I passed a Lush last christmas and was savagely beckoned in by those really insane staff that won't let a person be. It was hilarious. Picture a quiet, dark, rainy late night shopping on a Thursday, I was passing coming from the Winter Wonderland and clearly their sales were down as they were in high pitch sales zone. So I got dragged in and I'm really introvert irl so for me this was my biggest nightmare, but the devil in me thought fine, if you want to try to sell me your crap, you really did pick the wrong person!
So when she had finished fanning her hands around asking me to reveal my favourite scents and desires in a mind boggling array of melts, bombs, goodness knows what else she rattled off it was a long list, I finished my hot chestnuts and asked her to list the chemicals in said products. She looked startled and said 'oh no, they are all natural..'. I replied Ho! so that BRIGHT BLUE bathbomb is... all natural? I decided to let her off, and told her my only desire was to get home quickly, run a nice hot bath, and add a nice heaping cup of Magnesium Flakes, which is one of the very few things you should ever soak your body in, if you care about your health of course.
She was a super nice person, but I told her next time I'm walking past the shop and pause to use the lighting to see which chestnut to eat next, don't drag me in lmao
Lush stuff is absolute shite. Soaking yourself in hot water opens your pores and whatever you soak in enters your body and it's your organs that have to deal with that crap. You should never add dyes and perfumes (unless essential oils) glitter and all the crap that's in Lush etc. They add a couple of natural ingredients then claim them all natural. It's crazy. The girl I spoke to was clueless, she thought bathing in bath bombs was incredibly good for you, talk about blinkered training.
You can make your own bathbombs with all natural ingredients at home, at a fraction of the cost and your health intact =)
I'd be interested to know the % profit on these (is it fair to call them ugly? I think they're hideous looking, not cute at all!) The markup must be massive, this is Lush reaching, as their hard sales with youtubers pays off and the younger market are obsessed with them. It's a bloody bath bomb that gets poured down a drain! Def not worth 10 pounds or even 5. I reckon they'd make a tidy profit if they were super cheap. I can get 5 x 1kg bags of Magnesium Salts for a tenner that would make me endless baths! Plus the salts make my skin super soft =)
I was given a couple of lush bathbombs years ago and honestly, they were gross! One was green and one was blue, and in those days I wasn't clued up so I used them and I've never hated the look of my bath more haha. I felt like a big monster was going to lunge up from the depths haha I had to shower off afterwards to get rid of the stuff and clean the bath which had turned into a slimy oily hell hole.
I know the massive one you talk of, the youtubers received them and they were so big they would def cause irritation. Didn't alfie once get in a bath with 100 bathbombs & the scent over powered him or something haha. Brains of britain.
I think ages ago I saw Louise or something toss hers into bowls to show them, and I thought smart girl lol Even though the comments hated it and said it was wasteful.