For plastic-free-July Lush collaborated with the American animated television series, SpongeBob SquarePants to help keep our oceans and waterways clean. One part of the collaboration was the Lush X SpongeBob line and the other was a SpongeBob, Lush Kitchen themed box. Today I’ll be reviewing the Gary the Snail Bath Bomb from the Lush Kitchen box.
What I loved the most about the SpongeBob Lush Kitchen box is that you could enjoy all of the products even if you aren’t a fan/are not familiar with the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. I happen to be a huge fan of SpongeBob so was ecstatic to see so many amazing SpongeBob themed products.
In the tv series Gary is SpongeBob’s pet snail and strangely communicates with him via meows.
The Mermaid and Gary the Snail bath bombs were probably the products I was most excited about from July 2023’s Lush Kitchen box. Gary the Snail is, as its name suggests, a snail shaped bath bomb. It has a pink shell, green eyes, and a blue body.
The Gary the Snail bath bomb scent is from the American Cream scent family. Most recently, products that have shared the same scent include the American Cream shower gel and Marshmallow World bath bombs. Being honest as always, the American Cream scent isn’t one of my favourites from Lush. I’d even go as far as to say that I feel it is one of Lush’s most overrated scent families… (I’m sorry, we can’t love all of the same stuff!)
The Gary the Snail bath bomb contains benzoin resinoid, vanilla absolute and the following essential oils; Clary sage and lavender.
Despite my feelings, the American Cream scent IS one of Lush’s best-sellers and is insanely popular. It reminds me of the standard smelling car fresheners that you can buy in garages. It’s a very light vanilla and creamy strawberry blend.
Although I’m not a huge fan of the scent I was still keen to try the Gary the Snail bath bomb.
I’m not sure of the actual weight of the Gary the Snail bath bomb but in my hand, it feels similar in size to the likes of the Sleepy Bear or Mr Loba Loba bath bombs.
As soon as the Gary the Snail bath bomb encounters your bath water a burst of blue, pink and green foam erupts out of it. Slowly but surely, Gary the Snail bubbles away, floating just under the water’s surface.
As it floats around it sends blues, pinks, and greens out of it, the bath art is incredible for such a small bath bomb. My photos in this post do this bath bombs level of bath art no justice at all. I highly recommend looking under the hashtag #GaryTheSnailBathBomb on Instagram just to see how amazing this bath bomb performed!
The Gary the Snail bath bombs scent is gentle and not too in your face, it’s a good choice if you aren’t a fan of the heavier, more overpowering Lush scents.
It takes about 5 minutes for the Gary the Snail bath bomb to fully dissolve, the water it leaves behind is a shimmery, greyish blue. I didn’t find the bath bomb drying on my skin, but I wouldn’t say it left me particularly hydrated either. Its light scent was detectable on my skin for a few hours after getting out of the bath too.
Overall, I did enjoy using the Gary the Snail bath bomb. For me personally it was more of a novelty product than anything else, but the bath art it created was spectacular!
I’d have loved to have seen this released in the Lush X SpongeBob collaboration rather than just the Lush Kitchen box as I know of several people who aren’t subscribers of the Lush Kitchen box who would have loved to have given Gary the Snail a try.
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