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A horrified mum claims body wash her 12-year-old daughter was given for Christmas was emblazoned with lewd instructions encouraging shower sex.

Furious Lesley Hughes was asked by daughter Jennifer why her shower gel instructed her to "find someone you really like and invite them into the shower with you".

Mum-of-three Lesley, 49, said the pink, glittery Lush 'Snow Fairy' toiletry was specifically sold as a perfect Christmas present for a 12-year-old girl - but said the smutty joke would be more appropriate on an Ann Summers product.

The craft business owner claims the product could even be used by paedophiles to persuade children to do inappropriate things and said the packaging will be leading to awkward questions for red-faced parents across the country.

Disgusted Lesley, who is originally from Liverpool but now lives in St Austell, Cornwall, said: "I spend a lot of money in Lush - we love their stuff and we love what they are about - and Jennifer got lots of different Lush products for Christmas.

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"She only opened it the other day but as she gets skin problems I asked to have a look at the Snow Fairy label to check the ingredients. "As soon as Jennifer saw my face, she said 'what's up?'. My exact words were 'what the hell?'.

"She read it and asked me why that was on there. It was the look of disbelief on her face - she said 'why would I invite someone else into my shower with me?' She didn't understand.

"I was shocked. This product is clearly aimed at young girls, it is pink and glittery. It's dangerous - people could use it to persuade kids to do things they should not be doing.

"A lot of people have told me to get a life and said it doesn't mean sex, but for them to even say that it is clearly the first thing that they thought, which shows that's exactly what it means.

"Jennifer is not an idiot, she knows what's going on in the world, and we are not prudes and do not keep things from her, but at her age she knows what she needs to know.

"I don't understand why it is on there - you would expect it with something from Ann Summers. I just want Lush to change the label. It definitely will be causing a lot of awkward questions for parents up and down the country."

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The £17.95 gift set, which included the Snow Fairy shower gel and two bath bombs, were purchased from the Lush store in Cambridge last month.

In full, the 'how you use' section on the packaging states: 'If you really don't know how, then we suggest you find someone you really like and invite them into the shower with you to demonstrate'.

A spokesman for Lush said: "While we take our products and their ingredients seriously, we try not to take ourselves too seriously and like to have humour at the heart of everything we do.

"Our humour is very traditionally British - sometimes in the style of seaside postcards and Christmas pantomime, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, often self-deprecating.

"Our customers tend to have an innate understanding of this style of humour. It is never our intention to offend, but as with all humour not everyone will find the same things funny.

"As far as the mixed age of our customers and readers is concerned, we take the same line as UK pantomimes and many children's films - where a laugh can be inserted that adults will understand but will go unnoticed by the young and innocent."