Category: Winter

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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Pumpkin Patch Bath Bomb from Lush

The Pumpkin Patch Bath Bomb is a brand-new product that (at the time of writing this review) was only available as an exclusive item in October 2023’s Lush Kitchen Subscription Box. Whether or not it will be available in the future elsewhere is a question you’ll have to ask Lush.

The Pumpkin Patch bath bomb is an orange pumpkin that has been designed to look like the typical carved-Halloween-pumpkin but with a pirate twist, one eye is covered by a patch. Its name, the fact it is a pumpkin, and the eye patch are a (typical of Lush) very clever pun.

This year’s Halloween line is incredible, I could see this bath bomb selling extremely well alongside all of the other 2023 Halloween stock.

The Pumpkin Patch bath bomb contains grapefruit oil, juniper berry oil, lime oil and organic pumpkin seed oil and shares its scent with several best-selling Halloween Lush products such as the Sparkly Pumpkin bubble bar and 2 products that are available from this year’s Halloween line (2023) the Sparkly Pumpkin shower slime and Pumpkin Crumble bubble bar.

Before now, the Sparkly Pumpkin Lush-scent-family had only ever featured in a soap and body spray format (as well as the above-mentioned bubble bar and shower slimes) so getting it in a bath bomb format was a dream come true for some.

To look at, the Pumpkin Patch bath bomb has a very similar finish to the likes of the Gold Rabbit, Rose Gold, Partridge in a Pear Tree, and Lucky Tiger bath bombs, covered in an orangey golden shimmer.

The Pumpkin Patch bath bomb’s scent is delicious. It has a slightly spicy element to it as well as a kick of citrus from the grapefruit oil. Each of the bath bomb’s ingredients mixes with each other perfectly, softening one aspect of it while strengthening another.

Although I do not drink anything with caffeine in, I have been told by someone who does, that the Pumpkin Patch bath bomb smells very similar to the spices used in a pumpkin spiced latte.

Pumpkin Patch is a good-sized bath bomb, it’s similar in size to the standard Lush bath bombs, fitting snuggly in my hand.

As soon as the Pumpkin Patch bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a burst of bright orange foam.

The Pumpkin Patch bath bomb’s orangey golden shimmer also starts to glide into your bath water almost immediately too.

I know I say this in almost every bath bomb review but the photos in this review do the Pumpkin Patch bath bomb no justice at all.

Its bath art is very similar to the bath art created by both the Orange Pop and Christmas Sweater bath bomb. The orange and red swirls seem to go on forever.

The Pumpkin Patch bath bomb takes approximately 15 minutes to fully dissolve, leaving you with plenty of time to sit back and enjoy the pretty red and orange show that it puts on.

I found the bright orange waters left behind by the Pumpkin Patch bath bomb exceptionally hydrating and smooth to the touch. The amount of shimmer in it also left me mesmerised.

Its scent although subtle, can still be detected on your skin long after getting out of the bath. My skin was also still silky smooth for the whole rest of the next day too.

I adore the Pumpkin Patch bath bomb, why it wasn’t a part of the in-store Lush Halloween line is a mystery to me as it really makes for the perfect, pumpkin-spiced Halloween bath!

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