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Sticky Dates Body Spray from Lush

The Sticky Dates Body Sprays release date is scheduled in for the 21st of November 2023. From that day, a limited amount will be available to purchase through the Lush app and through the Lush website.

I was lucky enough to be gifted a bottle prior to its release, I was one of only 50 people IN THE WORLD who were sent one of the new 7 scents that are coming out on the 21st of November. Hence me feeling very jammy and being able to review this for you all beforehand!

You’ll recognise this body sprays scent if you have tried the Sticky Dates shower gel and Sticky Dates Co-Mingle body scrub. It’s a fairly new Lush-scent-family but whatever product format it comes out in always proves popular and sells very well.

Ingredients wise, the Sticky Dates body spray contains sandalwood oil, benzoin resinoid and carob resinoid. This carefully selected group of ingredients creates one of Lush’s most moreish fragrances to date. Just a small spritz of it leaves you feeling like you’re wrapped in a delicious, caramel scented blanket.

The best description of it is that it smells just like a hot and gooey sticky toffee pudding with a generous helping or 2 of vanilla ice cream. I knew upon the shower-gel-equivalents release that its scent alone was going to catapult it straight into the list of Lush’s best sellers and I was right. It makes perfect sense for Lush to therefore create a body-spray-form of the Sticky Dates scent too.

Although I have described the Sticky Dates body sprays scent above as a hot and gooey sticky toffee pudding fragrance it is so much more complex than that. Lush have even managed to capture the smoky element of toasted caramel in it too. It’s mouth-wateringly good!

The Lush community were in desperate need of an injection of new perfume and body sprays, I am very excited for the official release date so I can purchase some of the other new fragrances alongside the Sticky Dates body spray. With it being such a small, limited edition drop I’ll make sure to prioritise my reviews on them over the other products on my list so that you have access to them while they are still on sale.

A very small amount of the Sticky Dates body spray goes a very long way. It’s incredibly strong. Sometimes I spray Lush body sprays on me 2 to 3 times, but the Sticky Dates body spray requires only 1 squirt and you’re good for the whole day. I find it lasts a lot longer when sprayed on my skin rather than my clothes too.

I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank Lush for sending me this body spray early, it was such a treat and as someone who spends at least 23 hours of the day thinking about Lush, it really is an appreciated gesture! I adore the Sticky Dates body spray and know it will sell just as well as its shower gel equivalent.

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Lump of Coal Bath Bomb from Lush

The Lump of Coal Bath Bomb first became available as a part of Lush’s Christmas 2023 line. As Christmas tradition goes, if you’re on Santa’s naughty list you’re more than likely to end up with a lump of coal and not much else for Christmas.

I must admit that I wouldn’t be at all disappointed if I found the Lump of Coal bath bomb in my Christmas stocking… The Lump of Coal bath bomb looks just as its name suggests, like a lump of coal. If you look closely, you can see that each of the Lump of Coal bath bombs has a cheeky looking smiley face on them.

An actual lump of coal is probably the last thing you’d ever think about putting in the bath with you and I know some people are filled with horror at the thought of using a black product in their clean white bath (somewhere they visit to GET CLEAN) but I’m here to let you know that there’s no need to panic at all!

With every bath bomb (even the light-coloured ones) I do recommend using them in a clean bath as any bath bomb colour will cling to residue left in the tub (even the almost invisible stuff like soap scum.) If you do find yourself in a situation where a simple rinse with the shower head doesn’t work, my secret weapon is dish washer soap.

A sponge, hot water and dish washer soap cuts through grime and grease fantastically, I actually use a splash of it to clean my bathtub a few times a week as it works so well. I would like to stress that I didn’t get any mess left behind at all by the Lump of Coal bath bomb, but I thought this tip was worth a mention just in case! Please keep on reading this review as there’s more to the Lump of Coal bath bomb than first meets the eye…

The Lump of Coal bath bomb is one of Lush’s smaller bath bombs, I didn’t realise until I had, had it delivered that each of them were only 90g each. For comparison purposes this means the Lump of Coal bath bomb is a little bit smaller than the Butterball and Groovy Fairy bath bombs.

Even though the Lump of Coal bath bomb is small, its scent still packs a punch. The Lump of Coal bath bomb shares its scent with the Hot Toddy shower gel and Cinnamon Roll bubble bar. It includes the following ingredients: cinnamon leaf oil, clove leaf oil and Brazilian orange oil.

It’s the perfect Winter fragrance, the best way I can describe it is as very similar to fizzy cola bottle sweets with a side helping of something warm and spicy, it’s almost like a mulled wine, sweet but incredibly toasty.

As soon as the Lump of Coal bath bomb comes into contact with your bath water a burst of black foam spills out of it. Slowly you start to see that the black pigment is actually a combination of very dark greens and dark blues.

After just under 2 minutes, a thin line of gold foam starts to slowly trickle out of the Lump of Coal bath bomb too. 

As the bath bomb bobs around your bath, the trickle of gold slowly gets thicker. As it spins it creates gold, dark green and dark blue bath art. The photos I have included in this review do the Lump of Coal bath bomb no justice at all. The dark colours put up against the gold clash, making the most striking of bath-bomb-bath-art.

With the Lump of Coal bath bomb being so small I was expecting it to be a really quick fizzer, it however took a good 10 minutes to fully dissolve. The water left behind is full of so many warming ingredients that it left my skin feeling tingly and as if my muscles had, had tiny little hands massaging them.

My skin feels silky smooth, and the scent remained on my skin longer after I got out of the bath too.

Once the Lump of Coal bath bomb has fully dissolved, the bath water turns a very dark black with the most incredible amount of golden shimmer in it. I wish I could have got a photograph to show you just how beautiful the end water is. It’s one you really must see with your own eyes.

Overall, I absolutely adore the Lump of Coal bath bomb. Its smaller size didn’t hinder its scent quality or bath art potential. I know using darker coloured bath bombs can be a little daunting but if you follow my steps above there’s really nothing to worry about.

Lush are known for bringing most of their Christmas bath bombs out only once BUT I have my fingers crossed that this, most pleasant little lump-of-coal makes a return for next Christmas too. It’s that good!

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Intergalactic Bubble Bar from Lush

I can’t believe it has taken until the very end of 2023 for Lush to finally create the Intergalactic Bubble Bar. Now it is here, I can’t quite find the right words to explain how happy its release has made me!

The Intergalactic Lush-scent-family started its Lush life in the form of the Intergalactic bath bomb. 

Back in 2015, it was an Oxford Street store exclusive; available from only one Lush store in the world, I used to have to beg people to pick it up and post it to me. Thankfully, those days are over as it is now available everywhere and is one of Lush’s best-selling bath bombs of all time.

The Intergalactic bubble bar is made in the same way as the Brightside and The Comforter bubble bars.

However, instead of having just two different colours of bubble bar rolled together to create that perfect swirl that the bubble bars I mentioned above are famous for, the Intergalactic bubble bar is made (much like the bath bomb equivalent) with three different colours: Blue, pink, and yellow.

During the process of making the Intergalactic bubble bar, the blue, pink and yellow bubble bar doughs meet as they are rolled together. After they have been put together you can see greens, oranges, and purples at the parts where the different colours of the bubble bars touch.

It’s a perfect, rainbow-blended-coloured bubble bar that I can’t get enough of. It is just so colourful, bold, and pretty, I’m obsessed!

Each Intergalactic bubble bar weighs in at approximately 200g each. At the time of writing this review, other bubble bars of the same size that are created in the exact same way (and that are currently available to purchase, other than the 2 mentioned above) are the Cinnamon Roll bubble bar, Snow Fairy Roll bubble bar, Blue Skies and Fluffy White Clouds bubble bar and Botanomancy bubble bar.

The Intergalactic bubble bar contains peppermint, grapefruit, vetivert and cedarwood oils and is described on Lush’s website as the ‘perfect, post-orbit soak’.

Its scent is predominantly a peppermint one, the grapefruit in it is however also noticeable BUT I wouldn’t say it was a particularly fruity fragrance. The grapefruit adds a layer to the peppermint scent which I can only describe as a clean smell.

To use the Intergalactic 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.

The one thing that I love about Lush’s bubble bars over their bath bombs is that they can easily be spread out over several baths. You can easily get 4 very generously bubbled baths out of just the one Intergalactic bubble bar making it excellent value for money.

If you’d like the bath water to be a darker blue at the end, I do however recommend using a little more per bath. The more of the Intergalactic bubble bar you use, the bluer the water under the bubbles will be. Using more doesn’t seem to get you many more bubbles but does make a difference on the end colour of your water.

Even if you decide to split the Intergalactic bubble bar 4 ways, it doesn’t compromise on its scent-quality which is often the case if you try to spread a bubble bar out a little too much. A blanket of fluffy white bubbles collects on the water’s surface immediately after placing the Intergalactic bubble-bar-pieces under the running tap.

An Intergalactic bubble-bar-bath leaves your skin feeling cool and refreshed. Its scent stays on your skin for the best part of the rest of the day after using it too. The scent lasts throughout the whole of your bath and the bubbles remain as well. As far as bubble bars go, it’s very much up there with the best of them!

Overall, I am so happy at the release of the Intergalactic bubble bar, it’s the prettiest bubble bar that Lush have ever made; The colours, its scent, and the galaxy-like-bathwater makes it worth every penny.

I hope that Lush keep the Intergalactic bubble bar as permanent stock for the foreseeable future, it’s the best bubble bar to have come out in a very long time.

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