The Lava Block Bath Bomb is a brand-new product from the Minecraft X Lush collaboration.
Minecraft is an open-world video game that lets players build, explore and survive in a virtual world. In it, players can use blocks to build absolutely anything they want.
In the Minecraft X Lush line, Lush have created five ‘Block-bath-bombs’ and today I’m reviewing the Lava Block bath bomb.Before this line came out, I had heard of the Minecraft game but had never played it. Since, I have finally tried the game as I wanted to see what all the fuss was about…
I’m not great with games but can see why so many spend hours playing it. Had it have come out when I was a little younger, I could see younger me getting very into it.
The Lava Block bath bomb shares its scent with one of my favourite Lush products of all time, the Dragon’s Egg bath bomb.
The Lava Block is orange and yellow, the orange and yellow are hand pressed into different, uneven layers making it look just like actual lava.
The Lava Block bath bombs are 85g each and fit snuggly in my hand.
I didn’t realise until after I’d used the Lava Block bath bomb that it is in fact a jelly bath bomb, working in a similar way to the long discontinued jelly bombs such as the Secret Arts and Ectoplasm, however Lava Block isn’t nearly as slimy as the older jelly bombs, which I much prefer, but we’ll delve more into that later.
The Lava Block bath bomb contains sodium alginate – the seaweed compound that turns to a jelly when placed into water, Sicilian lemon oil, bergamot oil, jasmine absolute, paprika oleoresin and popping candy.
Lava Blocks scent is a zesty, sharp yet sweet, fruity fragrance that not only leaves me salivating but also gives me a boost of energy with just one sniff. Why Lush haven’t expanded the Dragon’s Egg scent-family into a body spray, bubble bar or shower gel yet, I will never understand.
As soon as the Lava Block bath bomb touches the bath water there is an explosion of orange and yellow foam, the foam is thin but packed with colour. It was at this point that I realised that the Lava Block bath bomb was in fact a jelly bath bomb.
The thin layer of orange and yellow foam collecting on the water surface soon beefs up ever so slightly and becomes more of a jelly, I want to make it clear it isn’t nearly as slimy feeling as the old jelly bombs were, on your skin it just feels a bit like the Co-Mingle body scrub does.
The jelly aspect of the bath bomb doesn’t last very long at all, dissolving into the water just as quickly as it formed.
After just seven minutes the Lava Block bath bomb has fully dissolved and a few minutes after that the jelly has all gone too, leaving you with the silkiest water I have had from a bath bomb in a very long time.
When the jelly bath bombs first came out, I know that they weren’t as well received as Lush had hoped. There hasn’t been a new one released in several years now so it was bold of Lush to bring the concept back, BUT I can see exactly why they did for this bath bomb. The jelly bits made it so that it was like I was really bathing in lava.
The bath water left behind by the Lava Block bath bomb was not only some of the silkiest I have bathed in but also so highly fragranced too.
My only semi negative experience of this bath bomb was the lack of popping candy. I don’t know if it’s the sodium alginate (that in a way) counteracts the popping candy into not popping or whether I just got a bath bomb that didn’t have any popping candy in but there was no snap, crackle or pop for me at all.
After using it, the scent of the bath bomb didn’t linger on my skin for very long at all, but my skin did look and feel hydrated and brighter right into the next day. Overall, I am very impressed with the Lava Block bath bomb, it was very well thought out and I’ll be sad to see it go once the Minecraft line is retired.
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