Review: This is a smaller bomb like Butterball and Waving Not Drowning are. It is minty and chocolatey and nice but it’s not as strong as I would like. It’s a minty green color with little flecks of chocolate throughout. If the mint and the chocolate scents were stronger this would be a really great. It needs to be a regular sized ballistic. But I gave it four stars anyway because it was original. Chocolate mint things that go nice with the Chocolate Meltdown ballistic would be the chocolately minty “After 8:30” massage bar, “Mask of Magnaminty” facial mask, “Freeze” shower gel or “13 Rabbits” bath melt or shower gel.

Ingredients: bicarb, citric acid, dark chocolate, cocoa butter, perfume, spearmint oil, peppermint oil, galbanum oil, shea butter, gardenia extract, colour 61585

Lush Times Summer 1999 description: Invented by the UK managers, this diet-sized bomb is a mint chocolate bath time delight with the fragrance of After 8:30. Little pieces of chocolate bath melt are released from its compact form as it fizzes away, scenting the bathroom with stimulating mint. Good for the skin and great for the figure.

Lush Times Spring 2000 description: GIMME, GIMME, GIMME A CHOCOLATE MELT BOMB (before midnight that is). It’s chocolatey – so chocolatey – but you can have as many as you want and you won’t put on a single calorie. Oozing with dark chocolate, cocoa butter (excellent for softening the skin), spearmint (said to stimulate the mind and relieve fatigue), peppermint (reputed to soften the skin and good for any aches and pains), galbanum (reported to calm and ground you), and shea butter (just for the business of softening skin). And, of course, not only does it work wonders on your mind and body, but it smells just heavenly. So put one in the bath, turn yourself in to an after dinner mint and get a friend to nibble on you.

Scent Family: After 8:30 Massage Bar

1999

VEGAN:

200g £1.65

Ingredients: bicarb, citric acid, tangerine oil, perfume, cardamon, crocin, colour 10850

Lush 1999 description: Are you feeling lucky? You will! The tangerine scented Ching Ling Soo will cheer you up. Cardamon oil is used to restore feelings of joy to melancholic people and to encourage them to be more warm and friendly. Of course this didn’t work for the real life Ching Ling Soo, who was performed (sic) his famous Russian Roulette Magic Trick without realising that his wife’s lover had changed the blanks for live ammunition. Ah, such is life! However, on a more cheerful note, our Ching Ling Soo Ballistics each contain a little piece of paper with six numbers written on it. Who knows? If you use them to play the lottery Ching Ling Soo might help it to be YOU!

VEGAN:

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Rosewood Oil (Aniba rosaeodora), Lemongrass Oil (Cymbopogan flexuosus), Palmarossa Oil (Cymbopogan martini), Lemon Oil (Citrus limonum), Perfume.

Description: The snowman is back, looking the same but smelling different*. This Christmas the snowman will dissolve in a fizz of invigorating lemongrass, refreshing palmarossa and spicy jacaranda oils; he is ideal for waking up the kids in the morning (as if…) and even better for waking up adults. As the nights get longer and it’s more difficult to get out of bed in the morning, tempt yourself into the bathroom with a Chilly Bon Bom or two. You can also buy the gift set trio; Lush snowmen disguised as Three Wise Men. This saves wrapping them up yourself. (*If you loved the Green Man, you’ll want the Chilly Bon Bom.)

4 out of 5 rating

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Blue Mallow Flowers (Malva sylvestris), Jasmine Absolute (Jasminum officinale), Ylang Ylang Oil (Cananga odorata), Rose Oil (Rosa centifolia), Lavender Absolute (Lavendula hybrida), D&C Red No. 33.

Review: This is such a beautifully colored ballistic, purples and pinks abound in this ballistic, inside are more purples and rose pink flower petals which are strewn all around you when bathing with this floral lovely. This has a headier winter floral scent of rose, jasmine, ylang ylang, and it also has bright lavender to keep the scent from being too heavy. Lovely pink/purple water color also. You can’t help feeling girlie while bathing with the floral Chelsea Gardens ballistic. It was DCd in 2007. I think it’s a wonderful scent, and the is most definitely one of the most gorgeous color of ballistics I’ve ever seen. One would think this would be a 4 star ballistic for me. No. What gives this ballistic a “3” in my mind, are the ridiculously amount of flowers. Though they were as fresh, purple, and blue and beautiful as anything I’ve ever seen in my life, and even though initially it was akin to an uber Goddess bath, it began to to be too much after a few minutes.  I’ve always loved ballistic with flowers in them that are from the UK, the flowers in their ballistics, any of their ballistics, are so fresh, brightly colored and lovely.  Also, i’m a sucker for flower petals in the bath, but ..we are talking huge, big, giant purple flower heads. Many of them, stuck all over your skin on your arms and legs. Eventually as you shiver in the bathtub standing up trying to get the things off you, you notice the purple dye of the flower petals dripping down your arm like some alien blood fest.  I’m glad i had a bath with a Chelsea Gardens, and i would like it if Lush were to make this again because i would like to use it again, but with less flowers. This is not however a regular use bath bomb though.

Lush Times 2006 description: Chelsea Garden was made to celebrate the Wildlife Trust’s Lush garden at the 2005 Chelsea Flower Show which we’re sponsoring in honor of our 10th birthday. This bomb is calming and lovely, scented with rose, jasmine, lavender and orange blossom and filled with garden flower petals: peony, poppy and blue mallow. Plant a garden in your bath.

5 out of 5 rating

4 out of 5 rating

Emperor of Ice Cream buttercream from the mid 2000’s also has the same floral scent as Chelsea Gardens bath bomb.

Review: It smells heavenly like real café latte. Once it hits the water however it loses that wonderful scent. Pity. Folks complain about the coffee going on the bottom of the tub and sticking you in the toosh but I’ve never had that happen. I love the yummy smelling “froth” that forms at the top. I need one now…but Lush DCd it in 2002.

 Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Perfume, Cocamide DEA, Ground Coffee, Dried Soya Milk.

 Lush Times 1999 description: For all the coffee-holics out there, here’s the Lush Caffe Latte, a wake-up bath with a serving of real coffee and a frothy white top. Run your bath, drop in the Caffe Latte and with its delicious, Italian coffee shop aroma, you could almost be wandering through the streets of Florence. To top it off, your bath really will have a fluffy white cap on it, as the frothing Caffe Latte will make its own creamy foam for your bath. What a great way to stat your day and caffeine free too!

I miss these “Flowers” that Lush used to sell and I want them back so bad. They were so sute as gfts. One had a “Feelgood in the Southern Hemisphere“, “Butterball“, and “Lavender Blissard” ballistics. This was sold for many years and Lush quit selling it in 2005. I was very upset and posted to Big my feelings on the matter, and i still feel today, that discontinuing this was a mistake. How cute is this? If you wanted a gift for a friend and you saw this in the lush shop window…?

Basically it’s a “Butterball” ballistic in a pretty yellow silk petal wrap.

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cacao), Synthetic Musk, Ylang Ylang Oil (Cananga odorata), Perfume.

This was a gift in Lush Italy that I bought in 2003. It’s a “Luverly” flower-shaped shaped ballistic made out of Butterball bath bomb.

 5 out of 5

Lush Description: Let’s make this clear now; it doesn’t have your usual kind of butter in it, the kind of butter that comes from cows. It does have cocoa butter, made from the roasted seeds of the cocoa bean, to condition and soften your skin to make it gloriously smooth to the touch. As the Butterball fizzes into oblivion, the bathroom is scented with ylang ylang with a touch of (synthetic*) musk and a hint of chocolate from the tiny shavings of cocoa butter that melt in the water’s warmth. Your whole body will be moisturised and perfumed so beautifully that you won’t want to put your clothes back on. Use Butterball just before bedtime or whenever you’re going to wear something that reveals an expanse of bare skin.

*Synthetic because we think that civet cats’ scent glands should be used for the benefit of other civet cats not human beings.

A butterball and a bear shaped butter ball

£1.80 95gs

Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cacao), Synthetic Musk, Ylang Ylang Oil (Cananga odorata), Perfume.

I became addicted to this smell the very first time I sniffed a Butterball in my first Lush order ever, a package from the UK. This was the first ballistic I bought from Lush actually. It’s such an absolutely yummy smell that I’m just addicted to. Like buttery vanilla custard. Very moisturizing. You have to use it with hot water (as hot as you can stand) to melt the cocoa butter so it doesn’t form little globs in the bath. My favorite thing is to have one or two Butterball’s and a Floating Island melt. It’s like a buttery marshmellow or something. Ohh.  I have a shower gel from Lush called Butterball shower gel at this link

In the pictures ive taken below are other products made with the buttetball scent, except the soap, which i cant find the picture i took of it.

Butterball bath bomb

Butterball shower gel

Butterball body conditioner

Butterball body lotion

Peace Pioneer solid shower oil

Butterbear shower jelly

Butterbear bath bomb

Butterbear wash card

Butterball Fiore

Ex Factor

BFF bath bomb

Butterball perfume oil (the best thing in the world imo)

Butterball perfume spray

Snuggles shower gel

I once bought six shower gels, and i don’t referent it one bit. 😄

In my opinion the best Butterball product is the perfume oil. It’s more concentrated in scent because there no alcohol in it like there is in a perfume spray or body spray, just pure concentrated buttery ylang ylang cocoa fragrance.

Butterball perfume spray below on the left in the Spritzen gift set. Butterball perfume oil on the right.

Butterbear bath bomb with a pinkish purple color.

Butterball Fiore from Italy

Ex Factor made for Valentines in the late 2000’s

BFF bath bomb made for Valentine’s 2023 and 2024

Snuggles shower gel from 2024

The Butterbear soap is the bear on the far left

Same in this picture

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.)[/quote]

This Smells like fizzy orange soda. It’s not an elegant and rounded orange like “Happy for Sad” or “The Sicilian” but sparkly, festive and bright. I think this one went really well with the citrussy orange “Happy” bubble bar. Later Lush used this scent and made the “Christmas Party” ballistic.