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venta ([personal profile] venta) wrote2013-03-29 05:49 am
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Soap for sore eyes, I need an intermission

Some time ago, someone gave me a Rituals Foaming Shower Sensation in White Lotus and Green Tea. It's the sort of ridiculous posh toiletry that I enjoy, but would never buy for myself. Having been forgetting to dig new shower gel out of the cupboard for weeks (and stealing ChrisC's in the interim, don't tell him) I broke it out this morning.

It's a dispenser basically like shaving gel, and on use it squirted out foam in the usual manner - lovely, creamy, beautifully-scented foam. Foam also bubbled out from under the lid, and I ended up with handfuls of the stuff. I put the can down to start actually getting showered, looked away from it... when I looked back, it was still busily disgorging foam. The entire corner of my shower had turned into an artistic sculpture of pouring white foam.

I joggled the cap (no difference). I pried the cap off (foam poured busily out of the hole in the top of the canister). I tried jamming the lid on again (it filled up with foam, popped off, and sailed away on a billowy white sea).

Soon I was shin-deep in White Lotus and Green Tea. So that really was a foaming shower sensation, but sadly now there is none left :(

[identity profile] vicarage.livejournal.com 2013-03-29 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
You were clearly doing the ritual wrong. Next time bring a goat into the shower with you.

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2013-03-29 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
I usually do that, but people will talk so...

[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.com 2013-03-29 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
You should write to them and tell them their can broke and left you with no shower gel, possibly enclosing the can. I had a thing of spray-on hair colour for a fancy dress thing years ago that did that, and my mum's patio ended up with one very green corner.

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2013-04-03 10:54 am (UTC)(link)
I have written to them, though via email so not enclosing the can. I'm interested to note whether they get back to me, since in my experience companies usually don't bother.

(With the exception of (a) innocent and (b) Pieminister, whose customer service is exemplary.)

[identity profile] bateleur.livejournal.com 2013-03-29 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's like the showergel version of The Sorceror's Apprentice!

[identity profile] undyingking.livejournal.com 2013-03-29 11:33 am (UTC)(link)
The Showerer's Apprentice. Would have made a much better film (although possibly not with Mickey Mouse in the [livejournal.com profile] venta role).

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2013-04-03 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
I did actually start humming that while in the shower!
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it's on my MP3 player, actually

[identity profile] bondagewoodelf.livejournal.com 2013-03-29 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"If looks could kill, I'd kill your television" (Ned's Atomic Dustbin)

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2013-04-03 10:53 am (UTC)(link)
One kudo to you :)