Monthly Archives: September 2015

93,000 Miles

4 out of 5

spicy. Cinnamon and mint. Just like Lush Wiccy Magic muscles bar, Lush Marathon bubble bar and the Lush ‘Knock Out bubble bar’.

see my one minute demo video of it below

After your muscles have been hitting the running tracks, have a run-in with this invigorating eucalyptus and mint jelly. Whether you like it fast or slow, whether you’ve completed a marathon or mastered a sprint finish this bright wobbly jelly will loosen aches and pains and send lingering cramp on its way. Take it straight out of the freezer and into the shower to enjoy the energising power of invigorating peppermint and warming spicy cinnamon leaf oils.

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 Wiccy Magic Muscles massage bar 2001-2010

2006

Knockout bubble bar

2018

List of ingredients
Eucalyptus and Peppermint infusion, Cinnamon Leaf Oil, Peppermint Oil

My demo and how to video

 

 

Lord of Misrule shower cream

5 out of 5 rating

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One of the lush shower gels which came here to North America September 18, 2015.  These 3  shower gels including Lord of Misrule, Don’t Rain on my Parade, and Beautiful,  debuted at lush new “Superstore” on Oxford Street in London.

This shower cream is a more moisturizing, creamy shower gel, in the popular Lord of Misrule fragrance.  Black pepper, vanilla and patchouli.  This is a nice way of having the LOM scent.  There are also two more Oxford street new products having this same scent (see Aliens and Monsters fun bar), LOM find the gap bar,  and Rough With the Smooth bar, as well as the Lord of Misrule bath bomb, and the LOM perfume.   Just for fun I made a photo of all these together (below).This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is img_4801-1.jpg

 

It’s called a shower cream instead of a shower gel because it has extra moisturizing properties such as wheatgerm oil, etc.

I love this.  I’ve even washed my hair with this.  Because the scent stays a good long time on my skin or hair.

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Below are two pictures i took of the scent family products.

 

Here’s a picture of the Lord of Misrule display at lush Oxford Street.  They have four sizes at the Oxford street location

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Here are the Lush products which are in the same scent family

Aliens and Monsters FUN multi purpose bar

Lord of Misrule bath bomb

Lord of Misrule body conditioner

Lord of Misrule body lotion

Lord of Misrule body spray

Lord of Misrule perfume spray and solid perfume

Lord of Misrule scent family

Lord of Misrule shower gel

Mind the Gap Lord of Misrule FUN bar

Rough With the Smooth body scrub

 

Here’s a video i made of this up close

Aliens and Monsters

Green, red and purple.  5.oo gpb / $7.70

Made with the popular Lush “Lord of Misrule” scent;  vanilla, black pepper and patchouli.

This fun bar was made to smell like the Lush ‘Lord of Misrule’ bath bomb. Lush has also made a Lord of Misrule shower cream, another Fun multi-purpose bar called Mind the Gap-Lord of Misrule fun bar, a square “Rough With the Smooth” cocoa butter body scrub, and a Lord of Misrule perfume.

Here’s a collaboration video i  made showing how to use the fun bar.

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Lord of Misrule bath bomb

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The Halloween 2021 Lord of Misrule is returning but with a new look!

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My Tub Video 

 

 

Original Lord of Misrule bath bomb 2014-2021

This is the product that started the whole “Lord of Misrule” craze. It’s hard to describe this one.  I can smell the black pepper and then a yummy creamy vanilla note, like the Lord of Misrule himself, full of discord and disorderly conduct. At once lushious and treacherous.  It’s so so different, and it’s addictive.

Slightly sweet and yummy but with an earthy, peppery side.

Lush has also made a Lord of Misrule shower cream, a couple of a Fun multi-purpose bar, a square “Rough With the Smooth” cocoa butter body scrub, Lord of Misrule perfume, and othersIngredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Popping Candy, Cream of Tartar, Black Pepper Oil, Patchouli Oil, Fair Trade Vanilla Absolute, Lauryl Betaine, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Gardenia Extract, *Limonene, Perfume, Colour 17200, Colour 42090, Colour 19140

Description: This bath bomb, named after the ruler of the Pagan Feast of Fools, has a strange and magnificent fragrance created by Gorilla Perfumer Simon Constantine. This bomb will slowly dissolve to reveal a wine coloured centre, with the added sweetness of the world’s first fair trade vanilla absolute, perfectly balanced by the earthy scents of black pepper and patchouli oil.

The design of this bomb is inspired by the paper hats you find inside Christmas crackers, which were originally based on the crown the Lord of Misrule would wear whilst he presided over the court. Arriving at Halloween, the Lord of Misrule will be gracing us with his presence until the first signs of spring. Here’s a photo of the color the water ultimately turns when it’s all done fizzing. See Video below



Here’s a video i made of it in the tub, it’s cool.

Here are the Lush products which are in the same scent family

Aliens and Monsters FUN multi purpose bar

Lord of Misrule bath bomb

Lord of Misrule body conditioner

Lord of Misrule body lotion

Lord of Misrule body spray

Lord of Misrule perfume spray and solid perfume

Lord of Misrule scent family

Lord of Misrule shower gel

Mind the Gap Lord of Misrule FUN bar i have this but havent moved it here from my old blog

Rough With the Smooth body scrub

Fern Shui

DC’ed 1999

VEGAN:

4 out of 5

Ingredients: bicarb, citric acid, perfume, lemon oil, lemongrass oil, litsea cubeba oil, fern (aspidum s.p.), lemongrass, lime leaves, gardenia extract


Lush 1999 description: A fresh, tangy but mellow bomb full of ferns and pieces of lemon grass, reminscent of a walk through a forest. As the water runs away you can read the pattern which the fern leaves make on the bath, like reading your fortune in tea leaves in the bottom of a cup. This is Lush’s homage to daft fads. It is scented with delightful lemon grass oil, which we shall continue to use long after the current trend for sticking it in every dish in astonishingly expensive London restaurants has long since been forgotten.

I was surprised at how much plant material thereis in this bath bomb. It definitely lives up to it’s name. Tons of plant stuff.
Alsosurprising to me is the smell. I love the smell. It’s not like anything i’ve smelled before bath bomb wise. It’s fresh, lemongrass and the pleasant smell of greenery. The first time i used this bath bomb i didn’t use anything to contain the pieces of ferns. The second time i used this is got a small kitchen strainer and put the bomb in there so i got just the water, not the plants.

Frog Prince bath bomb

It was made a couple of times once called Frog Prince and once called Leap Frog.

Not to be confused with the Frog Prince shower jelly of the same name that has a different smell than the bath bomb (that jelly has the Prince Charming shower gel scent)

5 out of 5 ratingSee video below.  Also see “Leap Frog” bath bomb, same bomb, different names.This was first made for Valentine’s in the 2009-2011 time frame.

 

I absolutely love everything about this bath bomb.  It’s super cute, and the smell is great, and the water is a nice color when he fizzes away.  The scent stays on my skin longer than most bath bomb scent. It’s a floral.  It’s a multiple floral.  Good Lush floral blends are fewer then the fruity or candy scents from Lush, and this is a nice floral.

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Cocoa Butter, Almond Oil, Jasmine Absolute, Rose Absolute , Ylang Ylang Oil.

There is a Leap Frog perfume too. Lots of us Lushies begged lush to make a perfume from the bath bomb scent because it’s so amazing, and they did make one!

 

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Lush Times: Another magical creation by Michelle, Frog Prince is an extremely handsome and regal frog with a pair of vibrantly red and kissable lips. Give him a quick peck, drop him in the tub and wait for your prince to come. Simon’s new fragrance is an aphrodisiac blend with sweet undertones; he used jasmine, neroli and rosewood to create a sensual fragrance for those longing for their prince – or princess – to come. It’s not all about the fragrance with this one, it’s also brimming with cocoa butter and almond oil for a luxuriously moisturising soak.


Spacegirl

5 out of 5 rating

See my tub demo video below

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Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Grapefruit Oil, Bergamot Oil , Almond Oil, Propylene Glycol, Colour 15510, Mulit-Coloured Glitter (Polyethylene terephthalate), Fizzy Candy.

Lush Times: Here comes a ballistic of astronomical proportions. We were inspired by The Imagined Village’s intriguing interpretation from their second album, Empire & Love. It’s shaped like Saturn with added space dust for our alien friends, and the refreshing scent of blackcurrant sweeties will make you hungry for your own space adventures. Space Girl is stellar, just remember your blaster and your freezer gun.

 The Space Girl bath bomb smells so fruity and slightly sweet.

Lush made six other products later in the same scent: the Goth Fairy Massage bar, The Dinosaur Egg bath bomb, Very Very Frightening shower gel, I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas, Space Girl, and the 2020 Stargazer bubble bar.

Lush Stargazer bubble bar

Bad Batz Maru soap

As it fizzes it makes a red and purple water, and it has a pretty light blue glitter in the water.

it also leaves a red comet effect on the bottom of the tub which is awesome.

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Video

 

 

Uluru

5 out of 5 – Video of this in the tub below.

This was wildly popular with Lushies back in it’s day.

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Atlantic Sea Salt (Sodium chloride), Orange Oil (Citrus dulcis), Desert Rosewood Oil (Aniba rosaeordoro), Lemon Myrtle Oil (Myrtus communis), Eastern Sandalwood Oil (Santalum album), Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), Colour 18050.

Review: This is sexy, incense-y, citrus scent. Uluru has many layers to it’s beauty. It’s feminine, citrussy and bright smelling, then you notice the water is bright pink, then you notice swirls of orange and these two swirling colors mix to form a lovely deep coral colored water.

There’s also the sensual smell of the rose wood (somewhat similar to sandalwood) that wafts up to your nose and makes me say “Mmmm…”. Nice layers to this scent, hence, a wildly popular bath bomb in it’s day. I like the color, it’s an original color like not other ballistic Lush has made.

Lush Times 2004 description: For sheer, breathtaking beauty you’d be hard pressed to beat an Australian desert sunset, with wild pinks and oranges filling the sky as the sun sets over the raw landscape.Attempting to capture this beauty in a Bath Ballistic is something that only the most imaginative (or nutty) of people would attempt. Fortunately, one Mo Constantine is that woman! While her lad was off on his gap year travels in Australia, Mo made the Uluru inspired by a photograph in a book he sent home. It’s taken a while to get the Ayers Rock perfected as we wanted the exact fragrance to match the wild orange and pink colours. Eventually (and it’s worth the wait, believe us) we arrived at the ideal combination of Australian sandalwood and desert rosewood oils, with lemon myrtle, orange and a bunch of unusual (secret) fragrances to capture the feeling we wanted. Close your eyes and imagine the calming, soothing but uplifting feeling of watching the sun set over the desert; now imagine that recreated in the bath! Those with a lot of imagnation will now want to be buying a few Ayers Rocks to experience the feeling. Those with not much had better buy a few to see what we mean.

Uluru, in Australia, also called Ayer’s rock.

Lush made an exclusive shower gel too on we time.

Beautiful shower gel

4 out of 5 rating

See video i did of pouring this below.

‘Beautiful’ is one of the new lush shower gels  which have come here to Lush North America.  These 3  shower gels including Lord of Misrule, Don’t Rain on my Parade, and Beautiful,  debuted at lush new “Superstore” on Oxford Street in London.

 

For those of you who remember lush B boutique in London in 2006, this has the scent of their 1000 Kisses Deep fragrance

peach, gardenia, carrageenan, labdamun, apricot, osmanthus and myrrh.

Lush Kitchen online Description: ‘If you feel anything less than a vision of loveliness in the morning, this peachy keen shower gel is the one for you. A blend of warming and exotic myrrh resinoid brings a sensual musk to the sunny perfume of fresh peach juice and dried apricots, and feels sensationally soft on the skin. Adorn yourself in the rich, creamy lather of this warm, floral tonic to feel gorgeous, inside and out. 1000 Kisses from us to you..’

.Heres a video i made of this

Fox in the Flowers

Vegan $5.75 6.3oz

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Roman Chamomile Flower, Rosebuds, Blue Mallow Flowers, Lime Tree Flowers , Lavender Absolute , Nettle Absolute , Lavendin Absolute ), Chlorophyllin.

 

Review: The Fox smells like grass when you smell it dry. Once it’s in the tub, it’s green smelling and fresh with a lovely pale green water color. The deep reddish-pink flower buds also help to make it look like a fairy bath.  Some people thought it was boring and didn’t like all the brown flower bits in the water, that’s probably because it wasn’t fresh.    I think alot of my pining is because Lush discontinued this so quickly I only got a chance to try two. I would love to try a fresh one again.

Luckily the lush Kitchen online made this in 2014 and 2015.

When it was originally sold some people thought this ballistic was just “meh”.   I believe it was a case where the other ballistics that were sold at the same time as this one just were more colorful with more “wow” factor. I think the Fox kind of got lost in the background and didn’t get a fair shot.

 

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Lush times 2005 description: It’s been a while since we launched a flowery Ballistic so it was high time for a new one, however, the Fox in the Flowers does not have what you’d call a typical floral scent. It’s more like a meadow with grass growing knee high and wild flowers towering above it, or possibly the smell of a very smart florist’s shop. There is much greenery in this scent; much of it comes from the chlorophyll in it, the stuff which makes leaves green. A Fox in the Flowers bath smells green like cut grass, wild flowers, and woodlands. Take one to your bath when you want to feel like Maid Marion washing in a shady pool ready for Robin to get back from a hard day’s wealth redistribution.

Here’s a demo video i made of Fox in the Flowers

Love and Light

See my 4 minute video demo and review below 🙂  7.95 gbp/$12.25 100g or 14.95 gpb/$22.00 250g

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Debuted in April 2015 This smells like orange blossom and neroli, not orange. It’s light and doesn’t leave a film like some thicker hand creams do.
As far as perfumes, if it came down to two, i like Frozen’s scent as a perfume more than love and light, i explain why in this 4 minute video i made of Love and Light hand cream up close.

Frozen bath bomb

There is also a ‘Frozen’ bubble bar, but they smell nothing alike and they look different.

OMG this Frozen bath bomb what a gorgeous bath bomb!  See my short video clip of it below. This shares its beautiful scent with Lush “Happy Happy Joy Joy” and a couple of other lush products.The scent is grapefruit, neroli, and rose.

The scent is so beautiful that many Lushies asked Lush to make this into perfume, which Lush did available for one day only.

I had a lush solid bath oil called ‘Shark Infested Custard’ which is yellow, after the Frozen bath bomb dissolved in the water. And the look of the yellow amidst all the blue looked so pretty.

When the yellow Lush bath oil began to melt it looked like a painting of yellow and blue in the water. 😍

Here’s Frozen fizzing in my tub.

The blue water that this bomb makes is like NO other blue lush item.  I don’t think Lush has made any other product in this particular shade of blue.

Some more pics i took of another frozen bomb i bought that i used on another day.

Review: The fragrance of this bath bomb surprised me.  I thought because it was called “Frozen” it might be minty.  Instead this is a Gorgeous floral with citrus notes. Rose, Neroli, Grapefruit.

It has the lscent as Lush “Happy Happy Joy Joy” shampoo and the Lush ‘shine so bright” hair styling balm. Frozen bath bomb has silver shimmer in the water which does leave an ever so light sheen on the skin after the bath. The water is an incredible bright sky blue color.

I tried to show the silver sparkle in the sky blue water.

Lush description:  Let it go – This magical blend of uplifting grapefruit, tunisian neroli, rose oil.

Heres a scent family photo i took of lush things in the same scent that i had purchased throughout the years.

Lush also made a bubble bar a couple of years later for Mother’s Day called ‘Your Mother Should Know’ which has the same scent.

Happy Happy Joy Joy was a Lush hair conditioner.

Lush made a spray perfume of frozen and a sid perfume.

See my video of this gorgeous bath bomb below.

Many years later Lush made another product in this same scent family which is a body lotion made for their January 2025 monthly subscription box.

Respect Your Elders

5 out of 5 rating

See my short video below, berries!

I love this soap, it smells like elderberries more than elderflower.  It has a black coating and the interior soap color is a gorgeous purple! This soap is right up my alley.

It smells like sweet berries, it smells yummy. It’s not strongly sweet, it’s a just right kind of sweet.

Elderberries

Elderflowers

Elder Berry Wine

Making wine from elderberries is a thing. It’s kind of a cordial.

 For Christmas 2016 Lush made three Fun bars. ONE OF THEM CALLED snakes and Ladders had rhe same scent as Lush ‘Respect Your Elders’ soap.

LushrespectyourelderssoapMC

Honey I Washed the Kids perfume liquid

Description: Lush International (UK) has a party/contest for forum members. In this one in 2005, we were allowed to all vote for our favorite Lush products scent to be made for forum members into a Lush perfume, for that one time only. HIWTK won as well as Snowcake, Silky Underwear, American Cream, Potion and Fever. These were available in either 30g or 60g, in lovely Lush perfume bottles.

Ingredients of the HIWTK scent: $40.00 30g or $60.00 for 60g
Honey (Mel), Aloe Vera Extract (Aloe barbadensis), Sweet Orange Oil (Citrus dulcis), Bergamot Oil (Citrus bergamia), Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides),

Review: This Lush perfume smells exactly like the Lush Honey I Washed Kids soap that they made it to smell like. Lush made this perfume with the same ingredients that HIWTK has, sweet orange oil, etc for the yummy toffee scent. The scent of HIWTK seems to be stronger in the perfume than any of the other HIWTK products. It lasts longer than I thought it would on my skin. While I do like HIWTK soap and ballistic, I’m not a rabid fan of the fragrance like some folks are. But that said, the perfume is the perfect thing to get if you are a rabid fan of the HIWTK scent.

Here’s a video i made of it

American Cream perfume

3 1/2 out of 5 rating

Shimmy Shimmy sparkly massage bar was the originating product in this scent family. Later Lush made many different products called ‘American Cream’, and all of these originated from the scent of Shimmy Shimmy massage bar. Vanilla, Lavender, and Sage.

American Cream Perfume

I bought these in 2005

Ingredients: Honey Water (Mel, Aqua), Vanilla Pod Infusion (Vanilla planifolia), Propylene Glycol, Fresh Oranges (Citrus dulcis), Fresh Strawberries (Fragaria vesca), Perfume, Lanolin, Cetearyl Alcohol, Vanilla Absolute (Vanilla planifolia), Clary Sage Oil (Salvia sclarea), Lavender Oil (Lavandula hybrida) Benzoin Resinoid *

Description: Lush International (UK) has a party/contest for forum members. In this one in 2005, we were allowed to all vote for our favorite Lush products scent to be made for forum members into a Lush perfume, for that one time only. HIWTK won as well as Snowcake, Silky Underwear, American Cream, Potion and Fever. These were available in either 30g or 60g, in lovely Lush perfume bottles.
$40.00 30g or $60.00 for 60g

Perfume Oil

This is my Lush American Cream perfume oil.

4 out of 5 ratung. The scent is more concentrated in the perfume oil form. Its more yummy. 😊👍🏼

Review: This is one Lush perfume that lasts, you don’t have to re-apply like Potion say, HIWTK or Prince. I’m not complety nuts about the American Cream scent. I mean I like it, snd I use it. But it’s not like my favorite scent combo of all time so this would make it a three and 1/2 rating. This perfume did however get me more into the American Cream scent, and the perfume’s scent does last longer than most. 3 1/2 out of 5 rating.

Here’s a short video i made showing american cream perfume

These are all American Cream scent family products in my picture below.