Tag: Lush Halloween

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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Bonehead Bubble Bar from Lush

The Bonehead Bubble Bar is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2023 Halloween line. Designed to look like a playful and not-at-all-scary skull with googly, rattling around eyes, it is described on Lush’s website as a ‘numbskull bringing foolish fun’ to bath time.

If you’ve been a Lush customer for a while, you are more than likely to recognise the Bonehead bubble bars scent as it also features in the past Lush products the Snowman Bomb Bomb and Polar Bear Plunge bubble bar.

Each Bonehead bubble bar weighs in at approximately 160g which is just 10g lighter than the Pumpkin Crumble bubble bar (another bubble bar from the 2023 Halloween line) it’s a good-sized bubble bar that fits snuggly in my hand.

The Bonehead bubble bar contains a generous amount of cooling spearmint oil and hidden inside of it is loose, blue-tinted fine sea salt.

The Bonehead’s scent is incredibly refreshing, it’s so minty-fresh that it awakens all of my senses. Giving it a good sniff makes my nose tingle!

Minty products rarely feature in the Lush Halloween lines, so I was very excited to see Boneheads list of ingredients.

To use the Bonehead bubble bar, I put broken up pieces of it into a sieve and let the running bath-water trickle over it. I find this the most effective way to use Lush’s single use bubble bars.

This method is also the best way to ensure none of the bubble bar gets accidentally wasted and through trial and error, I have found that this method makes the most bubbles.

The one thing that I love about Lush’s bubble bars over their bath bombs is that they can be easily spread out over several baths. With Bonehead being quite a big bubble bar, you can easily get 2 (possibly 3) heavily bubbled bubble baths out of it.

It’s very good value for money as a very small amount goes an incredibly long way, I’ve not seen a bubble bar from Lush with this much bubble potential for quite some time!

Splitting the Bonehead bubble bar into several different baths didn’t compromise on its scent-quality at all and I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly the blanket of fluffy white bubbles started to form while running my bath. Underneath the blanket of fluffy, white bubbles the water turns a milky white.

A Bonehead bubble-bar-bath leaves your skin feeling silky-smooth and perfectly hydrated. A lot of the thanks for this is down its sea-salt addition. Its minty scent lasts on your skin for the best part of the rest of the day after bathing in it too, something that minty scented products don’t always manage to achieve.

Overall, I am glad Lush released this. It’s nice to try something a little different from the spicy and pumpkin based products that you ordinarily associate this time of year with.

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Candy Corn Lip Scrub from Lush

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 (the now illegal) 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 (which ever one you choose to go with!) Luckily for us, Lush have released not 1, but 2 new lip scrubs for Halloween 2023!

Today I am going to be reviewing the Candy Corn Lip Scrub. 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 are also very good at softening and hydrating them at the same time. Exfoliating your lips has so many benefits and with all thanks to Lush, it has never been easier to do.

As well as caster sugar, the Candy Corn lip scrub also contains organic jojoba oil, Brazilian orange oil, rose oil, benzoin resinoid, sesame seed absolute, fir balsam resinoid and paprika oleoresin.

Unlike the Wednesday’s Child is Full of Woe lip scrub (the other lip scrub from the 2023 Halloween line) Candy Corn is a brand-new Lush scent that hasn’t featured in any other Lush product before now.

The one question I have been asked over and over about the Candy Corn lip scrub is whether it smells and tastes like the sugary sweet of the same name, Candy Corn. I have personally never tried the sweet so I can’t say for sure. I have however heard others say they are very alike.

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

The Candy Corn lip scrub is a gloriously bright shade of orange. Ordinarily, I tend to favour the lighter or more natural to actual lip-colour lip scrubs over the brightly coloured ones because I find that the highly pigmented scrubs can sometimes (after use) leave your lips with a slight tinge of whatever colour the lip scrub is. I am however pleased to report that during use, I haven’t had any colour transfer from the Candy Corn lip scrub at all.

Even though I’m usually not a huge fan of the Lush products that are super sweet, I do actually like the smell/taste of the Candy Corn lip scrub. It isn’t as sweet as I feared, in fact, the most dominant ingredient in it scent/taste wise is probably the Brazilian orange oil.

If I had to choose a favourite out of the 2 Halloween 2023 Lush lip scrubs, I’d pick the Candy Corn lip scrub. A little amount of it goes a long way, my lips feel smoother with little to no effort, and I also find the formula quite hydrating. I do recommend a quick dab of lip balm after using it though, just to add an extra layer of hydration.

Overall, I love the Candy Corn lip scrub, when you use lip scrubs as much as I do it’s very easy to grow bored of one scent/taste so new ones make things a little less boring. With the Candy Corn lip scrub being so orange-led I could actually see it working well as a Summer product too!

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