Category: Lush Japan

Blooming Beautiful Bath Bomb from Lush

The Blooming Beautiful Bath Bomb was released in the UK alongside the Sakura shower gel as a part of a very limited-edition line that was originally only going to be available at Lush Japan.

Although it was released alongside the Sakura shower gel, the Blooming Beautiful bath bomb is not a part of the Sakura Lush-scent-family.

The Blooming Beautiful bath bomb is also not to be confused with the Mother’s Day 2024 bath bombs with a similar name. If you’re looking for reviews on them, they can be found here:

– Blooming Beautiful Chamomile bath bomb (blue)
– Blooming Beautiful Marigold bath bomb (yellow)
– Blooming Beautiful Orange Blossom bath bomb (pink)

This giant-sized bath bomb is similar to the Snow Fairy Lights and Love Locket Amazeball bath bombs.

Like them, the Blooming Beautiful bath bomb is hollow inside and has a small, bath-bomb-lid. The lid of the Blooming Beautiful bath bomb is the smaller pink flower part, while the main part of the bath bomb is the big white flower shaped bit.

Inside of the hollow, white flower part is blue coarse sea salt and salted Sakura flowers (as shown in the photo above)

There’s no right or wrong way to use the Blooming Beautiful bath bomb, some sprinkle the sea salt in as the bath runs followed by putting the rest of it in once you’re in the bath. Others just put the whole thing in, and some even use each bit of it in 3 different baths!

I decided to tip the sea salt and flowers in followed by adding the bath bomb into the water whole.

The Blooming Beautiful bath bomb contains coarse sea salt, ho wood oil, petitgrain oil, dark sumatran patchouli oil, ylang ylang oil and salted Sakura flowers.

The Blooming Beautiful bath bombs scent is incredibly strong both in use and before. It’s best described as a woody, fresh, and green fragrance with splashes of floral notes too, I want to say it’s a little musky too but I’m leaning closer to saying it’s slightly smoky.

As I said earlier, when I used the Blooming Beautiful bath bomb I sprinkled the insides of it into the bath first, followed by putting it back together and adding the rest of it, in to the water (as shown in the photo above)

If you’re not a fan of bits like petals floating around in your water, this bath bomb may not be for you; Although, there wasn’t a huge amount of flowers in it. Mostly, the hollow bath bomb was filled with blue sea salt.

When the Blooming Beautiful bath bomb first encounters your bath water there is an explosion of white foam, I really wasn’t expecting as much as there was.

The sea salt quickly dissolves into the hot water making this bath bomb good for relieving any muscle stiffness or joint pain. I always feel like the Lush bath bombs with the most sea salt in help me relax a lot quicker too.

It took a good three to four minutes for the pink part of the Blooming Beautiful bath bomb to come into contact with the water. What I wasn’t expecting once this had happened was pink and white bath art!

With the pink part of the bath bomb being so small I thought it wouldn’t have much effect on the bath at all, but the water left behind was a very inviting light shade of pink.

Overall, I enjoyed the Blooming Beautiful bath bomb a lot more than I thought I would. The next day after using it, my skin is still just as soft as it was when I first got out of the bath.

I’d love to see this scent used again in future Lush products and promise to dig out some older products that share its scent to review soon too.

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Royalty Bath Bomb from Lush

The Royalty Bath Bomb started off as a Lush Japan Harajuku-store-exclusive.

It also became one of the six exclusive bath bombs that were available to purchase in very limited amounts at the 2018 Lush UK Showcase; Each of the six bath bombs were sold for one hour only over the two day event (I don’t think I’ve ever experienced FOMO so intensely.)

Luckily, Lush see sense and it became readily available online for the 30 years-of-bath-bombs celebration back in 2019.

Since then, it was discontinued to make way for other products BUT with the Lush Kitchen Subscription box items now being announced ahead of their release, we know that it will be available in the May 2024 box.

Here I am, finally pulling my socks up and finishing my review of it!

Royalty is a golden-yellow crown shaped bath bomb with pink points to look like the crown has jewels.

Some of the ingredients included in the Royalty bath bomb are jasmine absolute, ylang ylang oil, sandalwood oil and vanilla absolute.

Its scent is best described as musky, the vanilla mixed with the jasmine gives it a burst of sweet floral too. 

If jasmine is in a cosmetic product, it is normally the dominant scent, but the vanilla in the Royalty bath bomb really dampens the jasmine down. As someone who doesn’t enjoy heavy jasmine scents, this was a positive for me.

As soon as the Royalty bath bomb comes into contact with the water you are greeted with a burst of bright yellow foam.

As the Royalty bath bomb fizzes away more colours spill out of it. Green and pink blobs separate from the bomb in a similar way to the colourful bits that are in the Golden Wonder bath bomb.

Considering its size, I was surprised to see that the Royalty bath bomb had fully dissolved in just shy of four minutes. This didn’t give the bath bomb much chance to create any notable bath art (although as you can see in the photo below it was colourful, just for a very short amount time.)

Sadly, the scent really dampened down to the point I couldn’t smell it at all after the bath bomb had fully dissolved.

The end water was however a beautiful shimmery yellow; The scent didn’t stay on my skin (If I am being honest I’m unsure if the scent was ever on my skin at all) but my skin did feel a lot softer than it did before I’d used the Royalty bath bomb.

Overall, I thought the Royalty bath bomb was beautifully made and one that really stood out, especially piled up high at the 2018 Lush showcase but I would have liked to have seen more bath art from it during use.

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Sakura Shower Gel from Lush

The Sakura Shower Gel started off its Lush life as a Lush Japan exclusive.

Luckily for Lush customers in the UK, Lush decided to release a very small batch of it, making it possible for me to grab myself a bottle.

It was ridiculously popular and sold out within less than 24 hours of its UK release.

The shower gel is described by Lush as a ‘bouquet in a bottle’. If you’ve used the Sakura bath bomb, you’ll recognise its gentle and calming scent straight away.

The name Sakura is actually the Japanese term for cherry blossom trees; With this in mind, the Sakura Lush-scent-family was created to evoke the burst of optimism that the first signs of Spring bring.

The Sakura shower gel contains fresh lemon juice, Sicilian lemon oil, mimosa absolute, orange flower absolute and jasmine absolute. When Lush described it as a bouquet in a bottle, they couldn’t have been any more accurate.

Sakura is not an in-your-face strong fragrance, as I said earlier, it is very gentle. The light floral notes it gives off make the scent have a super-clean and refreshing feel to it. 

The fragrance reminds me of the cherry blossom trees I had outside of my house when I was a little girl. They always seemed to smell fresher after a good sprinkling of rain and that’s exactly how I feel about the Sakura shower gel lathered up with your shower water.

A very small amount of the Sakura shower gel goes an incredibly long way; It has a creamy consistency and gets even creamier the more you lather it up.

The Sakura shower gel glides over your skin leaving it clean, hydrated, and fresh, it’s a true Spring-clean for your skin.

Its scent really shines through when combined with the hot water and steam from your shower and it feels incredible lathered up on your skin.

There is no need at all to moisturise after using this shower gel.

For such a gentle fragrance I was surprised at its staying power. I can still smell the scent on my skin long after using it.

If you are looking for a creamy shower gel that not only cleans but freshens up tired and dull skin too, look no further.

Overall, I am very impressed with the Sakura shower gel, I can only have my fingers crossed that Lush decide to make it more readily available so that everyone can give it a try, I already regret only getting one bottle!

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