Love Boat Bath Bomb

As I’ve said in previous reviews, my mother is unlucky in the fact that her skin doesn’t allow her to use most cosmetics at all - especially taking baths with any of Lush’s wonderful bath bombs and bubble bars. For this reason, I feel slightly disappointed when the company bring out their yearly collection for Mother’s Day and I can only talk about the products with my mum, as opposed to her experiencing them for herself.

Last year Lush brought Mum Bath Bomb for the first time, which was a beautiful bomb to look at but one that didn’t leave much of an impression in the water. Offering a sweet, fruity scent that reminded me very much of the Refresher candies you can get in the UK, the bath bomb offered powdery notes of both orange and lemon that lingered playfully on the senses but next to disappeared when placed in the water. 

This year’s Love Boat Bath Bomb is the new improved version - sharing the same scent as last year’s aforementioned release, as well Rose Lollypop Lip Balm. Not only does it look far more appealing and works better in the tub, but the scent is definitely a little more defined in this format. 

As I said above, the smell of this is a powdery, sherbet-like aroma - one that wouldn’t win any awards for its complexity, but one that is both light and youthful enough that it will brighten up your day, especially if you use this first thing in the morning.

This year’s design means that it is also more appealing whilst its dissolving - floating on the surface and sending out frothy waves of both blue and pink foam. Unfortunately, I found that both of the ones I tried seemed to be rather bottom-heavy, so the bath bomb ended up capsizing after a few minutes and spoiled the experience a little. The type of water in your area and how hot you like your baths will affect how your products work, so I might have just been unlucky in that sense.

Disappointingly, the scent of Love Boat did disperse quite a bit while I was in the tub. While it appeared stronger to begin with, I think the nature of this type of smell  means that it’s not one that will ever make a huge impression in the water. For this reason, the scent didn’t linger on my skin afterwards at all, and every product I used in the bath overpowered what little aroma that I was still able to detect throughout.

Again, the bath water left little to be desired: offering a very weak peachy colour that changed as soon as I can began using my other products. Having said that, I did really appreciate the layer of golden lustre that pulsated under the surface during the whole bath - it meant that the water had a pretty glisten throughout, without coating your skin with glitter afterwards.

Despite the above points, Love Boat proved to be a very moisturising bath bomb. The water appeared to take on thicker qualities once it had dissolved and I found that my skin felt really velvety-soft and nourished afterwards. In addition, the citrusy oils appeared to help elevate my mood whilst I was bathing (even though I wasn’t really able to smell anything) and I felt so much more relaxed after my experience.

Overall, he design is beautiful to look at and I’m really glad that Lush chose to bring this out for the consumer to enjoy. Design and smell-wise, this Bath Bomb ticks all of the boxes. The company just need to work on making the water a little more interesting and the fragrance a little stronger.

Quantitative Ingredients: Sodium Bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Sicilian Lemon Oil, Organic Sweet Orange Oil, Rose Oil, Cream of Tartar, Water (Aqua), Titanium Dioxide, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Dipropylene Glycol, Propylene Glycol, Lauryl Betaine, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Tin Oxide, Hydroxy propyl methyl cellulose, Sodium carboxymethyl cellulose, *Limonene, *Linalool, Perfume, Colour 16255, Colour 45410, Colour 42090, Colour 42090:2, Colour 45350, Colour 19140:1, Colour 15850:1, Colour 45410:1, Colour 77491, Colour 47005:1.

Vegan?: Yes.

2018 Price: £4.25 each.

Year Of Original Release: 2018.

Scent Family: 
Love Boat Bath Bomb
Mum Bath Bomb
Rose Lollypop Lip Balm 

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Strawberry Boat Fresh Smoothie

If I'm going to be honest, I don't think Lush have yet to perfect the strawberry fragrance. While their use of the fruit in the American Cream, Yummy Yummy Yummy and Strawberry Twin Tub scents have yielded incredibly sexy variations, nothing has yet to come close to the fresh, non-synthetic beauty that is the natural strawberry aroma.

Strawberry Boat Smoothie was supposed to be the product that blew my theory out of the water. While it didn't achieve this, it did offer me another strawberry-scented product that I could enjoy - one extracted from the Lush vaults of the late 1990s. 

This smoothie was originally designed to scrub, exfoliate and smoothen out lines, creases and the wobbly bits on your body - which is why the product doesn't specifically detail where you should apply this. For this reason, I have used this on both my body and my face, and have yielded great results from both experiments. 

Packed full of strawberries, this magical fruit is rich in antioxidants and minerals which add vibrancy to your skin and leaves it feeling clean, clear and refreshed. This is combined with both fresh ginger root and ginger oil which not only add to the overall smell of the product and gives it a slightly spicy fragrance, but also supports circulation around the body and makes you feel warmer and more relaxed.

Strawberry Boat Fresh Smoothie smells a little like strawberry greek yoghurt - it has a slight sourness to it that I pick up even more when it is on my skin. It also has a gentle powdery fruitiness to it much like Yummy Yummy Yummy has, yet it doesn't share the same strawberry scent. To round it off, there's a sprinkling of ginger, which sort of lingers underneath the strawberry and gives the smoothie a very subtle spiciness. 

Ground rice gives this smoothie a very odd consistency unlike anything else I've yet to try from Lush. The product is rather thick and gritty in consistency - a little like smooth peanut butter mixed with semolina powder. I supposed it compares a little to Cupcake Fresh Face Mask but it's not exactly like this. On top of each smoothie is a decoration of sago - a starch derived from the pith of the sago palm that has been turned into small grains that are similar in look and feel as tapioca. These help to give you a good all-rounded exfoliation without being too aggressive on the skin.   

In the shower, this product does really well at lathering over your skin. It doesn't produce any foam - working like a body butter in this way. However, you only need very little as it coats your body with ease. After it has been washed off, it leaves its gentle fragrance on you for a while. In the shower this scent is a little floury - it smells of strawberries and baked oats. Unfortunately, I found that the scent it leaves on your skin after you've left the sower is reminiscent of soured milk so I didn't enjoy this aspect of the product. In fact, the smell I could pick up off my skin reminded me a little of when I used Coco Lotion, with disastrous effects!

Strawberry Boat leaves you skin feeling really clean and soft. It doesn't feel incredible moisturised like I would expect from buttercreams and body butters,  but the effect it has is not unlike the feeling you get when using a good-quality shower gel. 

This is a lovely product that makes a great addition to your shower experiences. It only needs to be used 2-3 times a week so a 75g pot should last you a while. It does need to be kept in the fridge between uses and it only has a four week shelf life which is a shame as you won't be able to store these before they leave the kitchen. I'm really glad that Lush brought this back for fans to try and I hope to see more of these wonderful products making an appearance soon. 

Quantitative Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Ground Rice, Almond Oil, Fresh Strawberries, Glycerine, Sago, Fine Sea Salt, Rapeseed Oil and Coconut Oil, Fresh Ginger Root, Ginger Oil, Sodium Chloride, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium Hydroxide, Citronellol, Linalool, Perfume.

Vegan?: Yes.

2017 Price: £6.95 each.

Japanese Aid Soap

Japanese Aid Soap was released in 2011 to raise money for Peace Boat - an organisation that at the time were trying to aid Japan following a devastating earthquake. Peace Boat is a Japan-based international non-governmental and non-profit organisation that works to promote peace, human rights, equal and sustainable development and respect for the environment. It seems fitting then that Lush chose to promote and raise money for an organisation, who at the the time, were transporting foods and cooking hot meals for those most in need. 

Shaped like the Japanese flag, this soap shares it's scent with the much-loved I Should Coco Soap - a creamy coconut and vetivert offering that hasn't been seen in quite a long time. While the latter soap is crammed full of desiccated coconut, this soap is much smoother, although that's not to say it's any less creamier. 

Packed full of rapeseed, coconut, sweet orange, vetivert and coriander oil, this soap is a highly moisturising and gorgeous smelling product. Although the natural sweetness of the coconut and orange are present in the smell, you can also make out the vetivert and coriander in Japanese Aid, which gives it a strange and unique aroma. 

The soap has a gentle but long-lasting fragrance - a sweet, warming scent that intensifies in the shower and makes for a very comforting experience. The addition of orange oil adds a slightly uplifting, citrus element to the scent, but it definitely doesn't upstage the coconut. There's also a hint of the coriander oil present as well, which I feel almost takes away from the creaminess of the coconut very slightly.   

With all of these oils present, this soap is super easy to lather up in the shower and produces a creamy lather that coats your skin and leaves you feeling and smelling gorgeous. Unlike I Should Coco, this soap cannot be used as an exfoliator but it does mean it cleans better and you get better usage out of this than it's older brother. 

Japanese Aid leaves your skin feeling well-pampered and radiant and the coconut essence stays with you and your bathroom for hours after you've used it in the shower. Although it looks like a soap that will diminish very quickly under water, I was surprised to find that it's quite sturdy. A 100g chunk of this soap will last you a good 3-4 weeks, but I would recommend that you pat it dry between uses.

I actually prefer this to I Should Coco and hope that Lush chose to bring it out in this format rather than it's older design. I find that the shredded coconut prevents I Should Coco from cleaning your skin properly whereas this one does wonders at making it feel smooth and look refreshed. If you love coconut, but are perhaps looking for something that's slightly different from your usual coconut-smelling cosmetics, this may be the soap for you.  

Quantitative Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Propylene Glycol, Rapeseed Oil; Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Cocos nucifera), Sodium Stearate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Titanium Dioxide, Perfume, Glycerine, Sweet Wild Orange Oil (Citrus sinensis), Vetivert Oil (Vetiveria zizanoides), Coriander Oil (Coriandrum sativum), Sodium Chloride, EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Sodium Hydroxide, Colour 14700, Colour 17200, Limonene, Linalool.

Vegan?: Yes.

Year Of Original Release: 2011. 

Scent Family: 

I Should Coco Soap
Japanese Aid Flag

Christmas Sale 2013 Haul

Unfortunately (or perhaps, fortunately!), I tend to spend my Christmas' with my family, who happen to live on an island. This means that I'd have to catch a boat, a train, and maybe even a bus, in order to get myself to a Lush shop for their boxing day sale. Therefore, I have to rely on the online sales in order to top up my already out-of-control stash. 

I was super excited when my three boxes arrived today, carted all the way up 30+ stairs by a less than impressed postman. I couldn't wait to rip them open and inspect all of my goodies, but I did manage to contain myself and take a few pictures before opening the gift sets further.

There are a few non-vegan products here as a couple of the gift sets featured an item or two that have honey in the ingredients list. However, I bought the sets merely because I loved the packaging and these items will be given away to my flatmates, who are more than willing to use them.

Check out my video if you wish to hear me babbling on about this haul. I hope everyone got what they wanted in Lush's sale and I would love to find out more about your spenditures, so if you've blogged or made a video about your hauls, send me a link so I can take a peek!

Fairy Tail Sugar Scrub

I am breaking all of the rules this week. Not only did I accidentally buy a gift box that was highly non-vegan, but I have then proceeded to review not one but two of the products from this set - items that don't really have a place on this vegan blog.

Firstly, I discovered that the Gingerbread Bubble Bar contained milk derivative in the sprinkles that are used as decoration. While I have donated my fresh bars to my very keen flatmates, I have allowed my review of said product to remain on my blog - partly because I always put a lot of effort into my reviews and would feel it was a waste just deleting it, and partly because I'm sure there are many people who read this blog who would interested in reading about a couple of non-vegan products. 

Secondly, Fairy Tail Sugar Scrub is also labelled as being vegetarian, so I shouldn't really feature this on my blog either. However, the only non-vegan element to this scrub is the white chocolate buttons that decorate the surface of the dome; something that can be removed before using the product. While I have enjoyed using this scrub, I should point out that I would not go out of my way to buy it on its own in the future - I am only using it because it came as part of a set, and so you guys can benefit from an in-depth review of course!

Shaped like a mouse with a tail and two little white chocolates for ears, this scrub is one of the cutest ones to come from the Lush factory. Add in the fact that it shares it's scent with the rather wonderful Strawberry Feels Forever Massage Bar, Strawberry Boat Smoothie and Mrs Whippy Ballistic, and you can begin to understand why I was so keen to try it out for myself.  

Fairy Tail possesses a very beautiful smell - a sugary-sweet and rather fruity combination of coconut milk powder, frankincense oil and bergamot oil. When combined, these ingredients produce a rich, musky vanilla fragrance with a dominant thread of strawberry laced throughout. It's a powdery strawberry scent - one that has an air of maturity about it and sets itself apart from the usual hum drum of cheap berry scents you'd expect to find in your local chemists.

The frankincense oil is what gives this scrub it's main aroma and adds an almost woody element to the fragrance; the bergamot oil compliments this with it's own uplifting and rather bright scent; the coconut milk powder adds a smooth creamy element that stays with you for a long time after use. 

It is the former ingredient that really helps to improve the condition of your skin. When used on the body, frankincense oil covers the skin with a thin protective film, which softens, soothes, and minimises the appearance of fine lines. A combination of the other oils then helps to soften and moisturise - leaving your skin feeling and looking super smooth with a natural glow. 

You can use this sugar scrub in many ways, and how you use this particular scrub may differ from how you'd use others. While Lush's popular Sugar Scrub is rather rigid and can be used as one piece, Fairy Tail is much softer, and I found that when I used this near water, it was very quick to crumble and disappear down the plughole. 

Some Lushies break it down to form a sort of crumble and then store it in a pot, scooping what they need each time and massaging this over their body; others use the whole bar, stepping outside of the running water to massage it in circular ways across their skin. For both of these methods, I find that water tends to soil the rest of the product, which causes it to shrink between uses. 

For this particular scrub, I found that it most effective to cut it into 6-8 pieces and store them somewhere dry. All you then have to do is get a piece ready before your shower, crumbling it between your palms before applying it to your body - exerting as much force as you feel your skin needs. This stops you wasting the product down the drain and keeps the rest of the scrub dry so that it lasts a lot longer. 

Fairy Tale Sugar Scrub left my skin feeling really soft, well-pampered and with a beautiful scent that lasted for hours on my body. It's a great product to pop in someone's Christmas stocking as it's sweet and richly decadent - offering a far healthier alternative for those who don't wish to overindulge themselves in candy this season.  

Quantitative Ingredients: Fair Trade Sugar, Sodium Bicarbonate, Cream of Tartar (Tartaric Acid), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Frankincense Oil (Boswellia carterii), Bergamot Oil (Citrus Aurantium bergamia), Geranium Oil (Pelargonium graveolens), Coconut Milk Powder (Cocos nucifera), Strawberry Powder (Fragaria vesca), Cocamide DEA, Lauryl Betaine, Benzyl Alcohol, Perfume, Colour 18050, White Chocolate Button, Candle Wick.

Vegan?: Yes, if the chocolate buttons are removed.

2014 Price: Not sold individually. 

Quantitative Ingredients: Sodium Carbonate, Cream of Tartar, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Glycerine, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Olibanum Oil, Bergamot Oil, Geranium Oil, Benzyl Alcohol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Linalool, Colour 45350, Colour 45410.

Vegan?: Yes.

2014 Price: £5.25.

Scent Family:

D'Fluff Shaving Soap
The Drummers Drumming Reusable Bubble Bar
Fairy Tail Sugar Scrub
Flutterby Bubble Bar
Magic Mushroom Bubble Bar
Mrs Whippy Ballistic
Peeping Santa Bubbleroon
Roller Bath Bomb
Strawberry Bombshell Lip Tint
Strawberry Feels Forever Massage Bar
Yummy Mummy Body Conditioner
Yummy Mummy Body Lotion
Yummy Mummy Shower Gel
Yummy Yummy Yummy Shower Gel

Yummy Mummy Shower Cream

Ice Blue Shampoo

  

I cannot claim that I feigned a lot of interest when Lush decided to bring this out in the Lush Kitchen. No matter how fantastic a product may be, mint-scented cosmetics just don't 'float my boat' as much as other items do. However, I am always looking for new shampoos to spoil my hair with, and I was keen to see if this would become one of my new favourites.

Ice Blue Shampoo has been a regular staple in the US retro selection for quite a while, but has not shown it's face in the UK for a number of years. First created during Mark Constantine's dabbling with The Body Shop, this is one of the oldest Lush products ever.

Packed full of mint - both peppermint and spearmint, this is a refreshing and highly fragrant hair care product, intent on ridding the hair of excess oil whilst giving your locks a new lease of life.

Original descriptions state that this shampoo actually has two different types of peppermint present in the ingredients - a combination of oils that not only has a strong, refreshing, mint aroma, but supposedly stimulate blood circulation and helps to boost the look and feel of your hair.

In the bottle, this shampoo has a distinct mint scent - very similar to the likes of Dirty Springwash but perhaps a little more subtle and less 'sharp'. It shares it's smell with the popular Ice Blue Soap and Freeze Shower Gel, and whereas I was expecting the mint to shoot up my nose upon first sniff, it's actually quite a gentle mint fragrance. However, that's not to say that it's in any way weak - this shampoo still packs a punch and offers users a cool, crisp and highly refreshing bathroom companion. The addition of peppermint also brings a gentle underlying herbal aroma, although this does not make itself known until the product is being used.                                                                                                                                                         Most noticeably is its colour - a gorgeous navy that makes you envisage clear blue skies and vast oceans - a perfect accompaniment for the summer months. A second aspect that I noticed upon using this for the first time, is that it's the runniest shampoo I have ever tried from Lush. In fact, Ice Blue is almost identical in consistency to the The Olive Branch. For this reason, you have to be really careful when dispensing it from the bottle as it would be very easy to lose a lot of this down the plughole.

Despite its thinness, it still lathers up wonderfully and you don't have to work at it to produce a thick, creamy foam that coats your entire head. It washes out easily and leaves a very gentle minty fragrance on your hair - not enough to overpower any perfume you're wearing, but enough that you still get occasional whiffs of the spearmint throughout the day.

Menthol has an amazing effect on your scalp (it even helps to combat hair loss apparently!). And although I'm lucky enough to have a healthy head of hair, it's great to know that my shampoo is stimulating that extra hair growth whilst cleaning my locks at the same time.

Ice Blue is a great shampoo for when you want to improve the condition of your locks, whilst also looking for something to perk you up in the mornings. It was one of Lush's first ever best selling, brilliant smelling products, and I can see why. Even though mint is one of my least favourite scents, I enjoy using this on my hair whilst mixing it up a citrus shower gel. I would definitely buy this again.

Quantitative Ingredient: Water (Aqua), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Lactic Acid, Spearmint Oil, Peppermint Oil, Fine Sea Salt, Limonene, Linalool, Colour 14700.

Vegan?: Yes.

2015 Price: £11.50 for 250g. 

2016 Price: £11.75 for 250g. 

2017 Price: £11.75 for 250g. 

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Ice Blue Shampoo
Ice Blue Soap
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Tiny Hands Solid Hand Cream

I find it coincidental that I've recently found myself using a range of Lush products that all feature the ingredient, Sago. Before this month, I wasn't even aware of what it was and had to do a little research beforehand to bring my knowledge up to speed. 

Sago is a starch that comes from the sago palm. In order to remove the starch, the tree is cut down and the stuff is scooped out from inside. Depending on how the flesh is being used afterwards, a number of different processes are performed to turn sago into the desired format. Some countries will wash it before drying it out to produce a flour which is then used to make bread and aid cooking; others will process it to produce granular sago which has an array of different uses in the cosmetic world.

Lush used this latter type of sago in their Strawberry Boat Fresh Smoothie - decorating the top of the product to give it extra gentle exfoliating properties. In this solid hand cream, the company have used powdered sago along with safflower petals to get a beautifully sweet and floral aroma. Not only this, but the properties of safflower also give it lubricating properties. This means that in cosmetics, it acts as a protective barrier to prevent water from leaving your skin. It works with your skin to soften dryness, smooth roughness and can also soothe some gentle skin problems. 

Tiny Hands also boasts an array of beneficial oils and extracts - chamomile is an antiseptic oil that keeps your hands clean and free from harmful bacteria while aloe vera helps to calm and hydrate sensitive skin. It's especially helpful at this time of the year as it can also reduce redness and counteract excess heat from sunburnt skin. The inclusion of both marigold oil and marigold petals in Argan oil gives this solid hand cream a wonderful musky, pungent floral scent whilst working with the aloe vera to calm and protect over-worked hands.

It only takes a single use to really notice how these ingredients work in sync with each other. Take the bar and begin to rub it between your palms. The heat from your hands will melt the bar a little - just like a massage bar, and you'll begin to feel the oils bleeding onto your skin. After just a few seconds, you'll have enough to moisturise both hands.

How this differs from a massage bar is that within a matter of seconds, the hand cream that you've rubbed into your skin, has been absorbed 100% into your skin. Rather than being left with greasy residue that you have to wipe away or leave even longer to dissipate, Tiny Hands leaves your skin silky smooth and feeling really nourished - with none of the annoying stickiness you find with other liquid hand creams. 

This solid hand cream has long-lasting effects on the skin - I probably only have to reapply this once a day, whereas I would normally have to dip into a pot of cream every hour. The fact that it's in a solid state means that it lasts much longer than a liquid counterpart; I've been using this for a good couple of months now and I don't even think I've gotten halfway through the bar yet. 

While it's a great product to travel with, the size means it doesn't fit into one of Lush's shampoo tins. While I have no worries about it leaking in my bag, it can rub against the sides and leave a bit of a mess. For this reason, I have found that cutting the bar in half and using each piece separately, has meant that I can take this anywhere with me and top up if and when I need to. 

Priced at £4.25 for a 60g bar, this is exceptional value for money and I challenge you to find fault in this little marvel. It moisturises your hands beautifully, leaves a gentle floral fragrance on your skin and lasts a good 5+ months. Well done Lush!

Quantitative Ingredients: Cocoa Butter, Talc, Fair Trade Shea Butter, Extract of Marigold petals in Argan Oil, Sago and Safflower Petals Decoction, Perfume, Aloe Vera Extract, Vanilla Extract, Chamomile Blue Oil, Chamomile Oil, African Marigold Oil, Citral, Coumarin, Geraniol, Lilial, Linalool, Limonene, Talc.

Vegan?: Yes.

2014 Price: £4.25 each.

2015 Price: £4.35 each.

2017 Price: £5.95 each.

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Intergalactic Shower Gel

Out of all of the bath bombs I have ever tried from Lush, Intergalactic would definitely make my top ten. Not only does it produce some of the most stunning bath art around, but it also has an aroma that simply gets beneath my skin and elevates my mood in a way that I find hard to explain. If I'm feeling at all stressed or worried, this bath bomb can completely change my mindset, and this is the reason why I simply cannot live without having a regular dose of this classic.

You can imagine then that my expectations for the recently released Intergalactic Shower Gel was going to be pretty high, and I'll be honest when I say that I truly believe Lush have created the best version that they possibly could of this concept. It is not a perfect match between formats, hence the five bottle rating. However, this is due more to the fact of how much more of an experience a bath bomb can offer as opposed to a gel in a bottle.

What I will say is that fans of this bath bomb will no doubt agree with me when I say that this shower gel is spot on when it comes to its fragrance. Upon opening the bottle for the first time, I was initially a little underwhelmed by the smell, only because I associated it with the Dirty Springwash Shower Gel, which doesn't float my boat in quite the same manner. However, I truly believe that this is a product that grows on you over time and becomes far more interesting over the space of a few uses.

From the bottle, Intergalactic offers a strong and very woody combination of peppermint and vetivert. There is something very rich about this collaboration that sits well with my tastebuds. It is almost as if there is a dark cloud hovering over a minty sea and the two components have come together with a huge explosion. To begin with, this scent was very similar to the one I experienced when I began using this shower gel across my skin.

After a few days of using this daily, I began to notice the subtle note of grapefruit in the mix, which served to elevate the fragrance and give it a little more of a 'bite.' It was also during these initial days that I began to detect the woodiness of the cedarwood a little more. By the end of day three, I felt as if I could smell all of the components that featured in the bath bomb, and I honestly couldn't tell much of a difference - aside from the usual format variations.

Out of the bottle, Intergalactic offered a beautifully deep shade of blue that wasn't quite as alluring as the bath bomb but definitely suited the fragrance well. Alongside this, there was the addition of the lustre within the gel, which gave the shower gel a beautiful glimmer whilst it was on your skin. And glitter phobes will be happy to hear that this addition doesn't leave any trace of itself on or across your skin after using it.

What impressed me was that this shower gel was fairly on the thin side and I needed a bare minimum amount to wash my whole body with. Not only this but Intergalactic lathered up really easily and was super fragrant, which meant I was able to wash my body with the smallest amounts whilst still appreciating the wonderful scent. 

Furthermore, the fragrance is power enough that it lingers on your skin and hair for a good couple of hours after towelling yourself dry. And even more impressive was the fact that my body felt soft, smooth and hydrated after using this, which makes it an all-round great product to invest in.

More than just mint, Intergalactic Shower Gel is a must have for fans of the bath bomb and should be tried by anyone who enjoys stronger scents as well. With the delicate herbal and woody notes that are present in this product, there is something very powerful about the fragrance of this that stays with you way longer than many of Lush's shower gels do. I can only hope that they make this a permanent member of the family because I cannot imagine my life without a bottle of this to alter my mindset and my mood.

Quantitative Ingredients: Fresh Mint Infusion, Glycerine, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Cocoamphoacetate, Lauryl Betaine, Perfume, Lactic Acid, Peppermint Oil, Grapefruit Oil, Vetivert Oil, Cedarwood Oil, Carrageenan Extract, Xanthan Gum, Water (Aqua), Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, *Limonene, *Linalool, Colour 77491, Colour 42090, Colour 42053.

Vegan?: Yes.

2019 Price: £12 for 250g.

Year Of Original Release: 2019.

Good Day Sunshine Soap

Whether it was because I'd only recently watched the film with my class, or because the movie has been such a huge hit over the last couple of years, but when I first saw the design of this soap, it immediately reminded me of the Disney classic, Moana. And yes, that song popped straight into my head from that moment onwards and remained there for the rest of the day.

Good Day Sunshine Soap is one of two brand new soaps to have been added to the regular line recently: initially exclusives for Liverpool but obviously popular enough to have made it into the mainstream. Both Good Day Sunshine and Michelle Ma Belle also happen to be half of a four-piece soap collection influenced by the Beatles, and I only hope that I can get my hands on the other variations in the near future.

What attracted me to this soap was not only its gorgeous bright orange colour, and the fact that the yellow sun design on the front looks like something out of a Mayan engraving, but the fact that it shares its scent with one of my all time favourite bath bombs: Cheer Up Buttercup. If there is one scent that will float your boat this summer, this fragrance is definitely it.

Containing a strong dosage of both lemon, lime and neroli, this gorgeous soap offers a bright, fruity and very refreshing citrusy smell. Yet strangely, the smell that comes out the most here is one of fresh orange juice, with the other elements sitting directly underneath and adding spritzy, uplifting fruity base-notes.

What I loved the most about the smell of this soap however, was the heavy dosage of neroli that came forth as soon as I began using this in the shower. Although far more subtle in the bath bomb format, the green notes of the neroli really bring out a sharp tang to the citrusy notes, and together these ingredients create something that isn't far off the smell of a freshly peeled orange, with the outer skin still attached. Good Day Sunshine is super fresh and fruity and perhaps the perfect scent for the warmer weather that we are experiencing right now.

What is unique about this piece of soap is that the yellow design on the surface has actually been dusted with sodium bicarbonate. This means that the first time you use this soap, the surface fizzes up like a bath bomb and the foam adds a slight tingle to your skin whilst you're washing your body. After the first time, there isn't much left to experience it again. However, it's a nice little touch that gives this soap something a little different to enjoy.  

Lush's statement about this soap is: the dazzling orange, vegan aquafaba base offers notes of sparkling lemon myrtle, zesty lime and uplifting neroli to flip your mood sunny side up, while exfoliating chia seeds offer a delicate polish that leaves skin feeling soft and bright enough to rival the sun. While I wasn't able to see the chia seeds in action, my skin did feel really soft afterwards, so I assume that this was the work of the hidden ingredient. 

What I will say about Good Day Sunshine is that the soap tends to lather up really well the first time but then tends to only produce a sort of thin, orange liquid consecutive uses afterwards. This is not a soap that foams up all that easily. Having said that, I found that the orange 'lather' was very easy to spread across my body and I didn't need to massage the soap for more than a few seconds to produce enough 'soap' to apply to my entire body.

This meant that I was able to place Good Day Sunshine away from the water fairly quickly and preserve as much of the soap as I possibly could. As the soap dried in a fairly moderate amount of time, my piece barely shrunk after using it for a week straight and I can safely say that this should last as long as a regular piece of soap would. Despite this, if you're someone who is less conscious of how much you're using, you may find that this soap shrinks a lot quicker than regular soaps, and this is when the £7 price tag may seem a little excessive.

Once I had rinsed the suds from my skin and relished in the delicious fruity smell that had engulfed my entire bathroom, I was really impressed to discover that the fragrance of this soap also lingered on my skin quite heavily. After towelling myself down, I was able to detect both the fruity element and the green-like undertone quite strongly on my body and my hair, and this stayed with me for a good couple of hours afterwards. 

As if this wasn't enough, my skin also felt really soft and smooth and refreshed, and there was a radiance across my hands and legs that I associate with all of the wonderful citrus oils that are present in the ingredients. If anything, using Good Day Sunshine just reaffirmed why Cheer Up Buttercup is one of my all-time favourite bath bombs, and why I love this scent an awful lot.

While I am grateful that Lush have brought this out as a regular item, it does make me wish that the company would bring out a shower gel, body lotion or body spray in the same fragrance, as that would be simply sublime. Inspired by an iconic band, this soap had a lot to live up to and I honestly think that they have matched that expectation perfectly. This is a wonderful addition to any bathroom and I shall be using this all summer to match the sunshine outside.

Quantitative Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Propylene Glycol, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, Glycerine, Organic Castor Oil, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Hydroxide, Aquafaba, Citric Acid, Lemon Myrtle Oil, Lime Oil, Neroli Oil, Silken Tofu, Chia Seeds, Cream of Tartar, Xanthan Gum, Agar Agar, Titanium Dioxide, Dipropylene Glycol, *Citral, *Limonene, *Linalool, Perfume, Colour 47005, Colour 19140, Colour 15510, Colour 45410:1.

Vegan?: Yes.

2019 Price: £7.00 each.

Year Of Original Release: 2019.