Monthly Archives: September 2015

Bling! toothy tabs

See my video demo below
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Orange and Frankincense

I like the taste of these particular toothy tabs called ‘Bling!’  It’s nice and orange, like a real orange.  Even though there is gold powder on these it doesn’t get your mouth filled with gold dust glitter.  In face when you rinse your mouth after brushing, it’s all gone, just the taste remains. 🙂  These are my favorite tasting of the new shimmery toothy tabs.

Click here to watch a demo of these Bling toothy tabs.

 

See the other new Lush toothy tabs Toothy Fairy, Oral Pleasure, and Limelight.

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Pearl

Pearl Massage bar was made in late 2014 along with four other new massage bars at the time.  Along with everyone else i was excited to have a rose jam scented massage bar.  Just another way to enjoy that rose jam scent.  And there’s something about rubbing in that rose jam, rose and argan oil scent.

Lush Times magazine description: This sweet, floral and fruity smelling bar is made with antioxidant argan oil and calming rose oil, with sago bubbles to massage the skin and help boost circulation. Ah go on, give it a try.

Review: This massage bar has the Ro’s Argan/Rose Jam scent.
I’m glad Lush made a massage bar in this scent. After I take a bath with rose bubbleroon, and wash with scentenary soap, i can rub some massage bar on my arms so i can waft in the rose jam scent. 🙂

List of ingredients
Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter
Sago
Fair Trade Shea Butter
Propylene Glycol
Glycerine
Perfume
Argan Oil
Rose Absolute
Rose Oil
Egyptian Geranium Oil
Lemon Oil
Extra Virgin Coconut Oil

Here’s a video i made of “Pearl” massage bar

Christmas Penguin

I will always have fond memories of him because of actually getting to meet the person at Lush Headquarters who had the idea for making a Christmas Penguin in the first place!  See her talk about Christmas Penguin during my factory tour at the short video below..

I loved this cute little guy.  It has the scent of their “Olive Branch” shower gel.  Lush made a few different products in this scent, ‘Pop in the Bath’ bubble bar is one of them. 🙂

Ingredients: Sodium Carbonate, Cream of Tartar, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Cornflour, Perfume, Bergamot Oil, Sicilian Lemon Oil, Orange Flower Absolute, Sicilian Mandarin Oil.

Lush 2014 Description: P-P-P Pop in a Penguin! This fun bubble bar is modelled on Little Penguins found on Philip Island, Australia – they’re the smallest penguins in the world! Fans of The Olive Branch shower gel will love this exotic product. Its orange flower absolute and Sicilian mandarin oil will refresh and uplift, while cornflour will soften the water. Crumble under running water to create bubbly glaciers and release the bubble crumble to drift over the foam.


Flosty Gritter

5 out of 5 rating

This bubble bar stands out to me as one i would take on a desert island.  See my 3 minute video of it in the tub, it will BLOW your mind. Color, scent, this one has it all.

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Cream of Tartar (Tartaric acid), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Cocamide DEA, Vanilla Absolute (Vanilla planifolia), Clary Sage Oil (Salvia sclarea), Lavender Oil (Lavandula hybrida), Benzoin Resinoid (Styrax benzoin), *Linalool, Colour 45410, Colour 17200, Pink Glitter (Polyethylene terephthalate and Acrylates copolymer).

Lush Description: Sexy vanilla & soothing lavender bubbles with a swirl of pink flosty gritter (as spelled by Noriko).

 

 

 

Review: This is a lovely shade of bright pink. It has pinkish/purple glitter, but not too much. Mine was so soft and squishy and the vanilla milkshake scent of “American Cream” hair conditioner wafted up all around me in the tub. It’s funny how a scent can become better or worse to me depending on what the delivery mechanism of that scent is; bubble bar, soap, hair conditioner, etc. The American Cream scent of Clary sage, vanilla and lavender is so scrummy in bubble bar form. I was struck at how strong the scent was and that people would probably like this bubble bar alot. Flosty is sweet, foody, fresh, herbal, blended in such a wonderful way. And that fact that the bubble bar is covered in fushia glitter doesn’t hurt it’s ratings in my book. I didn’t think Flosty Gritter was going to impress me as much as it did. I also think that this is going to be a huge hit with the majority of Lush buyers. I’m not completly headover heels about the sage that’s in the American Cream scent,  I’m surrounded by sage where I live and it grows wild in our yards. It’s a beautiful plant but the scent of sage isn’t one of my favorite smells.

Intergalactic

See the 3 minute video (below) i made of this stupefying color of water.

Lush description:  Blast off into Funky-This awesome mix will have you hooked on a feeling.  Be the guardian of a galaxy as it explodes in your bath.

5 out of 5 rating.  This is minty smelling, and the dark blue color of the water, and the sparkliness of the water makes my bath look like a galaxy.  A bath bomb can’t get any better than this.

In my below picture is the Lush “Nebula” bath bomb, it is an Intergalactic bath bomb that is twice the size as a regular one. Lush UK for one day only were selling a xxl Sex bomb, an xxl Intergalactic bath bomb, and an xxl Dragon’s Egg bath bomb, XXL Sex Bomb and xxl Rose Jam in UK stores and on the UK retail site. I love when Lush makes those.  They did that many many years ago too one day but with different Lush bath bombs than those I just mentioned. 

This has popping candy, peppermint oil, grapefruit oil, cedarwood oil, and vetivers oil.

Here’s a link to a video i made of the Intergalactic in the water, GORGEOUS shimmer at the very end 🙂

Below is a giant Intergalactic bath bomb which was on display at the 2017 creative showcase event in England. The ‘Nebula’ bath bomb is a XXL Intergalactic bath bomb that is 2x the size of a regular Intergalactic bath bomb. The one in the tub display below at the Creative Showcase was 10x the size of a regular Intergalactic bath bomb. 

Lush Intergalactic bath bomb

Lush Intergalactic bath bomb Easter egg

Lush Intergalactic shower gel

Lush Intergalactic soap

Ludh Intergalactic bubble bar

Lush Intergalactic Lazy Oaf Showder

Lush Nebula bath bomb

Ne Worry Pas

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Soya Milk, Perfume, Bergamot Oil, Jasmine Absolute, Cedarwood Oil, *Limonene, *Linalool, Titanium Dioxide.

2006 Review: What a lovely smelling ballistic. It’s so violet-y and pretty but not too strong a violet. I love the shiny satin-like purple stuff in the middle, great color. It made kind of a sandy colored water with such a creamy consistency.

Reminds me of a milk bath. Must be because Lush puts soy milk in this.

If you combine this with a Bathos bubble bar which is purple, and has violet oil in it, that would be a great pairing. Maybe wash you hair with some violet-y Lush DaddyO shampoo, and then a light spritz of Lush “V” perfume should send you on your way to Violet Valhalla. I think this could be a classic Lush bomb.

2015 Review:  I like this as much as i liked it when it came out originally.  It’s a milky violet and it’s a slow, silent fizzer, it’s just lovely. A milky color with the little purple dot of color adding a last minute drop of color in the middle of all the creamy white color.

Lush 2006 description: You can just imagine the looks on the faces of all the Lush ballistic makers when they found out that as well as stirring the mixture, scooping it out and putting it into the two halves of the mold, that they also had to put in a miniscule magic grotto into each one! Fortunately, as Ne Worry Pas is scented with soothing bergamot oil and jasmine essential oils they’ll be smiling despite themselves. The plan is this: take your Ne Worry Pas, whisper your worries into the grotto, then let them fizz away into the milky (soya) bath water. After a lovely refreshing bath, they’ll disappear down the plughole forever!

Here’s a video i made of what Ne Worry Pas looks like in the tub for you 🙂

Lemon Days and Ginger Beer

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Lemon Peel, Powdered Ginger, Perfume, Ginger Oil,  Mimosa Absolute, Red Mandarin Oil, Sandalwood Oil, Geranium Oil , Bergamot Oil, Gardenia Extract , Colour 19140.

Review: This ballistic was discontinued about as quickly as it came out. Loads of people liked it on the forum but I guess it just didn’t sell at all and was pulled a few months after introduction. It smells like the perfume Ginger, highly floral rose but it has a strong lemony top note also. I wouldn’t normally like this combo but Lush also includes Sandalwood, Mimosa (like is in 17 Cherry Tree Lane soap and Sakura ballistic) , and also some red mandarin oil. So while i don’t hate it, i don’t love it either. It’s quite strong when fresh and the red mandarin orange oil and sandalwood is covered up by the fresh ginger and lemon scent, but when this ballistic mellows a bit it’s lovely. It makes bright yellow water.  3 stars.

Lush Times 2004 Description: How about a jolly bathtime adventure with lashings of ginger and lemon? Drop into a pre-run bath for a refreshing ginger fizz and lemonade experience.

Here’s a video i made of this bath bomb in the tub

 

 

Celebrate shower gel

4 out of 5

Ingredients: Ingredients: Elderflower Infusion (Sambucusnigra),water (Aqua), Sodium Alkyl Sulfate, Sodium LaurethSulfate, Fine Sea Salt, Cocamide MEA, GlycerylStearate& PEG 100 Stearate, LaurylBetaine, Glycol Cetearate, Perfume, Propylene Glycol, Organic Jojoba Oil (Simmondsiachinensis), Sweet Orange Oil (Citrus sinensis), Cognac Oil (Vitisvinifera), Lime Oil (Citrus aurantifolia), *Limonene, *Linalool, Methylparaben, Propylparaben
* Occurs naturally in essential oils

Lush has made various things in this scent over the years since 1999 or 2000. They always advertised it as smelling like fizzy champagne or fizzy grapefruit soda. The previous name for Celebrate was ‘Champagne Snow Showers’.

Lush has made a shower gel called ‘Bubbly’ for a couple of years for Christmas with the same Celebrate scent. Also for Christmas 2025 lush is selling a shower gel called ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ that is made in the same scent. (Not to be confused with the shower gel called just ‘Merry Christmas’, which is a different scent entirely/chocolate cherry).

Also, Lush has made a bath bomb for Christmas 2025 called ‘Golden Wonder’, with the same scent.

 So if you’ve tried these you’ll know what Celebrate smells like.

Here’s a short video showing the consistency and shimmer of this shower gel.

 

 

 

Maypole soap

This soap is one of my favorites, because of the way it looks and smells.

I like the play on the words Maypole and Maple.

I love the whimsical look of this soap most of all!

The Maple syrup in Maypole goes perfectly with the mint.   The scent is fun, and uplifting.

Below is how the soap in the stores looked.

I cut this cylindrical piece into halves. So it looks like there is a piece of watermelon in my soap dish.  🙂

It’s not a strong maple smell, it just makes the mint subley sweeter which is nice. To me it smells more minty than mapley.

 lush has made a Maypole Body Lotion also as an exclusive limited edition for July 24. you can see it in the photo i took below. Its so good and smells just like the soap.

See what this looks like up close and what the lush catalog says about it in my 3 minute video here

Ice Flower shower gummy, hidden inside the ‘Yoshi Egg’ bath bomb, in the Super Mario Galaxy collab

I was told that Another product with this scent is the Lush Christmas ‘Salt and Peppermint bark’ body scrub.

Lush ‘Hey Hollywood’ bath bomb has the same scent.

Cyanide Pill

4 out of 5 rating

See my demo video below.  Initially Cyanide Pill has a fruity creamy, comforting kind of scent, then comes a bitter almond note, almost makes me wrinkle my nose.  Luckily I smell a vague cherryish note too.

There is a silver glitter in the middle of this yellow bath bomb, which disperses into the water and looks pretty and glittery.  Lush North America made a soap in 2015 called “Hands of Friendship’ which shares it’s scent with the Cyanide Pill. Lush also made a bath bomb called ’13 States’ with the same scent. I took a pic of them below. Additionally Lush also made a silver bath oil called “Delight” (I took a pic below) in the same scent.

A picture of the yellow, pink and silver bath bomb foam in the water.

When Lush had a gallery space built to introduce their new Gorilla III range of perfumes from their new “Death and Decay” series, they had a gallery room for each perfume they were introducing, including site and sound to match the perfume.  Cyanide perfume was one of the gallery displays.  However Lush never released the Cyanide perfume, turns out they only used the scent for the gallery display.  We’re told that this new Cyanide pill bath bomb has the scent of that Gorilla III ‘Cyanide’ gallery room.  I’ll have to try another one to make sure but i’m not sure i like the smell of this one. 2015 3.50 gpb / $5.75

Turns out I dont hate it, but i dont love it. It sure is cute though, looking like a cyanide pill.

I took this picture below of the two Pills that Lush has made over the years. 😊

The Lush bath oil in my picture below called ‘Delight‘ has the same scent.

These bath bombs below, including Cyanide Pill, were first introduced in 2014, at the time they were exclusive to the Lush Oxford Street Superstore.

Lush description: Slide into the danger zone
Caution! This intoxicating almond bomb should wear a warning sign. Detonate in water for a mercury silver slick.

Here i show it dissolving to show the silver in the middle.

Ingredients:  popping candy, perfume, silver glimmer lustre, lemon oil, cedar wood oil, rosewood oil, almond essential oil.

Here’s my youtube video of what Cyanide Pill looks like in the tub. 🙂

Dragon’s Temple bath oil bauble has the same scent as Cyanide Pill

The silver Lush bath oil in my picture below called ‘Delight‘ has the same scent as Cyanide Pill.

These products in my photo below; Lush ’13 states’ bath bomb, and Lush ‘hands of friendship’ soap are also in the same scent as Cyanide Pill.

Lavender La Vida Loca (formerly ‘Serendipity’)

Original 5 out of 5

Recent 3.5 out of 5 rating

Here’s the rectangular shape they are now, from the Lush (USA) Kitchen January 2026 Subscription box. Not quite as colorful and not quite as strongly scented.

on its side

This is the most current Lavender La Vida Loca soap which was made and included in the January 2026 Lush Kitchen Subscription box. The theme was ‘Dreamland’.

Its looks different than the original (UK) Lavender La Vida Loca/Serendipity soap. Its rectangular. It doesn’t smell quite as strong as the pieces i’ve had before. It’s hard to smell anything from it.

French Lavender and Chamomile

‘Don’t leave sweet dreams to chance. Try this skin soothing lavender and chamomile lullaby.’

Here’s the lovely piece i got.  It doesn’t have the sweet tonka note as Twilight.  It’s more of a true lavender scent, matching the “Golden Slumbers’ bath bomb. 

This soap is made into a long pole shape.  And then Lush slices pieces off cross-wise.  Pretty pink purple outter and lavender purple inside. Even though it’s glycerine based, It’s a creamy soap.

Ingredients:  Glycerine, rapeseed oil, lavender flower infusion, french lavender oil, water, dried lavender stem, chamomile blue oil, lavender absolute.

A “Golden Slumbers’ bath bomb would go well with this as both are lavender scented.   “dreamtime” bath oil would go well with this also.

 

 

 

 

 

Mechanic soap

3 out of 5 rating


An exfoliating Pumice soap to remove ingrained dirt.


Cold-pressed means no heat was used to bind the fresh ingredients together.

The lack of heat helps the oils retain all of their fragrance and fresh nutrients.

Granny Takes a Dip bubble bar

April 2015 – My Video of this below

Debuting at their Oxford Street store in London, and then coming to UK and US stores a month later, this comes at a time when lush were discontinuing their bath bomb of the same name.

I like the bath bomb more than the bubble bar.  There was a whole show involved with the bath bomb.  An unfurling of psychedelic beauty.  Whereas the bubble bar crumbles into the huge amount of bubbles, which is good, after all it is a bubble bar.  But i like the :show” of the bath bomb a bit more.  Dunno if i’ll buy this one again.  The scent wasn’t as strong as i remember the bath bomb to be.  It is a gorgeous looking bubble bar though.

Lush Description:  This ginger, pepper and lemon-scented bubble bar turns your water psychedelic and puts some colour in your life. Simply crumble underneath the running tap to create grounding, spicy bubbles. Its spicy, citrusy scent will pep you up: lemon oil boosts the mood, while ginger and pepper are warming.

I took t pic below of the Granny bath bomb and the bubble bar together.

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List of ingredients
Lemon Oil, Black Pepper Oil, Ginger Oil
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Here’s a video i made for you

Old Father Time soap

See my video demo below

This   soap has thyme, sage and currants, and the fragrance is new, having myrrh, rosewood and opopomax.  Tangy, fruity, herbal, earthy… I can’ stop sniffing this soap.  The myrrh and the rosewood combo is calming to me.  There’s a tiniest iota of sweetness from the myrrh, just enough to make it intriguing. Old school Lushies may like the earthy, blending of resinous, herbal, floral notes. I think of this as having a gender-neutral scent,

Lush description: It’s the time of the year for lathering earthy and herbal fresh sage and thyme infusion with festive, juicy redcurrants over skin. This mystical soap with precious myrrh resinoid is sure to set the cogs in motion to take you from Christmas into the new year in style.

  

List of ingredients

 

Here’s a video where i show a piece of Old Father Time soap

Yoga Bomb

5 out of 5 rating.

see my tub demo video below 😊

This is quite lovely in the tub, having many colors like a rainbow, ultimately turning the bath a golden hue.

Lush catalog description:  Take it Slow.Find sanctuary in slow, unfurling layers of deeply relaxing olibanum and ho wood.cassie absolute, olibanum, ho wood oil, sandalwood, shimmer lustre.

3.75 gap / $5.65

Here’s a video i made of the Yoga Bomb in the tub

I love the meditative scent, the rainbow of colors and the golden shimmer in the water. I would buy more than one of these, so i would rate this bath bomb a 5 out of 5 rating.

Yogs Bomb body spray came out a couple of years later, along with other exclusive body sprays.


Devil’s Nightcap

3 out of 5 rating

if youve ever tried the Black Phoenix perfume called ‘Graveyard Dirt’ that is close to what Devils Nightcap smells like.

The same fragrance as one of my favorite Lush perfumes “Devil’s Nightcap”.

oakmoss, ylang ylang, clary sage, oakwood.

Firstly, I love the clay consistency in this soap, it reminds me of the classic lush soap called “Middle Earth turns to rock’ (changed to Waylander rasshoul), except Devil’s Nightcap is more perfume-y with the ylang ylang

Having the scent of Lush “Devil’s Nightcap’ perfume, The clary sage gives a bitter note that works really well with the earthy, woodylushDevil'sNightcapWiki and perfumey floral notes.  I think this soap has a love it or hate it scent.  I’ve read people who LOVE this and people who Hate this, there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground.  I love it, it evokes an earthy, almost brooding, darkly feminine scent.

This soap was made in 2014, along with other soaps, for the grand opening of the first Lush Oxford Street Superstore.

It’s cool looking with the oakmoss hanging all over the soap.  They say you can use the oakmoss as an exfoliant, however i pick it off before i use it.

Its scent stays on the skin for hours.

Lush description:  Sympathy for the Devil

Scrub your sins away with this raw and earthy oakmoss and oakwood soap.

Big Bang

Here’s a link to a youtube video I made of the “Big Bang” bubble bar in the tub.  I like the bright, sweet citrus smell, and the colors of the blue bar itself, and the pink bath melt part in the middle…It’s irresistable to anyone, and everyone.

Lush description:  It started with a bang – Start baths off with a lemon myrtle bang. Lie back and think of the universe.

I took pictures of two different bars. The pink melty part melted on the one in the photos below, but it looks kind of cool.

Ingredients:  Avocado butter, perfume, grapefruit oil, organic lemon myrtle oil, tangerine oil, extra virgin olive oil (bath melt), rice syrup.