Here’s a video i made reviewing all of these products fro the week of May 16-20 🙂 I’ll be doing a demo f Joy of Jelly soon.
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Melomint
5 out of 5 rating
Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Tartaric acid, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Peppermint oil, Cocamide DEA, Flax seed oil, Cypress Oil, Perfume, Gardenia Extract, Chlorophyll, Color.
My review is from 2006, and i feel the same way about it in 2016.
Okay. I’m so amazed with Melomint bubble bar. And I’m amazed at “Summer” on the uk forum for ever having the patience with us to again and again try to get our collective together to vote for it and (thank heavens) finally having it win this time. It looks like a watermelon…in technicolor. It turns the water a beautiful light red/dark coral color. (I’m taking a pic of the water next bath). It smells like spearmint (not sweet mouthwash-y peppermint). It’s refreshing as all get out when the temperature rises in Summer. And what is up with the little watermelon seeds? Cute! I think it’s darn near perfect, bravo Lush.
It is strong enough of a mint to stand alone, and the water color is so unique for a Lush product that I wouldn’t want to change it. 😀 If you like Lush’s “Ice Hotel” bubble bar you’ll love this I think. It’s the same minty freshness just without the lavender. And the cypress really works here. It helps sort of ground it without even being noticeable. Wow.
LT description: If you like spearmint chewing gum you’ll likely have a weakness for this bubble bar. The mint, cypress and chlorophyll provides relief to tired and aching bodies at the end of a hard day, and with the look and shape of a slice of watermelon, this bubble bar is a beauty.
Spring Cleanser
Ingredients: Fresh Cucumber Infusion (Cucumus sativus), Spring Water (Aqua),Almond Oil(Prunus dulcis), Stearic Acid (vegetable based emulsifier), Cucumber Extract (Cucumus sativus), Cedarwood Oil, Violet Leaf Absolute, Chamomile Oil, Oakmoss, Fennel Oil, Perfume, Triethanolamine, Cetearyl Alcohol (wax), Methylparaben, Propylparaben.
Lush.a.Lot’s Review: This was a great cleanser for sensitve skinned or dry skinned people. The cucumber is gentle and skin did not feel tight or dry after using this, it felt clean and moisturized.
Lush Times 2000 description: Cool as a cucumber and calm as chamomile, our gentle Spring Cleanser will soften your skin while cleaning your face. Fennel is excellent for dull or oily skins and is even rumoured to keep wrinkles at bay! Oakmoss, used as a medicine by Native Americans, adds an earthy perfume and works as a natural antiseptic. Violet leaf stimulates the circulation and is used as a remedy to relieve headaches! Use it in the morning and at night to cleanse and refresh your skin.
Giveaway February 2016
This one was held on my “Lushalot” Instagram page.
Some Oxford street exclusives and Lush Kitchen stuff.
A Little Monkey
See my tub demo video below.
3 out of 5 rating.
Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Cream of Tartar (Tartaric acid), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Cocamide DEA, Fresh Bananas (Musa paradisiaca), Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides), Dried Banana Slice (Musa paradisiaca).
This is a bright yellow banana scented bar. It’s moisturizing properties are welcomed by my poor dry hands, because of the fresh bananas that are in the bar. The scent doesn’t seem to be as wonderful in the water as it is in the bar. The banana scent dissipates too quick. This bar leaves a medium yellow color in the water and comes with a slice of banana on the top.
This bubble bar creates some fluffy, creamy bubbles.
Lush Times 2006 description: This bubble bar is packed with fresh organic bananas. We love to use bananas in body products because they make your skin soft so we’ve made a whole Bubble Bar Slice for our banana fans; so you can enjoy their skin softening skills at the same time as you splash about in a tub full of banana scented bubbles. We guess that A Little Monkey bath will go down a storm with right little monkeys as they get ready for bedtime, but we will also allow grown-ups to use it.(If you like Sympathy for the Skin and Banana Moon, then you are going to be in fruit heaven when you add A Little Monkey to your Lush fruit bowl.
Scent Family: Banana Moon Soap; Big Banana Moon Soap; Gumback Express Smoothie; Gumbo Express Smoothie.
Here’s a video demo i made of this in the bath
a Little Monkey has the same scent as Lush’s “Banana Moon” soap which was popular for so many years. And the same scent as ‘Gumback Smoothie’. My kids loved this bar.
British Nanny
Here’s a demo and review video i did of this beautiful moisturizer
American Cream lotion
4 out of 5 rating 
This American Cream boy lotion smells just like the American Cream hair conditioner. A some bit of vanilla and some bright lavender and herby sage.
Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Almond Oil (Prunusdulcis), Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cacao), Glycerine,Stearic Acid, Triethanolamine, Vanilla Absolute (Vanilla planifolia),Clary Sage Oil (Salvia sclarea), Lavender Oil (Lavandula angustifolia), Benzoin Resinoid (Styraxtonkinensispierre), Cetearyl Alcohol,*Linalool, *Limonene,Couramin, Perfume, Methylparaben, Propylparaben
Here’s a demo and review video i made of this lotion 🙂
Here’s a demo/review video i made of American Cream lotion
I put all the American Cream lush products in one photo. There have been more products made by lush in this scent after i took this photo some years ago. 😊
Rose bubble bar
3.5 out of 5 rating
This is the latest design of the Rose bubble bar, made for the Lush Kitchen May 2026 subscription box. It’s got a more 3d rose shaped design than the original Rose bubble bar below made in the late 2000’s. It has the same lovely Amandopondo bubble bar scent.
I would give this newer one a 4 out of 5.
This was made originally for Mother’s day.
This bubble bar has the same lemony rose floral scent as the Lush “Amandopondo” bubble bar which was sold in stores from 2002-2015 discontinued in 2015.
Quantitative Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Cream of Tartar, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Cornflour, Perfume, Lemon Oil, Sweet Orange Oil, Rose Absolute, Organic Rose Hip Oil, Titanium Dioxide, Citric Acid, Laureth 4, *Citral, *Citronellol, *Geraniol, *Linalool, *Limonene, Calcium Sodium Borosilicate and Titanium Dioxide, Colour 17200, Candy Leaf.amand
It’s a small bubble bar.
Giveaway! February 8-15
And the Winner is…Dafne Cipriani from Milan Italy!
To enter, simply comment once on this page, and once on my Lush Museum video page here at this link Lush Museum video page and on both of these pages please click the option on the comment to add comment to Facebook.
That’s it!
Look below for list of products being given away.
Winner will be chosen by official random number generator.
Giveaway ends Monday February 15. Look here on that date.
I’ll be giving away the items in my picture;
Lush ‘Lover Lamp” UK only limited edition Valentine’s bath bomb.
Lush Oxford Street exclusive “I Am a Radiant Being’ bath oil.
Lush Yummy Mummy limited edition shower GEL.
Lush Happy Blooming jelly new, exclusive from the Lush Kitchen.
Lush ‘Ladybird’ limited edition UK bubble bar for Mother’s Day.
New, limited edition ‘Rose Bombshell’ UK bath bomb
Lush 1/4 bar new Limited edition UK Only ‘Sunflower’ bubble bar.
Lush ‘Lady Catrina’ new limited edition Calacas scented soap from the Lush UK Kitchen last month.
Lush “Enchanter’ new limited edition Calacas scented bath bomb from the Lush UK Kitchen.
Thanks for participating!
Giveaway March 2016
Below i list all my past giveaways leading up to the present.
This one i gave away a bunch of Lush Oxford street Exclusives, and a couple of Lush Kitchen exclusives. I held this giveaway on my Instagram account. You can get there by pressing the Instagram (camera) icon on my home page here on my blog.
Big Calm
4.5 out of 5 rating
Ingredients: Coconut and Pineapple Infusion (Cocos nucifera and Ananas sativus), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Glycerine, Propylene Glycol, Perfume, Carrageenan Extract, Sweet Orange Oil (Citrus dulcis), Vetivert Oil (Vetiveria zizanoides), Benzyl Alcohol, Citral, Coumarin, *Limonene, *Linalool, Colour 61585, Colour 77891, Methylparaben.
* Occurs naturally in essential oils
Here’s a demo video
Review: I’d give this a 4 This jelly has such a beautiful dark and light blue color. It reminds me of the sea. The ocean is also called “the big Calm”. So beautiful the color blue…truly dreamy looking. It has the scent of a sweet tropical scent, fruity and a bubble gum-like note underneath. If Lush Coolaulin, Pineapple Grunt soap and Rockstar soap had a lovechild maybe? I like this. I don’t think I’ve ever smelled any other lush product that smells like this. It’s Lush but it’s not like anything that’s out currently. For those of you who like B Never’s Banana soap, it’s kind of like that, but this has more coconut smell and a different kind of fruitiness. This is one of those Lush products where you go ‘Do I hate this or….like this…sniff sniff…mmm…sniff sniff…Hmm….” so it may be one of those “taunting” types of Lush products. You know like some lush products, when you first smelled it you’re like “Hmm…hmm..” and you put it back and then the next day it calls you and you HAVE to smell it? Yeah, that.
Lush Times Fall 2006 Description: Need a relaxing week on the beach? Take a trip to the shower with our piña colada jelly instead.
i took a picture of other lush products that were made with the same scent.
whats not in the picture is Coco Loco body spray which was made years after i took this photo. 😊
coco loco shower oil
yellow submarine bath bomb
big calm body lotion
big calm jelly
big calm solid perfume
Big calm body butter
june 2025
Lush created a big calm body butter for their monthly subscription box.
The body butter smells just like the big calm jelly. Even moreso than the other big calm scented products.
It feels silky smooth on the skin. And it rinses off nicely, makes skin soft not greasy.
4.5 out of 5 rating
below is my pic of sunny side up shower jelly, lush made this also in the big calm scent.
Happy soap
4 out of 5 rating
There were two designs of happy soap in 2006. The first soaps were round, orange smiley faces. And the whole huge truckles of soap for stores display and for cutting of pieces for customers to buy were orange yellow and green, with orange wheels on top. 
Ingredients: Sweet Orange Oil , Tangerine Oil , Propylene Glycol, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Stearate, Perfume, Glycerine, Sodium Chloride, EDTA, Tetrasodium Editronate, *Limonene, Hydroxycitronellol, FD&C Yellow No. 5, Gardenia Extract , D&C Red No. 27, D&C Red No. 33, FD&C Red No. 4, FD&C Blue No. 1,
Review: Happy soap is a lovely yellow and green soap with happy faces on the top of the big slab. It’s a medium-strong orangey scent. Orange and tangerine being very uplifting.
16 years later…..In 2022 Lush made Happy soap with a slightly different look. same wonderful orange and tangerine scent. This one is orange and yellow with the smiley faces in the soap.
Notes: This goes well with the following orangey lush products: “Happy pill” ballistic, and Karma scented item, “You’ve Been Mangoed” bath melt, “The Olive Branch” shower gel, “Each Peach” massage bar, and Therapy massage bar.
Lush Times 2006 description: Happy Soap is a translucent orange soap decorated with smileys. Happy soap is toning for your skin and cheering for your mind. When your happy friends are around let them use it too. The world can do with a good dose of happiness.
Twilight jelly
5 out of 5 rating See my close up demo & review video of this jelly below on the page.
The Lush.co.uk site made these ”Twilight” jellies for one day only and I was lucky enough to buy a couple. Lush made this jelly in their popular ‘Twilight’ bath bomb fragrance, which Has Lavender, and a creamy tonka bean note.
I love that Lush made these jellies in pink and blue. They’ve never done this two-color thing with a jelly. I believe these colors were used because the Twilight Bath bomb emits pink and blue colors while dissolving in the bath.
Lush also makes a “Twilight” shower gel and a perfume that i have in the ‘Twilight’ scent and has made a liquid spray perfume in this scent as well.
An all natural scent of fresh lavender, creamy, vanillary tonka bean, and ylang ylang, coming from fresh ingredients. I got my order on Sept 6.
The Twilight bath bomb
Twilight on the left
To me the Twilight scent is even better in the jelly form. It’s sweeter, creamier, and a bit more ylang ylang floral than in thr twilight bath bomb or shower gel. And another plus is that this lovely scent actually stays on the skin a longer than average amount of time. This is great.
Here’s a 6 minute video with music of it close up to see the shimmer. I wash my hands with it and chop it up, etc.
since then lush has made sooo many different oroducts with this scent.
Giveaways-Lush
These are the Lush Giveaways that i have done. I do them regularly because i like to give back, pay it forward. 🙂 Click on the date to see the details of each giveaway.
March 2020 on Instagram
This one in September below was won by Tessa on Instagram
August 5-11
July 2016 Youtube
8 Lush Mother’s day Oxford Street exclusives, 5 lush UK Kitchen exclusives, 2 Mother’s day UK limited edition, 1 Lush North America limited edition. Winner in Texas, USA
Lush Oxford Street Valentine’s & Mother’s Day exclusives, 3 lush Kitchen exclusives, 2 Lush UK Mother’s day limited edition. Winner lives in Milan, Italy.
January 2016
Ice Blue shampoo
This is very minty. It wakes you up in the morning to wash hair with this. It smells nice and strongly of mint. Lush made a soap called ‘Ice Blue; with the same minty smell.
Lush description: How much mint can you take in one shampoo? How about an quick blast of spearmint and two different peppermints to perk you up from three directions at once. Mint stimulates your hair follicles and puts a bit of life back into your hair; it wakes up your brain too, so it’s a really excellent morning shampoo for everyone who’s a little bit reluctant to get up and running before noon. It’s brilliant for oily to normal hair that’s a bit flat, dull and dozy now and again. Ice Blue Shampoo was one of the Lush creative team’s first ever best selling, brilliant smelling products; we thought it was time to give it another go.
Ingredients: Water, Perfume, Lactic Acid, Spearmint Oil, Peppermint Oil, Fine sea Salt,
Below is the Lush Ice Blue soap
Flying Fox shower gel
3 out of 3 rating
Youki Hi is the Lush bath bomb that has the Flying Fox scent
im definitely in the minority with my 2 out of 5 rating. Many more Lushies love this scent. Its just too much for me to where it smells gross on me. i guess its just my skin chemistry. 🤷🏻♀️
Ingredients: Honey, Chinese Angelica, Burdock Root and Jasmine Flower Infusion, Hungarian Honey, Greek Honey, English Honey,English Honey, Perfume, Jasmine Absolute , Ylang Ylang Oil, Cypress Oil , Palmarosa Oil
This shower gel is loaded with Jasmine. It has honey in it as well but it is no where near the scent of B Never or other lush honey favorites. It is a strong floral scent. The scent stays on your skin 24 hours later. I find it to be a little too intense smelling. The bath bomb version of this scent is called “Youki Hi“. Also Lush made ‘Cloak of Invisibility‘ bath oil bon bon, “Floating Flower’ bath bomb for Valentine’s 2014 in this same scent, and lush “Godiva” solid hair shampoo also has this scent, as well as Lust perfume.
I love Jasmine blends like Tender is the Night, its one of my top perfumes. But Flying Fox. No. Just no.
LT 2006 Description: Lascivious, licentious, vivacious and insatiable, this is the Sex-Appeal Honey Shower with masses of Jasmine. Contains the finest aphrodisiac essential oils, plus the best three oils for controlling PMS. Use generously all over your body and even wash your hair with it if you dare! To make you smell sexy whether you are going out for the night or just having a night in with a friend.
Here is a picture of a Lush exclusive 2018 Summit bath bomb with the same scent. It’s called ‘Fox’. I got a t shirt of this UK ‘stop hunting foxes’ campaign when i walked in, along with other attendees.
Aqua Mirabilis body butter scrub bar
5 out of 5
the 2002 original design
Above is the original which i rate a 5 out of 5 rating even though its very small
and the redesigned square thing they turned it into later i rate 3 out of 5.
i dont like the new design as much as the original little fairy cake style.
New design
new design
Ingredients: Cocoa Butter , Almond Butter ,
Ground Almond Shells, Sandalwood Oil, Rose Absolute, Perfume
This is a square, solid cocoa butter with ground almond shells for exfoliation. It has a rose, almond, sandalwood scent. I like it. I bought one every now and then.
Original style 😍
How to use: You take a shower with soap or shower gel as usual, then after rinsing, rub this (not too hard) on your skin all over, and then rinse off in warm/hot water. That’s it!
Lush 2005 descrption: “The Aqua Mirabilis is now even more of a miracle. New, improved Aqua Mirabilis is BIGGER! (yeah its bigger but no apricot kernel oil and fizzing marigold foam on top like the original).
I bought seven original style once.
Hooray! Now you can scrub generously all over and not worry about it running out before you reach your toes. If you ever treat yourself and get a scrub at a spa, the beauty therapists expect to exfoliate away huge swathes of dead skin. If you regularly give yourself an Aqua Mirabilis softening scrub, with its gently exfoliating ground almond shells, they are astonished to find that you’ve already got lovely, soft, fresh, healthy skin with hardly a dead grey cell there at all. The Aqua Mirabilis turns your bath or your shower into an instant, bargain body therapy. We make it with sandalwood and rose perfumes to soften your skin, cocoa butter and apricot kernel oil to moisturise it, plus natural ground almonds to scrub you even softer. You will feel fantastic after using one of these. Promise.”
Original style that Lush remade in 2020
Review: The original products called “Aqua Mirabilis Underwater Massage bar did triple duty; scrub, melt, massage, ballistic. It was very small and dainty, like something fairies would make. It had apricot oil peach colored ballistic ‘crust’ which would fizz in the bath, and some sprinkles of marigold flowers on the top and also had marigold flowers mixed up in the coco butter inner layer. And it smelled of real roses and sandalwood. I like the original MUCH better. Suffice it to say it took a few years for me to use of these redesigned body butter squares. If you have dry or bumpy skin I would suggest this Aqua Mirabilis scrub or the other square scrub called Buffy the Backside Slayer. Aqua Mirabilis does make ones skin incredibley soft and smooth.
I cut it open. It looks like a slice of cake or a petit four.
Though i cant forgive Lush for destroying my Preciousss…I do like these cocoa butter scrub squares much better than those harder, dome shaped sugar scrubs that Lush have also created.
Original style that lush remade in 2022
Love Spell massage bar
3 out of 5 rating. See my demo video below.
Lush made this lovely massage bar only at their Oxford Street superstore in 2017, and it was also available for one day only on the lush Kitchen website. Here’s a video demo i made of this massage bar.
I loved the original Love Spell massage bars so much. I thought the original ones were a 4 out of 5 rating. However when they remade them in the Lush Kitchen in 2014 they hardly had any scent so my rating went down to 3 out of 5.
Here’s my lush Kitchen box that i bought when they remade Love Spell.
Here’s my Sink Demo Video of Love Spell.
Zen
Earthy, incense-y scent
Here’s a quick demo and review i did of this soap
My photo below shoes Other Lush products in the Zen scent.
Green and Gold
I was lucky enough to have a kind person buy one for me while she was there so I could pay her back and she sent it to me, along with a couple of other Lush soaps from Oxford Street. I have a sink demo video of Green and Gold soap below.
4 out of 5 rating. See my demo and review video of this soap below.
This smells just like the Avobath bath bomb or even the you’ve been mangoed bath oil. It has lemongrass and it smells so wonderful.
Green and Gold was only sold at the Lush Oxford Street superstore from 2014-2017
It was a beautiful soap with green around the outside and strips of gold too. Inside the soap was a yellowish gold color. In the stores the whole soap were long cylindrical poles, so Lush would cut customers a 100g piece off of the giant long piece. Unless you wanted to buy the whole soap.
Here’s a video demo i did of this soap
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