Category: New for 2024

Frankenstein Bath Bomb from Lush

The Frankenstein Bath Bomb is a brand-new product from Lush’s 2024 Halloween line. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re likely to recognise the bath bomb immediately as a Frankenstein-themed-item.

What a lot of people don’t know is that Frankenstein isn’t the name of the monster, it is the name of the scientist who created the monster, Victor Frankenstein! Everything you see around Halloween that’s Frankenstein themed is all based on a book written by Mary Shelley in 1818…

This bath bomb is designed to look just like the monster did in what I believe was the first film adaptation of the book. Since, most other adaptations of the monster from the book (including this Lush bath bomb) have had a similar look.

The Frankenstein bath bomb is a cartoonish version of Frankenstein’s monster; It is in the shape of the monster’s face. It is mostly green has a flat, black and very buzz-cut looking, short haircut.

There are also a lot of little details such as its exaggerated facial features. It has big sunken in yellow eyes, bolts in his head and an intense and very grumpy looking frown upon his face.

Each Frankenstein bath bomb is approximately 130g each fitting snuggly in my hand. It was the first of the brand new Halloween bath bombs that I tried.

Frankenstein’s fragrance is a brand new Lush-scent-family and one I am very excited about. Each bath bomb contains galbanum oil, pine oil, geranium oil and fir balsam resinoid.

It has a fresh, green fragrance with a delicate floral undertone. It’s crisp, woody and just smells super clean and refreshing. It’s not as forest-like as the likes of the Guardian of the Forest bath bomb, it’s sweeter and has an almost balsamic richness to it, it’s incredibly moreish.

I hope this isn’t the only product Lush decide to use this scent-family for as I can see it working well as a shower gel or perfume too.

As soon as the Frankenstein bath bomb touches the water there is a huge hiss followed by an explosion of green foam. It’s refreshing, natural scent takes over your bathroom as it slowly dissolves away.

The black ‘hair’ part of the bath bomb appears to dissolve more slowly than the rest, but I think the reason behind this is, where the ‘hair’ is, is only a thin coating of black, it being green underneath.

After just a couple of minutes the water reaches the bath bombs yellow eyes, it starts to spin, as you can see in the photo below it kind of looks like the monster is shooting yellow laser beams from its eyes!

Eventually the water takes over the whole of the bath bomb and all the monster’s features melt away. You are left with bright green bath water decorated with lighter green and black bubbles as shown in the photo below.

The Frankenstein bath bomb is a reasonably slow dissolver taking 12 minutes in total to completely disappear.

The water underneath the bath art is such a bright green it almost glows, I don’t think we’ve seen a bath bomb produce green water as bright as this since the 2016 version of the So White bath bomb.

I thoroughly enjoyed using the Frankenstein bath bomb. I find it a little crazy that a book written so long ago still has such a heavy influence on Halloween and all things spooky.

The scent doesn’t last for very long on my skin once I have got out of the bath, but my skin does feel softer and appears much brighter too.

I’m hoping that this bath bomb isn’t the last we see of this new Lush-scent-family as it’s so unique to everything else Lush currently have on offer. I believe this scent would very easily fit into the Spring season too!

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Grape Soda Body Spray from Lush

The Grape Soda Body Spray is one of six exclusive body sprays that Lush have recently released a limited amount of. I was lucky enough to be sent a bottle a week or so ago; Thank you, Lush!

As you can see from the photos included in this review, the Grape Soda body spray doesn’t have the standard Lush, black-and-white-label on it. Grape Sodas label is a dark shade of purple. 

I think Lush were clever to inject colour into the labels of each of the exclusive body sprays in this Summer inspired fragrance drop.

The bright colours scream Summertime. This, alongside the uplifting scents contained within each of the six body spray bottles, make it impossible to not get excited about each of them!

You’ll recognise this body sprays scent if you have tried the UK version of the Big Squeeze bath bomb from this years (2024) Valentine’s Day line.


I must confess that I had to do a little research on Grape Soda before writing this review, I’m not very familiar with what inspired this fragrance as it’s not as popular a food/drink flavour here in the UK, as it is in other countries such as the USA.

In my review of the Big Squeeze bath bomb, I stand by what I said. The Grape Soda scent is very artificial, this however doesn’t mean it is unpleasant.

My research has taught me that American’s just have more of a palate for fruity flavours that are more artificial or exaggerated compared to the British who are more accustomed to fruity flavours that are more natural and/or less intense.

I do however remember sweets from my childhood that were grape flavoured so we aren’t completely deprived of all things Grape Soda in the UK, it just wasn’t (and still isn’t) as readily available here as the demand for it just isn’t on the same scale.

My point is, I feel like this body spray will sell much better outside of the UK than it will in the UK – but, time will tell!

The Grape Soda body spray contains both juniper berry and sweet wild orange oils. The scent is very distinct and as I said earlier it’s fruity but in an artificial way; Think of it as a synthetic interpretation of grapes. It’s sour, tangy and incredibly strong, possibly the strongest out of the six recently released body sprays.

One squirt of the Grape Soda body spray is all you need to use, with it being so strong I think putting any more on would be overkill and wasteful. Just one spritz lasts a good six to eight hours making it excellent value for money.

I’m always honest in my reviews and Grape Soda isn’t one of my favourite Lush scent families but I can see it being very popular with younger customers, especially those within the USA, there is something very playful about the scent, it reminds me of being a kid, a kid without a care in the world.

Overall, I am impressed with the Grape Soda body spray, it’s strong and lasts which is all you really need a body spray to be!

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Lava Block Bath Bomb from Lush

The Lava Block Bath Bomb is a brand-new product from the Minecraft X Lush collaboration.

Minecraft is an open-world video game that lets players build, explore and survive in a virtual world. In it, players can use blocks to build absolutely anything they want.

In the Minecraft X Lush line, Lush have created five ‘Block-bath-bombs’ and today I’m reviewing the Lava Block bath bomb.Before this line came out, I had heard of the Minecraft game but had never played it. Since, I have finally tried the game as I wanted to see what all the fuss was about…

I’m not great with games but can see why so many spend hours playing it. Had it have come out when I was a little younger, I could see younger me getting very into it.


The Lava Block bath bomb shares its scent with one of my favourite Lush products of all time, the Dragon’s Egg bath bomb.

The Lava Block is orange and yellow, the orange and yellow are hand pressed into different, uneven layers making it look just like actual lava.

The Lava Block bath bombs are 85g each and fit snuggly in my hand.

I didn’t realise until after I’d used the Lava Block bath bomb that it is in fact a jelly bath bomb, working in a similar way to the long discontinued jelly bombs such as the Secret Arts and Ectoplasm, however Lava Block isn’t nearly as slimy as the older jelly bombs, which I much prefer, but we’ll delve more into that later.

The Lava Block bath bomb contains sodium alginate – the seaweed compound that turns to a jelly when placed into water, Sicilian lemon oil, bergamot oil, jasmine absolute, paprika oleoresin and popping candy.

Lava Blocks scent is a zesty, sharp yet sweet, fruity fragrance that not only leaves me salivating but also gives me a boost of energy with just one sniff. Why Lush haven’t expanded the Dragon’s Egg scent-family into a body spray, bubble bar or shower gel yet, I will never understand.

As soon as the Lava Block bath bomb touches the bath water there is an explosion of orange and yellow foam, the foam is thin but packed with colour. It was at this point that I realised that the Lava Block bath bomb was in fact a jelly bath bomb.

The thin layer of orange and yellow foam collecting on the water surface soon beefs up ever so slightly and becomes more of a jelly, I want to make it clear it isn’t nearly as slimy feeling as the old jelly bombs were, on your skin it just feels a bit like the Co-Mingle body scrub does.

The jelly aspect of the bath bomb doesn’t last very long at all, dissolving into the water just as quickly as it formed.

After just seven minutes the Lava Block bath bomb has fully dissolved and a few minutes after that the jelly has all gone too, leaving you with the silkiest water I have had from a bath bomb in a very long time.

When the jelly bath bombs first came out, I know that they weren’t as well received as Lush had hoped. There hasn’t been a new one released in several years now so it was bold of Lush to bring the concept back, BUT I can see exactly why they did for this bath bomb. The jelly bits made it so that it was like I was really bathing in lava.

The bath water left behind by the Lava Block bath bomb was not only some of the silkiest I have bathed in but also so highly fragranced too. 

My only semi negative experience of this bath bomb was the lack of popping candy. I don’t know if it’s the sodium alginate (that in a way) counteracts the popping candy into not popping or whether I just got a bath bomb that didn’t have any popping candy in but there was no snap, crackle or pop for me at all.

After using it, the scent of the bath bomb didn’t linger on my skin for very long at all, but my skin did look and feel hydrated and brighter right into the next day. Overall, I am very impressed with the Lava Block bath bomb, it was very well thought out and I’ll be sad to see it go once the Minecraft line is retired.

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