Tag: Lunar New Year

Rebirth Bath Bomb from Lush

Every year Lush release a Lunar New Year bath bomb, each bath bomb is inspired by the zodiac animal of the year that it is released.

We got the Inner Dragon bath bomb in 2024, the Gold Rabbit bath bomb in 2023, and the Lucky Tiger bath bomb in 2022.

With 2025 being the year of the snake, the snake-shaped Rebirth Bath Bomb was created!

The Rebirth bath bomb is designed to resemble a coiled up snake with its head exposed. Its smooth body is covered in large circles representing the snakes’ scales.

With the snake coiled up like this, it still gives the bath bomb a strong, spherical shape.

Designing it like this was a wise choice from Lush as I think a long, thin snake (similar to the original Northern Lights bath bomb) would have made it an impossibly fragile bath bomb.

All the Lunar New Year bath bombs over the years have featured similar colour palettes, with plenty of warm yellows, oranges, and reds, always complemented by a generous shimmer of gold.

Rebirth is a golden-yellow throughout and is finished off with a very generous layer of the golden shimmer, I don’t think we’ve ever had a Lunar New Year bath bomb quite as shimmery as this, it’s beautiful!

Rebirth shares the same fragrance as the Golden Wonder bath bomb, belonging to Lush’s ‘Celebrate’ scent family. Other products that share its scent include, the Celebrate shower gel and Buck’s Fizz body conditioner.

Rebirth contains some of the following ingredients: sweet wild orange oil, lime oil and plenty of popping candy.

Its fragrance happens to be one of my all-time favourites from Lush, it’s vibrant, warming and often described as being the bath time equivalent of a glass of bubbling Champagne.

As soon as the Rebirth bath bomb touches the water there is an explosion of thick orangey-yellow foam, as the foam loses its thickness it turns a brighter shade of yellow, losing its original orangey glow.

As the water takes over the bath bomb you begin to see two different colours of bath art coming out of it, there are streaks of bright yellow and also a much more toned down golden yellow colour.

The popping candy in Rebirth doesn’t make an appearance straight away, mine didn’t start crackling away until about five minutes after it was placed into the bath water.

The Rebirth bath bomb takes a good 10 minutes to fully dissolve, and the popping candy continues to put on a show for a couple of minutes after the bath bomb has gone. The water left behind is bright yellow and full of golden shimmer.

The scent from the bath bomb lingers in your bathroom for a couple of hours after using it and remained on my skin for the best part of the rest of the day too. I was surprised at how soft it left my skin; it says on Lush’s website that just like a snake’s skin this bath bomb ‘sheds doubt and stretches your potential’ – Using Rebirth certainly started off my 2025 by leaving me feeling refreshed and ready.

Overall, I loved the Rebirth bath bomb, its scent and shimmering water being some of my favourite parts of it. Next year (2026) will be the year of the horse which happens to be my zodiac animal so I’m very excited to see what Lush come up with this time next year!

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Inner Dragon Bath Bomb from Lush

The Inner Dragon Bath Bomb is a product specifically made for the Lunar New Year celebrations. It was released at the start of 2024, ready and waiting for the start of the year of the dragon!

In years previous to 2024, Lush have created other Lunar new year products such as the Lucky Tiger bath bomb, Dragon Legend reusable bubble bar and Gold Rabbit bath bomb.

All of them were favourites of mine when they were released, so I was incredibly excited to see that Lush had once again decided to celebrate the Lunar New Year with another year-of-the bath bomb.

The Inner Dragon bath bomb is just a little bit smaller than the standard sized bath bomb (such as Twilight) weighing in at 190g.

All of the Lunar New Year products have shared similar colours, consisting of oranges, reds and gold. Inner Dragon is however Lush’s most complicated Lunar new year bath bomb yet. It’s a standard shaped red bath bomb with a golden dragon wrapped around it.

Lush have released a similar bath bomb before with the Tengri bath bomb, Tengri also had a dragon wrapped around it. The Inner Dragon bath bomb however has a much more identifiable dragon and I suspect this will make it sell a lot better than Tengri did.

The Inner Dragon is so incredibly detailed that it makes it almost impossible to believe that Lush bath bombs are all hand pressed.

Since 3D printing technology has improved (making it possible for more complicated bath-bomb-mould designs) the details of Lush bath bombs keep getting better and better.

Inner Dragons scent is from Lush’s scent family, Big. It’s a popular Lush scent that I’m very happy to have in a more affordable bath bomb form.

The Inner Dragon bath bomb contains a long list of ingredients including the likes of: Sicilian red mandarin oil, vanilla absolute, orange flower absolute, ginger powder, and mandarin powder.

Its scent is hard to explain but to me it always reminds me of eating vanilla ice cream at the beach. It’s refreshing while also being warm and uplifting.

As soon as the Inner Dragon bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a huge hiss and mounds of bright orange foam. The first time I used it I was so surprised at the amount of foam in such a short period of time that I almost dropped the bath bomb before I could take the below photo!

It doesn’t take long for red bubbles to appear from the bath bomb too, creating orange and red swirls decorated with golden lustre.

With the Inner Dragon bath bomb dissolving so quickly (just under 3 minutes) I didn’t manage to capture any bath art photos but the oranges and reds coming out of it (even though for a very short amount of time) were spectacular to watch.

The Water left behind by the Inner Dragon bath bomb is a blood-orange colour. With it being such a fast fizzer, it leaves you with plenty of time to sit back and relax in its skin-soothingly-perfect waters. I can still smell its gentle scent on my skin for the rest of the day. It also left my skin feeling soft and refreshed right into the next day too.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Inner Dragon bath bomb, it’s a fantastic product inspired by a beautifully reflective and special time of year. I am looking forward to seeing what Lush come up with for Lunar new year, 2025!

Happy Lunar New Year everyone, may the year of the dragon treat you well!

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Gold Rabbit Bath Bomb from Lush

The Gold Rabbit Bath Bomb is a product specifically made for the Lunar New Year celebrations. It was released at the end of December 2022 just in time for the start of 2023, the year of the rabbit.

Last year, Lush created another product for Lunar new year with the release of the Lucky Tiger bath bomb, I really liked it so I was incredibly excited to see that Lush had once again decided to celebrate the Lunar New Year with yet another, year-of-the bath bomb.

The Gold Rabbit bath bomb is just a little bit smaller than the standard sized bath bomb weighing in at 180g. It’s created in the shape of a flower-decorated rabbit. Its colour and golden shimmer is very similar to the likes of the aforementioned Lucky Tiger, Rose Gold and Partridge in a Pear Tree bath bombs.

The attention to detail makes the Gold Rabbit such a beautiful bath bomb, the intricate flowers etched into it makes it hard to believe that Lush bath bombs are hand pressed. Since 3D printing technology has improved (making it possible for more complicated bath-bomb-mould designs) the details of Lush bath bombs have gotten better and better.

Gold Rabbit is a pale red (almost cerise) bath bomb coated in plastic-free, shimmery golden pigment (mica). It’s an incredibly sparkly bath bomb so not for the faint hearted, ALTHOUGH – I always feel like I must explain in my reviews of products like this that there’s no need to be afraid of anything from Lush that is sparkly.

When I first got into Lush the thought of using ‘glittery’ products terrified me. However, it’s not at all scary and after just one ‘glittery’ bath I was sold on all things shimmery. Bath bombs such as the Gold Rabbit make for very pleasant experiences, it’s not like jumping into a giant pot of glitter, I promise!

Gold Rabbits scent is from Lush’s scent family, Grass. It is a hugely popular, Lush-retro-fragrance that has featured in copious amounts of different Lush products, in several different formats over the years. There has been a reboot of the shower gel most recently, I will be reviewing it on here sometime soon.

The Gold Rabbit bath bomb contains a long list of ingredients including the likes of: Sandalwood, bergamot and neroli oils. Its scent is best described as being very similar to freshly cut grass. It’s earthy, fresh, and warm.

As soon as the Gold Rabbit bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a gentle hiss. Small cerise bubbles fizzle out of it as the water quickly turns an orangey pink. The golden shimmer also starts to spread around the water too, as the light captures it shimmering, I couldn’t help but ‘ooo’!

Much like last year’s Lunar-new-year bath bomb you don’t get any bath art out of Gold Rabbit and it’s not a foamy bath bomb either. The star points of Gold Rabbit are its scent and the beautiful shimmering water it leaves behind.

It’s a fast fizzer so you’ll be able to lay back to enjoy its sparkly waters in no time at all. The Gold Rabbit bath bombs scent remained on my skin right through until the next day and left my skin soft and refreshed too.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Gold Rabbit bath bomb, it’s a fantastic product inspired by a beautifully reflective and special time of year. I am looking forward to seeing what Lush come up with for Lunar new year, 2024!

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