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Love Potion Bath Bomb from Lush

The Love Potion Bath Bomb is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2024 Valentine’s Day line.

Weighing in at approximately 75g each, the Love Potion bath bomb is even smaller than the Love Letter bath bomb from the same line.

Through my love of Lush and their world-famous bath bombs, I have however learnt that bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better. I never judge a bath bomb on first look as the plainer ones can often give you the best of surprises during use.

The Love Potion is just that, a bath bomb designed to resemble a mini potion bottle. The Love Potion bath bomb is not to be confused with the Magic Potion bath bomb, both are very different, the only thing they have in common are their potion names.

This dark violet, magical potion shaped bottle is decorated with a sprinkling of white and light pink miniature love hearts.

The Love Potion bath bomb contains Sicilian red Mandarin oil, almond essential oil, orris root powder, wafer paper, candy hearts and a generous helping of popping candy.

Lush’s website explains why some of the ingredients in the Love Potion were chosen; For example, orris root powder is supposedly known for its magical use of finding and holding onto love… If you believe in the power of the orris root, it’s definitely worth a try!

The Love Potion bath bomb’s scent is a powdery, fruity-sweet mixture, on first sniff I can smell a candy-like blend of strawberry and raspberry. Strangely, it actually really reminds me of one of my childhood toys, a scented My Little Pony.

As soon as the Love Potion bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a hiss of violet coloured foam with flecks of blue in. The popping candy kicks in almost immediately, crackling away as the bath bomb floats upon the bath water’s surface.

The Love Potion bath bomb doesn’t offer anything too artsy bath-art-wise, but thanks to the popping candy and violet foam that spills out of it, it does put on a beautiful show.

The small pink and white candy hearts slowly break away from the bath bomb dropping to the bottom of the bath before completely dissolving.

Amazingly, the Love Potion bath bomb took just over 10 minutes to fully dissolve, I was not expecting this considering its smaller than average size.

I didn’t realise until after I had used the Love Potion bath bomb that it also has the same silky-soft, wafer paper bits in that you’ll be familiar with if you have ever used the Dragon’s Egg bath bomb.

I found the dark violet waters left behind by the Love Potion bath bomb to be incredibly soft, a good soak in its waters left my skin silky-smooth and a lot less dry. It’s perfect for dry Winter skin but I can also see it working well in warmer months too because of its fruity fragrance.

Unfortunately, the Love Potion scent didn’t remain on my skin for very long at all but how soft it made my skin lasted right into the following day.

Overall, I think that the Love Potion bath bomb is another amazing addition to the Valentine’s Day line, I cannot recommend it enough, it may be small, but it is one of the best bath bombs from this year’s range, it has made a lasting impression on me!

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Wild Violet Co-Mingle Body Scrub from Lush

The first Co-Mingle body scrub was released back in 2022. Lush have since released several more; Sticky Dates Co-Mingle, Tropical Co-Mingle and now the subject of this review, the Wild Violet Co-Mingle Body Scrub!

The Wild Violet Co-Mingle body scrub is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2024 Mother’s Day line. I was lucky enough to get to try it before its initial release as Lush gifted me a pot, it’s set to be available in all UK stores from the 1st of February.

The Wild Violet Co-Mingle body scrub is described by Lush as ‘wild and beautiful, sweet and soft.’ Using it buffs, cleanses, and moisturises your skin all at the same time.

After the success of both the original Co-Mingle and Sticky Dates Co-Mingle, I was eager to give the Wild Violet Co-Mingle body scrub a go.

With the Wild Violet Co-Mingle body scrub being a three-in-one product it has a lot of ingredients in it; the scrubby element of it comes from the tagua nut powder.

Alongside the tagua nut powder, the Wild Violet Co-Mingle also contains sweet violet leaf infusion, spring water, almond oil, Brazil nut oil, ground white rice, ylang ylang flower infusion, fair trade shea butter, argan oil, cupuacu butter and rosewood oil.

The Wild Violet Co-Mingle body scrub shares its scent with the Ultraviolet bubble bar which happens to be one of my favourites.

The best way I can describe its scent is as a really intense violet, I can’t often tell the difference between Lush’s violet-based scent families but this one is a very natural floral, it smells very green and always leaves me feeling fresher.

Consistency-wise, the Wild Violet Co-Mingle body scrub is probably the loosest of the Co-Mingles that Lush have created so far. I’d describe it as being like a very milky porridge.

A very small amount of the Wild Violet Co-Mingle body scrub goes a long way BUT it smells so good that I always end up taking an extra scoop out just because I can!

To use, all you need is about 3 fingers worth and that easily does your whole body. I wouldn’t say that the Wild Violet Co-Mingle was a very harsh body scrub, if anything it is more of a skin buffer than exfoliator. It almost thickens into something creamier as you lather it in.

The formula is super nourishing for your skin. Even though it’s a very gentle body scrub, it does buff away dirt and dead skin well leaving skin that appears brighter behind.

It really is a three-in-one product too, it scrubs (albeit very gently) washes and moisturises your skin perfectly, there’s no need for a shower gel or body lotion after using it.

Overall, I love the Wild Violet Co-Mingle body scrub, I do prefer something a bit scrubbier when I’m in need of a good exfoliation but this one I am more than happy to use as a gentle in-between.

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Love Letter Bath Bomb from Lush

The Love Letter Bath Bomb is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2024 Valentine’s Day line.

Weighing in at just 85g, the Love Letter bath bomb is one of Lush’s smallest bath bombs to date BUT if there is one thing that Lush has taught me it is that bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better. I also never judge a bath bomb on first look as the plainer ones can often give you the best surprises in the water too…

Love Letter is just that, a bath bomb designed to look just like a love letter, this envelope shaped bath bomb is sealed with a bright pink heart, and it is decorated with a sprinkling of dissolvable love hearts just like the Love Boat bath bomb had.

The Love Letter bath bomb contains coconut milk powder, fair trade organic cocoa butter, bergamot oil, olibanum oil and geranium oil.

It shares its scent with several very popular products, Yummy Yummy Yummy shower gel, Peeping Santa bubbleroon and the Strawberries and Cream bath bomb just to name a few.

Love Letter’s scent is best described as a sweet and super-creamy, strawberry scent. It’s mouth wateringly good.

As soon as the Love Letter bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a gentle hiss as white bubbles spill out of the bath bomb. Soon after putting it in to the water small beads of yellow cocoa butter also start to come out of the bath bomb melting into your hot water in a similar way to the Butterball bath bomb.

You’d be safe in assuming that the Love Letter bath bomb doesn’t offer anything too colourful bath-art-wise, but it does put on such a unique performance.

The dissolvable love hearts slowly break free from the bath bomb as the envelope part of the bath bomb gets taken over by the water; What I like best about the Love Letter bath bomb is that the bright pink heart is the very last bit of the bath bomb to dissolve, it’s a very clever design!

The Love Letter bath bomb takes approximately five minutes to fully dissolve which is a lot longer than I expected considering its smaller size, it turns your bath water a very light lilac colour. The scent is still strong but slightly gentler once the bath bomb has fully dissolved.

I found the waters left behind by the Love Letter bath bomb to be incredibly moisturising, more so than I originally thought as I didn’t expect it to have as much cocoa butter in it as it did.

The sweet strawberry scent of the bath bomb remains in your bathroom long after you pull the plug too.

The scent can also still be detected on your skin long after getting out of the bath but at a much more subtle level.

Overall, I LOVE this bath bomb. It might not be the brightest or biggest bath bomb in the Valentine’s Day line BUT the attention Lush have put into all of its little details really shines through, especially during use.

The scent and the fact that the pink heart is the last part of the bath bomb to disappear makes for such a unique bathing experience, I really hope this bath bomb comes back every Valentine’s day as it’s brilliant!

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