Letters to Santa (Lush Bath Ballistics in General)

Member Name: vintage_laurie

Product:	Lush Bath Ballistics in General
Date:	27/11/05 (129 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Nice smell, like the foam letters

Disadvantages: Not as moisturising as some

Like everyone else, I'm trying to Christmas shop at the moment, but I have my usual problem of finding one present for someone, and about two i'd like for myself. And in Lush it's especially bad; I think I bought more for myself than anyone else ..... well, at least it's a chance to write a few more reviews.

'Letters to Santa' is one of the special Christmas bath bombs of which Lush brings out several each year - the most popular, I think, is the Lush Pud, which looks like a Christmas pudding complete with brandy butter and sprig of Holly on top. However, it's a bit early - even for me - to go for that one, so I went for the less obviously Christmas scented Letters to Santa.

Letters to Santa is scented with orange, cinnamon, cloves and black pepper. I don't like cinnamon and wouldn't have bought it if i'd noticed it had it in it, but thankfully (for non-cinnamon fans) you can't smell it. The orange is the strongest scent and is quite sweet, but is balanced by the clove and pepper, which make it quite spicy smelling. It also has a hint of lime.

Letters to Santa is an average sized bath bomb at 200g. It's a pale green colour and you can see some of the foam letters poking out, which brightens it up a bit. It does look quite childlike and not like most of the other Lush products.

It does the usual fizzy thing when you chuck it in the bath and the letters flow out, only a few per bath bomb, but the inner scrabble champion in me liked trying to make a word out of 'b' 'o' 'v' '?'. I came up with 'vob?' maybe i need another few more, collect the alphabet. The lush times lists them as candy letters, but, after my flatmate tried them, I can say they are definatly foam.

In the bath, it's average. the smell is pleasant and lingers well both in the bath and on the skin. it isn't very moisturising, unlike some bath bombs - i needed to moisturise afterwards.

Pricewise, it's what you expect for lush: £1.95. I'd have been happier if it was moisturising too, but on the whole it's pretty good.

Summary: Going onto my letter for Santa