The Cempasúchil Bath Bomb is a part of Lush’s Día de Los Muertos 2023 collection. Día de los Muertos, also known as the Day Of The Dead is a holiday that is traditionally celebrated on the first 2 days of November.
It is widely celebrated in Mexico but is also observed in other places especially by people of Mexican heritage. It is a celebration in honour of family and friends who have passed. It isn’t at all a period of mourning or a sad affair, it’s a cheerful holiday where the living come together to remember their departed loved ones.
The Cempasúchil bath bomb is inspired the flowers of the dead, a marigold. The fragrant and bright orange and yellow marigold flowers are said to attract the souls of the dead, families will often scatter marigold petals forming a path from their front door leading to their ofrenda (their offering to the dead). It’s a way to remind lost souls of the way home.
If you look at the Cempasúchil bath bomb you can see how clever its design is, it’s designed to look like a balled-up collection of orange and yellow marigold petals. It’s a decent sized bath bomb, similar to the all-year-round Intergalactic and Twilight bath bombs.
The Cempasúchil bath bomb contains bergamot, buchu and grapefruit oils. Its scent is fruity and fresh.
As the Cempasúchil bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with an explosion of thick yellow and orange foam. Once introduced to the water the Cempasúchil bath bomb’s scent really comes to life, filling your bathroom with its hearty scent.
After a while the foam coming out of the Cempasúchil bath bomb is more of a red and yellow, it slowly starts to create swirling orange, red and yellow bath art that reminds me of an older Lush bath bomb the Magma bath bomb.
The Cempasúchil bath bomb is an incredibly slow fizzer, it takes a full 10 minutes to completely dissolve. The photos in this review do the bath art created by the Cempasúchil bath bomb no justice at all. The red, orange, and yellow swirls reminded me of lava mixing together.
Once fully dissolved the Cempasúchil bath bomb turns your bath water a blood orange. I found that the bath water left behind by the Cempasúchil bath bomb was incredibly soft, my skin seemed to soak up all of its goodness. My skin felt smoother and looked brighter.
The scent of the Cempasúchil bath bomb also remained on my skin for the best part of the rest of the day too.
Overall, I really enjoyed trying out the Cempasúchil bath bomb, it’s also nice to learn about other cultures through Lush.
I’m a huge fan of Mexican food so would love to join in with Día de Los Muertos one day, the idea of remembering all of the good times with those you have lost also sounds so refreshing, I am British, and Brits are well known for not being open enough when it comes to remembering the people they have lost and about death in general. I can see a yearly celebration like this being very freeing.
The Cempasúchil bath bomb is truly beautiful, its scent is perfect, design is so clever and well thought out by Lush and it creates amazing bath art too. I hope we see it again next year!
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