Category: Lush Upon A Time

Dream Time Temple Balm from Lush

Temple balms aren’t new to Lush, I first tried the Dream Time Temple Balm on my very first visit to Lush Oxford Street. I think at the time of my first visit, both it and the Whoosh temple balm were only available in spa stores. Fast forward to 2024 and both the Whoosh and Dream Time temple balms have been revamped with new packaging and are now available to purchase online.

Previously, the temple balms have only been sold in little tins, now they are in twisting capped tubes (a bit like a school glue stick) that you push up from the bottom. As a disabled person who often struggles to open small tins, this has pleased me no end!

We can also all get excited as the new temple balm packaging is a part of Lush’s plastic pot return scheme. If you didn’t know already, you can bring your clean, empty pots into a Lush store to swap them for money off your next purchase!

Temple balms are meant to be applied directly on to your temples but can also be applied on all of your pulse points too. Personally, I like to put the Lush temple balms on the inside of my wrists a bit like you would a perfume.

The Dream Time temple balm’s name is self-explanatory; Meant to be used before bed, Lush’s website describes it as a ‘soporifically scented balm that works hard to calm hardworking minds and promote relaxation.’

Dream Time contains organic jojoba oil, organic castor oil, organic candelilla wax, lavender oil, ginger oil, sandalwood oil, chamomile blue oil and jasmine absolute.

The most dominant ingredient my nose picks up on in Dream Time is the lavender, next is the chamomile. It is a really relaxing scent.

The Dream Time temple balm glides on to your skin easily and a very small amount goes a long way, it’s quite a strong scent too. My husband can always tell when I’ve put only the smallest amount of it on.

I’m quite funny with strong scents (especially before bed as my brain will try absolutely anything to distract itself from getting some rest) Dream Time temple balm is however not a greasy formula and soaks into your skin super quickly. The strength of the scent doesn’t last for long, but I still feel just as relaxed even after the fragrance has lessened.

While I can’t say for certain that it’s only Dream Time that has helped me sleep better, I do seem to drop off a little easier after using it.

If I have had a stressful or upsetting day I do reach for it and I’m excited that now it is more readily available I can make it a proper part of my every day routine!

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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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Easter Turtle Shower Jelly from Lush

The Easter Turtle Shower Jelly is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2024 Easter line. I was lucky enough to get to try it before its initial release date as Lush kindly sent me one.

Designed to look just like a giant sea turtle, I couldn’t wait to give it a go in the shower.

The Easter Turtle is a mix of different shades of green and HUGE. Each jelly is 220g making it even bigger than both the Monster Octopus shower jelly and Tarantula shower jelly.

The Easter Turtle shower jelly contains bladderwrack seaweed infusion, sugar kelp infusion, carrageenan extract, myrrh resinoid, orange flower absolute and cinnamon leaf oil.

It shares its scent with the Apple Crumble bubble bar, Temptation shower gel and Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel bath bomb.

Straight out of the pot it’s an intense and warm fragrance, there’s an element of baked apples in there but I can also smell something I can only describe as being very green. At one point I was wrongly convinced it had elements of the Grass Lush-scent-family in it too.

Anyone who knows me personally will know that a sea turtle is one of my favourite animals and one I have been lucky enough to swim with in the Indian Ocean. This sea turtle shaped shower jelly has made me reflect on some of my most treasured memories.

With Easter Turtle being a novelty shaped shower jelly, I wondered how long it would last as unfortunately I find more often than not, that the novelty shaped jellies aren’t always as sturdy and robust as the normal, pot-shaped-ones.

As predicted, the Easter Turtle shower jelly did get a little flimsy after just a few uses. However, I’d rather use it and lose it than not use it at all… So far, I’ve used it 4 times and although it is showing a small amount of wear and tear, there’s plenty more of it to go around yet.

There is no right or wrong way to use a shower jelly, I prefer to use mine in the same way as you would a bar of soap, whole. Some people however chop their shower jellies up using a few pieces at a time, this is a good method if you’re sharing it with someone else.

If you do keep it whole, as I mentioned above, the Easter Turtle shower jelly is big enough to fit in your hand. It is a lot easier to keep a hold of in the shower being so big. Once you’ve used it simply rinse it off and then pop it back into the pot until you next want to use it.

The Easter Turtle shower jelly lathers up quickly, once you have enough of a lather it in your hands pop the shower jelly back in its pot and start to work your wet hands together.

Before I ever use a Lush product that I plan on reviewing, I always take photos beforehand. When taking the above photo, all I did was take the Easter Turtle out of its pot and place it into my bathtub so that I could get a photo of it. I hardly had any contact with it at all but could smell it on my hands/wrists for the rest of the day.

You do not have to lather the Easter Turtle for very long at all, a very small amount of it goes a long way.

As I stated earlier, The Easter Turtle shower jellies scent is intense. As soon as you take the pots lid off, you are hit with its fragrance BUT in use, the scent seems to explode, filling your bathroom and drenching your skin with its fragrance.

After using the Easter Turtle shower jelly my skin feels soft, warm, clean, and refreshed.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Easter Turtle shower jelly, it has such a strong and unique fragrance that seems to work in whatever format Lush decide to release it in.

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