Monthly Archives: August 2015
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve bubble bar, shower gel, etc. 5 out of 5 rating
Jasmine and ylang ylang
Lush has redesigned the Christmas Eve bubble bar four times since 2006z. i’ve loved every design. i love love love this fragrance so much. There’s a candle that lush uk only made as a limited edition exclusive, so i bought two.
2025 Tbis year has the most intricate design, with the main in the moon face added.
I love the scent of this bubble bar, i’ve always loved, for 20 years or so. It’s a nice blend of jasmine and ylang ylang. I always seem to like any product with ylang ylang in it. Jasmine has to be just right kind of jasmine and has to be blended with only certain things for me to like it. But when the jasmine is right in a product , i usually fall head over heels for it, and such is the Christmas Eve bubble bar.
2020
Ingredients: Perfume, Irish Moss Powder, Jasmine Absolute Ylang Ylang Oil , Gardenia Extract Iridescent Glitter
Lush Times: The design was created by our Newcastle shop manager who wanted a bubble bar to perk her up in preparation for her night down the “toon”. She put a lovely yellow crescent moon on top of a blue sky because in Newcastle when the moon is shining, it’s time to go out! For most people though, the moon means sleepy time. Simon Constantine created a beautifully feminine jasmine and ylang ylang perfume, which is fantastic for calming and relaxing you and inspiring confidønce. On Christmas Eve children find it difficult to sleep while Father Christmas could be flying around in his sleigh delivering presents and they don’t want to miss him. Use one to send them to sleep.
These are the other lush products that have the same exact scent made with the same ingredients.
Santa Fun multi purpose bar
Northern Lights bath bomb (not to be confused with northern lights soap).
Christmas Eve shower gel
Perfect Match bath bomb
Great Wave bubble bar
Lush made a Shower Gel with the scent and the sparkly, dark blue color of the Christmas Eve bubble bar for their December 2024 monthly subscription box.
The original Northern Lights bath bombs below are twice as long as the NL bombs that lush made after.
Lush made a Christmas 2014 bath bomb called “Northern Lights”. It has the scent of this Christmas Eve bubble bar. The both together are gorgeous.
Perfect match bubble bar is made in the same scent.
Great Wave bubble bar was made in the Christmas Eve scent
Lush says Dragon legend bubble bar was also made in the Christmas Eve scent
Bridal Bouquet
(Champagne Snow Showers fragrance, sparkly orange/lime, and paper hearts)
180g/6.3oz
Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Sweet Orange Oil (Citrus Dulcis), Lime Oil (Citrus aurantifolia), Cognac Oil, Paper Confetti.
Lush Times 2003 description: We like to celebrate. We do it at every possible opportunity. In fact, every morning is a micro celebration of sorts when we award ourselves a Ballistic for having managed to get out of bed in one piece. Mo’s beautiful new Bridal Bouquet Ballistic celebrates weddings. It has one of our best celebratory scents too: throw it in the bath and it will waft the fragrance of Buck’s fizz with a dash of cognac, which will put you in a part mood even if you weren’t so sure before you started. The Bridal Bouquet is made to celebrate weddings*. It could be an engagement, a hen party, the big day itself or fifty years later. Bathe in the scent of celebration and make bathing more of an occasion. (*Incidentally, we are a very inclusive organisation and we would not dream of stopping teh resolutely single, separated, divorced or widowed or not-the-slightest-bit-interested members of the public from enjoying the Bridal Bouquet should they wish.)
Review: Smells like fizzy orange soda. It’s not an elegant and rounded orange like “Happy for Sad” or “but sparkly, festive and bright. I think this one went really well with the citrussy orange Brightside bubble bar or “Happy” bubble bar. Later Lush used this scent and made the “Christmas Party” bath bomb, Golden Wonder bath bomb, Celebrate lotion, jelly, and perfume.
Wonder.
Bon Bain Bonnard
The one i bought from the Nov subscription box in 2025
The one i bought in 2004
Review: A very pretty ballistic, it’s white with pastel pink, blue and yellow soap confetti and yellow, pink, blue salt crystals in the outter middle of it. It’s powdery and floral and slightly perfumey. The smell is similar to “Sakura” ballistic but with a strange undertone to my nose that keeps this from being stellar to me. Bon Bain Bonnard was fairly popular. The other three “Artist” ballistics that Lush has made are “Monet’s Garden” and “Kiss Me Klimt” and “Still Life“.
Ingredients: Bicarb, Citric Acid, Coarse Atlantic Sea Salt, Rose Oil, Perfume, Orange Oil, Crocin, Colorform Turquoise, Colorform Crimson.
Lush Times 2002 description: This is the Artistic Bath Bomb, named after Bonnard, influenced by his paintings of the nudes in the bath and inspired by his work ‘White Interior’. Arguably one of the best smelling bath bombs. The sea salt will make your body feel new, and the orange blossoms will do the same for your mind. A bomb for everyone in search of inspiration.
Bombardino
5 out of 5 rating. See the tub demo video below 
It smells like butterscotch, or a toffee crunch bar. Inspired by the popular Italian ski resort drink, there’s no need to have been on the slopes to enjoy. Just run the bath, drop in and sink into golden lustre-topped waters.
This was SO good. Every Lushie i know, LOVES the Bombardino. It’s so scrummy smelling, it makes me want to eat it. A carmel custard sort of smell.
It’s smaller than regular but it makes up for it with the Scrummy scent and the way it looks like melting ice cream and the gold powder.
Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Cocoa Butter, Soya Milk Powder, Perfume, Radiant Gold Lustre, Bergamot Oil, Sicilian Lemon Oil, Fair Trade Vanilla Absolute, Cornflour, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Titanium Dioxide, Gardenia Extract, *Limonene, *Linalool,Colour 19140:1, Colour 19140, Snowflake Lustre, Dairy Free Chocolate Drops
Lush Description: Sit back and relax in a bath of creamy Alpine indulgence. With skin-softening cocoa butter and uplifting Sicilian lemon oil.This little fellow takes his inspiration from an apres ski drink traditionally made in the Italian Alps with eggnog, brandy and whipped cream. Our version of the Bombardino is just as rich and creamy, smelling like a lemon meringue pie. With added cocoa butter to soften your bath water, Bombardino will leave your skin feeling silky and soothed.
The glitter 😍
Here’s a YouTube video that i made of it in the tub.
Bollywood
Review: Do you know how long it’s been since Lush has made something that I absolutely love as much as my favorite discontinued items? It smells similar to my Lush love…Psychodelic bubble bar. Unfortunately I was the only one who thought so, this ballistic went bye bye as quick as it got here. *sigh* It’s orangey and spicey. It’s spicey too but not overwhelmingly so, not like in Skinny Dip. It smells like cardomom, cinnamon, clove. It even has what looks like a gum drop in the middle of the outside (Bindi) that is edible.
Ingredients: 200g £2.10
Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Creamed Coconut Powder (Cocos nucifera), Orange Oil (Citrus dulcis), Ginger Oil (Zingiber officinalis), Black Pepper Oil (Piper nigrum), Perfume, Paprika Oleoresin (Capsicum frutescens), Kaffir Lime Leaf, Jelly.
Lush Times 2006 description: Our spicy new Ballistic is hot in more ways than one. Its soft orange colour is spiced up with a jelly jewel ‘bindi’ which it wears on its forehead – or where we like to image a Ballistics forehead would be. Its orange scent is spiced up with ginger and black pepper essential oils. Orange revives you when you’re feeling bored and tired; ginger warms you up and gives you a feeling of well-being. Black pepper, The Black Gold of India, The King of Spices, was widely prized throughout the ancient world; as an essential oil it is said to be energising, to help tone your muscles, reduce muscle stiffness and aches, detoxify and get rid of eccess fat – rather like an evening of dancing to bhangra.
Black Pearl bath bomb
4 out of 5 rating.
Its a smaller bomb, like butterball. If it was regularsize id give it a 5 out of 5
I cant remember if this was a year round, regular store item, but i dont think it was. I think it was a limited edition.
This scent is not a citrus nor candy scent. I usually describe the scent as a chamomile tea, with frozen black currants in place of ice cubes, and a sprig of fresh lavender, with a vague scent of earthy, resinous Myrrh.
Lavender, Chamomile, Currant, Frankincense and Myrrh, Black Sugar, silver glitter.
See my tub demo video of it below
95g £2.10
Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Black Sugar (Sucrose), Perfume, Lavender Absolute (Lavandula hybrida), Chamomile Oil (Anthemis nobilis), Olibanum Oil (Boswellia carterii), Myrrh Resinoid (Commiphora myrrha), Silver Lustre Sparkle, Silver Glitter (Polyethyleneterephthalate), *Limonene, *Linalool, Paper Motto.
Here’s a Lush Halloween version of Black Pearl called ‘Cob Web’. Same bomb just a different, fun shape for Halloween.
Review: This Lush bath bomb is the size of “Butterball“. Surprisingly it has lovely silver sparkles in the bomb. I think it looks better with the pretty silvery glitter than it would without it, as it’s color is kind of a chalky dark greyish color in the bath. The scent is so nice when it’s fresh, the scent has stayed on my skin hours after the bath. Lush made the 2005 Christmas soap “Twas the Night Before Christmas” in the same scent as this Black Pearl bath bomb. I think those Lushies that are weary of citrus scents or candyish scents will like this. I also feel that this will be a good for guys as well as women.
Lush Times 2007 description: The Black Pearl is a dark, mysterious Bath bomb named in honour of Captain Jack Sparrow’s ship in Pirates of the Caribbean. (We like Johnny Depp and we reckon Orlando Bloom’s not bad either.) It is studded with crystals of sea salt and scented with lavender and blackcurrant. Inside each one there’s a wise saying, a “pearl of wisdom” to enlighten you in your search for treasure.
Here’s a bath demo video i made of the black pearl bath bomb.
Here is a photo I took of all the Lush products made in the Black Pearl scent
Black Pearl bomb and the dark blue soap with purple sparkles called ”Twas the Night Before Christmas’.
Below is another lush bath bomb called Cobweb. Its also a black pearlbath bomb that was made for halloween one year.
Scent family. The soaps is called ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’.
There is also a face mask, and one other product in this scent at this writing.
Big Blue
Review: This is a classic, if not THE classic, Lush product. If I had to use one word to describe this, I’d say “refreshing”. It’s just like the ocean and has a stupifying deep blue color. Big Blue has a strong scent and has been known to make a couple of people headachey but it is totally invigorating and “spa-like” to me. And relaxing too. Big Blue ballistic has been a popular Lush item for years and years for a reason. The only down side is the small seaweed pieces to cleanup but if you really don’t like them you can put the ballistic in a nylon stocking or a giant teaball that you sometimes find in kitchen stores. I like the seaweed because it really is skin softening (so is the sea salt in Big Blue) and I have dry skin so my skin feels really good after a bath with Big Blue.
Notes: “Bubbling Under” was the bubble bar that Lush made to go with Big Blue. Lush’s “Enchanted Island” bath melt also has this same ocean/sea/lavender/lemon scent.
Lush Times 2006 description: Be aware that the Big Blue gives you the full Pacific Ocean experience, complete with strands of mineral rich seaweed (but stopping short of the actual fish). This bright blue Ballistic, topped with a crust of stimulating sea salt gives you a deep turquoise blue bath scented with balancing lavender and stimulating lemon oil to refresh your mind and body almost as much as a holiday by the warm ocean. Bear in mind that the Big Blue is a lot cheaper, there’s no jet lag and you don’t have to eat aeroplane food.
Ingredients: 200g (6.3 oz) $4.75
Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Atlantic Sea Salt Crystals, Perfume, Arame Seaweed, Lemon Oil, Lavender Oil, Seaweed Absolute, FD&C Blue No. 1, FD&C Yellow No. 5.
My scent family pic which is already outdated because a few years after i took the above pic Lush added the things in the list below. 
Here are the Lush products that they have made in the same Big Blue scent. I still have to add the products to my blog for the ones that don’t have a link yet. Theres only so much time in a day.
Big Blue bath bomb 2000
Big Big Blue giant bath bomb 2008
Big Blue Body Conditioner 2014
Bubbling Under bubble bar 2005
Enchanted Island bath melt 2001
Mermaid bath bomb 2004
Relax Take a Bath bubble bar bottle 2020
Here’s a video i made of Big Blue in the tub
‘Relax, Take a Bath’ bubble bottle 2017
Big Blue spray Perfume November 2025
Other products with the Big Blue scent
Big Blue bath bomb 2000
Big Big Blue extra large 2008
Easter Egg Big Blue 2008
Enchanted Island bath melt (not shown) 2004
Bubbling Under bubble bar 2006
Mermaid bath bomb 2009
Big Blue body conditioner 2016
Relax, Take a Bath bubble bottle 2017
Big Blue perfume 2025
Bathpourri
Lush 1999 UK description: Drop a flower garden in your tub.
Ingredients: Marigold, Chamomile, Amaranth petals and Geranium oil.
This is a floral scented ballistic with lots of amaranth flower petals. It’s floral but it’s a bright lightly sweet floral. The Chamomile lends it’s brightness to it so that the floral isn’t too floral, more of a fresh Spring floral scent. I would use this again.
Bathosphere
This was the first producct that Lush had made with the “Bathos” fragrance. Violet and clove. It was green. Years later Lush made a green liquid “Bathos” bubble bath. A couple of years later Lush made the purple bubble bar called “Bathos”.
Vegan
1998 This was a Lush ballistic that was made because of a user contest in which each person submitted a “colour therapy” ballistic idea. Bathosphere won, so did Waving Not Drowning. I believe this was a violet ballistic. (Bathos-sphere)
Avobigbath
Lush Times: The Avobath is one of those ballistics which gets evening people going in the morning, when they would much rather be asleep, so imagine the effect a HUGE one will have. This is an amazingly refreshing Ballistic that smells of stimulating lemongrass. Take a good sniff before you throw it into the bath to revive a sleepy brain. If you absolutely have to get up early and still function as a normal human being, then you need an Avobath a day.
Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Fresh Organic Avocado (Persea gratissima), Extra Virgin Olive Oil (Olea europaea), Lemongrass Oil (Cymbopogon schoenanthus), Bergamot Oil (Citrus Aurantium bergamia), Rosewood Oil (Aniba rosaeodora), *Citral, *Geraniol, *Farnesol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Perfume, Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), Green Glitter (Lustre holly sparkle)
Absolute Delight
Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Rose Absolute (Rosa centifolia), Bergamot Oil (Citrus bergamia), Geranium Bourbon Oil (Pelargonium crispum), Jasmine Absolute (Jasminum officinale), Sandalwood Oil (Santalum album), Perfume, Colour 18050.
Rose that smells a little sweet like candy and is also a powdery rose scent. It’s supposed to smell like the candy “Turkish Delight” and it does, but I still can’t get into this. Is it a floral? Is it candy? It was okay but didn’t really excite me a whole bunch. Pretty pink colored water.
Product description from Early Fall 2003 LT (Hard):
If the Sex Bomb is the ballistic you’d take out on a hot date, then the Absolute Delight is the one you’d want to spend the rest of your life with. It may not be quite so bright and flashy – “obvious” as my gran would have put it – but it is gentle, kind, and lovely, the kind of ballistic you’ll never tire of coming home to. We scent it with Turkish rose absolute, the perfume made from fresh rose petals, with balancing geranium, with a touch of relaxing sandalwood and sesnual jasmine and as it looks a little like Turkish delight (the rose scented sweetie dusted with icing sugar*) we thought that Absolute Delight would be a very appropriate name for it.
From the Festive Christmas Issue 2003 LT (Inhale):
Often when we use the words “absolutely delightful,” we mean “quite nice,” really, but occasionally we find something which really deserves the compliment. If we are being strictly literal about it, the Absolute Delight deserves its name because it is scented with Turkish rose absolute, a perfume made from rose petals. However, we can also justify calling it that because it gives you a truly lovely bathing experience. It’s not full of petals or glitter; it merely makes bath time a gorgeously sensual, relaxing treat which makes you feel wonderful.
Honey Lumps
4 out of 5 rating
See the video i made of Honey Lumps below.
Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate , Citric Acid , Honey, Tangerine Oil, Myrrh Resinoid, Benzoin Resinoid, Limonene , Perfume * Occurs naturally in essential oils.
Review: Honey Lumps is lovely. It is quite similar to the “Honey Comfort” ballistic. Itsnot the same scent as Honey I Washed the Kids. If you liked B Never shower gel or the Honey Waffle soap, then you’ll probably like Honey Lumps as well, it has the same scent. Maybe a bit more orange citrus in it but very close. It’s honeyish and sweet.
I like this just as much as the current Honey Bee ballistic that Lush makes but The two are different, Honey Bee and Honey Lumps don’t smell the same. Honey Lumps ballistics has more of a true honey smell. I miss the scent of my lovely B Never gel, and this is the next best thing.
One tip; make sure the bath water isn’t tepid, make sure it’s nice and warm/hot because you want the honey gobs to melt in the bath water. Yummy….
Video of Honey Lumps
Fizzy O Therapy
Video below:
Review: A spicy smaller ballistic at 95g, the size of butterball bath bomb. Fizzy O has mustard seed and powdered mustard added and all the other warming spices (which accumulated on the bottom of the tub and were kind of scratchy). This was DCd in 2002.
Ingredients: bicarb, citric acid, ginger powder, mustard powder, clove bud, perfume, cinnamon leaf oil, coriander oil.
Lush Times 2002 description: Have you overdone the physical a bit? Fizzy O’Therapy is the one for soothing the sore feet of marathon runners or marathon shoppers, easing the pulled muscles of footballers who’re old enough to know better, relaxing the shoulders after a long day at the word processor….It’s stuffed full of refreshing coriander, stimulating oils of clove and cinnamon plus hot mustard and ginger powder to ease your aching bodies and feet.
Lemon Sherbet Showder
5 out f 5 rating. This is my favorite of the Showders at Oxford Street.
it smells so wonderfully lemony. Not fake lemon but real lemon with just a touch of sweetness. Here’s a video i made of this showder and what it looks like up close
15 minute Video showing what all four look like in close up detail when you wash with them (below) 🙂
Skydancer bath bomb
See my video below of Skydancer in the tub,
Profits from each and every one of these soft floral and liquorice-scented bath bombs will help fund equipment to satellite tag many endangered hen harrier chicks born in the coming years.
With bergamot, Sicilian lemon and cinnamon leaf oils, this bath bomb will take you under its wing and fight wildlife crime in one clean sweep.
List of ingredients
- Sodium Bicarbonate
- Citric Acid
- Cream of Tartar
- Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
- Water (Aqua)
- Bergamot Oil
- Cinnamon Leaf Oil
- Sicilian Lemon Oil
Here’s a video i made of the “Skydancer’ bath bomb in the tub
Washaccino Showder
5 out of 5 rating. See my demo and review video below.
I absolutely LOVE this showder (shower powder) the foaming feels decadent, the smell is yummy!
I loved all the showers but the washaccino (cappuccino) and the lemon were my favorite.
This was exclusive to the Oxford Street superstore in London for about a year.
Here’s a video i made of the Washaccino Showder up close and i wash my hands with it so you can see how it looks.
Below is a photo i took of four of the five Lush showders. They’re all the same consistency and work the same EXCEPT the Life’s a Beach.
Ginger bath oil melt
2 out of 5 rating
See my bath demo video of this below
Ginger is a white gold color, unlike the coppery gold color of one of the other lush bath oils. Ginger is a strong, spicy floral scent. It is not sweet whatsoever. It is a strong floral. Lush has made many products in the past with this same “Ginger” scent. See Ginger soap, Ginger perfume, Ginger lotion, Ginger dusting powder, Ginger man soap, Bad Ass shower gel, Ginger Kat. I have one, and when i use it i will record it and upload the video to you tube and then post it here too.
This is so pretty. Too bad i don’t care for the fragrance of it. Too spicy and too strong of a rose smell.
Here’s a bath demo video i made of this bath oil as it melts.
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