Tag: Halloween

Batcurrant Lip Scrub from Lush

The Batcurrant Lip Scrub is one of two brand-new lip scrubs from Lush’s colossal 2024 Halloween line.

The main ingredient in all of Lush’s lip scrubs is caster sugar. To this day I am still lost for words that such a simple and natural mix of ingredients can do such a great job at exfoliating. It really does make me question why other cosmetic companies ever actively chose to use micro-plastics in their exfoliation products.

Lush’s lip scrubs are ridiculously underrated, if you’re on the fence about giving them a go I promise you, you will not be disappointed.

I use Lush lip scrubs almost every day so whenever a new one comes out, I always make sure I grab a pot.Using Lush lip scrubs requires a minimum amount of effort, and they cover everything your lips need to always look and feel their best.

They are the perfect product to exfoliate dry or chapped lips, and most are also very good at softening and hydrating them at the same time. Exfoliating your lips has so many benefits and thanks to Lush, it has never been easier to do.


As well as caster sugar, the Batcurrant lip scrub also contains some of the following ingredients: Organic jojoba oil, fairtrade shea butter, organic cold pressed grapeseed oil, blackcurrant absolute, coriander seed oil and davana oil.

Batcurrant has a brand new Lush scent that is delicious, both scent and taste wise. The blackcurrant absolute is probably the ingredient that comes through the strongest, it’s very fruity but has a really strong sourness to it too.

To use, simply scoop out a pea sized amount of the lip scrub with your finger then buff it on your lips. Once you’ve buffed them to your desired amount simply lick off any excess product.

Lush’s lip scrubs are obviously not meant to be eaten; BUT if a little amount of the lip scrub does accidently end up in your mouth while you are scrubbing your lips, you don’t need to worry!

The Batcurrant lip scrub is a bold shade of Cadbury purple. It has a mixture of fine and slightly chunkier grains of caster sugar.

When it comes to lip scrubs, I tend to favour the lighter (or more natural to actual lip-colour) ones, over the brightly coloured ones.

This is because once a very long time ago, I used a little too much of the bright blue, Galaxy lip scrub. It left a very slight blue tinge on my lips. Since, I have been wary and now only use a pea sized amount each time I use a lip scrub.

I am pleased to report that during use, I haven’t had any purple colour transfer from the Batcurrant lip scrub at all. As for its juicy sourness, again, I think it is comparable to the lip scrub I just mentioned, Galaxy. Yummy!

After using the lip scrub my lips feel smoother and I also find the formula very hydrating, its scent/taste fits right into the candy theme of Halloween.

Overall, I love the Batcurrant lip scrub, it’s probably my favourite lip scrub that Lush have produced this year. I’d love to see an expansion on this Lush scent. A lip balm, body scrub or body spray would be delightful!

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I Want My Mummy Bath Bomb from Lush (2024)

The original I Want My Mummy bath bomb was a part of Lush’s Halloween line back in 2022; Fast forward to 2024 and the I Want My Mummy Bath Bomb has come back but with some strikingly new features.

The most obvious difference in this year’s version is the addition of the colour pink. 2022’s was all white and this years is a mixture of white and pink.

Lush have also decided to give this version of the bath bomb a completely different scent, altering the scent of a product that was already well-loved is always a gamble. Lush took the same chance with the Magic Potion Bath Bomb (2024) this year and unfortunately, I wasn’t a fan, I however kept an open mind for the new version of I Want My Mummy…

Playing up to the theme of Halloween, the I Want My Mummy bath bomb is designed to look like a mummy (and not the motherly-figure type) this mummy is the zombie wrapped in bandages type. Considering it’s replicating a resurrected dead body covered in bandages, it’s actually quite cute!

Another thing that’s very different about the 2024 version of the I Want My Mummy bath bomb is that it glows in the dark. Just like the Glow In The Dark shower gel, simply charge the bath bomb under some light before switching the light off to see it glow.

I am guessing this is why Lush decided to add the colour pink to this bath bomb, this way the white bits of the bath bomb really pop when made to glow in the dark!

This years I Want My Mummy bath bomb shares its scent with the Never Mind the Ballistics bath bomb, its scent is sharp and zesty with a subtle woody undertone. It’s a lively and refreshing fragrance, which fits right into the whole theme of being brought back from the dead… 

Some of the ingredients included in this bath bomb are lime oil, sweet wild orange oil, olibanum resinoid and the magical ingredient that makes it glow in the dark once charged, luminescent zinc-sulfide!

As soon as the I Want My Mummy bath bomb touches the water there is an explosion of pink spreading outwards from the bath bomb in foamy waves. The pink foam slowly thins out as the bath bomb slowly dissolves.

The I Want My Mummy bath bomb takes about 10 minutes to completely dissolve. The water left behind is a cloudy pink; To look at, it reminds me of the pink, fruit-and-barley, summer fruits squash that I used to drink when I was a kid.

The scent of the I Want My Mummy bath bomb lasts throughout your entire bath and remains on your skin for a good few hours after you get out too. My skin felt hydrated and appeared brighter after a long soak in its waters as well.

Overall, I did really enjoy the new-style, I Want My Mummy bath bomb. Like I said earlier, changing a previously released product (even a little bit) is always a gamble but I feel the I Want My Mummy bath bomb was different enough to its older version that I could see past all of the changes and appreciate it as if it’s a whole new bath bomb.

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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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