Monthly Archives: January 2017

Love (soap)

This is what the ‘regular’ Love soap looked like.

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Here is the Christmas 2007 version

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The lush Kitchen will be making this soap once again in 2017.  The Lush Kitchen Love soap will not look like this one, this is a Christmas Love soap. The regular Love soap was

This is a soap i bought from a Lush sister company, the ‘B Never Too busy To Be Beautiful boutique, in 2007

Here’s the current soap
The fragrance is a fruity floral scent.  It has a sweet scent, initially smelling a bit like cinnamon and lemon.  However there’s an apple-y note here as well.  This fruity combo is combined with the heady florals of Rose and Jasmine. It’s very fragrant.

Here is the most current one which was made for the lush kitchen monthly subscription box month of June 2025

If you’ve tried the Lush “Gay is OK” or the Lush “Lonely Heart‘ bubble bar, then you’ll know what the Love soap smells like.

Le Grande Amour

It’s a giant ‘Tisty Tosty’ bath bomb

5 out of 5 rating

Fast fizzer

This one is from 2008

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This one is from 2017

Smells like a powdery rose scent, and this bath bomb has real pink rosebuds in it.

Lush Times: A seriously large love spell ballistic. In 1995 the Tisty Tosty appeared for Valentine’s Day, but not in the Lush Times, in that other esteemed publication, The Guardian. In 2008, Mo decided that it was time to celebrate our thirteen year relationship by turning it into a Big Love, Le Grand Amour, by making a really large one. It’s every bit as beautiful as the Tisty Tosty with the love spell, the scent and the rosebuds – and it’s massive!

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Seven Rosebuds (Rosa centifolia), Rose Absolute (Rosa damascena), Orris Root Powder (Iris florentina), *Limonene, Perfume

Lush Kitchen Menu Previews January 23-27

Jan 23-27

Fall head over heels with us next week, we’re bringing a whole lotta love!💝 Think jasmine, think rose and think lashings of vegan dark choccie.

I’ll get the rest on here tomorrow and sunday.

Monday
Frog Prince Bath Bomb £3.95 demo Vid
Le Grande Amour Bath Bomb £8.25
Love Soap £4.50

Tuesday
Sexxx Bomb Bath Bomb £10.50/$12.80
The Joy Of Jelly Shower Jelly £8.50/$10.36
The Ex Factor Bath Bomb £3.75/$4.57

Wednesday
Fever Massage Bar £6.95/$8.47
Mirror Mirror Neck Cream £9.95/$12.13

Thursday
Elixir Bath Melt £4.25/$5.18
Two Hearts Beating As One Shower Gel 500g £19.95/$24.31

Friday
White Wedding Bath Bomb £4.25/$5.18
Heavenilli Massage Bar £7.95/$9.69

Here’s a my Lush Kitchen Menu previews video of next week’s products.

Ol Blue Skies is Back

4 out of 5 rating

This is a picture of the original in 2005.

Great silvery blue shimmer to this shower gel.

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This is a shower gel version of the popular in-stores solid bubble bar called “Blue Skies and Fluffy White Clouds’. It has the same exact ingredients of the blue skies bubble bar and the blue skies liquid bubble bath.  Cinnamon, Patchouli and Frankincese.  Earthy, spicy and incensey.

This is what the 2016 and 2021 ones from the Lush.co.uk/kitchen look like.

Again this is the orginal 2005 version

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Ingredients: Fresh Lemon Infusion (Citrus limonum), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Lauryl Betaine, Cocamide DEA, Patchouli Oil (Pogostemon cablin), Glycol Cetearate, Cinnamon Leaf Oil (Cinnamomum cassia), Frankincense Oil (Boswellia carterii), Sea Salt (Sodium chloride), *Eugenol, *Limonene, Perfume, Colour 42090, Snowflake Lustre Sparkle, Methylparaben, Propylparaben. * Occurs naturally in essential oils.

Lush 2006 Description: Our legendary patchouli, frankincense and cinnamon shower gel returns for one season only.

Gold, Frankincense and Beer

5 out of 5 rating see my demo video below

See my demo video below 😄 

What a great Lush shower jelly.  

VERY popular with Lushies.

It smells orangey and spicy with clove, cinnamon black pepper, and star anise, while having a stout note and a frankincense note.  I LOVE this jelly.

It’s gold and sparkly.

Here’s a picture i took of mine years ago

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And here’s a newer photo of mine


Ingredients: Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Glycerine, Stout (Beer), Mandarin and Star Anise Infusion (Citrus nobilis, Illicium verum), Propylene Glycol, Mandarin Juice (Citrus reticulata), Carrageenan Extract, Perfume, Sweet Orange Oil (Citrus sinensis), Clove Bud Oil (Eugenia caryophyllus), Black Pepper Oil (Piper nigrum), Cinnamon Leaf Oil (Cinnamomum cassia), Fine Sea Salt (Sodium Chloride), *Citral, *Eugenol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Methylparaben, Golden Sparkles (Polyethylene terephthalate)

Pic above from Comfortin Scents on Instagram

Here’s my video of it

The Magic of Christmas FUN bar

$6.95 see my demo video below 😄
The grounding, mystical fragrance of
juniperberry, fennel and tangerine oils will also
make for luxurious and meditative bathtimes.
For some, magic is best taken seriously.
(I can tell this probably has the Jingle Spells fragrance from what the ingredients are!)


Your Mother Should Know

5 out of 5 rating

See my demo video below 🙂

Made in the ‘Frozen’ bath bomb scent, which has grapefruit, rose, orange flower and Neroli scent. 


These bubbles are a big peel

Frazzled mamas should look to this bright bubble bar for a zesty pick-me-up. Bursting with fresh grapefruit oil, grounding rosewood and floral neroli, the bath is the perfect place to find a minutes’ peace.

*Best enjoyed with a freshly brewed cuppa – made by someone else, of course.

You’ll love this if you like:

– Cheerful neroli and citrus.

– Happy Happy Joy Joy conditioner, Love And Light hand cream, or Orange Blossom perfume. – Shutting yourself in the bathroom away from the kids.

Benefits:

– Intensely green and floral, neroli oil is thought to reduce stress and anxiety. – Grapefruit oil is naturally astringent, helping to clear and tone your skin.

– Packed full of feel-good fragrance, you’ll leave the bathroom beaming.

How to use: Your mother should know how to use a bubble bar, but if she doesn’t, here’s how. Crumble half of this supersized citrus sud-maker under the running tap and watch as juicy bubbles pile up in your bath.

How to store: For the best bubbles, keep this bar somewhere cool and dry in between uses.

Sodium Bicarbonate, Cream of Tartar (Potassium bitartrate), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Cornflour (Zea mays), Perfume, Grapefruit Oil (Citrus paradisi), Neroli Oil (Citrus aurantium amara), Rose Oil (Rosa damascena), Orange Flower Absolute (Citrus aurantium amara), Rosewood Oil (Aniba rosaeodora), Butylphenyl Methylpropional, *Citral, Geraniol, Hydroxycitronellal, *Limonene, *Linalool, Colour 47005:1, Colour 42090, Colour 45410:1

Here’s my demo video of this in the bath. You can have different colors depending on which part you use.

Lush made a Frozen body lotion with the same scent years later for the January 2025 monthly lush subscription box.

Elf on the Shelf

Meet the Elf On The Shelf, a cheeky chappy who’s here to add a little more fun to the holiday season. Packed full of twangy, vibrant grapefruit and ginger oils, he loves nothing more than popping up and surprising shower goers in unexpected places. Simply assemble your own elf and add a little extra sparkle to your festive routine by hiding him around the bathroom for friends and family to find – you could even take an elfie!

Here’s a demo video i made of the Elf on the Shelf fun bar.

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Ill show you the seperate pieces here in my photo, and how i make psychedlic designs from them, and also how to make elves. And if youre artistic, unlike me if couldn’t tell 😂, you can make other stuff with it.

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it could look like an elf if you step back far enough, and maybe look with one eye.

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Elf on a Shelf has the same quirky but nice scent as The Jilted Elf shower jelly, The Jilted Elf body spray, Elf bomb bomb, and Boogie Woogie soap

The Jilted Elf

4 out of 5 rating

See my video demo below 😄


This is such a very different scent. It’s like cacophony of notes but somehow they work together!

figs, ginger, cinnamon, grapefruit, vodka and honey.

it’s both fruity and spicy. i’ll be buying the christmas body spray.

Lush made the ‘Elf on a Shelf‘ FUN multi purpose bar with the same scent.

Ingredients: Glycerine, Fig Infusion, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Propylene Glycol,Carrageenan Extract, Honey, Cinnamon Leaf Oil, Grapefruit Oil, Ginger Oil,Vodka, Perfume, *Eugenol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Methyl Ionone, Coumarin,Colour 45350, Colour 42090, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, Glamour Gold Glitter

Here’s a demo video I made of Jilted Elf jelly being silly.

Lush Times: Jilted Elf takes an alcoholic stumble around your shower, leaving wafts of fruit cocktails as he goes.

Wash away the old and welcome in the new with our bright green, wobbly foaming shower jelly that’s named after a cocktail we saw for sale in New York. With an infusion of figs, honey and seaweed gel to soften your skin and make you silky to the touch.  Then to make you smell intoxicating and irrisistable, we have a multi-layered sophisticated fruity Christmas cocktail fragrance of vodka and essential oils, including cinnamon leaf oil, grapefruit oil and ginger oil.

 

Our Jilted Elf can never be kept down. He looks towards a fine future that is full of promise, his little inner twinkle of gold shines out, no matter how tough going the festive season gets. Grab him and drag him into a shower near you for the most fun shower you’ve had in a long while.

Here’s my Jilted Elf body spray info

https://lushalot.com/2021/07/20/jilted-elf-body-spray/

The Lush Christmas bath bomb ‘Elf Bomb Bomb’ has this scent, as well as my other products shown below.

Boogie Woogie exclusive. soap from the Lush 2023 Christmas Advent Calendar

Lush Valentines’ Day 2017

Here’s a video of my Lush Valentine’s 2017 Haul

The Lush North America mail-order website is now selling the Valentine’s 2017 products at Lushusa.com

And the Lush UK mail order website is also nowvselling the Valentine’s 2017 products at Lush.co.uk

All Lush Stores will begin selling the Valentine’s products on Jan 14 in the UK and Jan 19 in the U.S.

See my bath Demo videos of some of these below by clicking on the name 😄  When i get the rest of the products from Lush UK i’ll add the descriptions, prices and more photos, reviews and demo videos. 

FYI…the Lush Kitchen, and Lush Oxford street will be having additional Valentine’s limited edition products! I’ll start listing those below too tomorrow.
 

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Lush Valentine’s 2017

Cupid

Elsie the Giraffe (You’re Havin’ a Bath)

Kiss Me Quick

Love Spell

Love You Lots

Lover Lamp

Lovestruck

Over and Over

Prince Charming

Roller 

Rose

Rose Bombshell  

The Kiss

Toucan Love

Two Hearts Beating as One

Unicorn Horn

 

Lots of Love gift set

Love and Kisses gift set



 

 

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To Keep up with each week’s Valentine’s menu go to www.facebook.com/lushkitchen to find out which days the products will be made, and then we can buy them, at http://www.lush.co.uk/kitchen

1000 Kisses Deep

Cupid’s Love

Ex Factor

Floating Flower

Frog Prince

Heart throb

Tisty Tosty (special edition)

Ladybird

Love Locket

Lovebirds

Roses All the Way

Sex N the Shower

Strawberry Twin Tub

 

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I’ll be adding the products coming soon. For ALL the Oxford Street Exclusive store products click here to go to my Oxford Street blog page.

Ol’ Blue Skies

5 out of 5

This was a limited edition shower gel in 2006 in the UK..

Its got a pretty sky blue color and some silver glitter, but only a small amount of glitter.

The name is a play on words. Decades ago tgere was a popular singer Frank Sinatra. His nickname was Ol Blue Eyes.

Heres what the original looked like. It was called Ol Blue Skies is Back, years and years later when the Lush Kitchen made it for a limited time run it was the sky blue color you see above. This is what the original limited edition shower gel looked like. It had alot more silvery blue luster and it was a lighter blue.

Sorry my pics below are blurry i didnt take very good pictures back then.

Lush made this shower gel with the same scent and ingredients as their blue skies and fluffy white clouds bubble bar, which is sold in all Lush stores.

Its fragrance is made with patchouli, cinnamon leaf oil, frankincense and a bit of lemon.

Ingredients: Fresh Lemon Infusion, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Lauryl Betaine, Cocamide DEA, Patchouli Oil, Glycol Cetearate, Cinnamon Leaf Oil, Frankincense Oil, Sea Salt, snowflake lustre sparkle.

*Eugenol, *Limonene, Perfume, Colour 42090, Methylparaben, Propylparaben. * Occurs naturally in essential oils.

Review: Great lustre to this shower gel. The Blue Skies and Fluffy White clouds scent smells so good as a shower gel. I swear I smell more cinnamon than in the bath foam.

Lush 2006 Description: Our legendary patchouli, frankincense and cinnamon shower gel returns for one season only.
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See a demo and review video i made of my Ol Blue Skies shower gel below.

Golden Slumbers

5 out of 5 rating

See my demo and review video of this golden, glittery bath bomb in the tub WOW.

Golden Slumbers was made to promote sleep with it’s lavender forward fragrance.  Golden Slumbers doesn’t have a sweet and creamy edge to it as lush ‘Twilight’ lavender scent.  Golden Slumbers has a more herbal lavender scent.  Very bright and clean smelling.

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric acid, Lavender Sprigs, Lavender Oil, Chamomile oil, Lavender absolute, Neroli oil, Ginger, Jasmine, Perfume, Linaloo, golden lustre sparkle.

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I kind of like the original golden slumbers, because it had actual gold covering it, whereas on the newly designed Golden Slumbers it doesn’t have painted gold on the top, instead it has tiny gold glitters mixed in the bath bomb mixture.

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Golden Slumbers is also chock full of everything lavender, and then the addition of the chamomile is wonderful, it lightens the whole thing up and gives the lavender a sparkly quality. The Golden Slumbers part comes from the ballistic’s ingredients’ ability to help you get to sleep with the combination of lavender and chamomile proportedly being great sleep aids. I like the sprigs of lavender, andthere are not too many. My new lavender combo would be this Golden Slumbers forum member inspired ballistic and the “Schnuggle” shower bar with it’s Cocoa Butter, Corn Starch, Lavender Oil, Ginger Oil, Sandalwood Oil, Chamomile Oil, Jasmine Absolute they combine beautifully for a lovely, smelling good night’s sleep.file-jan-14-10-53-24-am

 

 The Dream Time bath melt is the same scent made with the same scent ingredients.

Lush Times 2006 description: The Golden Slumbers bath bomb is Lush’s magic sleep potion with calming, soothing lavender essential oil.

Here’s a demo video i made showing all the gold.

Fruity Beauty

5 out of 5 rating

This was a very popular shower gel.

Lush uk made these as a limited edition around 2007. Then the Lush UK Kitchen remade them again around 2014ish.

This was a popular and wonderfully fruity shower gel that was a limited edition in Lush UK. It was fruity. More fruity than alot of Lush ‘fruity’ shower gels. It has pineapple, lemon, lime, bergamot, myrrh, and it used to have vodka which had a bright kick. I’m not sure if lush added vodka the last time the made it.

Here’s a demo and review of my Fruity Beauty shower gel

YES 

 

Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Fresh Lemon Decoction, Aloe Vera Gel, Fresh Pineapple Juice, Vodka, Lauryl Betaine, Propylene Glycol, Perfume, Lime Oil, Bergamot Oil, Myrrh Resinoid,

*Eugenol, *Limonene, *Linalool, *Isoeugenol, Lactic Acid, Colour 45410, Colour 45380, Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), Methylparaben

Lush Kitchen Menu Reviews January 16-20

See my reviews of these products in my video below.

Monday

Happy For SAD shower gel 500g £18.95/$23.09
Shut Up And Get Over It bath bomb £4.25/$5.18

Tuesday
Lemony Flutter body conditioner 450g £29.95/36.50

Wednesday
Happy Pill bath bomb £4.25/$5.18

Thursday
Flotsam soap £4.95/$6.03

Friday

Up You Gets emotibomb £3.95/4.81
Fruity Beauty shower gel 500g £19.95/24.31

 

Here’s a video where i show the products

Mother’s Day 2017


 

Mother’s Day in the UK is March 27. The UK.S. Celebrates Mother’s day in May. As per usual i will be updating this page with photos and descriptions of the Lush 2017 products in the same format as i have the Lush Valentine’s 2017 blog page.

Here’s a link to last years’ Mother’s Day 2016 blog page 🙂

In addition to the products in the Mother’s Day 2017 product list below,  that will be sold in all Lush stores,  and on the lush.co.uk website, the lush mail order website lush.co.uk/kitchen will ALSO be making different Retro Mother’s Day products, fresh, in small batches, for us to buy if we’d like. I’ll list the products that the Lush Kitchen usually offer below this main list.

Additionally, the Lush Oxford Street superstore in London will be offering their exclusive Lush Mother’s Day 2017 products which will only be available at that store.  Though sometimes the lush Kitchen will make things for us for one week only on their lush.co.uk/kitchen site. As soon as I am aware of any Oxford street Mother’s Day products, i’ll add them at the bottom of the page.

If you have any questions or comments feel free to ask in the comments box below, and i’ll answer as soon as i can.


 

Mother’s Day 2017 products

Baa Bar

Cheer Up Buttercup (Uk only)

Elsie the Giraffe (You’re Having a Bath)

Groovy Kind of Love

Honey

Mother Earth (Uk only)

Mum

Pink Custard

Rose Bombshell 

Scrubee

Sunrise soap

Ups-a-daisy

Your Mother Should Know

Yummy Mummy shower gel

 

 

Lush Kitchen has made these every year for Mother’s Day

Flutterby

Love You Mum (I’ll be doing a demo video of this one next week)

Ma Bar (I’ll be doing a demo video of this this next week)

Rose

Sunflower

The Mum (I’ll be doing a demo of this next week)

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