my 2 minute tub demo video of Grape Soda is down below.
This bubble bar was part of the Lush June 2026 monthly subscription box called ‘Fruitilishous’.
This was a GREAT box full of fruity bath and shower products.
Grape Soda bubble bar was such a gorgeous color of purple. The purple colored products are susceptible to fading quickly, turning from blue purple to pink purple in a couple of days. So i always cover my purple products to keep it from fading. as much as i can anyway.
This smells SO good which is saying something because i typically do not like grape scented or grape flavored anything. This has a sweet fizzy grape scent, just like grape soda.
As you’ll see below this makes tons of bubbles. It’s an average sized bubble bar. No glitter.
i would absolutely suggest this bubble bar.
It makes pretty purple water.
it’s not really conditioning but not drying at all either.
End of my bath. I used soap and all kinds of products including hair products so the bubbles always go down quite a bit after i’m done with my bath compared to right when i get in.
5 out of 5 rating. I’d give it a 6 out of 5 rating if that was a thing lol
This month’s box was pretty incredible. And my favorite product in the box is the pineapple chunk gummy. Firstly, as some of you know i LOVE the Lush shower Gummies. Every single one of them that they’ve made.
It makes a creamy lather like soap. The scent is lovely while you’re washing with it, and the yummy even stays on the skin after you rinse off and dry. Not long, but it does stay for a little while. It’s not particularly moisturizing but it’s not drying either. I pear this with the Lush pineapple grunt perfume for more of a layering of pineapple that lasts longer on me.
Pineapple grunt is nice, it doesn’t smell quite as good as pineapple chunk though, but it’s nice to layer them. .
It looks like a chunk of pineapple with the design on it and the irregular lines on it, etc.
I mean…LOOK at it. 😍
It smells SO good. I will say that all of the Lush pineapple products they’ve made (all 5 of them) have been exceptionally yummy smelling. The pineapple body balm from the Spongebob collab, The quirk shower scrub from the lush kitchen sub box, the Pineapple body butter that was a voted on community favorite in 2025, Pineapple grunt soap, and the other one that i can’t remember right now which was also a shower product.
And Pineapple Chunk is no exception. I want this as a regular product. It would be such a good seller!
As all the Gummies are-it’s not as loose and gelatinous as the Lush shower jellies, and it’s not as firm and hard as soap, it’s bendy but firm. And as Lush says, when it’s dried off you can stick it on the side of your shower.
I’m head over heels in love with Pineapple Chunk.
Here’s a 15 second vid clip of it, showing the texture and bend-y quality of it.
U*SA*HA*NA (often spelled Usahana) is a vibrant, colorful girl-bunny Sanrio character who loves summer, orange sherbet, and dancing. Her name blends “usa” (rabbit) and “hana” (flower). She is known for her blue eyes, long floppy ears, and the flower accessory on her head.
This is SO cute. I really love the colors. pink, purple, and blue.
As she starts to melt it starts looking like a spinning rainbow.
What i love is the scent. Oh My 🥰 It’s both yummy and pretty. I’d love the scent in a perfume!
Wine lees oil, Lime oil, and Orange peel oil.
First time i’ve heard of wine lees oil.
Wine lees oil is an essential oil extracted via steam distillation from the residual yeast, seeds, and tartrates that settle at the bottom of vats during wine fermentation. Prized for its intense, fruity, and liquor-like aroma, it is used in perfumery to add rich, boozy depth to fragrances.
My video below shows how nice and foamy it is.
Makes a beautiful deep blue color with a great fragrance that is nice because it’s a great scent and it’s fairly strong
Review: I love this soap. This soap used to be called “Carmen Miranda” but lush had to drop the Carmen because of the estate of the actress Carmen Miranda didn’t like the name being used. Carmen Miranda was a Brazilian singer and dancer in the 50’s who wore a brazilian hat with fruit on it.
So Lush changed it to just Miranda. This soap was discontinued in the US in 2005/2006 but it is still sold in the UK with a tiny bit of a different look. This Lush soap deserves to be right up there with Figs and Leaves, Alkmaar and all of those “classic” Lush soaps in my opinion. The Kiwi and the juniper combination is absolutely genius. It’s fruity, tart and refreshing. I like to use this Lush soap even more than Bohemianfor feeling cool and fresh during hot, muggy Summers. Zingy! It’s tart and sweet at the same time. Very popular with Lushies.
Below are the pictures i took of my pieces of Miranda from 2006.
Spring 2004 NA Lush Times description: We like our Vitamin C in fruit form, rather than the synthetic sort. Kiwi fruit contains masses of vitamin C and we recommend eating them to keep yourself healthy. We also like to mash them up and put them into soap. “Typical of Lush!” you might be thinking to yourself, “to take a perfectly decent food and use it for washing instead of eating.” We love to treat the outside of our bodies just as well as we treat the insides. If you are prepared to take care of yourself by eating fresh organic food, we think it’s perfectly reasonable to use fresh, organic products on your skin, especially when they are as nutritious as our green, furry, fruity Antipodean friends. So please, do your skin a good turn and wash it with the fruity Miranda bar, made with mashed Kiwi fruit and scented with refreshing juniperberry and bergamot essential oils.
Lush Times 2006 UK description: Just as fruity as ever, but in a different shape. The deliciously feisty, zesty Lush fruit bowl of a soap makes a welcome return to the soap shelves, bursting with kiwis and refreshing essential oils. Fresh, organic kiwis tone your skin as they are gently astringent; they are also packed with vitamin C. Juniper berry oil is said to stimulate the body when you’re feeling drowsy, so washing with Carmen Miranda is ideal for the shower just before you set off for an evening of salsa dancing.
Here’s what the whole wheel of soap that was in stores looked like. And then they would cut pieces off of it however small or big you wanted from 100g up to 500g to buy. all the fruit on top was soap!
This was a new product included in the monthly subscription box for June 2026, for the ‘Fruitilishous’ box.
Zesty was formerly named ‘Calacas’. I remember when Lush started selling the Zesty body spray on their retail website and explained that they changed the name of Calacas fragrance to ‘Zesty’. I assume because Calacas scent family products were originally sold seasonly for ‘Dia de Los Muertos’ /‘Day of the Dead’ Mexican holiday. And the Calacas scent was SO popular. So i guess they figured it was so popular that it could be sold all year long as a regular item, so they changed the name from the Holiday name to ‘Zesty’.
Being Hispanic, i was kinda sad that the name changed, but i suppose i understand it. 🤷🏽♀️
the scent is made and has always been made with Lime, Neroli, and Frankincense. So it’s very citrussy because of the lime and neroli and resinous and somewhat lemonyish because of the frankincense. I have a 5ml bottle of pure frankincense essential oil because it’s on of my favorite fragrance notes. It’s been around since biblical times I.E. ‘Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh’, and has been used for years for church incense.
This Zesty body lotion is even more citrussy and even a bit brighter too than the original Calacas scent.
I think everyone would like this lotion scent.
The lotion itself is medium thick, and a beautiful color of yellow-green, which matches what it smells like. It’s not too greasy but it is a tiny bit for me. But it does eventually sink into the skin.
Here’s the body spray.
Here’s the original body lotion in my photo below of the Calacas scent family, in the upper left of the photo.
Bad Batz Maru is part of the Lush/Hello Kitty (#2) Collab June 2026
4 out of 5 rating
Badtz-Maru is a mischievous, punk-rock-style penguin character from the Japanese company Sanrio, known for his signature scowl and spiky hair, who dreams of world domination but is a softie at heart. Created in 1993, he’s one of Sanrio’s few characters marketed to all genders and is often seen with his pet alligator, Pochi, in Gorgeoustown. His name combines “bad” with the Japanese “batsu” (X mark), reflecting his rebellious attitude, and he was born on April Fool’s Day.
He smells fruity and bright with a raspberryish scent. There is no black currant in here so it’s not a comforter scent.
He’s such a cutie even though he pretends to be tough.
He’s nice to wash with, has good lather, and the scent stays on my skin even after i rinse and dry my hands.
i like this soap. there’s really not anything not to like about it. I’d rate it a 4 out of 5 rating.
This jelly was made as part of the June 2026 Lush/Hello Kitty (#2) Collab
Pompompurin is a popular Sanrio character, a laid-back golden retriever known for his brown beret, who loves pudding, milk, and soft things, and enjoys napping and making friends. His name comes from the Japanese word for pudding, and he’s famous for his “purin aerobics” and collecting shoes. He was introduced in 1996 and is one of Sanrio’s flagship characters.
Pom Pom Putin shower jelly.
PomPomPurin has the yummiest scent. It was made in the popular Lush ‘Yummy Custard’ body wash scent. Honestly, this smells even BETTER than the pots of Yummy Custard ive used. Even more vanilla pudding like.
It has a real vanilla ice cream kind of scent. Creamy, sweet, vanilla. YUM. I can’t stop sniffing it. It also seems to be a bit more moisturizing than the typical Lush jelly.
It’s the perfect scent for PomPomPurin since his favorite things are pudding and milk. This smells like vanilla pudding.
This is one of my favorite products from the Lush Hello Kitty Collab. I highly recommend. Especially if you like shower jellies.
If you have smaller hands and need to make it easier to hold and wash with in the shower you may want/need to cut it in half or in quarters. I don’t know if i could cut him up though because he’s so cute lol.
short video clip
more Yummy Custard scented things. Yummy custard ice cream cone jelly and the solid (but soft) gold cube vanilla custard body wash marshmallow.
The shade of blue of the shower gel is so striking 😍
I bought this gift set when i bought the Father’s Day Squeeze the Day shower gel.
There is a small Stormy Weather shower gel and a small Stormy Weather body spray in this gift set.
What is it about this scent? It’s addictive. Even though i had no idea what this would be like, Its unexpected. It’s not the kind of scent that i typically go for. It’s got Basil, Neroli, Bergamot, Rosewood, and synthetic Musk, and the shower gel includes jasmine. This is herbal, woody, citrussy, and musky.
It’s strong on me, with hella throw, the Basil is very strong, and it lasts on my skin forever. I like Basil on my pizza and pasta, but i never knew it would be nice in a fragrance, but it makes sense since it’s the taste of basil AND the smell of basil that i like in food dishes. 😊
My husband is sensitive to smells and he can’t tolerate this one. So i wear it when he’s at work. 😄 It’s like a men’s cologne kind of, but oddly i like wearing it. And as i said the shower gel is the same scent but has a bit more floral jasmine note than the body spray
Watermelon Sugar was one of the exclusive fruity products created for the April 2026 monthly subscription box
It’s such a stunning and beautiful sugar scrub, looking just like a Watermelon, with red sugar cocoa butter mixture and black seeds to make it look like watermelon seeds.
It’s made with watermelon seed oil.
When i opened it the scent kind of reminded me of a watermelon rind. But the more i sniffed it the less i liked it. It’s got a strange undertone, to my nose anyway. 🤷🏽♀️ I asked my husband to smell it. I said ‘does this smell like watermelon?’ He said ‘Uh…NO.’
I put it in front of my daughter’s nose and said ‘watermelon.’ She said ‘kind of, at first, but it smells kinda weird mom.’
Yeah, it’s not just me. I used it in the shower. The feel of it overall is nice, and the way it worked on my skin was nice! However i just couldn’t get on with the scent. It’s off putting to me. Don’t know if i got a bad batch or what but ill *try* to finish it but its going to be a challenge lol.
It IS a striking looking scrub, there’s no doubt. 😍
Mine looks kind of a different color than the one on the Lush website. It’s a good size though, bigger than i expected. It’s perfect size for holding onto to use in the shower.
I sure do love the scent! Vanilla and orange with benzoin. It’s yummy. Different, i wasn’t expecting it to smell like this. I love washing with it. It’s not particularly moisturizing. Unfortunately the scent doesn’t last after i get out of the shower, but i do like it while im using it.
Review: At first I did not like this. Now it smells nice like mint and cinnamon to me. It’s both hot and cold. Hot because the cinnamon, cold because of the mint. Very strong scent. It smells mostly of cinnamon and mint. It’s a miracle product when you have an achy sore anything. Not one to wear for the scent in my opinion. But it does work real well. It’s got adult beans in it for the massage affect.
Lush Times 2001 description: If someone hadn’t got the name first this bar might have been called ‘Sporty Spice’ because Wiccy Magic Muscles is spicy and good for sportspeople. Don’t panic when you first try it; it feels very warming on the skin because of the cinnamon leaf and secret spice oils that heat up your muscles and help them to recover from a hard exercise session. It also works on gardeners, DIY-ers and everyone else who has been giving their muscles an extra tough work out. This one has a layer of aduki beans which feel like little finger tips when our spice bar is rubbed into your muscles to soothe your aches……
These other Lush products are in the same scent family.
You’ve been mangoed is a retro Lush bath melt originally from the mid 2000’s. It’s very moisturizing, made with cocoa butter and real mango. it’s also got some citrus in it. I had forgotten to add it to this blog until today.
LT 2006 Description: Nutritious, natural fruit butters soften your skin; refreshing lemon and lime oils get things going when you’ve ground so you feel ready to take on the world.
Lush Kitchen made the June ‘Fruitilishous’ subscription box. Many exclusive fruit scent, fruit shaped products, including the ‘Orange Burst’ bath bomb. This was one of the best smelling mail order box i’ve ever smelled in 25 years. Keep in Mind that i’m very partial to oranges. One of my favorite smells ever is when someone is peeling an orange.
This was made with orange oil, powdered orange peel, and tangerine.
Such a cute design!
It even has the tiny bumps like a real orange
It’s one of those
It makes the water such a nice color of gold orange
It’s a very foamy bath bomb that moves and dissolves slowly around the tub.
The smell of oranges is nice and medium strong. Theres no glitter and it’s not conditioning but it is nice!
see how there’s a space between the thin white paper cover on top and the container? Yeah, so when i opened the container a whole bunch of powder spilled out. The reason it spilled out is because the whole top piece which has the holes for the powder to come out was *inside* the container, sideways. I don’t know how it got inside of it but it was very difficult to get it out. Since it was made of pressed paper I had to get the insides of a pen because it was thin enough to bring up the top without bending it. Then when i did finally got it out there was no way to attach it back onto the top of the container. So i taped the top to the container with scotch tape.
Then i peeled off the lush sticker that they put over the holes on top, but it wouldn’t come off no matter what i did, i worked on it for about 20-30 minutes and i could only get tiny pieces of the sticker off at a time, and when i did some of the sticker paper stayed on over the holes for the powder to come out, so i wound up just poking the end of a knife through the holes so the powder could come out.
It’s almost not usable unless i get a spoon and just dip it in the powder and then pour it from the spoon in my hand and then put it on my body.
Trouble is the powder still leaks out. Good LORD. 😫
ANYWAY…….
The scent of the powder is nice. Not fantastic, but nice. it’s a softer scent than i thought it would be. Coconut Milk powder, lemon oil, labdanum, and litsea cubeba. But i didn’t really pick up much coconut smell, and i picked up a light lemony scent. Not fantastic but nice.
I have the old style Peace bath bomb from 2014 next to the lovely new redesigned one.
This bath bomb, as well as other things, is used in the Lush ‘Synaesthesia’ spa treatment.
It’s an absolutely amazing spa treatment which i will never forget.
Here are some pics of the bottles that we choose from for the Synaesthesia spa treatment. You can see that’s what Lush designed the bath bomb to look like.
I have a video on my youtube channel that i took when i was in the spa. I’ll find it and put the link here.
It smells lovely. Yummy, herbal and floral all at the same time.
It’s a very slow moving, fluffy foam kind of bath bomb. So calming to look at.
No glitter. It makes the tub water a gorgeous cobalt blue color. 😍
Can’t believe i forgot to add this shower gel to my blog until now after 25 years. 🤦🏽♀️ What made me realize this is … Lush is making five different voted for shower gummies in late June 2026, and one of them is Tramp shower gummy!
Tramp is the epitome of a classic Lush product.
I first bought Tramp shower gel in 2001. The Lush Times description of it sold me. It sounded mysterious. I’ll find the Lush Times description and drawing of it and add that here.
Anyway, everyone on the Lush UK/International member forum talked about Tramp in such positive ways. It was extremely popular with both men and women. At the time Lush sold this as a regular year round store product along with the other shower gels; slammer, back for breakfast, skinny dip, Prince, etc.
I had no choice but to buy some. 😄
When i opened it for the first time i could see a dark green liquid that was medium thick. I sniffed it in the bottle and …. 🧚🧞♂️🧝♀️🧙🍀🌲🌴🐍🌳🐉🪴 It smelled dark green and mysterious, like magical woods at twilight, with a nearby fairy glade glimmering under the impending moon light.
It’s made with Patchouli primarily, along with Oakmoss.
I always considered Lush Snow Fairy shower gel and Lush Tramp shower gel to be on opposing sides of the Lush shower gel spectrum. 😄 They have literal opposite kinds of scents. Snow Fairy with its Sweet, pink, sparkly and bright with a fruity, candy-ness. And Tramp with its deep, dark, mysterious and brooding sensuality.
I loved the wash my hair with it, because the scent would stay in my hair all day and i could take a whiff of the magical scent anytime of the day that i wanted.
I would even squeeze some in my bath. As every Lushie back then pretty much did.
A bit later, maybe a couple of years, Lush UK decided to remake one of their holiday bubble bars, which had the Tramp scent called ‘Santa Moritz’. It was a play on the words ‘Saint Moritz’ which was an actual town in Switzerland with lots of snow. So the bubble bar was a big snow hill with a Santa on top. 😊
I couldn’t believe my luck to have read that Lush was going to make some of these for any forum member to buy. I bought 5. The cute bubble bars had the Tramp scent. ❤️
Lush had made a shower gel years and years later called Supertramp, which was a combination of the Cosmetics To Go bubble bath called Smaragadine, and Tramp.
Lush made the first Tramp perfume in a square 30ml spray bottle in 2007 or so. I took a picture of mine below. A bit later they made a solid Tramp perfume along with other lush solid exclusive perfumes. I took a pic of mine below. They also made this long slender spray perfume many years later in 2019. And in 2024 Lush made a body spray version of Tramp, which i bought and took a pic of below.
Lush made a Tranp liquid body scrub as an exclusive in one of the Lush monthly subscription boxes, can’t remember which month and year. i took a pic of it below. i loved the dark green color and the wonderfully strong Tramp scent.
In 2014 or so Lush UK made some exclusive shower jellies that forum members voted for. Tramp was one of the winning votes. i took a pic of mine below. It was a lovely green color.
Lush made two versions of Tramp body lotion. One for one of their monthly subscription boxes in 2014, and one in a community voting. One was in a black pot, and one was in a clear 250g bottle.
Tramp solid perfume amongst other exclusive lush UK solid perfumes.
This shower gel was made for Lush Father’s Day 2026.
It’s a riff on the term ‘Seize the Day’. Seize the day” is the traditional English translation of the ancient Latin aphorism “carpe diem,”.
I haven’t been this excited about a Lush citrus shower gel since ‘Ectoplasm’.
This is so wonderfully lemony. It’s got three or four kinds of lemon ingredients: Lemon oil, Lemon Myrtle oil, and Litsea Cubeba oil, and Lemon juice.
It’s not very sweet, but it does have just a smidge of sweetness. The first thing that came to mind when i took my first whiff of this shower gel was ‘lemon cheesecake’. I had my husband take a sniff and he said it smelled like lemon bars.
The bright yellow color is so cheery and beautiful. It’s a thick, opaque shower gel, no glitter.
Lush made a bubble bar ‘Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy’ this Father’s Day with the same scent as the shower gel.
I tried to show the consistency of it, it’s fairly thick.
I love this shower gel. I love it enough to buy multiple bottles if i could afford to.
The smell wasn’t as good or nearly as strong as i would’ve liked. So that makes me want to subtract half a point.
It’s a slow, ‘fluffy’-melty bath bomb.
there’s a shower gummy soap inside the bath bomb, it smells nice!
It makes a bright neon green water with highlighter yellow sparkle.
That yellow-green sparkle is beautiful!
I liked this. i liked the way it melted all fluffy like in the tub and i really loved the end color and sparkle. I’d rate this a 3.5 out of 5. I liked it but not enough to buy another one if it came out again next Easter.
