Lush Blue Skies Shower Gel > Reviews (1)

***Please note this review is actually for Blue Skies Bubble Bath - which is a renamed version of this product***

I made an order from Lush online recently and chose a number of items from the Retro section. Most of these items have their in-store counterparts, but Retro has something that the full range doesn’t – liquid bubble bath!

***What is Lush?***

Lush is a store that makes toiletries and cosmetics, using natural and organic ingredients where possible and minimising packaging where they can. It started out as a mail order company called Cosmetics to Go, but this failed and the new store, Lush, opened in Poole, Dorset. Later branches of the shop opened in London and beyond, and there are now Lush stores all over the world. As well as in store, you can also buy products from the website, www.lush.co.uk. There are similar websites for many different countries including the USA, Japan and Germany.

Lush buy ingredients only from companies that do not test on animals. All of their products are suitable for vegetarians and many are suitable for vegans.

Lush say: “We believe in happy people making happy soap, putting our faces on our products and making our mums proud.
“We believe in long candlelit baths, sharing showers, massage, filling the world with perfume and in the right to make mistakes, lose everything and start again.”

***What is Retro?***
The Retro range is only available online or via mail order, as it is made up of products that have been discontinued from stores, but were deemed popular enough not to be discontinued completely. Retro products are often more expensive than the normal range of products, as they are made in smaller quantities, but there is some interesting stuff to be found among the products!

***Blue Skies Bubble Bath***
I chose the Blue Skies bubble bath as I had already tried the Blue Skies and Fluffy White Clouds bubble bar and enjoyed it. The bubble bath comes in a standard see-through plastic bottle with a white label and lid like other Lush products. 100g will set you back £4.25. Inside, the bubble bath is a beautiful deep sapphire colour. The product contains patchouli oil, cinnamon leaf oil and frankincense for a spaced out relaxing bath. It is suitable for vegans.

I wasn’t sure how much bubble bath to use per bath, so I played it by ear and added more as I saw fit. In the end my small bottle lasted for five baths, which makes it about the same, value-for-money wise, as the solid bubble bar.

When I tipped the bubble bath into the running water, initially the bright blue liquid hung in the water like oil paint. A bit of mixing up, however, and the blue dispersed into the bath and a good many bubbles were produced.

I did find the liquid bubble bath was inferior to the bubble bar in two ways. Firstly, the name ‘Blue Skies and Fluffy White Clouds’ evokes the cloud-like bubbles atop the sky-like blue water. However, the liquid bubble bath didn’t change the colour of the water much – there was a hint of blue but that was all. Also, there weren’t a great many bubbles.

At first, I didn’t think this bubble bath produced much of a smell, but later baths for some reason did smell more strongly. For some reason the scent seemed to be further down the bottle! The patchouli smell was really relaxing and helped make me feel calmer as I lay in the bath.

On the plus side, the bubble bath didn’t irritate my skin, and in fact after getting out of the bath it felt lovely and soft. The subtle scent lingered on my skin for a couple of hours too.

Overall, this is a pretty decent bubble bath but expensive for what it is. I prefer the solid bubble bar, and it’s easier to get hold of, so I’ll be sticking with that in the future.