Lush makes bathtub treats for the body that look like bakery sweets and smell divine. Plus, they're calorie and carbohydrate free. If you've even been gifted with a bath bomb from Lush, you need to know how to use them to get the full sensual experience.
Lush's bath bombs are mostly round, highly scented, usually very colorful and bursting with little random bits. The bits can be many wondrous things: candy confetti, dried flowers, rice roses, shiny pieces of mirrored plastic, cloth butterflies, cocoa butter, rolled up love notes, sand, chunks of salt, seaweed or cinnamon sticks.
Sand? Cinnamon sticks and candy in the tub? It does sound very strange. Somehow, whatever they put in each bomb makes sense when you see it and smell it in the tub. Rose buds unfurl to the scent of rose absolute with a love note scroll. Very romantic. Salt and bits of seaweed explode from the turquoise delight of the Big Blue bomb. You feel like you're relaxing in the tropics.
It's important to know just HOW to use these bath goodies, since they aren't cheap. A single bath bomb costs from four to seven dollars US - just for ONE single-use product. So you don't want to waste it. It's very much worth the price when you do it properly.
How to use a Lush Bath Bomb:
1. Fill your tub first. Don't put in salts, or oils, or bubbles or anything. Most important, DON'T put in the bath bomb yet! Wait. Fill the tub to readiness, then turn off the faucet.
2. Feel the water. Are you ready to get in? Hold the bath bomb in your hand, above the water and step in the tub. Sit down. Relax.
3. Carefully lower your hand and, while sitting in the tub, lower your bath bomb into the water with you. You are actually sitting in the tub while the bomb does it's thing.
4. Watch the explosion! Some bombs set off fast and furiously. Others gently simmer for a longer period of time. Watch the fun, smell the scents and enjoy the bits that end up floating around you. It's a party in your tub.
5. Take the rest of your bath while enjoying the neat colors, scents and sensations given off by your bath bomb.
If you want, you can save the bomb before it's gone and get a second use out of it. Just take it out at the half way dissolving point, and let it dry for later use. Or just let it go all the way for a fully decadent experience. Many bombs have neat little treats in the center, which you'll only get if you let it go completely anyway.
Some people allow the bathtub to remain filled with the colored, scented water after their bath, so the scent spreads to the rest of the house all day. This is fun to do if no one will be bathing immediately after you. I often let them sit overnight so my house will smell lovely the next day.
Some of the bath bombs do make ugly little rings around your tub that need to be scrubbed out. They seem to come out most easily with a bit of shampoo on a washcloth, swiped around the rim. Different kinds of bathtubs react differently when it comes to leaving a ring; you will need to experiment for yourself. Porcelain is different than fiberglass.
Not everyone appreciates bathing with bits of flower petals swirling around them, or having to get them all down the drain afterwards. You can place your bomb in a tied piece of sock or pantyhose to contain the pieces if you prefer. I myself enjoy the bits - they add to the exotica of the experience, and I did pay for those weird but satisfying scene-setting pieces after all.
Here is a picture link to the most popular bath bomb Lush makes, with a rice paper rose that unfurls from the center, while you relax to the scent of jasmine. The full catalog of other bath bombs can also be accessed from their website. If you click on the picture below, it takes you right to Lush. Or use this link here:Lush Bath Bombs
