Review: One Natural Bath Fizzer, I Need This, Lemongrass Pick-Me-Up

Lemongrass Pick-Me-Up


Yesterday while browsing the specialty bath and body isle of my local Target I came across something that nearly caused me to pass out. These products sitting before me looked like something Lush would make, in fact you would think an ex employees from their company decided to branch out and start a company all their own.
They are called One, and they have up for grabs a heap of natural goodies that is going to thrill bath junkies who do not have the luxury of having a Lush nearby.

Personally Lush is a favorite of mine, but seeing that I have to order all of my Lush online, and pay a hefty shipping fee, and wait a week for it to arrive to my door; my orders on Lush became less and less frequent. Now with One so easily accessible at my local Target, I figure I won't have a reason to head back to Lush! That's right! Move over Lush, One is in town!

I grabbed every single product that was available on the counter.

Up on the chopping block today is One Natural Bath Fizzer, I Need This, Lemongrass Pick-Me-Up.

It comes in a cute b100% recycled cardboard tube. It feels like luxury, and I had a hunch I would pay a luxurious price for it. At 6.3 ounces, the bath fizz came to $5.99, which is a bit steep, but the usual price that I paid for many of my Lush bath bombs.

The one thing I did not like about the bath fizzer was how it was packaged. The cardboard tube it is packaged in comes with an open window, and it was sort of disgusting knowing people could just shove their fingers into the bath bomb. They also do this with their soaps, which I suggest they stop doing because the soap in the store, smelled wonderful, but deterred me due to the nasty fingerprints indented in it.

Anyhow, with that said, the bomb was also a little difficult to remove from the tubing. Once it was removed, sitting before me sat a big bath bomb. One half of the bomb is a medium toned blue, while the other half is a teal green color. The bomb comes split in 2, giving you the option to save one half for another time. I don't suggest doing this though because each half of the bomb comes with its own benefit. All in all though, the bomb itself is rather pretty, and reminded me a lot of one of the bombs Lush makes.

The scent I was able to smell right through the package. It has a really nice lemongrass scent, with an uplifting citrus like zing. I liked it a lot, and I hoped that when I popped the bomb into my bath the scent would multiply in deliciousness.

My Use:
I ran a bath, got in a popped in the light colored half of the bomb. I allowed it to fizzle, and waited to see if the bomb did anything to my bath water.

Most bath bombs silken and soften water, but this half of the bomb did nothing to the water but add scent. There was no silkening or softening of my water. It did however have a pretty nasty scent that I hated. It smelled like I had just washed my dog in the tub, you know that nasty mucus like slimy dog stink that dogs leave behind in the tub when you drain it- yeah, that bad.

I hoped adding the dark teal side of the bomb would fix this issue, so I plopped it in the water. I was happily relieved to see the bomb giving off a beautiful Caribbean blue color, which changed the waters color in the tub. I really loved it, it reminded me so much of my last vacation to the Bahamas, with the clear blue emerald colored waters.

This particular bath fizzer side seemed to loosen out the nasty wet dog fur feeling, and what I was left with was a nice mild citrusy scented Caribbean colored bath.
Unfortunately the only thing the bomb has going for it, is the color change that the water takes on. The scent is not long lived, and for the money I spent I was hoping for a little more zing to it.

All in all, I loved the color of my water, but the bomb did not soften water, it did not moisturize my skin, nor did it have a strong enough lemongrass scent. Everything was mediocre, and not worth the price.

I will continue to try products from One, but I hope they don't fail me like this One, I Need This Bath Fizzer.

Review of Lush, Christmas Party Bath Bomb

-My post also on AC

Ho-Ho-Ho!!! I love Lush, and was glad to have gotten a sack full of Lush goodies this Christmas. Inside my sack of bath time delights I pulled out a large bath bomb righteously called Christmas Party.

Lush's Christmas Party Bath Bomb is a nice hefty solid bath bomb, which weighs in at 6.3 ounces. If you really wanted this large bomb to go the extra mile you could crack it up and get 2 uses out of it.

The bomb itself is white in color; yet on the Lush website it's a luscious dark tan color.

My particular bomb came with small, medium, and large plastic star shapes on the top of it. I later on discovered these stars were also inside of the bomb and release as the bomb is melting.

My Use:

After climbing in to my bath, I plopped in Lush's Christmas Party Bath Bomb, and waited to see what this big fizzy would do.

Immediately it fizzed on impact with the water. A creamy vanilla colored foam rose to the surface of the water, and the Christmas Party began.

The scent was nothing really lucrative, it had a nice smell, which reminded me of root beer and citrus. It's a refreshing scent, but dull and mild. Not bad though in the least, just somewhat weak.

The stars unfortunately sank to the bottom. It would have been nice to have them rise to the surface, but they sank. My bomb also had not a trace of glitter or confetti in it. On the Lush.com website they describe this one as having stars, glitter and colored confetti. Mine had stars, but nothing else. I think if it included confetti and glitter it would have made the bath feel more festive.

The stars though made it feel like a 4th of July themed bath, not Christmas at all, unless you celebrate Christmas in July.

The water in the bath became silkier, but I have used other bath bombs that did a heck of a lot better when it comes to softening of the water. A bath bomb as large as Christmas Party should have packed huge amounts of softening properties to the water, but it didn't.

Overall:

Christmas Party Bath Bomb by Lush, was a decent bath bomb, but for it's larger size it could have really done more. The water was silky, but not as silky as it could have been. The bomb also was missing 2 of its key fun ingredients (glitter and colored confetti).

It smelled nice, and the scent did linger in the bathroom for hours after my bath was over, however it's not a bath bomb I'd use again, or buy. The Christmas theme would have worked better had they used red and green colored stars, and not bright Easter pastel colors.

All in all Lush's Christmas Party gets 2.5 stars out of 5 from me.

Philosophy Peach Shampoo, Shower Gel and Bubble Bath

My lovely cousin gave me a fruit basket; only none of it was edible. All of my fruit were philosophy fruits, and my what a collection I got!

Peach has never been one of my favorite scents to use in the shower, for some reason it always turns my stomach, so I saved this one in the back of the basket and waited quite some time before I was feeling peachy, and gave it a try.

What Is It?

It is a 3 in 1 bath product in the scent of peach from Philosophy. You can use it as shampoo, bubble bath, or as body wash.

Packaging:

The bottle itself is white, with a gorgeous realistic 3D peach on the cover. Its attractive, I’ll give it that. Above the pretty picture of the each the words ‘be a peach’.

Price:

I didn’t ask her how much she spent, but I’m batting she either grabbed this whole collection up for dirt cheap at her job, or she hit the jackpot at a yard sale. (This sort of jackpot is not uncommon while yard sale hunting where I am from)

Anyhow, on the philosophy site this exact bottle is being sold for $16 for 16oz. Okay a buck an ounce. Not too bad.

Or so I thought… until I smelled it.

It reminded me of peaches yes, but they lacked that juicy fresh oomph that I was expecting for such a pricey bottle. I have mouth watered from bath product scents before, and much cheaper prices too. This one though it was for me it was borderline ok/blah.
Eh oh well, I used it anyway.

Shower:

I applied it to my wet hair first, and then moved on to my shower pouf.

The gel itself is a pearly peachy color, and I only needed a quarter-sized amount on my shower pouf. The smell was lingering in the air, but again it was a dull scented peachy smell that lingered. There was nothing special about it, and yes, this was the fake peach scent garbage that always turns my stomach.

The lather was thick and created a lot of ‘loose’ type bubbles. It was not luscious, nor silky or moisturizing feeling.
Blah. I rinsed off, and it left no greasy feelings of residue behind, so it passed in that department.

My hair felt nice though after rinsing it out. I find a lot of Philosophy’s 3 in 1’s used as shampoo as enjoyable. But gag! The scent!

Luckily the scent left me as soon as I dried off. This was not a scent I would want sticking around continuing to turn my tum.

Bath:

I refused to step foot into this one. Usually I enjoy my baths but the scent was not my cup of tea. But I ran this one under the water just to see how it preformed in the bubble-making department solely for this review.

Bubbles popped up the moment water hit them, and the scent hit the air in full sickening bloom. However they began popping just as quickly as they began popping up.

After the tub was filled I had a small layer of duds… I mean suds. They died out in less than 5 minutes.

Overall:

I just was not impressed with this at all. As a matter of fact most of the products I have tried from this supposedly reputable company has failed for me; scent wise. I do however enjoy them as shampoo for my hair type, but honestly it’s nothing a shampoo from a dollar store can’t do.

Recommendation:

To each his own really. It smells like fake peaches, failed 2 out of 3 tests. As far as hydrating my skin goes it failed there too.
It’s also way too expensive for what it gives back, which isn’t very much at all.



-Review also seen on Epi

Lush, Sandstone Soap

Sandstone- the name just sounds painful.

Sandstone is soap from Lush that comes with sand attached to the top of the bar of soap; the soap itself is yellow in color and has some clear like white specks of soap in it as well. The sand is used for exfoliation, the soap for moisturization.

I got my free sample from Lush, because this was surely not a soap I would order on my own. Even the lovely picture on the Lush website looks like someone dipped the end of the soap into grits of sandpaper. Lush has this tendency to add odd objects into their products such as seaweed, flowers, confetti, glitter, and fruit. I don’t mind this so much, but sand belongs at the beach, not on my body, not for scrubba dub dubbin in the tubbin.

Because I refuse to waste anything without at least trying it first I had to use my sample cut of Sandstone.

The smell was similar to Lush’s Sexy Peel, but it smelled a little more chemically and fake. Pine Sol rings a bell, Mr. Clean lemon scented floor wash also rings a bell, and pledge. I used it anyways though.

I first rinsed my hair, shampoo/condition, la di dah dii doo. This is always done first to put the Lush soap through the test of time. You see, many Lush soaps have this tendency to melt fast when warm humid air touches it. Sandstone however was like a stone. It took it. It lasted, and only began to sweat at the temperature increase in the bathroom.

I then took the sample soap and began rubbing it all around, scruba dub dub.
At first the sand sort of stood to one end of the bar, but the more I began to scrub and produce lather the more sand came loose and ended up on the entire bar of soap.

It felt gross, but I was indeed getting exfoliation. I rubbed the soap around lightly so I didn’t cut myself, or drag it across my beauty mark on my chest (mole), I figured if I dragged it across my ‘beauty mark’ it would hurt like a son of a gun.

It didn’t take long to see my skin blotching up with red rashes from the sands scratchy surface.

The entire time I felt dirty. It reminded me of the times when I was a wee one and I’d be at the ocean and a wave would clobber me, filling my bathing suit with sand and water, leaving me with the most uncomfortable scrubby feeling.

The sand washed off with some effort. It didn’t take long, but it took far longer than it should have.

Dry Up:

My skin felt like it had just has a good scrubbing with a high textured piece of sandpaper. I was red all over, and still felt dirty, even after washing all of the sand off (Or so I had thought). I had some particles of sand left in areas I care not to talk about.

The lemon scent of the soap had vanished, and all I was left with was raw skin, sand up my keester, and a bad mood.

I ended up jumping back into the shower, and rinsing off with a body wash to make the sick feeling go away.

Where To Buy?

At and local Lush store, or at www.Lush.com for $6.95 for a 3.5oz bar. You can also find it on Ebay or Amazon.

Overall:

I don’t have sensitive skin, but according to Sandstone I do. It hurt to use it, makes you feel dirty before and after using it. Smell like furniture polish or floor cleaner. Does not moisturize my skin at all. Leaves it raw.
Usually I enjoy my shower, and my Lush goods, but Sandstone was a flop.

Those used to using abrasive exfoliation on there skin. Everyone who is not used to rubbing themselves down with sandpaper should avoid Sandstone.

My review also found on Epi

Lush: The Comforter Bubble Bar

My first reaction when I learned about ‘Bubble Bars’ on Lush.com I immediately assumed it was a hard thick bar that would do nothing to my water except melt in it, and maybe make it smell good.

What is a Bubble Bar was my second thought, after reading reviews on it, and Lush’s descriptions on the site and in there magazine Lush Life, I came to learn that a Bubble Bar is a semi solid bar that you crumble underneath running water to create luscious piles of bubbles.

I knew I had to try one, so I choose the biggest one available. A 7oz colossal called The Comforter. The size is what attracted me, and so did the color.

The Comforter Bubble Bar is a lovely deep pink color with swirls of white creating a hypnotizing endless circle pattern throughout the bar. However I was not relying on the picture on the Lush site seeing how so many of their products usually fail to look like what you actually get.

My Comforter Bar however looked just like the picture on www.Lush.com, only much, much bigger, and more rectangular shaped. I knew from the start I did not need to throw the whole bar into the tub, so I cut it into 4 separate pieces and only use one piece. Cutting it was an extremely easy task. The bar was not hard and crunchy, like I was expecting it to be. It was soft to the touch, and felt silky.

The scent reminded me of the Rockstar soap. But in case you have not used Rockstar, the scent of Comforter can be compared to candy and wildflowers in my opinion.

Let's Go Catch Some Bubbles Shall We?

I ran my water and began crumbling Comforter in my hands. The bar crumbled easily and fell to the bottom of the tub. I watched as bubbles began to develop, and sighed when the bubbles did not overflow in my tub like so many others have reported.

I left the bathroom to grab a towel, and when I came back in it was a whole new story. The bar must of needed some time to completely melt, because I had a tub full of bubbles when I returned!

Not cheesy pop in 3 minutes bubbles, I mean a complete bubble fest. For the first time in my life I watched as some mini bubbles that broke from the mother ship floated through the air above the tub. It may have just been 2 baby bubbles in the air, but it was enough to make me smile.

I stepped into the tub, and could feel how smooth and silky The Comforter bar made my water. Not only that, I was able to see that Comforter also turned my water a lovely light pink. I saw the water for about 3 seconds, and then the bubbles completely wrapped me up.

I soaked in my lovely candy scented water, and enjoyed the whole experience. The Comforter bar stands true to its name. It is seriously comforting and relaxing. I enjoyed soaking in my bath for about 20 minutes. I then got out, and bubbles were still present. I actually felt bad saying goodbye, as I watched the remaining bubbles go down the drain and leave foam all around the sides of the tub and drain hole.

Not only was the bath a pleasure, but my skin also felt soft and silky after drying up.

Find Your Comfort Zone:

You can buy The Comforter bar at any local Lush store, or online at www.Lush.com for $8.45. You get 4 uses out of the bar, so it’s really worth it.

Overall Opinion:

Now that’s a bubble bath! I see myself buying Comforter bubble bar for years to come.

Anyone who is sick of taking bubble baths where the bubbles die out in 5 minutes needs to try The Comforter Bubble Bar.

-My original review is also found on epinions

Lush, The Sicilian Bath Bomb

A Citrus Wonerland
Let me just tell you about the most ultimate bath I have ever had in my life. It was like soaking in a tub filled with warm freshly squeezed oranges. A little tropical paradise of my own, and the best thing about it...it came packed in a 6.3 ounce bath bomb.

Lushes The Sicilian Bath Bomb!!!!

The bath bomb came packaged in clear wrap, with an easy to read slit of paper that clearly labels the bomb The Sicilian; it also includes all of the ingredients on the bomb. For large orders you make online, you will be grateful for the added piece of paper, because sometimes the bombs look alike.

The Sicilian in particular has a faded pastel yellow color to it. Upon examination it appeared that the bomb had small pieces of something within it. Lush is legendary for doing such things; adding little tidbits of herbs or spices within their bombs. To me its like an added little mysterious bonus.

In The Sicilians case, these added extras were pieces of orange pulp.

After I added it to my bath tub, it was clear that the middle of the bomb contained yet another treat; an actual slice of orange.

Now out of the package The Sicilian Bath Bomb didn't smell of much, but as soon as it hit the water it was as if someone had just squeezed a bucket or oranges on top of me. The scent of oranges was not fake, commercial or unnatural in the least bit. It was like inhaling 100% pure orange juice.

The scent was impeccable.

Let me tell you how my skin feels though.

In the bath, the tub didn't really turn into a silky paradise like other bombs can do, but my God my skin was so clean, and felt so moisturized and soft after drying up.

For an even extra added bonus, I suggest you use Lushes Lemon Peel Soap. It really adds to the whole citrusy wonder.

If you love the scent of oranges, than The Sicilian will not disappoint. It is so far one of the best bombs I have used yet, and I have used quite a lot of Lushes bath bombs. The Sicilian tonight managed to grab the number 1 spot on my list.