Category Archives: Christmases Past

Ruby Red Slippers

3.5 out of 5 rating.  The new Christmas 2016 limited edition ”Ruby Red Slippers bubble bar shaped like a shoe like Dorothy’s shoes in the movie ‘Wizard of Oz’.

See my demo of this new bubble bar below.

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Shipping Weight: 100 g(s)

Ingredients: Rose Absolute, Carnation Absolute, Tangerine Oil, Perfume, Colour 14700, Red Glitter (Polyethylene terephthalate).

Lush Description: Sparkling, ruby red bubble bath with a bewitching fragrance of rose and carnation. Crumble under running bath water for mounds of fragrant bubbles.

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Here’s one from 2005

 

Review: This has Rose, Tangerine, Carnation and Geranium. Ruby Red Slippers bubble bar slice was made to be the same scent as Lush’s former “Potion” body lotion. It’s a lovely, gentle, fruity, spicy carnation floral. The glitter on this bubble bar is ruby red.

Ruby Red Slippers bubble bar make the water a beautiful red color. It makes loads and loads of bubble, especially the one i had because it’s so fresh and squishy. My only complaint would be that the scent isn’t as strong on the skin as I’d like.   The scent of Potion in the bath is so lovely though.  I think Lush would be successful selling this one all year round.

Here’s a demo video i made showing this beautifully bubble bar in the bath tub.

 

Here’s a demo of the original (MUCH more glittery version)

Santa Baby lip tint

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Ingredients: Fair Trade Shea Butter, Extract of Cinnamon Stick and Mandarin, Organic Rose Hip Oil, Organic Castor Oil, Japan Wax,Extract of Cherries and Dates, Safflower Oil, Sunflower Wax, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Cupuacu Butter, Flavour, Carrot Oil,Persian Lime Oil, Aniseed Oil, Black Pepper Oil, Benzoin Resinoid, Titanium Dioxide, Citral, *Geraniol, *Linalool, *Limonene, Colour 733610, Colour 15850:2, Colour 45370, Colour 45410, Colour 45350

 

Description: The colour red is about as Christmassy as it gets. We’ve made this lip tint just the shade that Mrs. Claus might use to woo her husband. This product is made with fair trade shea butter to soften and moisturise whilst cherries and dates give you sweet, kissable lips. With our sexy red, cola-flavoured lip tint, who needs mistletoe?

Here’s what the color looks like on me.  It’s more of an orange red, not a blue red.

Snow Fairy shower gel

4 out of 5 rating

See my demo videos of the regular, bottled Lush version of Snow Faity shower gel and the Lush christmas ‘naked’ Snow Fairy shower gel below.

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Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Sea Salt (Sodium chloride), Lactic Acid, Synthetic Musk (Ethylene Brassylate),Cocamide DEA, Titanium Dioxide, Iridescent Glitter (Polyethylene terephthalate and Acrylates copolymer), Benzyl Benzoate, Colour 18050, Methylparaben, Propylparaben.


I’m not one for Candyish Lush scents, not at all, except when it comes to Snow Fairy. I am just nuts about this gel at times, it’s scent is just something I’ve got to have once in a while. It’s scent is buttery, rich, candyish…almost raspberryish and a small hit of fruitiness. It has a shimmer of pink and fushia sparkles.


Lush 2006 Description: Candy floss pink and sweet as sugar with iridescent sparkles and a hint of wicked fruitiness….

Here are a couple of video demos and reviews i made of both versions of this Lush shower gel and you can see them up close and how they work

Snowman FUN

4 out of 5 rating

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Description: Holiday 2014 jelly that smells just like Lush ‘The Carrot’ soap and ‘Bunch of carrots’ ! Came in the shape of this adorable snowman, which made it easy to hold with a wash cloth or shower mitt. Super citrus-y! This jelly is super creamy and extremely softening.

Snow Fairy Wand (Magic Wand)

2025new look new name
Below is the original design.
$9.95
Magic Wand This is a reusable bubble bar on a stick with the Snow Fairy scent!
Fairies of all ages will love this
candy sweet magic wand. Swish
around your bath or hold under
running water for Snow Fairy-
scented bubbles, then pop it on
the side to dry for next time. Don’t
forget to make a wish!
this used to be called Magic Wand from 2006-2020

Ingredients: Sodium Carbonate,Cream of Tartar, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Glycerine,Lauryl Betaine, Perfume,Titanium Dioxide,Cocamide DEA, Synthetic Musk, Methyl Ionone,Benzyl Benzoate, Colour 45410, Colour 17200,Colour 14700

Lush: A reusable bubble bar star that gives mounds of sweet-smelling foam. This is a solid version of our best selling Snow Fairy shower gel for those who prefer to bath.

The magic of this version is that you can wave your wand under the water until you have the amount of bubbles you want – then you just stash it somewhere safe to dry off, ready for when you next bath. We’ve included pink ribbon and a bell, because if you are going to wave your wand, then you need some added drama and special effects! You should get several baths from this, depending on how much bubbly magic you want in your bath.  Each one will leave you smelling of candy floss and pear drops. Baths don’t get more yummy or more girly than this.

Here’s a demo and review i made of this beautiful bubble bar in the tub.

Bar Humbug

See my video demo below Whether you feel a bit ‘Bar Humbug’ about
Christmas, or are just a big fan for liquorice
allsorts, then you’ll enjoy this liquorice
scented bubble bar.
This bubble bar shares it’s scent with lush ‘Bertie” soap, which has always been one of my favorite Lush soaps, and the soap is being sold at Lush Oxford Street store.
 
 

Reindeer Rock

This is what the large in-store soap wheel looks like. 

Ingredients: Cassis Absolute (Ribes nigrum), Bergamot Oil (Citrus bergamia), Cassis Absolute (Ribes nigrum), Cypress Oil (Cupressus sempervirens), Perfume,  *Limonene, *Linalool, Colour 45410, Colour 17200.* Occurs naturally in essential oils.

 

4 out of 5 rating.

This a lovely currant (cassis) scented, limited edition Christmas soap is made with the same scent as Lush “Comforter”. 

Having silver reindeer carved into this maroon colored soap.

However, Christmas 2016 brings  a new color to this popular Christmas soap.

It’s not particularly moisturizing, but if you like the berryish scent of the Comforter scent this is a great way to enjoy that fragrance.

This is what it looks like sold by the 100g slice.

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Buche De Noel

4 out of 5 rating

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This is a facial cleaner scrub, a limited edition for Christmas. Though most people like the “Let the Good Times Roll”, Buche De Noel is much more interesting and is more appropriate for my kind of skin.  It’s more moisturizing then LTGTR.  It is chock full of various goodies; Almonds, oranges, cranberries, brandy, cedarwood.  It has a holiday kind of vibe to it.  It’s a coarser faical cleanser than other Lush facial cleansers like let the good times roll, herbalism and angel’s delight. I liek the chunkiness of it.  It’s perfect for my skin.

Ingredients: Ground Almonds (Prunus dulcis), Kaolin, Glycerine, Fresh Satsumas (Citrus reticulata), Dried Cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon), Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cacao), Brandy, Almond Essential Oil (Prunus dulcis), Vetivert Oil (Vetiveria zizanoides), Cedarwood Oil (Juniperus virginiana), *Linalool, *Cinnamal, Perfume, Nori Seaweed (Algae), Candy Pine Tree

*Occurs naturally in essential oils

Lush Times: Buche de Noel was around last Christmas, but it went by the name of Santa’s Rice Porridge. It’s back this year with a few tweaks; it’s still fresh and preservative-free, but it’s a fresh cleanser now. We make it like a nutritious pudding with a twist.

Baked Alaska

5 out of 5 rating

This is the slice i bought in 2022. It’s so grapefruit, lemon myrtle, and floral ylang ylang.

This is a very popular soap year after year.

It’s always one of the most colorful things in my box when i buy the Christmas products online.

This the original Baked Alaska that Lush sold on christmas for years.

This is the new design of the Baked Alaska soap on 2020.

 

Lush Cosmetics ‘Baked Alaska’ Christmas soap is a large, globe looking soap with a white coating.  It’s named after the dessert called “Baked Alaska” which consists of ice cream and cake topped with browned meringue.

 

This below is what an in-store, whole wheel of soap pre 2020 looked like before it was cut into pieces.

It’s quite a contrast to the colors that await inside the Baked Alaska soap when Lush cuts it open…

Lush: “A real Christmas treat with a hidden surprise inside! The Baked Alaska soap has unique shape, which appears as a snowball and inside you will find small snowballs smelling of fresh and uplifting Organic Lemon Myrtle, stress relieving Ylang Ylang Oil and Grapefruit, which is refreshing and toning for the skin. This soap has a powerfully citrus scent.”

 

Quantitative Ingredients

We buy our ingredients from suppliers who do not test on animals

The Ingredients are Water, Glycerine, Rapeseed Oil, Coconut oil, Sorbitol, Perfume, Organic Lemon Myrtle Oil, Ylang Ylang, Grapefruit Oil.

The grapefruit is what i smell primarily.  It’s a bold grapefruit scent which i like.

If you’re a citrus fan, there is nothing but goodness in this soap; the vivid, day-glo colors and the strong scent of grapefruit.

In February 2025 Lush made a solid perfume exclusive to that month’s subscription box

Mermaid bath bomb has the baked alaska

Mermaid’s Tale bubble bar has the baked alaska scent.

Matroyshka Doll

Has the Appley ‘So White’ scent.  This was a soap that Lush sold in Christmas of 2010.

There are two pieces (one green and a smaller red ) soaps,  a doll-shaped ‘Cinders‘ bath bomb, and a doll-shaped, and a So White bath bomb.  all nested inside of each other, like a real Russian Matroyshka Doll. And the whole gift set was wrapped in a red scarf with designs on it.

Later Lush would make other products with this same scent;  So White bath bomb, So White perfume, So White shower gel, and Santa’s Belly jelly.

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Candy Mountain

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate,Cream of Tartar, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume,Cocamide DEA, Titanium Dioxide, Vanilla Absolute,Methyl Ionone, Colour 45410, Colour 17200

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Lush Description: Every year we give our best selling Creamy Candy Bar bubble bar a special outfit for Xmas.  Last year it was in the shape of a cane, this year we’ve turned it into a little swirly mountain peak. But whatever the shape and look, the thing that never changes is that lovely vanilla and candy floss smell and the mountains of soft bubbles.When the busy season has exhausted you, the hoards of shoppers have pushed and shoved you, and you think you can’t take any more – lie back in a Candy Mountain bath and feel its sweet and comforting hug.

 

Other things in this scent are (I’ll enter them all here soon)

Creamy Candy bubble bar

Creamy Candy bath melt

Creamy Candy body lotion

Creamy Candy perfume

Candy Cane bubble bar

 

Here’s another version of Candy Mountain bubble bar, same scent different look.

And another version

 

And the non-holiday original in-store version

 


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.


Luxury Lush Pud

5 out of 5 rating-See my short demo and review video of this bath bomb below

2018=The Comforter scent; cassis, cypress, bergamot;

2017=Twilight scent; lavender, tonka, ylang ylang.

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2017 Description: This year, our Lil’ Lush Pud has had a luxurious makeover… with a soothing lavender fragrance and calming pastel colours, this bath bomb is perfect for bed time, or any time you want to relax. This bath bomb shares a fragrance with our Twilight bath bomb. With lavender oil, ylang ylang and tonka absolute, you’ll be soothed and calmed as little islands of colour float out into your bath water.

2018 Description:

Mood brightening, zesty bergamot oil and juicy cassis absolute give you a sweet, reassuring soak like a big cuddle in the tub.

Feel at ease as cypress oil keeps you feeling joyful and refreshed, soothing and easing you into relaxation.

A confetti of colours cascading across the water makes for a perfectly cosy winter’s night.

2018 Ingredients:

2017 Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate , Citric Acid , Cream of Tartar (Potassium bitartrate) , Lauryl Betaine , Sodium Laureth Sulfate , Lavender Oil (Lavandula augustifolia) , Benzoin Resinoid (Styrax tonkinensis pierre) , Tonka Absolute (Dipteryx odorata) , Ylang Ylang Oil (Cananga odorata) , Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides) , Titanium Dioxide , *Coumarin , *Linalool , Fragrance , Propylene Glycol , FD&C Blue No. 1 , D&C Red No. 33 , D&C Violet No. 2 , D&C Red No. 30 Aluminum Lake , Candy Holly Leaf (Sugar, Water (Aqua), Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Vegetable Gelatin, Riboflavin, FD&C Blue 1)

Here’s a demo of this beautiful thing in the tub up close so you can see the glitter in the water.

Dashing Santa

$5.25 See my video of it in the tub below

Lush Description: Make a dash for this moving Santa bath bomb with a cheerful and uplifting scent of satsumas at Christmas. Watch Santa fly about your bath as his golden boots fizz away, releasing toning mandarin oil, bergamot oil and orange flower absolute that help put a spring in your step, too.

 

Here’s a video i made of the Dashing Santa in the tub

List of ingredients

 

 

Holly Golightly

Video below
Ingredients:
Clove Leaf Oil
Patchouli Oil
Lime Oil
Benzoin Resinoid
Cinnamon Leaf Oil
Sweet Orange Oil
Ice blue lustre; Silver glimmer lustre

The water is a GORGEOUS shade of emerald green with silver glitter.


Lush description
Come on in out of the cold and wrap yourself up in this comforting Christmas blanket of a bubble bar. Break the generously-sized pudding into two and crumble under running water. Its festive spice fragrance is like bathing in a hot toddy, perfect for getting you in the Christmas spirit.

Review: The silver glitter coating knocks me out! 🙂 I loved bathing in this fragrant bath. The deep, Emerald green color of the water was amazing, but the smell was as good or better! And it has shimmery glitter for sparkling emerald green. It’s so huge, weighty and a bit bigger in circumfrence than a regular sized bubble bar. It smells Spicy and warm like the drink Hot Toddy. This goes well with other Lush products like Hot Toddy shower gel, and the hot toddy scented Lush “Melting Snowman” bath melt.

Here’s a photo i took, and below is a video i made of this beauty in the bath, you have to see how green it is.  This has the “Hot Toddy’ scent.

Crackersnap

4 out of 5 rating

See my tub demo of crackersnap below.

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Sodium Carbonate, Popping Candy, Cream of Tartar, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lemongrass Oil, Bergamot Oil, Rosewood Oil, Lauryl Betaine, *Citral, *Geraniol, *Limonene, *Linalool, Perfume, Colour 42090, Colour 45350, Colour 19140, Frosty Holley Lustre.

Lush Times magazine: Every Christmas needs a cracker! Crackersnap is a new, cheery, lemongrass Bath Bomb that ‘cracks’ wide open in your tub, turning the water bright green and revealing a few extra treats – just like a real Christmas cracker! Pop on your party hat, tell yourself a joke and round up that crocodile for future bathing fun times.

Review:  This has the wonderful “Avobath” scent, with lotsof lemongrass and bergamot. It makes popping sounds as it dissolves.  They were fragile via mail order but then Lush started putting them in little plastic cases and that’s why mine was not broken when it arrived all the way from England.

Here’s a demo i recorded of the Crackersnap bath bomb in the tub.

Snow Angel

A moisturizing organic fair trade
cocoa butter bath melt that
melts before revealing a halo
of golden lustre. With its iconic
blend of rose, benzoin and cassie
absolute, this Yuletide innovation
has a comforting marzipan
fragrance.
Here’s a video i made of the beautiful Snow Angel is the water.

So White bath bomb

See my demo video below

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Quantitative Ingredients: Apple infusion, Rose Water, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Fine Sea Salt, Glyceryl Stearate & PEG-100 Stearate, Cocamide MEA, Glycol Cetearate, Perfume, Cyder vinegar, Propylene Glycol, Lauryl Betaine, Bergamot Oil, Rose Absolute, Orange Flower Absolute, Neroli Oil, Tincture of Benzoin, Rice Bran Oil, Lilial, Limonene, Linalool, Snowflake Lustre, Methylparaben, Propylparaben.

It’s a slow fizzer.  The scent doesn’t last on the skin.  That doesn’t bother me because i don’t fancy smelling like an apple.  I do love bathing in this.

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Lush has redesigned So White for Christmas 2016.  Instead of just a round white ball, now it has a green curved stem design. And it’s no longer pink inside as in past Christmases.  This year is has a blue and yellow/green color.

A crisp and delicate apple-
scented bath bomb as pure as
snow. The bergamot oil and
rose absolute essential oils will
help you feel calm and peaceful,
while neroli oil and orange flower
absolute will revive your spirit.

(sweet, green apple)   

 

Here’s a 4 minute tub demo video i made of this bath bomb




 

I’ll be doing a demo video of the new one as well.

Here’s a photo i took of all the lush products past and present which have the So White scent. Including the “Matroyshka Doll soap, and Matroyshka Doll bath bomb.

 

 

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Father Christmas

2025

2014

I did a video (below) of Father Christmas in tub.
There have been two different Father Christmas bath bombs. ‘Satsumo Santa’ scented in 2012 was an orange scent, green water and red glitter.

And  ‘Snow Fairy’ vanilla and candy floss scented in 2014 green water and green glitte4.

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Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Mandarin Oil, Bergamot Oil, Orange Flower Absolute, Cream of Tartar, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Cocamide DEA, Lauryl Betaine, *Limonene, *Linalool, Gardenia extract, Colour 19140, Colour 42090, nColour 14700, Red Glitter.

$6.40 Video below

Lush Times: Take a cheery bath with Papa Noel. Once you pop this sparkling, red, glittery Santa bomb in your tub, it will turn your water from bright red to vivid green, filling your bathroom with a sensual, uplifting satsuma fragrance you may remember from Christmasses past (Satsumo Santa, anyone?). All we want for Christmas is this orangey baby!

This is a fun bath bomb. It darts all around the tub and spews color and glitter all the around the tub. He has a cute little face too.This friendly face is full of sweet-smelling goodness with a fragrance of vanilla and candy floss.  Drop this festive Bath Bomb in your tub for a fun, lighthearted soak.

My video of this bath bomb in the tub

Northern Lights

5 out of 5 rating for the 2015 version.
3.5 for the 2016 version.

Not to be confused by another totally different smelling and different looking product (soap) also called Northern Lights.

See my demo videos of both versions below.

Northern Lights was made with the Lush Christmas Eve  bubble bar scent and the “Santa’ FUN bar.

Lush Description:  Escape into relaxation with this bath bomb that gives an impressive display no matter where you are in the world. As the ends fizz away, the middle slowly dissolves to reveal blue and neon green, turning your water into a calming jasmine and ylang ylang-scented swirling night sky scattered with stars.

Review:  WOW a blue, pink, and yellow explosion of color, just like the real Northern Lights, coupled with that lovely floral fragrance of their Christmas Eve bubble bar.  Ylang ylang and jasmine. Makes the water purple.  This is the most incredible show in the water than any other lush bath bomb i can think of.

The newer shorter one makes grayish brown water. 😐

Here’s a demo of the 2016 version in the tub

Here’s a short demo video of this 2015 version close up in the tub, WOW

Ingredients:

Here’s a scent family portrait below that i made of all the Lush Cosmetics products with the same scent, per verification with Lush.

update a few years later Lush made these products with the same scent

Christmas Eve bubble bar

Christmas Eve shower gel

Northern Lights bath bomb

Santa fun bar

Perfect Match bubble bar

Dragon Legend bubble bar

Great Wave bubble bar