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Lump of Coal Bath Bomb from Lush

The Lump of Coal Bath Bomb first became available as a part of Lush’s Christmas 2023 line. As Christmas tradition goes, if you’re on Santa’s naughty list you’re more than likely to end up with a lump of coal and not much else for Christmas.

I must admit that I wouldn’t be at all disappointed if I found the Lump of Coal bath bomb in my Christmas stocking… The Lump of Coal bath bomb looks just as its name suggests, like a lump of coal. If you look closely, you can see that each of the Lump of Coal bath bombs has a cheeky looking smiley face on them.

An actual lump of coal is probably the last thing you’d ever think about putting in the bath with you and I know some people are filled with horror at the thought of using a black product in their clean white bath (somewhere they visit to GET CLEAN) but I’m here to let you know that there’s no need to panic at all!

With every bath bomb (even the light-coloured ones) I do recommend using them in a clean bath as any bath bomb colour will cling to residue left in the tub (even the almost invisible stuff like soap scum.) If you do find yourself in a situation where a simple rinse with the shower head doesn’t work, my secret weapon is dish washer soap.

A sponge, hot water and dish washer soap cuts through grime and grease fantastically, I actually use a splash of it to clean my bathtub a few times a week as it works so well. I would like to stress that I didn’t get any mess left behind at all by the Lump of Coal bath bomb, but I thought this tip was worth a mention just in case! Please keep on reading this review as there’s more to the Lump of Coal bath bomb than first meets the eye…

The Lump of Coal bath bomb is one of Lush’s smaller bath bombs, I didn’t realise until I had, had it delivered that each of them were only 90g each. For comparison purposes this means the Lump of Coal bath bomb is a little bit smaller than the Butterball and Groovy Fairy bath bombs.

Even though the Lump of Coal bath bomb is small, its scent still packs a punch. The Lump of Coal bath bomb shares its scent with the Hot Toddy shower gel and Cinnamon Roll bubble bar. It includes the following ingredients: cinnamon leaf oil, clove leaf oil and Brazilian orange oil.

It’s the perfect Winter fragrance, the best way I can describe it is as very similar to fizzy cola bottle sweets with a side helping of something warm and spicy, it’s almost like a mulled wine, sweet but incredibly toasty.

As soon as the Lump of Coal bath bomb comes into contact with your bath water a burst of black foam spills out of it. Slowly you start to see that the black pigment is actually a combination of very dark greens and dark blues.

After just under 2 minutes, a thin line of gold foam starts to slowly trickle out of the Lump of Coal bath bomb too. 

As the bath bomb bobs around your bath, the trickle of gold slowly gets thicker. As it spins it creates gold, dark green and dark blue bath art. The photos I have included in this review do the Lump of Coal bath bomb no justice at all. The dark colours put up against the gold clash, making the most striking of bath-bomb-bath-art.

With the Lump of Coal bath bomb being so small I was expecting it to be a really quick fizzer, it however took a good 10 minutes to fully dissolve. The water left behind is full of so many warming ingredients that it left my skin feeling tingly and as if my muscles had, had tiny little hands massaging them.

My skin feels silky smooth, and the scent remained on my skin longer after I got out of the bath too.

Once the Lump of Coal bath bomb has fully dissolved, the bath water turns a very dark black with the most incredible amount of golden shimmer in it. I wish I could have got a photograph to show you just how beautiful the end water is. It’s one you really must see with your own eyes.

Overall, I absolutely adore the Lump of Coal bath bomb. Its smaller size didn’t hinder its scent quality or bath art potential. I know using darker coloured bath bombs can be a little daunting but if you follow my steps above there’s really nothing to worry about.

Lush are known for bringing most of their Christmas bath bombs out only once BUT I have my fingers crossed that this, most pleasant little lump-of-coal makes a return for next Christmas too. It’s that good!

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Intergalactic Bubble Bar from Lush

I can’t believe it has taken until the very end of 2023 for Lush to finally create the Intergalactic Bubble Bar. Now it is here, I can’t quite find the right words to explain how happy its release has made me!

The Intergalactic Lush-scent-family started its Lush life in the form of the Intergalactic bath bomb. 

Back in 2015, it was an Oxford Street store exclusive; available from only one Lush store in the world, I used to have to beg people to pick it up and post it to me. Thankfully, those days are over as it is now available everywhere and is one of Lush’s best-selling bath bombs of all time.

The Intergalactic bubble bar is made in the same way as the Brightside and The Comforter bubble bars.

However, instead of having just two different colours of bubble bar rolled together to create that perfect swirl that the bubble bars I mentioned above are famous for, the Intergalactic bubble bar is made (much like the bath bomb equivalent) with three different colours: Blue, pink, and yellow.

During the process of making the Intergalactic bubble bar, the blue, pink and yellow bubble bar doughs meet as they are rolled together. After they have been put together you can see greens, oranges, and purples at the parts where the different colours of the bubble bars touch.

It’s a perfect, rainbow-blended-coloured bubble bar that I can’t get enough of. It is just so colourful, bold, and pretty, I’m obsessed!

Each Intergalactic bubble bar weighs in at approximately 200g each. At the time of writing this review, other bubble bars of the same size that are created in the exact same way (and that are currently available to purchase, other than the 2 mentioned above) are the Cinnamon Roll bubble bar, Snow Fairy Roll bubble bar, Blue Skies and Fluffy White Clouds bubble bar and Botanomancy bubble bar.

The Intergalactic bubble bar contains peppermint, grapefruit, vetivert and cedarwood oils and is described on Lush’s website as the ‘perfect, post-orbit soak’.

Its scent is predominantly a peppermint one, the grapefruit in it is however also noticeable BUT I wouldn’t say it was a particularly fruity fragrance. The grapefruit adds a layer to the peppermint scent which I can only describe as a clean smell.

To use the Intergalactic bubble bar, I put broken up pieces of it into a sieve and let the running bath-water trickle over it. I find this the most effective way to use Lush’s single use bubble bars.

The one thing that I love about Lush’s bubble bars over their bath bombs is that they can easily be spread out over several baths. You can easily get 4 very generously bubbled baths out of just the one Intergalactic bubble bar making it excellent value for money.

If you’d like the bath water to be a darker blue at the end, I do however recommend using a little more per bath. The more of the Intergalactic bubble bar you use, the bluer the water under the bubbles will be. Using more doesn’t seem to get you many more bubbles but does make a difference on the end colour of your water.

Even if you decide to split the Intergalactic bubble bar 4 ways, it doesn’t compromise on its scent-quality which is often the case if you try to spread a bubble bar out a little too much. A blanket of fluffy white bubbles collects on the water’s surface immediately after placing the Intergalactic bubble-bar-pieces under the running tap.

An Intergalactic bubble-bar-bath leaves your skin feeling cool and refreshed. Its scent stays on your skin for the best part of the rest of the day after using it too. The scent lasts throughout the whole of your bath and the bubbles remain as well. As far as bubble bars go, it’s very much up there with the best of them!

Overall, I am so happy at the release of the Intergalactic bubble bar, it’s the prettiest bubble bar that Lush have ever made; The colours, its scent, and the galaxy-like-bathwater makes it worth every penny.

I hope that Lush keep the Intergalactic bubble bar as permanent stock for the foreseeable future, it’s the best bubble bar to have come out in a very long time.

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Passion Fruit Exfoliating Shower Gel from Lush

The Passion Fruit Exfoliating Shower Gel is Lush’s first ever scrubby shower gel and has caused a huge wave of excitement within the Lush community.

At the time of writing this review the Passion Fruit exfoliating shower gel has only been available in November 2023’s Lush Kitchen subscription box.

The Passion Fruit exfoliating shower gel is a jam red colour. The black dots that you can see in it are crushed passion fruit seeds. These alongside the fine sea salt and tagua nut powder that are also included in its ingredient, are what makes this shower gel ‘scrubby’.

Alongside the crushed passion fruit seeds, sea salt and tagua nut powder, the Passion Fruit exfoliating shower gel also contains fresh orange peel decoction, organic sweet orange oil, buchu oil, litsea cubeba oil, olibanum resinoid, champaca absolute and fresh papaya juice.

You may recognise the Passion Fruit exfoliating shower gels scent if you were lucky enough to have tried the Princess Peach shower jelly and Princess Peach body spray from the limited edition, Lush X Super Mario Bros collaboration that was released back in March 2023.

The Princess Peach Lush-scent-family is a fruity blend of sweet peach and mouth-watering pineapple, it’s a very gentle fragrance (as far as Lush scents go anyway) BUT it still manages to be super uplifting. As I said in my review of the Princess Peach items before now, the scent truly is fit for a princess.

Consistency wise, the Passion Fruit exfoliating shower gel is quite thick but still very easy to get out of the bottle. I actually prefer Lush’s thicker shower gels as I find that sometimes the runnier gels are a lot easier to accidentally waste.

To use the Passion Fruit exfoliating shower gel, simply lather it up on your body in the same way as you would use an ordinary shower gel. The only difference being that while doing this you should focus a little more attention on the bits of your body that are in need of a little exfoliation; For me this is my arms, legs, knees, and chest.

The Passion Fruit exfoliating shower gel lathers up quickly. The scent really comes alive when mixed with the hot water and steam of the shower too. As an exfoliator, it is pretty decent, but it is a very gentle one. It is better suited to those who aren’t looking for anything too invasive scrub-wise.

Although it wasn’t a particularly scrubby exfoliator it did leave my skin clean and slightly smoother than an ordinary shower gel would.

The scent stayed on my skin for the best part of the rest of the day too, I could also see that my skin appeared brighter after use, especially on the bits I paid more attention to during use.

Overall, I really have enjoyed getting to know the Passion Fruit exfoliating shower gel and I can’t wait to see what Lush come up with next!

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