I added a 4 second video below just trying to show the texture of it on my fingertip. 😊
We call them Ladybugs in the U.S., but they usually call them Ladybirds in the UK. 😊 🐞
I bought these two new Lush facial cleansers awhile back at the same time. And i’ve used all of both now but haven’t put the pics or review here in my blog yet until now. i’m doing this one first, because i’m still obsessed with this one and wish i could get more, but it’s no longer on the website. The other one is nice, i like it, but THIS Ladybird one…. oh my.
I took a close up pic
It’s a somewhat grainy paste kind of consistency. But when you apply it on your face it becomes smooth.
So you wet your face a bit, you slather a light to medium amount of this on your face, and then rub it around your face, not too hard but in a light to medium manner. Then i left it on for about 5 minutes. Then rinse off with warm water.
This smells absolutely delicious. That’s probably because it’s made with coconut, fresh papaya fruit, vanilla, orange oil, and blackcurrant.
Yummy.
My face is so smooth afterward. Then i put my regular nightly moisturizer on.
I forgot to add this collab to my site and thankfully Jamie Sowden reminded me. I’ll add its link to my ‘list of Lush Collabs’ page. 😊
Products in this collab
Goggles Eye Pads
Bananaaa shower gel
Minions bath bomb
Respect! Power! Banana! jelly face mask
I bought the face mask, bath bomb, and shower gel. 🍌 I took pictures of them below.
Respect! Power! Banana! banana and oat face mask
4 out of 5 rating
I LOVED the scent of this banana and oat face mask. It’s a jelly type of lush face mask, so it’s got that creamy mousse texture. It smells so good too. I love how this works. I have super dry skin so it was soothing to my dry skin. My face felt so smooth after.
Bananaaa shower gel.
4.5 out of 5 rating
I’m glad i bought two. This is a really yummy banana scent. I would say of all the 5-10 different banana products that Lush has made in the last 25 years, this might just be the best one in terms of the scent. It’s medium thick and creamy and a bit more moisturizing than other Lush shower gels.
Bath bomb 4 out of 5 rating.
I bought the bath bomb but i can’t find my pics or video of it. I think i deleted them by accident.
I bought 16 of the Mother’s Day products. I didn’t buy 3 things that i’ve bought for previous mother’s day and have already reviewed here like Atom Heart Mother, Yummy Custard, and Posh White Chocolate.
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.
This is a UK gift set with three products within a beautifully designed carrying box.
The Rascal shower gel has Raspberry seed oil, Raspberry juice, Rose, Davana oil, Cedar Wood, and Benzoin. I love this exfoliating shower gel, they already sell it on their website and in stores for valentine’s. The exfoliating bits are okay, i’d like it more without that.
🌟The Rebel Body Lotion has Raspberry seed oil, Rose, Lemongrass, Neroli, and Jasmine. I like this scent and it’s exclusive to this gift set. This is the one i’m glad to get the most in this set. Because it’s exclusive but i also like the scent. 🌟
The Brat body spray. It has Rose, Davana, Vetivert, and Benzoin. The davana does lend a fruity note to the rose, and the vetivert adds a green citrus note. I has a light raspberry-ness. it also has rose.
I would give the gift set as a whole a 4.5 out of 5 rating, but i also individually rated each product below as well.
I will say-such a pretty colored carrying box. 😍
Brat body spray 3.5 out of 5 rating
This is an alright rose scent. when wet it smells fresh and fruity with a bright note of rose. When it dries it gets even better, drying down to an even smoothe.
Rascal is one of three different shower gels being sold for Valentine’s 2026. Its an exfoliating shower gel. It was originally made for a 2023 Lush Kitchen subscription box. It’s got raspberry seeds in it that you can see, and it also has tagua nut powder in the mix which is also exfoliating. So this is for sure an exfoliating shower gel. You can feel the tagua nut powder and you can feel the raspberry seeds. The scent is a yummy raspberry rose.
I’d rate this Rascal shower gel a 4.5 out of 5
Before i tried the Brat perfume i had used the Rascal shower gel and then afterwards i sprayed a spray of my Lush Vimt-No raspberry/grape/black currant body spray. And oh My goodness that combo was so good with both of them having raspberry. Especially nice when the Vimt-No body spray dried down.
I had already bought a medium sized bottle with my Valentine’s haul.
You can see the raspberry seeds in my pic above
it’s a beautiful color of pink.
The Rebel lotion below 4 out of 5 rating
This body lotion is lovely. It’s a fruity floral, again having raspberry seed oil and rose but this also adds neroli, jasmine and lemongrass. Scrumptious. However, i smell more floral probably because it does have more florals in the ingredient list than the other two products in this gift set. I’d rate this lotion a 4 out of 5 (this may change) as well. Even though it’s similar to the other two in scent, it has a wee bit less raspberry scent, and a wee bit more floral and citrus. 😊 It’s not greasy at all and the lotion just sinks in nicely on my skin.
The lotion is also pink, a bit lighter than the shower gel.
It’s got a great texture and consistency
The three of these used together is absolutely gorgeous and yummy.
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.
Cempasúchil (pronounced sempa soo cheel) means Marigold in Spanish. Marigolds are used ornamentally and culturally in Mexico, particularly for Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) where we celebrate our ancestors who have passed. Marigolds are white, orange, gold, and bronze flowers. They’re not perfumey in a typical floral way.
2024 Cempasúchil shower gel was made for Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead ) 2024.
The glorious scent is made with Grapefruit, Buchu oil, and Bergamot oil. It also has some of the marigold flower.
I love everything about the scent of cempasúchil. I fell in love the first time i sprayed the body spray on. It’s bright, and citrussy but with a creamy buchu note. Buchu oil has a strong and intense herbaceous and minty note, with camphor and fruity facets. It is also reminiscent of blackcurrant notes.
It’s fresh and wonderful.
2025 Cempasúchil Body Spray, Soap and shower gel were made for Dia De Los Muertos 2025. All these three 2025 products have the same scent.
(Lush also has three other soaps for Dia De Los Muertos 2025 with a different scent that don’t have the cempasúchil scent. The three other soaps have Litsea cubeba, frankincense, and bergamot.)
Anyway back to Cempasúchil 😄
The soap is almost too pretty to use, with its gold hummingbird drinking the marigold nectar.
The marigold adds to the bright colors found on Dia De Los Muertos.
I love this soap. For the look of it and the scent i give the soap a 5 out of 5 rating for sure.
I feel the same way about the shower gel and the body spray.
I’d rate the body spray a 4.5 out of 5
And the shower gel is just as amazing smelling to me. And it’s pretty with the orange color and gold sparkle.
I’d rate the Shower gel a 5 out of 5
Cempasúchil is similar to Lush ‘iced wine’ shower jelly, sharing the buchu, bergamot and grapefruit combination. except the difference between the iced wine and cempasúchil is cempasúchil doesn’t have the iced wine nor the grape infusion, and the iced wine doesn’t have marigold flower infusion.
I love licorice and this is what the May Day badger smells like to me. I remember i bought five of them. i had pictures of the five but i cant find them now.
Lush Uk is making and selling 11 new fresh facial, body and haircare care products for Lushies to buy. I’m sorry but i don’t know at this time if these will be available in the USA yet. They are available on the Lush Uk app currently for Lush Club members. These products won’t be shipped until Dec 24th.
Oh my. In my haul video of all five new Lush Labs conditioners, i describe Candy Rain as being my favorite smelling of the 5 new exclusive Lush Labs hair conditioners. It smells like a vanilla milkshake. It smells like American Cream SHOULD smell like. Yum. it’s made with cashew cream, macadamia nut oil, brazil nut milk, coconut cream, almond essential oil, cocoa absolute, tonka absolute.
I was amazed that it handled my crazy hair. I’m SO impressed with this conditioner. While it doesn’t smell like candy exactly it does smell good to drink with a straw.
The VmT-No scent is “Basma” which is made from a drink in the UK called Vimto, a berry drink.
I’ve sprayed each of them. These are just my Initial opinions:
What’s up with Candy Rain? Yeah, No. 😵💫 It doesn’t smell like the Lush Candy Rain hair conditioner i had. It smells more like just the macadamia nuts and other nuts that were in the conditioner, don’t smell the vanilla. Not on my skin anyway, your mileage may vary. 👎
Snowcake, beautiful. 👍🏼 Just as i remember it, like the spray perfume.
25:43 Beautiful smells pretty much like the 25:43 perfume i have. Lemon cheesecake 👍🏼
Black Pearl. yes. 👍🏼 It’s as good as the Lush black pearl perfume i have. Could be a tad sweeter, like the shower gel. 👍🏼
Big Blue. It’s ok, kinda gives me a headache.
VMT-No – When i first sprayed it i wasn’t sure, but…as it dries omg it smells like berry fruit punch. SO good. 👍🏼
Something in the back of my mind always wondered what currant and rose would smell like together. Ive always loved the scent and taste of currant and ive always loved the fragrance of roses. I have a red rose bush in my backyard. 😊 I love all things that Lush makes with rose and i love all things Lush makes with black currant.
I decided to buy the solid form of NoWay to Say Goodbye because i didnt want to spend $45.00 on the liquid spray bottle and then wind up not liking it. The solid was $18.00
This is a good color for this perfume because its made with currant and rose as its primary notes.
Black currantsRose
Its a push up solid perfume with a screw top.
The solid version of any perfume ive tried always lasts longer than the liquid spray.
Its smells like it’s half rose and half currant.
Black currant is what the Lush Comforter bubble bar scent is made from. The scent of this No Way to Say Goodbye isn’t quite as sweet as The Comforter. You have to like the scent of rose to like this perfume otherwise youre not going to like this.
It gets better on my skin as it dries. I wish it were just a tad sweeter and it would be SO good. As it is now its nice, i dont hate it, but i dont love it. Its not gross or anything bad on me, like i said, its nice. I’d wear it now and again but its not a perfume I’d reach for the majority of the time. If it was just a tad sweeter i would reach for it more often to wear. Id give this a 3.5 rating, because its a small bit better than average. Still, im glad i bought it.
(Lush is selling this classic product once again on their website, as of October 29, 2025)
Shimmy Shimmy was a regular season long store item in 2002. In my photos below the price listed is the old price from many years ago.
Shimmy Shimmy was the originating scent family product from which all the American Cream products came from. vanilla, sage, and lavender. I wrote about this in 2002. 😊
At the time Lush had three or four of these little glittery kinds of massage bars, including the glitter bugs, and one or two others.
I bought Shimmy Shimmy massage bar in 2002. I loved the scent and the light iridescence of it when wearing it on the skin.
There is a new Shimmy Shimmy lip jelly product in 2026, in the Lush ‘Tricks’ range of products. I like it!
I took this Shimmy Shimmy/American Cream scent family many, many years ago to let people know which items had the same scent, incase they liked or didn’t like the scent and were thinking of buying one of these products not knowing they had the same scent.
Lush ‘My Melody’ from the June 2026 Hello Kitty #2 Collab
American Cream hair conditioner
Twinkle bath bomb
American Pie shower jelly
GO Bomb
Flosty Gritter bubble bar
Bosom Buddy breast cream
Boob Tube breast cream
D Cup breast cream
American Cream shower gel
American Cream body lotion
Shimmy Shimmy lip jelly
Shimmy Shimmy toothy tabs
I Am 10 bubble bar
American Cream spray perfume
American Pie body conditioner
American Pie solid body conditioner
Marshmallow World bath bomb
AmericanCream perfume oil
Silver Wing bubble bar
American Cream bath bomb
Liberation bath bomb
My Melody bath bomb
Vegan Society
This beloved product is back!
One sweep of this cocoa and shea butter bar offers skin softness, hydration and a beautiful perfume of vanilla and lavender with a hint of clary sage. But those are just two extra bonuses—the real appeal is the way it makes your skin glow. This sweet bar leaves behind a subtle sparkle that lights up your skin.
Made in Canada
What’s in it for you?
– Fair trade cocoa butter delivers hydration
– Vanilla absolute and clary sage scent skin
– This retro product is only available online and in select stores
Leaving the world Lusher than we found it
This self-preserving product is formulated to stay fresh and effective without added synthetic preservatives.
How to use: Warm in your hands before applying the bar directly onto dry skin. Once you have your desired amount on the skin, use your hands to massage with the oils and butters.
How to store: Store somewhere cool and dry between uses.
Melt Warning: This product was made to melt on contact with skin which means it also melts easily in warmer weather. We recommend picking it up in-store rather than having it delivered.
Around 2017 Lush introduced their ‘naked’ (solid/packageless) line of existing products. So in my below pic i have regular liquid American Cream shower gel and a naked or Solid American Cream shower gel. I like using each of them. Next to them are the American Pie body conditioner and the naked version sitting on top of it.
Lush club Japan app is offering some Sultana products to Lushies in Japan in a limited time basis. 😊
Body lotion
Body scrub
Shower gel
Perfume
this pic is from my friend Ethankjellvander
The Sultana fragrance is actually the Blackberry Bomb (which came first) fragrance.
Here are some pictures ive taken through the years of some of my Sultana products.
Sultana shower gel and Turtle Power body scrub made with the Sultana scent.
In my picture below from 2010 are Sultana perfume, Sultana shower gel, Sultana body lotion, Blackberry bomb, Bewitched bubble bar, and i cant remember what the magic wand bubble bar in front is called.
Stana of Fragrance perfume, Stana soao, shower gel, body conditioner, body lotion, blackbrrry bomb.
Body conditioner.
This is my most recent Sultana perfume. Ive bought a Lush sultana perfume called ‘Sultana of Soap’, and a Lush sultana perfume called ‘Sultana of Fragrance’, and a Lush perfume called just ‘Sultana’. 😄
Shower gummy is a fairly new invention from Lush. There are new shower guummies, facial gummies, and even hair gummies this year 2025.
I am LOVING this new Snowy shower gummy.
First of all i love the new creation of shower gummies. They are firmer than lush shower jellies. The lush jellies flop all over the place whereas the gummies are noticebly firmer. The shower gummy is so much easier to hold in the shower.
Secondly, the scent of Snowy is absolutely amazing. It was unexpected to me that this shower gummy would smell THIS good.
It smells like something yummy to eat for dessert. Vanilla, Mint and Sandalwood.
What a great combination! This shower gummy has convinced me that i need to buy the Mr. Wallet body spray fragrance.
Snowy is so cute for a Christmas product and its the perfect fragrance for Christmas.
If i had to decide on getting either the Lush ‘Sleepy Bear’ jelly or the ‘Snowy’ gummy for Christmas i would definitely get Snowy, no question.
Also, this is not as drying to my skin as regular soap. Its more moisturizing but not too moisturizing if that makes sense.
this is a new style of lush product called a body wash. lush has made about 5 or 6 different body wash cubes in the last year or so. the newest one is for Christmas 2025 and is called Vanilla Delight.
as you can see Vanilla Delight is topped with gold glitter. i put it next to the happy blooming delight body wash just for comparison.
all the different body washes have this same cube shape.
the consistency and texture is like big marshmallow, only a wee bit less squishy and firmer.
mine was a little squished and torn when i got it but it still works and it smells great.
it has the Yummy Custard and frozen custard scent, which is made with vanilla.
you just use it like soap in the shower. it lathers a bit. it’s more moisturizing than soap but it’s not too moisturizing. when you’re done you should put it somewhere where it can dry before the next use.
I like using these body washes. they’re different and not complicated to use , and the scent stays nicely.
Wreath is strongly scented in the best way. The fragrance is different for Lush, smelling more like the classic lush green and/or herbal scents. I loved showering with it, nicely fragrant.
Wreath is made with Galbanum,Petitgrain, Oakmoss, Thyme, and a pinch of floral from Geranium.
Looks like a pointsettia flower from a Christmas wreath.
Its almost too pretty to use! But i like using it. 😊 The scent kind of sticks around for awhile after showering or washing hands, which i like.
Lush ‘Wizard’ bath bomb from the first Wicked collab was the first product Lush made this new scent.
Lush also made this shower gel in their 2nd Wicked collab with the same scent.
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.
I just realized today that i didnt have this in here on my blog.
Taai Taai shower gel is like a unicorn. Lush sold it in the Uk one time only back in 2006 or so. I had one bottle and after that it was gone. I just washed out the bottle of any last drops and then put it on my Lush shelves to stare at it and sigh occasionally.
More recently in 2023 or 2024 (i cant remember exactly which month) lush thankfully decided to remake it for one of the lush monthly subscription boxes. I’ve never been so happy to buy a monthly sub box.
It was made in the Netherlands as well once. Taai Taai is a Dutch Holiday Cookie. These chewy cookies taste are traditionally eaten for the Dutch winter holiday of Sinterklaas. They taste like the best gingerbread of your life, and thats what this Lush shower gel smells like.
Although along the same lines as Lush Hot Toddy shower gel and Glögg shower gel Taai Taai is a bit sweeter and spicier. Spicier in a grandma’s fresh baked gingerbread way. YUM.
Its a thicker shower gel which is a good thing.
I would buy multiple bottles of this. And on that basis alone this is a 5 star shower gel.
For me this is right up there with my favorite ‘gourmand’ type lush shower gels skinny dip, b never, posh chocolate, snuggles, and Sticky dates.
I think youre starting to feel me as far as the unicorn..ness of TaaiTaai shower gel.
