Category: New for 2023

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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Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel Bath Bomb from Lush (2023)

The Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel Bath Bomb is a part of Lush’s 2023 Hanukkah collection.

For the remainder of this review, I will refer to the bath bomb as just the Dreidel bath bomb (to make it easier for me to write, and you to read this review!)

This bath bomb was inspired by an actual dreidel which is a spinning-top-toy that is traditionally played with on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.

A dreidel just like this bath bomb has four sides; Each side has a different Hebrew letter on it.

I normally only include one top photo of a Lush product in my reviews but couldn’t resist sharing two with you in this review because I wanted you to be able to see the design a little better.

The Dreidel bath bomb is a deep purple bath bomb that is quite similar in colour to the likes of the Northern Lights bath bomb.

Each of the Hebrew letters on the Dreidel bath bomb are made to stand out with a gold coating on top of each.

The Dreidel bath bomb shares its scent with the Apple Crumble bubble bar.

The best way to describe its scent is as baked apple slices sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. It’s a very warm and inviting fragrance that leaves you wanting more.

Ingredients wise, the Dreidel bath bomb contains myrrh resinoid, orange flower absolute and cinnamon leaf oil.

Each Dreidel bath bomb is approximately 155g each and fits in my hand perfectly.

Although you cannot get the Dreidel bath bomb to work as a proper spinning top, you can spin it straight into your bath…

As soon as the Dreidel bath bomb meets your bath water you are greeted with a burst of purple foam.

As the water takes over the bath bomb, sky blue foam starts to appear from the Dreidel bath bomb too.

It doesn’t take long for the thin layer of gold on the four Herbew letters on each side of the Dreidel bath bomb to decorate the surface of the water with patches of gold.

If you’ve ever seen or used gold foil in arts and crafts or even nail art you’ll know what I mean when I say that this is what the golden patches reminded me of (see below photo).

The Dreidel bath bomb takes approximately 12 minutes to dissolve. While it didn’t create much visual bath art, I did enjoy the initial blue, purple and gold flecked foam near the beginning of its time in the water.

The blues, purples and gold flecks reminded me of the Phoenix Rising bath bomb when the Dreidel bath bomb was in action.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Dreidel bath bomb. The scent sits so well on my skin, and I could still smell it in my bathroom long after the last drop of the bath water went down the plug hole.

I would have liked to have seen a little more bath art out of it but other than that it was a very enjoyable bath bomb.

My skin felt soft after use and its scent although subtle stayed on my skin for the rest of the day too.

I would love to see this bath bomb come back again alongside an even bigger Hannukah line!

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