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Back in 2015 the Lava Lamp Bath Bomb was one of the first products I used from Lush Oxford Street. Back then, it was exclusive to that one store in the whole world!

Luckily, I grew up in London and used to travel there and back to where I live now quite a bit, so I didn’t miss out on all of the new products for long.

In my opinion Lava Lamp is the most creative and well thought out bath bomb ever made by Lush.

The name didn’t make sense until I had actually used it, I fell in love with it as soon as I realised why it was called Lava Lamp.

Lava Lamp is a bright almost fluorescent orange bath bomb with 3 purple dots. The purple dots in it are actually tiny chips of solid bath oil.

As the bath bomb fizzes away, the bath oil bits break free and sink to the bottom of the bathtub. 

As the bath oil warms up because of the heat of the bath water it slowly turns to liquid and rises – just like a lava lamp does when you switch it on and let it warm up!

The Lava Lamp bath bomb contains fair trade organic cocoa butter, extra virgin olive oil, organic castor oil, orange flower absolute, tangerine oil and Sicilian Mandarin oil.

Some say that the Lava Lamp bath bomb smells the same as chocolate orange, I however do not agree. I love chocolate orange and although Lava Lamp is very orangey, I don’t feel like it smells like it has chocolate in it, at all.

It’s just a sweet orange fragrance that leaves you thirsty for more.

The original Lava Lamp bath bomb was actually recalled shortly after its Lush Oxford Street debut. I honestly never had a problem with it myself, but some people said that the ‘purple bits’ kept falling out of it before they had, had the chance to use the bath bomb and others said that the purple bits mixed with the orange water had stained their bath.

When using Lush products in the bathtub I have one rule that helps to avoid any staining mishaps. I always make sure that my bath is spotlessly clean, I know it’s a lot of effort but who wants to get into a dirty bath anyway? it is the bath grime that any bath bomb colour cling to (soap scum and dead skin, eww)

The cleaner your tub before using a bath bomb the better! My secret weapon is dish washer soap as it cuts through grease and grime so easily. A Quick splash of Fairy liquid and a sponge run around the bath is all you need to do to keep your bath sparkling.

Thankfully Lush reformulated the Lava Lamp bath bomb and at the time of writing this review it is back as an Oxford Street exclusive.

The newer version is not much different from the older one, but I can see that they have improved it ever so slightly. I say ‘slightly’ as I believe the original was already perfect, I was gutted that it had been taken away so suddenly.

The only thing about this bath bomb is that you do have to rinse off your body once you’ve used it. Something I’ve never had to do with any other Lush bath bomb.

The first time I ever used it I couldn’t rinse it off because we’d run out of hot water. Instead of rinsing it off I had to pat myself down with a towel.

I was worried it would stain the towel, but it didn’t, the purple marks on the towel washed out in the washing machine with no issues.

Now Lush have reformulated the Lava Lamp bath bomb, it rinses off of your skin a lot easier than it used to making it a lot more practical than its original version.

Overall, I LOVE the Lava Lamp bath bomb, my skin feels fabulous after using it and it leaves me smelling delicious too. Yes, it’s a little messy but messy can be fun.

I hope that Lava Lamp sticks around for some time as like I said earlier, it’s so well thought out. I wish I could give the inventor a high five, there’s never been a cleverer bath bomb!

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED ON THIS WEBSITE ON THE 1ST OF JUNE 2015, I HAVE UPDATED EACH POST SEVERAL TIMES AS WITH TIME MY PHOTOS HAVE BECOME BETTER AS HAS MY LUSH PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE. – Lulu from Lush Upon A Time ♥ 

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