Alkmaar soap from Lush in America…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscgnews.com\/go\/doc\/4007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}