I’ll be adding three of them to my blog today, and the rest are already here, i’ll make links for those now.
Lush Kitchen will be making Christmas past products next week. I made a video showing and describing them below. However, I’ll also be adding pages for each product here this evening.
“Step into Christmas with us… 🎄 👼”
Monday
It’s Christmas Deer gift £24
Contains: Christmas Kisses bubble bar, Gingerbread House bubble bar, Hot Toddy shower gel, Cinders bath bomb, Randy Buttercream
Here’s a video i made describing and showing all of these products. I’ll be adding three of them to my blog today, and the rest are already here, i’ll make links for those now.
Lush Times: Our newest scrubber was inspired by the Tchaikovsky ballet. When Helen was inventing, she thought that plum kernel oil would work a treat because it moisturises the skin and makes it feel silky smooth and adds an almondy scent to the product.
Review: I got a fresh one once and it changed my mind about the Pud. True, it leaves a brown ring to clean up. True, it makes the water poo brown. Turn off the lights, light a candle and use this. It smells like spice cake. And it lasts. I bathed my twins in this on Christmas and they smelled like two little spice cake sweeties all weekend. This is grand to combine with Christmas Cracker bubble bar, Orange and Spice soap or with a Jack Froth or Marziban bubble bar. It’s like bathing in Christmas desert.
Lush Times description: Looks like a pudding, smells like a pudding, fizzes like a spicy Bath Ballistic. Fill your bath with warm water and drop in the Ballistic for a fizzing, fragrant, relaxing soak.
Notes: The newer ones are much lighter brown. almost tan colored, and they smell more like Snowcake soap then spicy Christmas pudding. I like the original ones way better because it was spicy.
Review: This smells just like the past Christmas soap called “Reddy for Christmas” It’s smells like a combination of red hots (from the cinnamon) and Angel’s Delight(because of something fruity). It’s scent lasts a medium amount of time and it’s also a medium strong soap scent. Love it.
Lush Times 2004 Description: This soap has the colour & scent of mulled wine. Clove bud and cinnamon leaf oils warm and ease stiff muscles on cold mornings; orange oil perks you up and tones your skin. Each Big (40kg!)Soap is decorated with a perfect, Japanese style white mountain to remind you to take this with you if you’re going skiing.
This is a spicy, booz-y fragrance. It smells like Christmas brandy punch or Norwegian Glogg. It’s warming, just like a cup of Glogg would be in the wintertime. Glogg is along the same lines but a bit spicier and boozier than the Lush ‘Hot Toddy’ scent.
Lush Times: Glögg is a Lush interpretation of a Swedish spin on festive mulled wine. It will make your body feel warmer as you inhale the spicy aroma. A bottle of Glogg is a fairly boozy cocktail to liven up Christmas baths and showers. We poured lashings of red wine and brandy in there to stimulate your body while you lather, with cinnamon and clove infusion for spice and fresh fruit juices to get you squeaky clean.
One of only three or four lush products ever, that are all silver.
This has lime and ginger, so it smells bright. And the silver shimmer in the water is awesome.
Description: Catch a falling star and put it in your… bath. We have been working for a long time to make this Christmas bath melt – a shimmering bright star for an extra special bath filled with light and lustre. The shea butter fondant centre inside this bath melt is rich and moisturising, creating a soft and creamy bath. When the star melts, its silvery lustre spreads into the water creating a magical trail of starlight. Refreshing ginger and zesty lime oil inspire positivity and will also give you an extra boost. Close your eyes, make a wish, crush this melt under running water and watch as your bath turns into a turquoise, silvery pool of star light.
This doesnt make any color in the water, however because its so damn cute and because i always buy more than two when lush makes them-i give this a solid 5 out of 5 rating.
Here below are some real sugar skulls made for Dia De Los Muertos.
The Lush Sugar Skulls are fairly big as you can see in my hand.
In my bath below i had three products with the Day of the Dead/Calacas scent
Green Calavas jelly
Yellow Man in the Moon bubble bar
Skullduggety bath bomb
lush made these around 2005 and then again in the Lush Kitchen on a limited edition basis. Back when we could order/buy multiple from the Lush Kitchen i bought four.
in my photo below are Other Lush products made in this same scent.
I love his red heart eyes
Originally Lush made a perfume for Halloween one year called ‘Day of the Dead’. I show it in my photo below. Later the name was changed to ‘Calacas’, which means skulls. Both of these names having to do with Dia De Los Muertos.
Lush Times: Skullduggery is an eerie but magical celebration for your bathtub. We used brightening and refreshing lime and neroli for the fragrance and olibanum (also known as frankincense resinoid) to help that citrusy smell stay on your skin until the witching hour and beyond. Lime oil is a popular ingredient in remedies to combat congested skin, cellulite or simply to wake you up! We use expensive neroli oil as it is one of the few essential oils to be scientifically proven to increase serotonin production in the brain – Arriba! Olibanum resinoid, otherwise known as frankincense, has a woody, slightly fruity aroma and covers the skin with a thin, protective film, softening the skin. It is extremely effective on sore, cracked, de-hydrated skin.
In my photo above i used two bath bombs with the ssme scent: Skulldugery and Monsters Ball
He looks menacing even as hes melting in the water
😄
He has little swirly designs on his head. I tried to show that in the pic below.
Jack invented Calavera Bath Bomb last year for our Day of the Dead celebration; a very zesty number full of vibrant, bright colours to get you celebrating in the bath. He chose uplifting citrus oils for the fragrance, as they can help clear your head after a night of celebrating the dead (with one too many tequilas!)
Decorated skulls (or Calaveras) are iconic in Day of the Dead imagery – so this year, we took the concept of Jack’s Bath Bomb last year and gave it a slightly spookier look. This ballistic is limited edition so get it while you can.
This doesn’t make any colors in the bath, but it is cute.
Here’s a demo and review video i made of Skullduggery in the bath
Here’s a ‘scent Family portrait’ photo i took of all the Lush ‘Calacas scented things, except for the wonderful ‘Enchanter’ which is not in the family portrait. I want Lush to pleeeease make Enchanter again someday. I love Skullduggery and Enchanter equally. One has the super cute factor, and one is one of the most colorful lush bath bomb i’ve ever seen. 🙂
For now, i only have info for the linked ones on the list below. I have info for all of these that i have not added yet. So ill be adding pages for almond, world piece, glorious mud, aqua mirabilis, green day, and washday greens this evening. But i do have and describe them in the video.
Monday:
Go Green solid perfume £9.00 Happy bubble bar £3.95
“We saw you votin’, results came rollin’ – this weeks menu was picked by YOU, and we love what you’ve chosen. Get festive with next week’s Christmas menu with servings of spice & outta this world offerings, which of these products takes your fancy? #LushKitchen #VotedFor 🎅 💋
Monday: Yog Nog bath bomb £3.95 American Pie shower jelly £8.25
Lush Times: When Jack Constantine reinvented the bath ballistic, he came up with this spooky bomb that symbolised the Day of the Dead festival. He used marigold petals to give it an authentic feel and gave it a kick with essential oil pressed from the juicy lime, a Mexican favourite with food and alcohol. Calavera changes colour and looks like a magical, eerie celebration in the water – just like the extraordinary celebrations that happen in Mexico. Stock up while you can, it won’t be around forever.
Here’s a demo and review video i made of this Lush 2016 Calavera in the bath
A welcoming hug, an homage to a family member and the kindness of others all feature in next weeks menu. We’re launching bath oils & perfumes inspired by Simons travels to Lebanon and his encounters with refugees, their journey to safety and the generosity he experienced even though they had very little.❤️
Each of these fragrances tell a story which you can hear more about in a special Kitchen livestream: Time Well Scent. Catch it on the Lush Player on Monday, 7th November at 4pm coinciding with the release of the perfumes at the same time! Join us then as we take a trip into the mind (and nose) of Simon Constantine: http://player.lush.com
To see descriptions of these perfumes, you can click here Monday:
Amelie Mae perfume £32
I’m Home perfume £36
Cardamom Coffee perfume £50 Tuesday:
Manouche Zaatar bath oil £4 Wednesday:
Road From Damascus bath oil £4 Thursday: Over And Over bath bomb £4.25
Here’s a video i made describing the perfumes that are available next week
Lush made this gift set on their lush.co.uk/kitchen website I was fortunate enough to get one as they sold out fast. Lush made some popular retro lush halloween products, five products, and add these into the gift set.
I hadn’t seen “Pumpkin’ made in years.
Here are the items in this gift set
Here’s a video i recorded of opening this gift set and the contents
This is one lovely bath bomb. Don’t let it’s gray, craggy exterior fool you, inside is where the Magic happens.
The scent is a strong floral. Lush made this Moon On a Stick bath bomb with their “Ghost’ or ‘Lily Savon’ scent. A hauntingly floral scent, not a speck of sweetness, but is has lily infusion.
This bath bombs changes the color of the bath water three times.
Description: Forum special – Ghost scented three layer ballistic as invented by Rowan
A few years later Lush made a giant one for the time of the Supermoon, and they called it Supermoon.
Here’s a demo of the 2016 newly remade, Lush Kitchen “Moon on a Stick’. I’m in Love, and it’s a 5 out of 5 star bath bomb. Here’s a demo video i did of this glittery beauty, in honor of there being the rare Supermoon tonight.
To move past my talking to the tub demo go to 2:00
I gathered all the Lush products with the same scent. For my photos below.
This doesn’t have anything to do with the shower gel of the same name. It’s a completely different scent. I have a separate page for the shower gel under ‘Mother of Dragons shower gel’.
This is a giant yummy Lush Dragon’s Egg bath bomb that Lush made in the mid to late 2000’s
See my demo video of this below
Lush made giant forms of 5-10 bath bombs. Below is my photo i took of my Intergalactic/Nebula and Dragons Egg/Mother of Dragons
Here’s an eleven minute video of this Mothers Dragon in the tub and the CITY of GOLD that results!
Lush new limited edition ‘Sleepy’ body lotion was made with the popular Lush “Twilight” scent. Having tonka bean and lavender, it’s a creamy, slightly sweet, herbal scent.
When you open it Its got subtle silver shimmery stuff on the top of the lotion. 😍
Lush: ‘You’ll sleep in heavenly peace after dipping into this dreamy lotion, made with a gentle oatmeal infusion, calming lavender flower and comfortingly sweet tonka absolute. A rich, malty and floral perfume conjures up visions of sugar plums and hot drinks topped with whipped cream while the heavenly ministrations of creamy Fair Trade organic cocoa butter and delicate lavender water cool and enrich the skin. Blanket your body in this lovely lotion before stepping into soft pyjamas for snuggly winter nights beside the fire.
Its easier to see the silver on the top of the lotion in this photo below.
