Category: New for 2023

Home Sweet Pineapple Body Balm from Lush

For plastic-free-July Lush collaborated with the American animated television series, SpongeBob SquarePants to help keep our oceans and waterways clean. One part of the collaboration was the Lush X SpongeBob collection and the other was a SpongeBob, Lush Kitchen exclusive themed box.

Today I’ll be reviewing the Home Sweet Pineapple Body Balm from the main Lush X SpongeBob collection.

The Home Sweet Pineapple body balm is the first of its kind. We’ve had solid body butters and massage bars but never a body balm.

I’m not entirely sure of the difference between a body butter and body balm (Lush, we need you back on Instagram so we can ask you these types of very important questions) BUT after using Home Sweet Pineapple I think body balms melt a lot more slowly and just seem to be a slightly thinner formula that soaks into the skin more easily.

If you’re familiar with SpongeBob, you’d know that the Home Sweet Pineapple body balm has been made in the shape of SpongeBob’s house, as he ‘lives in a pineapple under the sea’. The Home Sweet Pineapple body balm is bright yellow and incredibly detailed, it even includes SpongeBob’s windows and his front door.

The Home Sweet Pineapple body balm is quite small, fitting snuggly in my hand. It has however lasted me quite some time, I think I’ve used it 3 times now and there’s still plenty more of it to go round.

Home Sweet Pineapple body balm contains fair trade organic cocoa and shea butter, apricot kernel oil, mango butter, fresh pineapple juice, davana oil, tonka absolute and fir balsam resinoid.

The scent of the Home Sweet Pineapple body balm is a brand-new Lush fragrance that was inspired by pineapple cake. The sweet, Summery fruit scent really fits in with the tropical theme of the SpongeBob television series and also leaves your skin smelling good enough to eat!

As soon as the Home Sweet Pineapple body balm touches your skin it slowly starts to melt, it’s best to use on clean, dry skin when it needs a bit of extra moisture. It simply glides over your skin and soaks in like a dream. I love this in a product that is made for moisturising purposes as there’s nothing worse than being stuck with oily skin that never soaks in.

A very small amount of the Home Sweet Pineapple body balm goes a very long way making it excellent value for money. It may be small in size, but you really don’t need a lot per use.

I love its sweet pineapple scent, elements of it actually remind me of the world-famous cocktail, piña colada! I hope that Lush use this scent again in future products as it really is fabulous.

Overall, I loved the Home Sweet Pineapple body balm and am looking forward to future body balm releases from Lush.

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SpongeBob Bath Bomb from Lush

For plastic-free-July, Lush collaborated with the American animated television series, SpongeBob SquarePants to help keep our oceans and waterways clean. One part of the collaboration was the Lush X SpongeBob collection and the other was a SpongeBob, Lush Kitchen exclusive themed box.

Today I’ll be reviewing the SpongeBob Bath Bomb from the main Lush X SpongeBob collection.

What I loved the most about the Lush X SpongeBob collaboration is that you could enjoy all of the products even if you aren’t a fan/are not familiar with the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. I happen to be a lifelong fan of SpongeBob so was generally so excited to see so many amazing SpongeBob themed products!

The SpongeBob bath bomb is a bath bomb shaped as the main character of the SpongeBob SquarePants television series.

He is a bright yellow, happy-go-lucky, accident-prone sea sponge with brown short square shaped pants, a white shirt and red tie. He is often unintentionally annoying and quite often strange but has a heart of gold who would do anything for his loved ones and probably strangers too.

The SpongeBob bath bomb shares its scent with the Cyclops bubble bar from Lush’s 2022 Halloween line. It’s a fairly new scent to Lush but it’s made the odd appearance through several new products and has proven very popular. It is described as a ‘passion fruit’ fragrance.

The SpongeBob bath bomb contains a long list of ingredients, it has pineapple powder, popping candy and the following essential oils; Buchu oil, litsea cubeba oil and sweet wild orange oil.

The bath bombs passion fruit like fragrance really fits in with the tropical theme of the SpongeBob television series. The end credit song played in my head on a loop even while I was just thinking about the bath bomb while writing this review.

Its scent is super uplifting and the more I sniff it the more I want it, it is simply delicious! It makes me want to book a sunny holiday where I can sit on a beach, sand between my toes, drinking fruity cocktails.

As soon as you place the SpongeBob bath bomb into your bath water a burst of yellow foam spills out of it. Slowly but surely the SpongeBob bath bomb bubbles away, filling your bathroom with its mouth wateringly delightful scent.

I ignorantly assumed that the SpongeBob bath bomb would just be the standard, yellow-only bath bomb that didn’t have any other colour inside of it, a bit like the Avobath bath bomb. I was however very wrong…

After approximately 3 minutes the popping candy begins to snap, crackle and pop away and an aqua blue colour begins to make a show in amongst the yellow foam.

The photos I took and have included in this review do the SpongeBob bath bomb no justice at all, the bath art it created was incredible. It reminded me of the bath art that the long discontinued Fizzbanger bath bomb used to create. The blue and yellow colours clash so perfectly.

It takes about 6 or 7 minutes for the SpongeBob bath bomb to fully dissolve, the water it leaves behind is bright green thanks to the mix of yellow and aqua blue bath art.

I didn’t find the bath bomb drying on my skin, but I wouldn’t say it left me particularly hydrated either. Its passion fruit scent stayed on my skin long after getting out of the bath.

As seen in the photo above, hidden inside of the SpongeBob bath bomb are SpongeBob’s pants! 

Overall, I really enjoyed the SpongeBob bath bomb. It ticked so many boxes in what I like in a bath bomb, it smelt great, lifted my mood, and created the most gorgeous bath art too. The hidden paper pants also put a huge smile on my face.

The Lush collaboration products just keep getting better and better, what a fantastic and fun product the SpongeBob bath bomb is!

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Yummy Yummy Yummy Shower Gel from Lush

Up until the release of the Lush Kitchen June 2023 box, Lush’s Yummy Yummy Yummy Shower Gel had never been available in a vegan formula before.

Back when the Lush Kitchen did weekly menus, the Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel was always fiercely popular, I’m surprised it took Lush up until subscription box 37 to include it as an item.

Although, the delay is likely to have been caused by the fact that every item included in the subscription boxes are now strictly vegan. I suspect that the delay was because quite a lot of tinkering had to be done to get a vegan version of Yummy Yummy Yummy just right…

Back at the 2016 Lush Creative Showcase there was a tower of the Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel stacked high within their Lush Kitchen room. I do miss Lush events, there truly is no other day out like it!

The Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel is a very light pink and shares its scent with the Peeping Santa bubble bar. Its scent is also fairly similar to the one used in the Roller bath bomb and Yummy Mummy shower cream.

I think both Roller and Yummy Mummy are slightly less sweet strawberry scents in comparison to Yummy Yummy Yummy but I can see why so many people say that they are in fact all a part of the same Lush-scent-family.

The Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel is a very watery formula, I recommend giving it a good shake before using it. I was hoping that with it being an all-new vegan formula it would be a little thicker than the old vegetarian version BUT it seems both are just as runny as each other.

Even though the Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel is quite thin it’s still a very good shower gel. You have to be careful when you do use it, as it’s quite easy to waste with it being so runny BUT a very small amount goes a long way making it excellent value for money.

Yummy Yummy Yummy contains a long list of ingredients; it has fresh strawberry infusion, fine sea salt and the following essential oils; Bergamot, olibanum, geranium, almond and organic pressed passion seed.

The Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gels captivating scent is best described as just like a bowl of freshly sliced strawberries sprinkled with icing sugar.

The scent of the shower gel quickly fills your bathroom and remains in the air and on your skin, long after you’ve got out of the shower. After use, my skin is left feeling clean, more hydrated, and silky-smooth to the touch.

I am devastated that the Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel was only available to customers subscribed to the Lush Kitchen boxes. I feel that now Lush do have it in a vegan formula it would sell really well in stores, maybe it could be a Valentine’s or Mother’s Day item next year? Hint, hint, Lush!

Overall I am very impressed with the Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel and I have my fingers crossed that we will see it again soon!

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