Best And Worst Bath Bombs By An Ex Lush Employee

Lush is one of those shops that has a reputation for being pretty overwhelming. When I worked there one of the most common things customers would complain about is the smell; or for some reason their child deciding to eat the bath bombs. Don’t know why or how you’d eat something of that texture; but sure! But one of the most common questions is always what do you recommend? As I was a supervisor at Lush it was my responsibility to make sure my team knew about all the different products. While working on the bath bomb floor I liked to encourage my team to try out all the bath bombs and see what they’re like in the sinks in order to gain an understanding and a better product knowledge. 
Sometimes this may have included mixing more than one bath bomb in the sink just to see what colour two of them would make. Honestly probably one of favourite things to do when the shop floor was dead. So I thought from my experience it might be quite fun to run through, what I think, were the best bath bombs and the worst ones… 


Top Five

Melusine – Absolute favourite will not hear anything bad about this bath bomb. It’s full of sea salt and seaweed and has a lovely citrus smell. The water goes deep blue with the most glitter I have ever seen. Honestly if I could be reincarnated as a bath bomb it would be this one. 


Geode – A rose gold dream. The water goes such a pretty delicate rose colour with this and the glitter makes more of a waving shimmer throughout the water. The smell isn’t overwhelming and just gives you a bit of a glamorous vibe 


Rocket Science – It’s a space ship that leaves a rainbow of colours in the water and little stars that melt away in the hot water. If you want a rainbow style bath bomb this is the one to get with a strong fruity smell. One for kids and one for 24 year olds who don’t want to be too grown up yet


Avobath – If you’ve got a cold; you will not after having a bath with this. The smell is so strong but smells like a yummy orange. The water turns green with a small bit of shimmer but one whiff of this and you’ll be able to breathe again. 


Mercury Retrograde – Sparkly orange water and a crisp smell of gingerbread. Absolutely divine for living out your basic fall vibes. This was a Halloween special and one with a name I found particularly witty but after using it once I completely fell in love with it.



Worst Five  

Lucky Cat – The most awful bath bomb. You think from the outside you’ll be living your Legally Blonde dreams in sparkly hot pink water but no. It goes a muddy orange with very little sparkle. Always stained the sinks with orange smudging as well. 


Turtle Jelly Bomb – I hate jelly bombs; I know it’s controversial, and that some people absolutely adore them but no just no. The water feels weird and it’s a nightmare to clean out. Honestly just felt this one smelt of mouldy bath water. 


Golden Slumbers – This was the worst one to demonstrate for customers. Without fail this always stained my hands in the sinks. Not sure if it was different in the bath but the sinks it always left my nails yellow for days. It looked pretty but just not worth the staining. 


Sex Bomb – As you can imagine this always led to weird conversations with customers. I was once asked if this could actually be put inside a person. But aside from that I find this bath bomb so disappointing. The smell is blah, the colour is blah and the weird flower that floats around your bath is blah. Overall just pretty blah really. 


Intergalactic – First off I hate the smell of mint. I know it’s controversial as this is the best selling bath bomb in the shop. Yeah it looks kind of pretty in the water but the smell just makes my stomach churn. But obviously if you love the smell of mint then this would probably be in your top five.



So those were my top ones and my worst ones; these are completely my own opinions from testing but let me know what you think?