Review: This is a smaller bomb like Butterball and Waving Not Drowning are. It is minty and chocolatey and nice but it’s not as strong as I would like. It’s a minty green color with little flecks of chocolate throughout. If the mint and the chocolate scents were stronger this would be a really great. It needs to be a regular sized ballistic. But I gave it four stars anyway because it was original. Chocolate mint things that go nice with the Chocolate Meltdown ballistic would be the chocolately minty “After 8:30” massage bar, “Mask of Magnaminty” facial mask, “Freeze” shower gel or “13 Rabbits” bath melt or shower gel.

Ingredients: bicarb, citric acid, dark chocolate, cocoa butter, perfume, spearmint oil, peppermint oil, galbanum oil, shea butter, gardenia extract, colour 61585

Lush Times Summer 1999 description: Invented by the UK managers, this diet-sized bomb is a mint chocolate bath time delight with the fragrance of After 8:30. Little pieces of chocolate bath melt are released from its compact form as it fizzes away, scenting the bathroom with stimulating mint. Good for the skin and great for the figure.

Lush Times Spring 2000 description: GIMME, GIMME, GIMME A CHOCOLATE MELT BOMB (before midnight that is). It’s chocolatey – so chocolatey – but you can have as many as you want and you won’t put on a single calorie. Oozing with dark chocolate, cocoa butter (excellent for softening the skin), spearmint (said to stimulate the mind and relieve fatigue), peppermint (reputed to soften the skin and good for any aches and pains), galbanum (reported to calm and ground you), and shea butter (just for the business of softening skin). And, of course, not only does it work wonders on your mind and body, but it smells just heavenly. So put one in the bath, turn yourself in to an after dinner mint and get a friend to nibble on you.

Scent Family: After 8:30 Massage Bar

1999

VEGAN:

200g £1.65

Ingredients: bicarb, citric acid, tangerine oil, perfume, cardamon, crocin, colour 10850

Lush 1999 description: Are you feeling lucky? You will! The tangerine scented Ching Ling Soo will cheer you up. Cardamon oil is used to restore feelings of joy to melancholic people and to encourage them to be more warm and friendly. Of course this didn’t work for the real life Ching Ling Soo, who was performed (sic) his famous Russian Roulette Magic Trick without realising that his wife’s lover had changed the blanks for live ammunition. Ah, such is life! However, on a more cheerful note, our Ching Ling Soo Ballistics each contain a little piece of paper with six numbers written on it. Who knows? If you use them to play the lottery Ching Ling Soo might help it to be YOU!

VEGAN:

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Rosewood Oil (Aniba rosaeodora), Lemongrass Oil (Cymbopogan flexuosus), Palmarossa Oil (Cymbopogan martini), Lemon Oil (Citrus limonum), Perfume.

Description: The snowman is back, looking the same but smelling different*. This Christmas the snowman will dissolve in a fizz of invigorating lemongrass, refreshing palmarossa and spicy jacaranda oils; he is ideal for waking up the kids in the morning (as if…) and even better for waking up adults. As the nights get longer and it’s more difficult to get out of bed in the morning, tempt yourself into the bathroom with a Chilly Bon Bom or two. You can also buy the gift set trio; Lush snowmen disguised as Three Wise Men. This saves wrapping them up yourself. (*If you loved the Green Man, you’ll want the Chilly Bon Bom.)

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Blue Mallow Flowers (Malva sylvestris), Jasmine Absolute (Jasminum officinale), Ylang Ylang Oil (Cananga odorata), Rose Oil (Rosa centifolia), Lavender Absolute (Lavendula hybrida), D&C Red No. 33.

Review: This is such a beautifully colored ballistic, purples and pinks abound in this ballistic, inside are more purples and rose pink flower petals which are strewn all around you when bathing with this floral lovely. This has a headier winter floral scent of rose, jasmine, ylang ylang, and it also has bright lavender to keep the scent from being too heavy. Lovely pink/purple water color also. You can’t help feeling girlie while bathing with the floral Chelsea Gardens ballistic. It was DCd in 2007. I think it’s a wonderful scent, and the is most definitely one of the most gorgeous color of ballistics I’ve ever seen. One would think this would be a 4 star ballistic for me. No. What gives this ballistic a “3” in my mind, are the ridiculously amount of flowers. Though they were as fresh, purple, and blue and beautiful as anything I’ve ever seen in my life, and even though initially it was akin to an uber Goddess bath, it began to to be too much after a few minutes.  I’ve always loved ballistic with flowers in them that are from the UK, the flowers in their ballistics, any of their ballistics, are so fresh, brightly colored and lovely.  Also, i’m a sucker for flower petals in the bath, but ..we are talking huge, big, giant purple flower heads. Many of them, stuck all over your skin on your arms and legs. Eventually as you shiver in the bathtub standing up trying to get the things off you, you notice the purple dye of the flower petals dripping down your arm like some alien blood fest.  I’m glad i had a bath with a Chelsea Gardens, and i would like it if Lush were to make this again because i would like to use it again.  This is not however a regular use bath bomb though.

Lush Times 2006 description: Chelsea Garden was made to celebrate the Wildlife Trust’s Lush garden at the 2005 Chelsea Flower Show which we’re sponsoring in honor of our 10th birthday. This bomb is calming and lovely, scented with rose, jasmine, lavender and orange blossom and filled with garden flower petals: peony, poppy and blue mallow. Plant a garden in your bath.

Review: It smells heavenly like real café latte. Once it hits the water however it loses that wonderful scent. Pity. Folks complain about the coffee going on the bottom of the tub and sticking you in the toosh but I’ve never had that happen. I love the yummy smelling “froth” that forms at the top. I need one now…but Lush DCd it in 2002.

 Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Cocamide DEA, Ground Coffee, Dried Soya Milk.

 Lush Times 1999 description: For all the coffee-holics out there, here’s the Lush Caffe Latte, a wake-up bath with a serving of real coffee and a frothy white top. Run your bath, drop in the Caffe Latte and with its delicious, Italian coffee shop aroma, you could almost be wandering through the streets of Florence. To top it off, your bath really will have a fluffy white cap on it, as the frothing Caffe Latte will make its own creamy foam for your bath. What a great way to stat your day and caffeine free too!

A fresh floral rose scent that is beautiful. A smaller ballistic but what beautiful colors, dark pink and light pink, with tiny tifts of blue and purple flower petals poking out. It’s a bit more powdery scented and a tad sweeter than other heavier floral combinations such as “Chelsea Gardens”. This leaves the scent on the skin for a good long time which I love. And Mark said “you smell good”. I can’t believe he said he likes the smell of something Lush without me having to ask him to smell it. That’s a first. I’m trying to what other Lush products this Butterfly ballistic smells like in order to help describe the scent….I would say if you mated an Absolute Delight ballistic, a Softy ballistic, Irresistable Bliss shampoo , and a Chelsea Gardens ballistic; their offspring would smell like Butterfly ballistic. (Edited to add later; It smells like my beloved Lush “Hard” shampoo bar. Yes….That’s what it smells like to me, “Hard” shampoo bar!) Absolutely Lovely. Absolutely girlie, a real fresh rose smell, a bit of a powdery, fresh Spring quality and you’ve got Butterfly ballistics scent. This ballistic had me just from the gorgeous scent alone but in addition, Butterfly makes a beautiful medium pink water color, and there are bits of blue and purple flowers, and there are two pretty butterflies to sift through the water and play with. I give 4 stars to this ballistic.

I miss these “Flowers” that Lush used to sell and I want them back so bad. They were so sute as gfts. One had a “Feelgood in the Southern Hemisphere“, “Butterball“, and “Lavender Blissard” ballistics. This was sold for many years and Lush quit selling it in 2005. I was very upset and posted to Big my feelings on the matter, and i still feel today, that discontinuing this was a mistake. How cute is this? If you wanted a gift for a friend and you saw this in the lush shop window…?

Basically it’s a “Butterball” ballistic in a pretty yellow silk petal wrap.