This was an exclusive Lush product in the January 2026 monthly kitchen subscription box.
The shower gummies are a somewhat recent thing in the Lush world. Lush have made four or so shower gummies of various colors, scents, shapes and sizes.
As i’ve said in my unboxing videos i really like the shower gummies. They’re easier to hold in the shower than the shower jellies that Lush makes.
The gummies are firmer than jelly but still bendable. They’re a similar firmness/softnesss of a gummy bear.
Lush made this Sleepy gummy in the popular Lush ‘Sleepy’ scent, made with Lavender, Tonka bean, and ylang ylang. So the fragrance is floral, yummy and herbal.
If you like the original Lush Twilight products you’ll like Sleepy. It’s the same scent, just the name has changed.
This gummy is particularly pretty because of the gorgeous purple color mixed with swirls of white.
It’s huge! And it’s in the shape of a cloud as many Lush Sleepy products (bubble bar, soap, shower bomb) are or have been.
showing how thick it is.
It makes lather, not quite as much as soap but almost. It’s not conditioning per se but it is less drying than soap. I’m glad they made this. I like it, i like the idea of it, the way it looks and the way it smells.
Lush will be making the princess cottongrass bath bomb (which has never been made) in the March lush kitchen subscription box. 😊
Pine, Violet, Neroli, Nettle
It’s a fresh, clean green but slightly sweet fragrance.
The pine is definitely present but it mixes with the sweet violet so it doesn’t seems AS pine-y as if it were just pine by itself, if that makes sense, The neroli and nettle lend a grassy note, so the entirety becomes a sweet, pine-ish, grassy scent.
I remember writing about another lush perfume called ‘Fresh As’ and i wrote that It smells as if Lush Needles & Pine shower jelly, Grass shower gel, and Princess Cottongrass mated and had a baby.
So i would say that princess cottongrass is not exactly like those but definitely along those lines, if that helps.
Fresh As is made with Fir Needle and Princess Cottongrass is made with pine. Fir and pine are closely related: both are types of conifers (cone-bearing evergreens) and belong to the same larger Pine Family
So imagine fresh as with some violet, and neroli and nettle.
Nettles have a fresh, green, earthy, and slightly grassy smell, often compared to cucumber peel with hints of hay and mint, with the aroma being quite vibrant and outdoorsy.
Lush will be making the soap in the March 2026 Kitchen subscription box! 👏🏼
I still have an unopened powder and some perfume.
i’ll try to take some more current pictures. I took these photos below in 2005 and 2010.
Ylang Ylang, Carnation, Violet, Galbanum, and Elemi oil
The scent of Flower Market is close to what Lush ‘Potion’ is like with its spicy carnation scent, but with a bit more floral notes of violet and ylang ylang. It’s also got an earthy note of galbanum. Galbanum is a sharp, earthy, green note, like in fragrances like Chanel No. 19.
Galbanum is a bitter, musky, and intensely green odor, sometimes described as metallic. It’s often seen with violet in perfumes. It contrasts with the sweet floral scent of violet.
It looks like a big red Hershey’s kiss or something, actually it’s shaped like Lush’s “French Kiss” bar. The scent of this bubble bar smells similar to “Hot Toddy” bubble bar. Lush made Hot Toddy for Christmas 2003 and 2004. It’s got that same nice spicy coca-cola-like smell. And also this year’s “Christmas Kisses” scent is a tad more complex than just “cinnamon-y”. One could combine this bar with alot of spicy scented or even fruity ballistics, melts or soaps for a lovely spicy-foody bath combo. Christmas Kisses bar is good enough to stand alone though. The scent lasted long on my skin which is good.
Description: Comforting spicy bubbles, as warming as a hot toddy, to kiss your body clean again.Crumble under running bath water for mounds of fragrant bubbles.
This beautiful indigo soap with its blue purple sparkle was made with the same scent as “Black Pearl” ballistic. Lavender, Black Currant fruit, Myrrh, Frankincense, and Chamomile. It’s one of my favorite soaps and one of most old skool Lushies favorite soaps. They only made it one year in 2005. We’ve been wanting it back for decades. It’s the darkest inky blue color of any soap that Lush has made, and it has the same dark blue sparkles. GORGEOUS
Im so glad i had the presence of mind to take pictures of my pieces!
Lush will be making this soap again for the December subscription box!
Lush 2005 Description: Mo named this brand new Christmas Soap after the poem describing Father Christmas’s Christmas Eve romp around the world with his reindeer. It’s the deep dark purple of a perfect starlit sky and scented with lavender and blackcurrant. We strongly suggest that you try some.
The picture below is of the Lush store large sized round (they called them truckles) soap on display. It was about 1-2 feet in diameter and had a reindeer, Santa and sleigh going through the night sky. That’s why the soap looks like it does, dark blue and sparkly. If I could’ve I would have bought a whole truckle of soap. They actually did sell whole soaps to customers if they were willing to buy one. I didn’t have a store near me in within 700 miles in either direction though.
Chelsea Gardens is a liquid spray perfume. Thusfar its available in a 30ml size. Dont know if Lush will also offer the 60ml as they usually do with their perfumes. Also, i dont see a solid version yet but i hear they will have a solid version soon. Chelsea Garden has a companion bath bomb of the same name that is new for bath bomb month.
Prince of Darkness solid perfume is in a push up container.
Chelsea Gardens is one of the new perfumes that Lush has released on their website and soon in stores as well.
Prince of Darkness was the very exclusive product in the October 2024 Kitchen Subscription Box.
Prince of Dakness is a solid perfume and is a silvery purple color.
I reviewed these two perfumes in detail in this 15 minute video i made for you on my LushaLot youtube channel. I show them, use them, talk about them, and rate them. I hope it’s helpful. 😊
I like both perfumes, Chelsea Gardens with its lemon and brown sugar scent, and prince of Darkness with its earthy, incensy labdanum, licorice and lavender scent. But i like PoD more.
In addition to this special Kitchen sub box There is a general TMNT collab with different products here.
Here’s my unboxing video
Here are all five of the products laid flat.
The shower bomb is fun but couldve been half the size. But then again some folks like that its bigger for the cost.
In my photo below im showing that the green canister shower bomb is made with the Lush ‘Junk’ fragrance, which is also shared by the lush halloween ‘bat art’ (a play on the term bath art) bath bomb.
Thos fun bar has the same scent of the lush ‘Rainbow’ fun bar. Lime, orange, lavender.
The shredder soap is the Demon in the Dark scent. Icy spicy apple.
The Go Green scent is a classic green lush fragrance from way back in the day. People qere so bummed when lush discontinued this. I love it!
Here below is my requested video previous to myself or anyone else buying the box, and i describe each item because ive used them all before except for Happy Hippy lotion and it helps people with their purchasing decision, to see if they want the products or not this month.
Because i havent added three of these products to my blog here, im just going to put them here and then when i make the individual pages for Temple of Truth, Happy Hippy, and Karma Komba. Then ill have just the links to them here and move all of the pictures ive taken and my review text to the individual pages. But for now its sll here on this page. 👍🏼 I do already have Lava Lamp bath bomb here.
Chamomile Lawn soap
Temple of Truth bubble bar
Karma Komba solid shampoo
Happy Hippy lotion
Happy Hippy shower gel in my picture below. However, the sub box folks are making a LOTION of it for the June box. Exclusive. Never made before. 👍🏼
Review: I was upset about Happy For Sad shower gel leaving until I heard Happy Hippy was brought back. HH was a shower gel before Lush was called “Lush”, back when Mark Constantine owned “Costmetic to Go” (CTG). It is a pink grapefruit shower gel. It’s refreshing and grapefruity, It’s not too strong, not too light. Great for a morning “get you going” shower. My husband liked the smell, he said “Hey, it’s not bad”. You know this is a large step for him so it must be pretty good. Three new citrus shower gels this same year came out and not one of them smells the same. Well done Lush.
LT 2006 Description: A long time ago in a land far, far away… actually it was in 29 High Street, Poole Dorset, now Lush’s home, the Lush creative team used to run a company called Cosmetics to Go. One of their best selling products was our pink grapefruit shower gel, Happy Hippy. When CTG’s former customers heard that we’d finally bought back the rights to our old products they started haranguing us with emails, letters and bricks through the window, begging us to make their favourite, joyously refreshing gel again. We did, we tested it ourselves and we decided that it was as brilliant as we remembered. So here it is, use it and step singing from the shower. (That bit about the bricks through the window isn’t true.)
This is a beautiful cone shaped bubblebar with a deep turquoise color. It’s a VERY fragrant bubble bar. When Lush uk made them originally (Lush North America/U.S. didnt make any) the scent filled up my whole house! Its got a incense-y, and woody scent. And it was the deepest blue.
International (UK) website sold the original Blue and then later the White after a request from UK forum members to save cost and make one with no colorants.
Description: Our lovely new BUBBLE BAR has no less than 24 essential oils packed into it for a fragrant, bubbly bath. This blue version is exclusive to Mail Order, so get them while you can!
Ive used Royalty and Keep It Fluffy shower gel and love both of them. And Tender is the Night is one of my favorite Lush fragrances.
And Tender is the Night LOTION?! Is it me? Im not remembering any Tender is the Night lotion, ever.
I mean there was a couple of years that i didnt buy any lush so it could’ve came out during thst time. But i dont think so. The reason im wondering is because i noticed the last two items for may are ‘Exclusive products’. Well, Tender is the Night lotion is exclusive too if theyve never made it and are only making it for this box.
Also wondering if the bath bomb is like the Lush Haagenbath bomb. I dont think so because they dont mention mint.
Demon in the Dark scent is a mint apple clove scented shower gel. Spicy apples. What a wonderful thing.
The shower gel was made years after the soap was made. The soap was a regular year round store product for many years, thenlush discontinued it to make room for new soaps. The shower gel was an exclusive Lush product only available for one day in the UK on line retail site. And the UK LushKitchen once included the shower gel in our subscription box.
LT 2006 Description: Demon in the Dark is made with fresh, organic apple juice and an infusion of mint. This makes it stimulating for the skin and for your nose; just wait until you smell this one! Give it a big sniff and the dark green Demon gets straight up your nose and gives your head a blast of fresh, minty scent. It’s a devil of a good cleanser, with warming clove bud oil, revitalising peppermint and astringent apple. Wash your hair with Washday Greens, put on a Mask of Magnaminty and scrub up with Demon in the Dark for the Full Minty.
I took a picture of both.
Review: This is a minty and spicy shower gel with apple juice added. It smells more minty than anything, but with a spicy, clove note that goes well with the mint. It’s both cold and hot if that makes sense. It’s minty but not sweet minty and it’s refreshing. I think everyone should try this at least once.
There is a black covering or “rind” that can be peeled off, or you can leave it on. Lushies suggest that you put the bar in the freezer and it will be easier to peel if off.
It’s a nice spearmint soap with a lovely apple note as well.
Here’s a video of my Lush Demon in the Shower haul video .
The sonic death monkey from the April 2024 sub box wasn’t as thin as i’ve had sometimes. it wasn’t thick, it was on the thing side but not very watery like in past batches. It smells nice. sweet orange and coffee.
As you can see above i’ve never had popcorn lipscrub. The scent not what i expected. it’s good, but there is nothing in here that remotely smells like popcorn. 😊
It smells like sweet pineapple and coconut. Thats what my husband and daughter said when i asked them to tell me what they smell. They told me it smells tropical fruit and then i asked ‘does it smell like popcorn?’ and they both said ‘no, not at all.’
So its a bleepin mystery. 😄 Its good. Its just not popcorn-y.
The French Kiss is the same nice fragrance as i remember it, though not as strong. I wish it were stronger. As far as the looks….
Ive had maybe 10 French Kiss bubble bars in the last twenty years and lush has had 3 different designs of this bubble bar. 3 different looks. All of them prettier or more cool looking than the original. If you go to my French Kiss page from the link above you can see the different looks. Well the French Kiss in the April sub box is not the prettiest one ive had lol. Theres hardly any purple. Its 90% white. And the shape is… interesting. 😄 And the sprig of lavender fell out becaude the only thing left there was the hole where it used to be.
Birth of Venus. Its pretty good. The smell is not weak which is great. The consistency is right. The scent is just an ever so tiny bit different. One or two of the notes of chamomile, myrrh, rose, lavender was less thsn i remember it being. This one in the sub box had a stronger rose note. I mean y’all know i like rose. But it was never this strong in the birth of venus. That said. I enjoy using this one from tbe sub box. Its not so different thst it smells bad. Its ctually pretty darn good. Just more rosebthan the original.
Well, i havent used a Lush shower gel that i absolutely hate in a long time.
I had initially rated this a 1 out of 5, but i decided to give it a break because of the bright yellow color, which we dont see that often in a Lush shower gel. Thus i raised it to a 2 out if 5. Just a reminder that anything below a 3 means i wouldnt recommend.
So yeah, im sorry to anyone who loved this shower gel. I do not like this scent. yuk yuk yuk. Its so incredibly Bitter that i can barely sniff it. BITTER. Theres nothing renotely fruity, nor floral in this shower gel.
I didnt even have to read the ingredients to know that there was Petitgrain in this. As far as i’m concerned if lush puts petitgrain as one of the main ingredients, they better be putting something else thats stronger smelling with it. Which brings me to a question; as some of you know i fell in love with Plum Rain the moment i first opened the lid and smelled it. I really really like Plum Rain. So WHY do i tolerate the Petitgrain thats in Plum Rain but i dont tolerate Classy Diva GlitterX shower gel?
I’m guessing its because plum rain is paired with orange and plum, instead of only grapefruit with classy diva.
I can’t even smell it even one more time much less shower with it again.
And Lush made a body spray to go with this GliiterX shower gel…No comment.
Here’s an unboxing video where I describe them and the scents. .
Oatmilk Latte body scrubPassion Fruit shower gelThese two Lush products are made with the same scentTropical co-mingle body scrubEspresso lip scrubPeachy Ro’se body lotion
I Would give this a 5 out of 5 rating because its really cute, it works well without drying my skin, it smells great and the scent lasts.
They created this before they called themselves ‘Lush’, when they were a company called Cosmetics To Go in the 90’s.
It has the scent of ylang ylang flower, patchouli, lemongrass and Ho wood. It smells like an expensive mens cologne or something. I love the scent.
Also, the scent has somestaying power after you use it which i like.. Be advised though this bomb doesnt have any color. it doesnt color the water. its a fast fizzer and dissolves quickly.
in 2023 Lush UK made an exclusive one day only shower jelly using the Damp Squid scent!
This is a product exclusive to the July Subscription box. During July 2023 Lush partnered with Spongebob on a collab and Lush has made 9 items in total. 6 of the 9 are being sold on a limited time basis on their website, and 3 of them were made for the July subscription box.
Bikini Bottom is so pretty with red and purple swirls, and a light dusting of silver on top.
Bikini Bottom has the same yummy scent as ‘Pineapple’ body balm that is sold on the website.
This absolutely yummy scent reminds me of a coconut pineappke and banana milk shake. Its made with Davana oil and Tonka.
This bubble bar makes a pretty red-ish water with loads of bubbles. The scent is so good.
I would rate this bubble bar a 5 out of 5 rating.
Heres a Tub Demo Vid i made of Bikini Bottom being used.
Lush has joined Spongebob Squarepants on a Collab. Lush has created 9 products in total; 6 products being sold on their website, and 3 made for their monthly subscription box for July 2023.
A pleasant surprise to discover that Lush made a couple of rare products that fit into this month’s spongebob collab!
I think the best smelling item in this box is the Bikini Bottom bubble bar on a stick. Smells like a banana cocobut milkshake. Its made with davana oil and tonka. and its subtley sparkly with red and purple.
Here is my 10 minute unboxing video with scent descriptions.
When including these 3 exclusive spongebob subscription box products there are 9 spongebob products in total that Lush has made this month for the collab.
