Today I am reviewing the brand-new Chelsea Morning Bath Bomb from Lush’s 2024 World Bath Bomb Day collection.
I’m always honest in my reviews and the first thing I thought when my Chelsea Morning bath bomb arrived in the post was how unique it looked.
To me, it looks like Lush have cut two very different bath bombs in half and stuck the wrong bits back together to make a new bath bomb in a sort of Frankenstein-style way.
Looks wise, the bottom blue and white half resembles the Blue Skies and Fluffy White Clouds bath bomb while the orange top reminds me of something you’d get as a sweet treat after dinner.
A quick Google of the phrase Chelsea Morning has told me that it’s the name of a song that was released in 1969.
The Chelsea Morning bath bomb contains tonka absolute, lemon myrtle oil, fenugreek absolute and vanilla absolute.
It is a brand-new Lush scent so hasn’t featured in any other Lush product at the time of writing this review.
Its scent is warm and sweet; It resembles butterscotch which really reminds me of my nan, she absolutely adored butterscotch sweets, even after she lost her false teeth she still managed to get through bags and bags of them every day.
Lush describe the Chelsea Morning bath bomb as having ‘an orange top resembling sunlight and a base of blue sky and clouds.’
Lush also say that this bath bomb is best enjoyed when used in the tub with the morning sun pouring through the window. Which is similar to the lyrics found in the 1969 song of the same name.
Just like the majority of the other bath bombs from the World Bath Bomb Day collection such as the Brother Moon bath bomb, Time of the Season bath bomb and Passion bath bomb, the Chelsea Morning bath bombs are approximately 180g each.
As soon as the Chelsea Morning bath bomb encounters your bath water there is an explosion of thick orange foam from its top, and thick white and blue foam from its bottom.
It slowly foams away as the whole of the bath bomb becomes submerged. It doesn’t take long for the bath bomb to start spinning.
I must admit, I was expecting more from the Chelsea Morning bath bomb bath art wise; It spat out plenty of colour, but it stayed so foamy that it just formed mounds of orange and white bubbles instead of the traditional bath art swirls I’m used to from a colourful, Lush bath bomb.
I also found that its scent wasn’t very strong once in the water, if you like the sweet-food-scents but find the stronger ones sickly, this could be a good bath bomb for you, but for me I really wanted to be able to smell the butterscotch scent in it more.
The Chelsea Morning bath bomb took about 7 minutes to fully dissolve. I am wondering if I got a bit of a dud as I have seen photos of it online that don’t quite match up to my experience of it.
Sometimes with bath bombs you’ve had for a while, once wet they just turn to mush, my Chelsea Morning bath bomb didn’t quite turn to mush but I think had I have left using it for any longer, it may have meant I wouldn’t even have got the colourful bubbles that I did (see below photo).
Saying all of that, I really hadn’t had it for that long though, a few weeks at most. Most of my bath bombs are still perfect if not used even after several months, which again leads me to believe that maybe I did just have a dud.
I am a little sad as I did really want to love this bath bomb, its scent when the bath bomb is in your hand is incredible but once it goes into the water it seems to dilute it to the point that the scent is so faint it is almost undetectable.
The water left behind is a deep and inviting shade of blood orange, it’s soft to touch and left my skin hydrated and silky smooth.
Normally at this point of a bath bomb review I’d tell you how the fragrance had transferred to my skin once I was out of the bath, unfortunately I couldn’t smell it on my skin at all. This however could be a positive for customers who like more subtle Lush scents.
Overall, I did enjoy using the Chelsea Morning bath bomb, but I don’t think I’ll be buying anymore. For me personally I just would have liked its scent to be a little stronger during use.
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