Every Christmas, I buy a small hoard of soaps, bath bombs, and bubble bars from the shop Lush. This year, the company seems to have done a little bit more with their marketing and ideas and have come up with some new scents and products. The Christmas products typically come out in October, and I noticed them in the shop last weekend. Not only did they have Christmas products, but Halloween and autumn products were also in the mix. Read on to find out more.
Some old favourites were back in the Christmas display, such as the "Melting Snowman" bath melt, Santa bath bomb, star bath melt, star bubble bar wand, "Candy Mountain" bubble bar, and "Christmas Eve" bubble bar. In addition, these new products caught my eye.
Holly Go Lightly: I love the Breakfast At Tiffany's reference here as well as the glitter and holly design of the product. The product is actually green when crumbled into a bath, and it has cinnamon, orange, clove and lime fragrance.
So White Bath Bomb: This very white bath bomb smells of delicious apple, and this is not a new product. It's possibly one of my favourite bath bombs.
Cinders Bath Bomb: This spicy cinnamon bath bomb contains popping candy to crackle in the water. I normally buy this one every year as it reminds me of crisp autumn evenings in the UK with November 5th (Guy Fawkes Day) around the corner.
Penguin Bath Bar: This penguin sounds refreshing as its fragrance is of lemon and orange.
Dashing Santa Bath Bomb: Mandarin and orange. This smelled lovely, and I almost bought one.
Snow Angel Bath Melt: This bath melt is part bath bomb as well. It is similar in fragrance to the Snow Cake soap, which is my favourite Lush soap scent. It smells slightly of marzipan. (The snowglobe soap was a close second favourite of mine, but unfortunately they did not bring it back this year.)
In addition to the bath bubble bars, melts, and bath bombs, a few new Christmas soaps appeared in Lush this year. My favourite is still the "Snow Cake" soap, so I did not purchase any of the others.
Baked Alaska soap: This citrus-smelling soap uses bright colours, but the round ball-shaped and slightly blue hue with dim colours shining "through" looks like a snowball. It reminds me of seeing Christmas lights in the snow - either partially-covered or reflected. It's a very pretty product.
Reindeer Rock soap: This berry-scented dark red soap has imagery of reindeer etched on it.
Yog Nog soap: This is a creamy scent, and the soap has Christmas imagery (stars and pine trees) etched on it.
Christmas Hedgehog bath bomb: (The light blue and white items in the above picture) These contain shea butter and cocao butter, and they are a little messy to pick up. Thankfully, though, they don't leave spikes in your hands. I was not really that into it.
Golden Wonder bath bom: (The square gold and white items in the above picture) These are also my favourites and the little gift box contains a colourful surprise when it's placed into the bath.
After buying four items (I was reserved this time) for the bath, we went to Cafe Rogue and had hot chocolate and more chocolate. I could not wait to try out my new Lush products as they smelled amazing. (My bathroom still smells nice.)
The last item that I will mention is new, and it's the "Sparkly Pumpkin". It does not smell spiced like a pumpkin (no cinnamon), but it is a light floral scent. (It's actually grapefruit and juniperberry.) This is actually a nice fragrance for a slightly-chilly autumn evening. The product was also popular as two others purchased it at about the same time as I did, hence the empty-looking plate by the time I got my photograph. I love pumpkin and this time of year, so this was a no-brainer. I've also used it and really enjoyed it.
You can see the four items that I purchased above. Have you purchased anything from Lush, and what are you looking forward to trying the most?
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