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Inner Dragon Bath Bomb from Lush

The Inner Dragon Bath Bomb is a product specifically made for the Lunar New Year celebrations. It was released at the start of 2024, ready and waiting for the start of the year of the dragon!

In years previous to 2024, Lush have created other Lunar new year products such as the Lucky Tiger bath bomb, Dragon Legend reusable bubble bar and Gold Rabbit bath bomb.

All of them were favourites of mine when they were released, so I was incredibly excited to see that Lush had once again decided to celebrate the Lunar New Year with another year-of-the bath bomb.

The Inner Dragon bath bomb is just a little bit smaller than the standard sized bath bomb (such as Twilight) weighing in at 190g.

All of the Lunar New Year products have shared similar colours, consisting of oranges, reds and gold. Inner Dragon is however Lush’s most complicated Lunar new year bath bomb yet. It’s a standard shaped red bath bomb with a golden dragon wrapped around it.

Lush have released a similar bath bomb before with the Tengri bath bomb, Tengri also had a dragon wrapped around it. The Inner Dragon bath bomb however has a much more identifiable dragon and I suspect this will make it sell a lot better than Tengri did.

The Inner Dragon is so incredibly detailed that it makes it almost impossible to believe that Lush bath bombs are all hand pressed.

Since 3D printing technology has improved (making it possible for more complicated bath-bomb-mould designs) the details of Lush bath bombs keep getting better and better.

Inner Dragons scent is from Lush’s scent family, Big. It’s a popular Lush scent that I’m very happy to have in a more affordable bath bomb form.

The Inner Dragon bath bomb contains a long list of ingredients including the likes of: Sicilian red mandarin oil, vanilla absolute, orange flower absolute, ginger powder, and mandarin powder.

Its scent is hard to explain but to me it always reminds me of eating vanilla ice cream at the beach. It’s refreshing while also being warm and uplifting.

As soon as the Inner Dragon bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a huge hiss and mounds of bright orange foam. The first time I used it I was so surprised at the amount of foam in such a short period of time that I almost dropped the bath bomb before I could take the below photo!

It doesn’t take long for red bubbles to appear from the bath bomb too, creating orange and red swirls decorated with golden lustre.

With the Inner Dragon bath bomb dissolving so quickly (just under 3 minutes) I didn’t manage to capture any bath art photos but the oranges and reds coming out of it (even though for a very short amount of time) were spectacular to watch.

The Water left behind by the Inner Dragon bath bomb is a blood-orange colour. With it being such a fast fizzer, it leaves you with plenty of time to sit back and relax in its skin-soothingly-perfect waters. I can still smell its gentle scent on my skin for the rest of the day. It also left my skin feeling soft and refreshed right into the next day too.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Inner Dragon bath bomb, it’s a fantastic product inspired by a beautifully reflective and special time of year. I am looking forward to seeing what Lush come up with for Lunar new year, 2025!

Happy Lunar New Year everyone, may the year of the dragon treat you well!

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Whispering Heart Bath Bomb from Lush

The Whispering Heart Bath Bomb is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2024 Valentine’s Day line.

Whispering Heart is one of the sweetest looking bath bombs from this year’s Valentine’s Day range. It’s mainly hot pink in colour and has a red heart on its top, right in the middle of the red heart is a heart shaped hole (unfortunately none of mine look quite as good as those featured on Lush’s website) but that’s the shape that the hole in my photos of this bath bomb should be.

Lush’s website says you’re meant to ‘whisper your heart’s desire into this sweet and fruity-fragranced Valentine’s Day bath bomb.’ which explains the purpose of the heart hole!

Weighing in at approximately 180g each, the Whispering Heart bath bomb is the standard sized Lush bath bomb, it fits snuggly in my hand.

The Whispering Heart bath bomb contains Epsom salts, bergamot oil and Brazilian orange oil. Its scent is a part of the Rhubarb and Custard Lush-scent-family, but the scent has only ever been released in a soap format before now.

I have been dreading writing this part of the review on the Whispering Heart bath bomb as I really don’t know where to begin when describing its scent. As I stated earlier, the bath bomb is fragranced with Lush’s Rhubarb and custard scent-family.

In ways its scent does remind me of rhubarb and custard sweets but it’s a lot stronger and less creamy, it’s how I’d imagine a rhubarb and custard slushie-ice-drink would smell. (I hope that makes sense…)

My nose doesn’t pick up on anything rhubarb, but I can’t smell or taste rhubarb in rhubarb and custard boiled sweets either so that’s not a negative!

It’s a very moreish scent that works brilliantly in the bath bomb format.

As soon as the Whispering Heart bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a thick burst of pink foam, very quickly the foam thins out and looks more like what I have captured in the photo above.

As the bath bomb floats around your bath, red and hot-pink foam spills out of it.

Once in the water the bath bombs scent engulfs your bathroom, I could see the scent selling well in a perfume format.

Halfway through the bath bomb fizzing away, the red heart shaped part of the bath bomb separates from the pink bit creating 2 different lots of swirls, one red, the other pink.

The bath art isn’t as colourful as some Lush bath bombs, but it did create a small amount of red and pink circles as seen in the photo below.The Whispering Heart bath bomb takes approximately 15 minutes to fully dissolve and turns your bath water a bold and very bright shade of raspberry pink.

I found the waters left behind by the Whispering Heart bath bomb really warming on your skin.

The scent remains in your bathroom (although a lot more subtle) long after you pull the plug and lasts on your skin for the best part of the rest of the day too.

My skin felt clean, refreshed, and appeared brighter after soaking in the water left behind by the Whispering Heart bath bomb.

I think my favourite thing about the Whispering Heart bath bomb is the colour of the water once it has fully dissolved. I couldn’t help but feel invited in by the raspberry pink water and its sweet and fruity scent!

I really enjoyed using the Whispering Heart bath bomb, it isn’t my favourite from this year’s Valentine’s day range but with pink being my favourite colour I was always going to buy a few to use.

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Love Potion Bath Bomb from Lush

The Love Potion Bath Bomb is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2024 Valentine’s Day line.

Weighing in at approximately 75g each, the Love Potion bath bomb is even smaller than the Love Letter bath bomb from the same line.

Through my love of Lush and their world-famous bath bombs, I have however learnt that bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better. I never judge a bath bomb on first look as the plainer ones can often give you the best of surprises during use.

The Love Potion is just that, a bath bomb designed to resemble a mini potion bottle. The Love Potion bath bomb is not to be confused with the Magic Potion bath bomb, both are very different, the only thing they have in common are their potion names.

This dark violet, magical potion shaped bottle is decorated with a sprinkling of white and light pink miniature love hearts.

The Love Potion bath bomb contains Sicilian red Mandarin oil, almond essential oil, orris root powder, wafer paper, candy hearts and a generous helping of popping candy.

Lush’s website explains why some of the ingredients in the Love Potion were chosen; For example, orris root powder is supposedly known for its magical use of finding and holding onto love… If you believe in the power of the orris root, it’s definitely worth a try!

The Love Potion bath bomb’s scent is a powdery, fruity-sweet mixture, on first sniff I can smell a candy-like blend of strawberry and raspberry. Strangely, it actually really reminds me of one of my childhood toys, a scented My Little Pony.

As soon as the Love Potion bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a hiss of violet coloured foam with flecks of blue in. The popping candy kicks in almost immediately, crackling away as the bath bomb floats upon the bath water’s surface.

The Love Potion bath bomb doesn’t offer anything too artsy bath-art-wise, but thanks to the popping candy and violet foam that spills out of it, it does put on a beautiful show.

The small pink and white candy hearts slowly break away from the bath bomb dropping to the bottom of the bath before completely dissolving.

Amazingly, the Love Potion bath bomb took just over 10 minutes to fully dissolve, I was not expecting this considering its smaller than average size.

I didn’t realise until after I had used the Love Potion bath bomb that it also has the same silky-soft, wafer paper bits in that you’ll be familiar with if you have ever used the Dragon’s Egg bath bomb.

I found the dark violet waters left behind by the Love Potion bath bomb to be incredibly soft, a good soak in its waters left my skin silky-smooth and a lot less dry. It’s perfect for dry Winter skin but I can also see it working well in warmer months too because of its fruity fragrance.

Unfortunately, the Love Potion scent didn’t remain on my skin for very long at all but how soft it made my skin lasted right into the following day.

Overall, I think that the Love Potion bath bomb is another amazing addition to the Valentine’s Day line, I cannot recommend it enough, it may be small, but it is one of the best bath bombs from this year’s range, it has made a lasting impression on me!

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