Category: Winter

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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Snow Dragon Bath Bomb from Lush

The Snow Dragon Bath Bomb first became available as a part of 2022’s Winter line. I’m a little late on reviewing it but I have heard that it will be making a return this Winter (2023), so I thought I’d finally get my half-written review on it finished and published on here!

I’m a little obsessed with all thing’s dragon after the Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon series, anything Dragon inspired is right up my street. The Snow Dragon bath bomb shares its scent with the Christmas classic, Baked Alaska soap, Mermaid bath bomb and Mermaid Tail bubble bar.

Snow Dragon is a similar size to the Sleepy Bear bath bomb and is one of the cheaper Winter-bath-bomb options. It’s designed to look like a sky-blue dragon that’s laying down. Again, it is very similar to Sleepy Bear as that bath bomb is designed as laying down too.

This small but mighty, sky-blue, dragon-shaped bath bomb is decorated with a sprinkling of purple-stained coarse sea salt and also has a generous helping of popping candy in it too. If I’m being honest, I think that the Snow Dragon bath bomb resembles a crocodile more than a dragon. BUT, seeing as dragons aren’t technically real, I don’t think it really matters! 😉

The Snow Dragon bath bomb was the first of the Winter 2022 products that I used, I don’t know why I have left it so long to review but the fact I did isn’t an indication that I didn’t enjoy using the bath bomb, I in fact loved it. There were so many great bath bombs last year that I simply couldn’t keep up with the reviews.

All of Lush’s bath bombs are hand pressed and the mould for the Snow Dragon bath bomb has quite an intricate design, it’s so interesting to see how Lush’s bath bombs get more and more intricate year in, year out. The invention of the 3D printer really has opened up so many possibilities for product design at Lush. When Lush first opened its doors in 1995 I don’t think anyone could have imagined that handmade bath bombs would evolve to look this spectacular!

The Snow Dragon bath bomb contains some of the following essential oils; lemon myrtle, ylang ylang and grapefruit. Its scent is a refreshingly zingy, sharp-citrus-concoction. It is perfect for when you need an energy boost, (something we all need a bit of help with during the cold Winter months)

Lush’s website describes the Snow Dragon bath bomb as a ‘magical creature’ that’s soothing sea salt will ‘soften your skin’ while it’s refreshing citrus-based oils will ‘awaken your mind’.

It’s the perfect Winter-time pick me up, I was incredibly lucky to grab several Snow Dragon bath bombs at Lush’s online boxing-day-sale last year.

As soon as the Snow Dragon bath bomb comes into contact with your bath water a burst of blue foam erupts from it. It doesn’t take long for the popping candy to make an appearance, you are almost immediately greeted with an array of snap, crackles, and pops as the blue foam slowly turns the water a shade of pale blue.

The Snow Dragon bath bomb is quite a quick fizzer taking only 5 minutes to fully dissolve, the popping candy however carries on popping away long after the bath bomb has dissolved. The lemon and grapefruit scent really comes alive within the hot bath water; my bathroom was filled with its beautifully zingy scent long after I pulled the plug.

Snow Dragon doesn’t create any bath art, it’s redeeming features are definitely its beautiful blue colour and super energising scent.

The sea salt included in the Snow Dragon bath bomb really does make a difference to the softness of your bath water. My skin has never felt so soft after using one of the smaller sized Lush bath bombs before.

The scent lasted on my skin for a good few hours after getting out of the bath and my skin stayed soft and smooth long after I got out too.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Snow Dragon bath bomb, so much so I bought several more after using it. It wasn’t my favourite of the bath bombs from the Winter 2022 collection but one I did thoroughly enjoy using. I am not surprised to see that the Snow Dragon bath bomb has been chosen to return for the Winter 2023 line.

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Hot Java Bath Bomb from Lush

My favourite thing about the Lush Kitchen is that it gives Lush customers the chance to try long-forgotten, discontinued products from Lush’s product archive. I first got into Lush because I was looking for non-medicinal ways to help me deal with chronic pain. After a little research into ingredients and what-not, the Hot Java Bath Bomb was one of the first products on my list that I wanted to try.

Years later, Hot Java is still one of my favourites purely for how it soothes my aching muscles. Sadly, with the closure of the weekly-Lush-Kitchen in 2017, I had to get used to the fact that we’d probably never get the chance to purchase it separately again. BUT in 2020, the Lush Kitchen made a return in the form of a monthly subscription service, and I have remained hopeful that the Hot Java bath bomb would make an appearance sometime.

Finally in the 18th Lush Kitchen subscription box, the Hot Java bath bomb was included! Its scent doesn’t feature in any other Lush product but because of its spicy nature, a lot of people compare it to the likes of the Hot Toddy shower gel.

The Hot Java bath bomb is the standard shape and size Lush bath bomb but is quite unique to look at, it’s a dusty red colour and decorated with flakes of cinnamon-stick. These flakes of cinnamon-stick continue inside of the bath bomb which I’ll touch upon again later.

Alongside the cinnamon-stick flakes the Hot Java bath bomb also includes cinnamon and ginger powders, ginger absolute, and the following essential oils; Ginger, coriander, ylang ylang and juniperberry. My nose picks up mostly on the ginger element of the Hot Java bath bomb, it’s not a scent I’d describe as pleasantly moreish but it’s one I don’t mind because I know how good each ingredient in it is for soothing aching muscles.

As soon as you place the Hot Java bath bomb into your bath water you are greeted with an explosion and gentle hiss of small red bubbles, it’s a fairly fast fizzer and within the first few seconds the flakes of cinnamon stick start to scatter across the water too, slowly but surely, sinking to the bottom of your tub. Sadly, these flakes are a huge factor as to why so many customers don’t enjoy using the Hot Java bath bomb.

Yes, the Cinnamon flakes do create quite a mess BUT when soaked with the hot bath water it really does make for a toasty-warm bathing experience like no other.

As I said earlier, the Hot Java bath bomb is a very quick fizzer, fully dissolving in just under 4 minutes. I can’t help but wonder if it would sell better if it was in a muslin cloth like the Deep Sleep and Love Me Do bath bomb are. This would stop all of the cinnamon pieces from making a mess, keeping them all in one place while you still get the benefit of the cinnamon stick being soaked in the hot water.

The bits don’t bother me much, but I know they can make or break a bath bomb for some people.

Overall, I am a fan of the Hot Java bath bomb, it could maybe have a few things about it tweaked to make it more desirable for all but if I’m looking at it from a perspective where I just want a bath that will warm me up and help relax my tired muscles, it’s perfect. There’s just something about the blend of cinnamon and ginger that makes me feel like I’m being massaged by lots of tiny little hands…

If you look through Instagram under the hashtag #HotJavaBathBomb you can see that the bath bomb is either a huge hit or miss with customers. Back in the day, when it came up on the Lush Kitchen menu some customers would bulk buy them, worried that they wouldn’t be available again for a very long time.

I do miss the older Lush Kitchen purely because the subscription box only allows you 1 of each item BUT I really did appreciate getting to use Hot Java once again thanks to the Lush Kitchen subscription box!

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