Category: New for 2023

Pumpkin Crumble Bubble Bar from Lush

The Pumpkin Crumble Bubble Bar is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2023 Halloween line. Designed like a macaroon, this bubble bar has 2 pieces of bubble bar sandwiched together with a generous dollop of organic cocoa butter.

It has been designed to look like your typical Halloween carved pumpkin, it has triangle shaped eyes and plenty of sharp teeth showing as it sinisterly smiles away.

If you’ve been a Lush customer for a while, you are more than likely to recognise the Pumpkin Crumble’s scent as it is the same as the Sparkly Pumpkin shower slime and Sparkly Pumpkin bubble bar. 

The Pumpkin Crumble bubble bars are approximately a whopping 170g each making them just a little bit smaller than the bestselling larger Lush bubbles bars the, The Comforter and Brightside.

The Pumpkin Crumble bubble bar contains pumpkin puree, shea and organic cocoa butter and the following essential oils, grapefruit, juniper berry and lime. Lush’s website describes it as the ‘perfect pumpkin-spiced Halloween bubble bath.’

The spicy juniper berry in Pumpkin Crumble warms you up while the grapefruit in it uplifts and brightens your mood. Its scent is incredibly moreish. I do not drink caffeine, but I have been told that the Pumpkin Crumble bubble bar smells just like the pumpkin spice used in the autumn classic hot drink, the pumpkin spiced latte.

To use the Pumpkin Crumble 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.

This method is also the best way to ensure none of the bubble bar gets accidentally wasted and through trial and error, I have found that this method makes the most bubbles.

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. With Pumpkin Crumble being like a macaroon it’s really easy to split in half.

You can get 2 heavily bubbled bubble baths out of each side of the Pumpkin Crumble bubble bar making it excellent value for money. Even splitting it 4 ways 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.

It doesn’t take long for the blanket of fluffy white bubble to form.

Underneath the blanket of fluffy, white bubbles the water turns a bright-pumpkin- orange, if you’re looking for autumnal bath water, Pumpkin Crumble is the bath product you need to try!

A Pumpkin Crumble bubble-bar-bath leaves your skin feeling silky and perfectly hydrated. Its scent lasts on your skin for the best part of the rest of the day too.

I always write this in all of my product reviews of products that share a scent with the Pumpkin Crumble bubble bar, and I won’t stop now, Lush, we need a body lotion in this scent!

Overall, I am glad Lush released this. It’s nice to try something a little different from the Sparkly Pumpkin bubble bar and Pumpkin Crumble is so much more hydrating on your skin. I adore it.

I hope Lush bring out more Sparkly Pumpkin/Pumpkin Crumble scented products soon, as I said earlier, we need a body lotion equivalent, and a shower gel would sell brilliantly too!

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Jason’s Mummy Bath Bomb from Lush

The Jason’s Mummy Bath Bomb is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2023 Halloween line.

It’s a new product but not a completely new design. If you’ve been a Lush customer for quite some time you may recognise its shape as Lush have used the same bath-bomb-mould to make it as the mould used for the long-discontinued, Ginger Ninja and Black Ninja bath bombs.

Designed to look just like a stereotypical, scary mummy wrapped in bandages with only its bright red eyes visible, Jason’s Mummy fits right into the theme of Halloween.

Weighing in at approximately 130g the Jason’s Mummy bath bomb fits snuggly in my hand.

The Jason’s Mummy bath bomb contains tangerine oil, grapefruit oil and litsea cubeba oil.

It shares its scent with the past Halloween products, Ectoplasm shower cream and Ectoplasm jelly bomb.

The Ectoplasm scent is a much-loved Halloween Lush-scent-family, the Lush website describes the Jason’s Mummy bath bomb as having ‘citrusy scents of tangerine and grapefruit oils.’ It’s a very gentle and zesty fragrance that isn’t unlike a soft yet bitter marmalade.

One of the more interesting facts about the Jason’s Mummy bath bomb is that like the Bubble Lugosi bubble bar, some of it glows in the dark! If you hold the bath bomb under a light and then put the bath bomb into the dark, you can see that the back of its eyes glow a light yellowy-green.


Although the glow-in-the-dark aspect of this bath bomb doesn’t show once in the bath, it did add a level of novelty to the product.

As soon as the Jason’s Mummy bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with an explosion of milky-white but clear bubbles.

The Jason’s Mummy bath bomb is not fantastic bath-art-wise as it doesn’t have any colour, it’s actually a very gentle bath bomb which may be a good choice for someone who isn’t into all-things bright, bold and loud.

Most people who would bother to read this review will be more into the more colourful products but sometimes less, really is more!

The Jason’s Mummy bath bomb takes only 3 and a half minutes to fully dissolve. The water left behind is clear with a milky like tinge. Its scent, although subtle can still be smelt throughout your time in the bath right up until the last drop gurgles down your plug hole.

I found the water that the Jason’s Mummy bath bomb left behind to be silky smooth and incredibly refreshing. Its zingy scent can still be detected on your skin long after getting out of the bath which surprised me as the citrus-led Lush products often don’t have much staying power.

My skin still felt soft and hydrated for the whole of the next day after using it too.

I did really enjoy the Jason’s Mummy bath bomb, no, it wasn’t big on bath art but as I said earlier, sometimes less really is more. It’s a very simple bath bomb and I think that’s why I liked it so much.

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Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe 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. It really does make me question why other cosmetic companies ever actively chose to use (the now illegal) micro-plastics in their exfoliation products.

Lush’s lip scrubs are ridiculously underrated, if you’re on the fence about giving them a go I promise you, you will not be disappointed (which ever one you choose to go with) Luckily for us, Lush have released not 1, but 2 new lip scrubs for Halloween 2023!

Today I am going to be reviewing the Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe Lip Scrub. 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 great. 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, anytime, anywhere.

As well as caster sugar, the Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe lip scrub also contains organic jojoba oil, fair trade shea butter, organic cold pressed grapeseed oil and sweet wild orange oil. If you’ve been a Lush customer for a while, you may be hit by a wave of déjà vu when using the Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe lip scrub as before now, Lush released a purple version of it called the Sugar Plum Fairy lip scrub.

You aren’t wrong if you also recognise the lip scrubs scent from another popular Lush product as it’s the same scent as the, The Comforter bubble bar too! Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe tastes just as good as it smells; It’s obviously not meant to be eaten but if a little does end up in your mouth while you are scrubbing your lips with it you don’t need to worry.

The Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe lip scrub is bright blue. 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.

The biggest culprit of lip-scrub-colour-transfer in my opinion is Lush’s Galaxy lip scrub which happens to be very similar in colour to Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe. I am however pleased to report that during use, I haven’t had any colour transfer from Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe AT ALL.

The only negative thing about the Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe lip scrub is that it’s not as hydrating as I have found other Lush lip scrubs. This minor inconvenience is however soon solved with a quick dab of lip balm.

Overall, I really like the Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe lip scrub, although… I’d have preferred it to have been made into a brand-new scent entirely. After the Sugar Plum Fairy lip scrub (as nice as Wednesday’s Child is) we didn’t really need another lip scrub with the same scent.

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