Category: New for 2023

Gingerbread Lip Scrub from Lush

The main ingredient in all of Lush’s lip scrubs is caster sugar. To this day I am still lost for words that such a simple and natural mix of ingredients can do such a great job at exfoliating.

It really does make me question why other cosmetic companies ever chose to use (the now illegal) micro-plastics over sugar in their exfoliation products.

Lush’s lip scrubs are ridiculously underrated and today I am going to be reviewing the Gingerbread Lip Scrub from Lush’s 2023, Christmas line.

I use Lush lip scrubs almost every day so whenever a new one comes out, I always make sure I grab a pot.

Using Lush lip scrubs requires a minimum amount of effort, and they cover everything your lips need to always look and feel their best. They are the perfect product to exfoliate dry or chapped lips and are also very good at softening and hydrating them at the same time.

Exfoliating your lips has so many benefits and with all thanks to Lush, it has never been easier to do.

The Gingerbread lip scrub is brand new to Lush this year and packed full of gingerbread-baking-ingredients.

As well as caster sugar, the Gingerbread lip scrub also contains organic jojoba oil, granulated sugar, fair trade shea butter, fine sea salt, bergamot oil, cinnamon leaf oil, carob resinoid, ginger oil, benzoin resinoid and cocoa powder.

To use, simply scoop out a little amount of the lip scrub onto your finger and gently buff your lips with it. You can then wipe off the excess.

Lush’s lip scrubs are obviously not meant to be eaten; BUT if a little amount of it does accidently end up in your mouth while you are scrubbing your lips, you don’t need to worry.

The Gingerbread lip scrub is a similar colour to brown sugar.

Ordinarily, I tend to favour the lighter or more natural to actual lip-colour lip scrubs over the brightly coloured ones because I find that the highly pigmented scrubs can sometimes (after use) leave your lips with a slight tinge of whatever colour the lip scrub is.

With the Gingerbread lip scrub being a more natural colour, I am pleased to report that I didn’t get this problem.

Even though I’m usually not a huge fan of the Lush products that are super sweet, I find that the Gingerbread lip scrub is the perfect mix of sweet and spicy.

It tastes and smells more or less the same as a gingerbread cookie but it also reminds me of carrot cake too.

If I had to choose a favourite out of the new 2023 lip scrub releases the Gingerbread lip scrub would be in my top 3.

A small amount of it goes a long way as it’s such a fine and scrubby formula. My lips feel smoother with little to no effort, and I also find the formula very hydrating.

I do however recommend a quick dab of lip balm after using lip scrubs, especially in the Winter just to add an extra layer of hydration.

I think it’s safe to say that I love the Gingerbread lip scrub; It exfoliates and hydrates your lips perfectly and tastes and smells incredible too.

Lush, If you read this, we need a lip balm in this same scent for next Christmas please!

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Catch Me If You Can Bath Bomb from Lush

The Catch Me If You Can Bath Bomb first became available as a part of 2023’s Winter line.

Both its name and design are inspired by the Gingerbread Man fairy tale.

As the fairy tale says, the Gingerbread man-shaped-biscuit comes to life as soon as the oven door it was baked in opens. He doesn’t want to be eaten so runs for his life while shouting over his shoulder ‘Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread man!’ 

When Lush create character products, it always makes them a little more difficult to use.

The Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is shaped into the perfect little gingerbread man. With big beady eyes and smile to match, two big buttons and little arms and legs.

The Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is covered in golden shimmer and underneath the shimmering gold layer are further layers of green, yellow and blue.

The Catch Me If You Can bath bomb shares its scent with the Golden Wonder bath bomb from Christmas lines of the past.

Being honest as always, the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is pretty much just a reimagined version of the Golden Wonder bath bomb. If you liked Golden Wonder, it’s worth giving the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb a go.

The best way to describe the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb’s scent is a tangy citrus with a warm, boozy punch, think orange juice mixed with bubbly champagne!

Ingredients wise, it contains sweet wild orange oil, lime oil and ginger powder.

Each Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is only 80g each making it one of Lush’s smallest bath bombs to date.

Before the Golden Wonder bath bomb was discontinued as a Winter product the price of it had shot up a great deal each year, I think this is probably why Lush have condensed the bath bomb so much, creating Catch Me If You Can as a smaller alternative.

As soon as the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb meets your bath water you are greeted with a burst of blue, green and yellow foam.

As the water takes over the bath bomb, the golden shimmer on the top layers of the bath bomb slowly starts to spread into the water too.

Considering its size, I was surprised to see that The Catch Me If You Can bath bomb took just over 15 minutes to fully dissolve!

This is much longer than most Lush bath bombs. The colourful bath art left behind by the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is so much better in person, unfortunately this time of year leaves me with ridiculously bad lighting so the photos in this review do the bath bomb no justice at all.

Nearer the end of its time in the water the bath art it created reminded me of the Fizzbanger bath bomb with it mostly being yellow and blue. The bath water at the end was an almost neon green. Again, just like Fizzbanger.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb.

The scent could have been a little stronger, it had almost completely faded long before I was ready to get out of the bath. I am guessing this is because of the bath bombs smaller size.

My skin did feel soft after using the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb but again, the scent wasn’t detectable on my skin at all. The bath did however leave me feeling warm and relaxed.

I would love to see this bath bomb come back (with a stronger fragrance) but have learnt to not get too attached to any Wintertime Lush bath bomb as they rarely make a reappearance the year after their first release. I have my fingers crossed this bath bomb isn’t yet again just a one-hit-wonder!

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Intergalactic Body Scrub from Lush

The Intergalactic Body Scrub is a brand-new Lush product that (at the time of writing this review) has only ever been available as an exclusive product in December 2023’s Lush Kitchen subscription box. I haven’t heard any news that it will be released elsewhere, but it has been a hugely popular product so Lush would be wise to make more.

I was pleased to see that the pot of Intergalactic body scrub in December 2023’s Lush Kitchen subscription box was a big one at 290g. In November’s subscription box we had the Tropical Co-Mingle body scrub only in a 100g pot and I could have really done with a bigger pot.

The Intergalactic body scrub is just like the bath bomb of the same name, a vibrant mix of blue, yellow and pink. Consistency wise I was hoping it would be just like the Barbie Dream sugar scrub, but it is closer to the likes of the foaming body scrubs such as, Celebrate.

The Intergalactic body scrub’s scent is as its name suggests, Intergalactic scented. Intergalactic is a very popular scent-family amongst Lush customers and has featured in several quite recently released products such as the Intergalactic bubble bar. The scent is however best known in its bestselling product format, the Intergalactic bath bomb. 

The Intergalactic body scrub contains a long list of ingredients, some of those included are, caster sugar, fair trade organic cocoa butter, organic extra virgin olive oil, organic illipe butter, mango butter, peppermint oil, grapefruit oil, vetivert oil and cedarwood oil.

The fact that the Intergalactic body scrub is a sugar-based scrub was what made me think it would be just like the Barbie Dream sugar scrub but as I said earlier, consistency wise it’s more like Lush’s foaming body scrubs minus the foam.

I loved the consistency of the Barbie Dream sugar scrub so was really hoping the Intergalactic body scrub would be the same. While the Intergalactic body scrub isn’t the same as Barbie Dream it is in no way a bad scrub, it just wasn’t what I was expecting.

A very small amount of the Intergalactic body scrub goes a very long way, I scoop out about 3 fingers worth, this amount can easily scrub my whole body twice.

I recommend starting off by working it into wet skin slowly as this seems to get the most out of it as a scrub. Once you feel like you have scrubbed enough add a little bit more water and speed up the rubbing-in to make it lather up. It’s an excellent product for both cleansing and exfoliating your skin.

The one thing that I feel I need to point out is that less is more when it comes down to Lush’s body scrubs. The Intergalactic body scrub in particular has a lot of moisturising butters and oils in so using too much can leave your skin a little slick. If you do find it a little too hydrating a splash of the (same scented) Intergalactic shower gel helps to lift some of the skins excess moisture without leaving your skin dry.

After using the Intergalactic body scrub its sharp peppermint and grapefruit scent remains on your skin long after you have used it. It leaves your skin smoother, brighter-in-appearance and well hydrated. There is no need to moisturise after using it and I find it particularly good on my legs when used before shaving.

As scrubs go it’s just as good (if not better) as Lush’s foaming body scrubs. I love that it’s blue, pink, and yellow too. It’s such an interesting design, I’d love to see how Lush make it as the colours swirl so perfectly together and don’t bleed into one another in the pot either.

Overall, I love the Intergalactic body scrub. I hope that this isn’t the last we see of it so that other Lush customers who aren’t subscribed to the Lush Kitchen subscription box get to try it too!

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