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Penguin Bath Bomb from Lush

The Penguin Bath Bomb is a brand-new, limited-edition product from Lush’s 2023 Christmas line.

With the Penguin bath bomb, Lush have designed one of their cutest, bath-bomb-characters to date. It’s a mostly violet coloured penguin, with a snow-white face, belly, and strikingly orange beak. The Penguin bath bombs look is all finished off with its adorable hot pink bow tie.

Weighing in at approximately 175g each the Penguin bath bomb is quite big, it’s one of Lush’s bigger more flatter bath bombs and is almost as big as my (little bit smaller than average) hand.

The Penguin bath bomb contains bergamot oil, Sicilian lemon oil, orange flower absolute and Sicilian red mandarin oil.

It shares its scent with Lush’s incredibly popular, The Olive Branch shower gel. If you’ve been a Lush customer for quite some time, you’ll most likely recognise its scent from the, The Christmas Penguin bubble bar from past Christmas lines too.

The ‘Olive Branch’ scent family is a much-loved Lush fragrance that I’m always happy to see make an appearance in any product format.

The Olive Branch scent is best described as a delicate citrus fragrance. It is perfect for anyone who is wary of the stronger fragrances Lush are often associated with.

As soon as the Penguin bath bomb touches the water you are greeted with a gentle stream of violet bubbles.

The Penguin bath bomb is not fantastic bath-art-wise BUT does create a few colourful groups of bubbles as it dissolves. Once the water takes over, the penguin’s beak and pink bow fizzle away too.

The Penguin bath bomb takes approximately 5 minutes to fully dissolve and turns your bath water a milky violet colour.

I found the waters left behind by the Penguin bath bomb silky smooth and incredibly refreshing. It’s gentle ‘Olive Branch’ scent can also still be detected on your skin long after getting out of the bath.

My skin still felt soft and hydrated for the whole of the next day after using it too, it’s an incredibly hydrating bath bomb.

I really enjoyed using the Penguin bath bomb, I’d have maybe liked a bit more bath art out of it but other than that I think it’s a fantastic addition to not only the Christmas line but also the Olive Branch Lush-scent-family.

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Gingerbread 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 chose to use (the now illegal) micro-plastics over sugar in their exfoliation products.

Lush’s lip scrubs are ridiculously underrated and today I am going to be reviewing the Gingerbread Lip Scrub from Lush’s 2023, Christmas line.

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.

The Gingerbread lip scrub is brand new to Lush this year and packed full of gingerbread-baking-ingredients.

As well as caster sugar, the Gingerbread lip scrub also contains organic jojoba oil, granulated sugar, fair trade shea butter, fine sea salt, bergamot oil, cinnamon leaf oil, carob resinoid, ginger oil, benzoin resinoid and cocoa powder.

To use, simply scoop out a little amount of the lip scrub onto your finger and gently buff your lips with it. You can then wipe off the excess.

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 Gingerbread lip scrub is a similar colour to brown sugar.

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.

With the Gingerbread lip scrub being a more natural colour, I am pleased to report that I didn’t get this problem.

Even though I’m usually not a huge fan of the Lush products that are super sweet, I find that the Gingerbread lip scrub is the perfect mix of sweet and spicy.

It tastes and smells more or less the same as a gingerbread cookie but it also reminds me of carrot cake too.

If I had to choose a favourite out of the new 2023 lip scrub releases the Gingerbread lip scrub would be in my top 3.

A small amount of it goes a long way as it’s such a fine and scrubby formula. My lips feel smoother with little to no effort, and I also find the formula very hydrating.

I do however recommend a quick dab of lip balm after using lip scrubs, especially in the Winter just to add an extra layer of hydration.

I think it’s safe to say that I love the Gingerbread lip scrub; It exfoliates and hydrates your lips perfectly and tastes and smells incredible too.

Lush, If you read this, we need a lip balm in this same scent for next Christmas please!

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Catch Me If You Can Bath Bomb from Lush

The Catch Me If You Can Bath Bomb first became available as a part of 2023’s Winter line.

Both its name and design are inspired by the Gingerbread Man fairy tale.

As the fairy tale says, the Gingerbread man-shaped-biscuit comes to life as soon as the oven door it was baked in opens. He doesn’t want to be eaten so runs for his life while shouting over his shoulder ‘Run, run as fast as you can. You can’t catch me. I’m the Gingerbread man!’ 

When Lush create character products, it always makes them a little more difficult to use.

The Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is shaped into the perfect little gingerbread man. With big beady eyes and smile to match, two big buttons and little arms and legs.

The Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is covered in golden shimmer and underneath the shimmering gold layer are further layers of green, yellow and blue.

The Catch Me If You Can bath bomb shares its scent with the Golden Wonder bath bomb from Christmas lines of the past.

Being honest as always, the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is pretty much just a reimagined version of the Golden Wonder bath bomb. If you liked Golden Wonder, it’s worth giving the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb a go.

The best way to describe the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb’s scent is a tangy citrus with a warm, boozy punch, think orange juice mixed with bubbly champagne!

Ingredients wise, it contains sweet wild orange oil, lime oil and ginger powder.

Each Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is only 80g each making it one of Lush’s smallest bath bombs to date.

Before the Golden Wonder bath bomb was discontinued as a Winter product the price of it had shot up a great deal each year, I think this is probably why Lush have condensed the bath bomb so much, creating Catch Me If You Can as a smaller alternative.

As soon as the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb meets your bath water you are greeted with a burst of blue, green and yellow foam.

As the water takes over the bath bomb, the golden shimmer on the top layers of the bath bomb slowly starts to spread into the water too.

Considering its size, I was surprised to see that The Catch Me If You Can bath bomb took just over 15 minutes to fully dissolve!

This is much longer than most Lush bath bombs. The colourful bath art left behind by the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb is so much better in person, unfortunately this time of year leaves me with ridiculously bad lighting so the photos in this review do the bath bomb no justice at all.

Nearer the end of its time in the water the bath art it created reminded me of the Fizzbanger bath bomb with it mostly being yellow and blue. The bath water at the end was an almost neon green. Again, just like Fizzbanger.

Overall, I really enjoyed using the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb.

The scent could have been a little stronger, it had almost completely faded long before I was ready to get out of the bath. I am guessing this is because of the bath bombs smaller size.

My skin did feel soft after using the Catch Me If You Can bath bomb but again, the scent wasn’t detectable on my skin at all. The bath did however leave me feeling warm and relaxed.

I would love to see this bath bomb come back (with a stronger fragrance) but have learnt to not get too attached to any Wintertime Lush bath bomb as they rarely make a reappearance the year after their first release. I have my fingers crossed this bath bomb isn’t yet again just a one-hit-wonder!

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