American Cream Bath Bomb from Lush

Today I am reviewing the brand-new American Cream Bath Bomb from Lush’s 2024 World Bath Bomb Day collection.

Out of all of Lush’s brand-new bath bombs it was the American Cream one that first caught my eye because of its unique design. It’s a snow-white bath bomb decorated with small hot-pink stars.

All of Lush’s bath bombs are handmade, each of the stars in the American Cream bath bomb are actually mini, star-shaped bath bombs. I can’t believe how precise each star is, it’s a bath bomb work of art!

I wish Lush were still on social media so that we could see the making, and all of the other behind-the-scenes stuff as I love to see the whole process, especially with a bath bomb as detailed as American Cream.

The American Cream bath bomb contains coarse sea salt, vanilla absolute, clary sage oil, lavender oil, benzoin resinoid and strawberry powder.

It shares its scent with several hugely popular products such as the American Cream hair conditioner, American Cream shower gel, Marshmallow World bath bomb and most recently the Gary the Snail bath bomb too.

Lush describe the American Cream bath bomb as a ‘creamy vanilla and sweet strawberry’ scented bath bomb ‘with a fragrance reminiscent of strawberry-vanilla milkshakes in 1950s American diners.’

I’ll admit, the American Cream scent family has never been my favourite of Lush’s many fragrances, but it has grown on me over the years. I find it reminds me of the tree-shaped car-air-fresheners that were popular when I was growing up.

Each of the American Cream bath bombs are approximately 190g each fitting easily in my hand.

As soon as the American Cream bath bomb comes into contact with your bath water, white foam starts to spill out of it shortly after, small pink streaks start to foam out of it too.

After another couple of minutes, I could also see the signs of something blue coming from the American Cream bath bomb, this was a complete surprise to me as I thought it was going to create only pink and white bath art.

As always, the photos in this review do the bath bomb no justice at all.

Although there were small signs of blue bath art beginning to come out of the American Cream bath bomb alongside the pink and white, it wasn’t enough for me to pick it up clearly on camera. If you zoom in on the below photo you can almost see it has a slight blue tinge.

Even without the blue, the pink and white bath art that the American Cream bath bomb created was absolutely incredible. The bath bomb charged around my bath creating its perfect pink and white swirls for a good 10 minutes!

The water left behind by the American Cream bath bomb was however my most favourite thing about the bath bomb.

I admit I am biased when it comes to anything pink (as I can never get enough of the colour) but the end bath water from American Cream is a pink fans idea of heaven!

I wish I could have got a decent photograph of the bath water to share here, it was a baby pink and so, so shimmery. I felt bad pulling the plug out at the end as it was that beautiful.

The American Cream water left my skin lightly fragranced and really soft to the touch. I couldn’t help but notice how hydrated my skin looked after using it too.

Overall, I have to say that I am completely in love with the American Cream bath bomb, as I said earlier it isn’t my favourite Lush-scent-family but wow does it create some incredible bath art.

The American Cream bath bomb has left me so excited to try all of the other new bath bombs and I’m now more open to trying more Lush-scent-families that I haven’t always got on well with!

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Posh Chocolate Shower Gel from Lush

The Posh Chocolate Shower Gel is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s small but glorious, gourmand product drop. I was lucky enough to receive a bottle of it as a gift from Lush.

Lush describe the Posh Chocolate shower gel as ‘a true feast for the senses’ and that is exactly what this rich, chocolatey shower gel is.

The Posh Chocolate shower gel contains a generous helping of skin-hydrating glycerine, cocoa powder, hazelnut milk, fine sea salt, cocoa absolute, Australian sandalwood oil and a dash of vanilla absolute too.

Fresh from the bottle the Posh Chocolate shower gel smells just like a tub of hazelnut and cocoa spread.

The Posh Chocolate shower gel of course shares its scent with the Posh Chocolate body wash that was released back in 2021.

Some have questioned if we needed a shower gel equivalent of something we already have in a popular body wash formula, my say on the matter is, never, ever question the idea of MORE chocolate!

I don’t want to turn this review of the Posh Chocolate shower gel into just a comparison post between it and the Posh Chocolate body wash; Yes, they are very similar, but the shower gel still deserves a fair review all of its own.

The Posh Chocolate shower gel is the perfect shade of chocolatey brown, it’s thick but not at all difficult to get out of the bottle.

It’s hard to get your head around a chocolate-based shower gel not being sticky, it much like the Sticky Dates shower gel isn’t at all sticky and doesn’t leave you smeared in chocolate either. A little goes a long way, you really don’t need a lot of it to wash your whole body.

The Posh Chocolate shower gel takes a little longer to get into a lather than I am used to, BUT the more you lather it up the richer the chocolate scent seems to get.

Obviously, this shower gel is not meant to be eaten (after all, it is a SHOWER GEL) but I wouldn’t judge you for being tempted to give it a little lick (as it smells that good!)

My skin feels so soft and nourished after using the Posh Chocolate shower gel, it also appears fresh and clean.

I’d say that the Posh Chocolate shower gel isn’t quite as moisturising as the body wash equivalent, but I don’t prefer one to the other, both are great shower products that leave me smelling delicious.

Overall, I am loving the Posh Chocolate shower gel, it’s never been easier to smell like a snack thanks to Lush. I am obsessed with Lush’s recent burst of snackable scents, I can’t wait to see what they come up with next!

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Thermal Waves Bath Bomb from Lush

In celebration of World Bath Bomb Day 2024, Lush Cosmetics have released 29 bath bombs that consist of some much-loved golden oldies (some as they were and some even super-sized) as well as a shedload of brand-new bath bombs too!

Today I am reviewing the brand-new Thermal Waves Bath Bomb.

I don’t think I have ever included so many photos of a product in one single review, how could I resist going completely overboard with photos when a product looks as good as the Thermal Waves bath bomb does?

The Thermal Waves bath bomb looks incredible.

Lush have released several overly colourful bath bombs over the last few years but none of them have looked quite like the Thermal Waves bath bomb.

Thermal Waves is the standard sized Lush bath bomb, each of them are approximately 180g each which is the same size as the Avobath bath bomb.

I’m not entirely sure on how many colours Lush have officially used in the Thermal Waves bath bomb but just holding it in my hand I can see red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue and purple.

With the Thermal Waves bath bomb having so many colours in it, I was very interested to see what the end water from the Thermal Waves bath bomb would look like.

If you ever had the opportunity to use the, The Experimenter bath bomb you’d know it was the go-to rainbow bath bomb in its day BUT all of the colours in it turned your bath water an icky grey/brown at the end.

The Thermal Waves bath bomb contains organic sweet orange oil, buchu oil, litsea cubeba oil, olibanum resinoid and champaca absolute.

It shares its scent with the Princess Peach body spray and Princess Peach shower jelly from 2023’s Lush X Super Mario Bros. collaboration. This was very exciting for me as I loved the Princess Peach fragrance and felt it was wasted as a limited-edition scent that we’d likely not get again.

The scent is best described as a fruity mix, reminiscent of a peach and pineapple cocktail so perfect for the Spring and Summer seasons.

As soon as the Thermal Waves bath bomb encounters your bath water there’s an explosion of foamy colour.

At first you get patches of red, orange, and yellow and then larger patches of purple and blue foam spills out of it too.

As the foam thins out, bursts of different colours began to break away from the bath bomb leaving small patches of colour with lots of little bubbles in.

As always, the photos I have included in this review do the bath bomb no justice at all. I could not stop taking photos, it really is a bath bomb you have to experience for yourself to truly see how beautiful it is.

What really surprised me about the Thermal Waves bath bomb was how it was layered colour wise.

It is such a clever design, once it has stopped foaming, it begins to dissolve away in its different colours. The red and orange disappears, and you then get dark blue, purple, yellow, and green bath art.

Then the red and orange comes back, it’s almost like you’re using several different bath bombs, I’d never have thought so many different colour combinations could come out of just one bath bomb.

It takes about six or seven minutes for the Thermal Waves bath bomb to fully dissolve, and the water left behind is a very dark and sparkly purple, it is actually a very similar colour to my nails in the fourth photo of this review.

I really wasn’t expecting the end bath water to be anything other than a murky mess, but it was a deep, dark, super-inviting shade of purple.

The Thermal Waves bath bombs scent hangs around your bathroom for a few hours after pulling the plug. It lasts on your skin for a good four to six hours too.

My skin adored soaking up all of its ingredients and its light fruity scent left me craving more, I really hope Lush make more products in this scent soon as it’s delicious.

Overall, I love the Thermal Waves bath bomb, Lush would be silly to not introduce this as a mainline product in the near future!

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