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Royalty Bath Bomb from Lush

The Royalty Bath Bomb started off as a Lush Japan Harajuku-store-exclusive.

It also became one of the six exclusive bath bombs that were available to purchase in very limited amounts at the 2018 Lush UK Showcase; Each of the six bath bombs were sold for one hour only over the two day event (I don’t think I’ve ever experienced FOMO so intensely.)

Luckily, Lush see sense and it became readily available online for the 30 years-of-bath-bombs celebration back in 2019.

Since then, it was discontinued to make way for other products BUT with the Lush Kitchen Subscription box items now being announced ahead of their release, we know that it will be available in the May 2024 box.

Here I am, finally pulling my socks up and finishing my review of it!

Royalty is a golden-yellow crown shaped bath bomb with pink points to look like the crown has jewels.

Some of the ingredients included in the Royalty bath bomb are jasmine absolute, ylang ylang oil, sandalwood oil and vanilla absolute.

Its scent is best described as musky, the vanilla mixed with the jasmine gives it a burst of sweet floral too. 

If jasmine is in a cosmetic product, it is normally the dominant scent, but the vanilla in the Royalty bath bomb really dampens the jasmine down. As someone who doesn’t enjoy heavy jasmine scents, this was a positive for me.

As soon as the Royalty bath bomb comes into contact with the water you are greeted with a burst of bright yellow foam.

As the Royalty bath bomb fizzes away more colours spill out of it. Green and pink blobs separate from the bomb in a similar way to the colourful bits that are in the Golden Wonder bath bomb.

Considering its size, I was surprised to see that the Royalty bath bomb had fully dissolved in just shy of four minutes. This didn’t give the bath bomb much chance to create any notable bath art (although as you can see in the photo below it was colourful, just for a very short amount time.)

Sadly, the scent really dampened down to the point I couldn’t smell it at all after the bath bomb had fully dissolved.

The end water was however a beautiful shimmery yellow; The scent didn’t stay on my skin (If I am being honest I’m unsure if the scent was ever on my skin at all) but my skin did feel a lot softer than it did before I’d used the Royalty bath bomb.

Overall, I thought the Royalty bath bomb was beautifully made and one that really stood out, especially piled up high at the 2018 Lush showcase but I would have liked to have seen more bath art from it during use.

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By Night One Way, By Day Another Body Spray from Lush

This March, Lush have released yet another amazingly popular collaboration line. This small but impressive line is inspired by no other than the Shrek franchise!

Today I am reviewing the By Night One Way, By Day Another Body Spray.

As you can see from the photos I have included in this review, the By Night One Way, By Day Another body spray has such a detailed product label featuring princess Fiona.

The magical part of this label is that it glows in the dark.

By day the picture of princess Fiona is a human and at night (in the dark) you can see a glow-in-the-dark version of princess Fiona as an ogre, just like in the Shrek movie!

The attention to detail from Lush in each of their products always blows my mind but this label really puts this product out there in a league of its own.

The By Night One Way, By Day Another body spray’s scent is brand new to Lush but also features in the Fiona shower gel from the same Lush X Shrek line.

The By Night One Way, By Day Another body spray contains some of the following ingredients, mango leaf absolute, violet leaf absolute and Persian lime oil.

Lush describe the body spray on their website as a ‘fairytale blend of lime and mango leaf with notes of fresh juicy melon and crisp green apple’.

Immediately after spraying the By Night One Way, By Day Another body spray you’re hit with a blend of lime and mango.

After it’s been on your skin for while crisp apple notes then come through and so does the melon aspect of the fragrance.

When Lush described the melon notes of this body spray as juicy, they weren’t wrong. It’s hard for me to put into words but I can really smell just how juicy the melon is. In some ways it’s just like you’re eating a melon…

As the body spray settles greener notes come through too, it really is just like a fairytale forest!

With the By Night One Way, By Day Another body spray being such a fruit dominant fragrance I was expecting its staying power to be weak but I was pleasantly surprised that the body spray didn’t need a top up until about 8 hours later. One quick spritz is all you need to leave you smelling great all day.

Overall, I love the By Night One Way, By Day Another body spray; The scent captures princess Fiona as a character so well and also ties in the whole fairytale theme too.

I hope this isn’t the last we see of this fresh and fruity Lush fragrance, I’d love to see it in other product formats in the future, a bath bomb or body lotion equivalent would be delicious.

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Donkey Bath Bomb from Lush

Another day, another review of a product from the Lush X Shrek collaboration. Today I am pleased to be reviewing the Donkey Bath Bomb for you all!

Ahead of the products website release on the 25th of March (2024), I was lucky enough to be gifted most of the line by Lush. thanks again Lush, you’ve made my month with this surprise box of Shrek goodies!

Donkey is the very annoying but much loved, side kick/noble steed of the main character, Shrek.

The Donkey bath bomb does not disappoint looks wise, he is instantly recognisable as the flying, talking Donkey from the Shrek films; The fact that each Donkey bath bomb is handmade blows my mind. The 3D printer bath-bomb-moulds just keep getting better and better.

Donkey is a mixture of two colours, a silverish grey and bright blue. He is posing with his head to one side, with a big toothy grin and has one of his front legs lifted.

The Donkey bath bomb contains clove bud and ylang ylang oil and shares its scent with products from the Yog Nog Lush-scent-family such as the Yog Nog bath bomb and Yog Nog shower gel.

If you’ve watched Shrek, you’ll know that Donkey’s favourite food is waffles and that’s exactly what the Donkey bath bomb smells like! Lush’s attention to detail for every product they create is so much more than just making them look good.

When the Donkey bath bomb first encounters your bath water there is an explosion of blue foam, this quickly separates from the bath bomb, and you start to see super-shimmery, light grey foam spill out of it too.

It doesn’t take long for the water to fully engulf the Donkey bath bomb, as he slips under, shimmery blue and almost white bath art trickles out of it as it floats just under the water’s surface.

The photos I have included in this review do the Donkey bath bomb no justice at all, the bath art that it creates is very similar to the likes of the Frozen bath bomb, INCREDIBLE.

It takes about six minutes for the Donkey bath bomb to fully dissolve, the water left behind is a very inviting sky blue, I couldn’t stop swishing the water around as it’s so incredibly sparkly!

The Yog Nog, waffle-like-scent stays in your bathroom right up until the last drop of bath water disappears down your plug hole. It then remains on your skin for the best part of the rest of the day, shimmer too.

A Donkey bath left my skin feeling completely refreshed and left me craving waffles.

While I hate to pick favourites because I am ridiculously indecisive, I have to say that the Donkey bath bomb impressed me so much that if I had to choose between it and the Shrek Swamp bath bomb (from the same line), I’d choose Donkey based on its bath art.

I wasn’t expecting to like the Donkey bath bomb so much, the scent suited it so well and I also wasn’t expecting such incredible bath art from it either.

I’m so sad that the Shrek line is limited edition as I feel most of the products in it would do well as permanent main-line-products.

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