The Butterball and the Sugar Plum Fairy (Lush Bath Ballistics in General)

Member Name: zebra

Product:	Lush Bath Ballistics in General
Date:	06/08/03 (279 review reads)
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Advantages: I'm not really sure!

Disadvantages: Expensive for what they are.

Like everyone else on the opinion sites I have heard of Lush. There are so many praises for the products that I longed to try some but was willing to wait until I came across a shop where I could have a sniff for myself. Well the time has now come and Oxford now has its very own little lush shop. I noticed it just before Christmas but it looked a bit busy. But my daughter had already discovered it and one of my presents at Christmas was a Lush bath ballistic called Sugar Plum Fairy. I'm not sure whether my dastardly daughter was having a laugh or not. Luckily I did not dash straight up to the bathroom to try it out otherwise I would have spent the rest of Christmas day covered in pink and gold glitter which would be fine for some occasions but I didn't want to compete with the tree that particular day.

I knew that Lush used essential oils and other natural ingredients in their products and was interested to know what was in that one so I checked the web site and it was only then that I discovered it contained glitter. I?m saving that one for a special occasion, but it may be a long wait, us grannies don't get too many occasions when they need to be glittery all over. While I was looking at the web site I checked a few products that I might like to try now we had the shop in town.

Too be honest it is quite difficult to choose, some have wonderfully amusing descriptions and all have nice ingredients but I thought I would start with what seemed to be the simplest and most suitable for my dry and sensitive skin the butterball. The butterball is also the smallest and the cheapest bath ballistic priced at only £1.40 compared to many which cost £2.

For those who don't know about them bath bombs or ballistics are balls containing various, mostly natural ingredients. You put them into your bath and they fizz and whizz round your bath which is the ballistic bit, leaving your bath filled with essential oils and possibly other stu
ff like glitter or paper stars. The butterball contains Sodium bicarbonate, Citric Acid, Cocoa butter, Synthetic musk, Ylang Ylang Oil and Perfume. It is suitable for Veggies and Vegans.

I have to confess though that I am no longer a Lush virgin. I have also tried the Lush Blue Skies and Fluffy White Clouds bubble slice which was indeed lush but if I hadn't tried this first I'm not sure that I would be a Lush convert. After the bubble slice experience the butterball was rather disappointing.

You know the drill by now. Run a bath and chuck the bomb in then chuck yourself in. Having read other opinions on ballistics I was expecting some excitement. But perhaps because it is only a little bomb it was not very spectacular in that department. And who says size doesn't matter? It fizzed a bit but didn't dash around the bath at speed and it was all over very quickly leaving globules of fat all over the surface of my bath, which was obviously the cocoa butter which does the moisturising thing.

This was the biggest disappointment. I love bubbly baths with loads of moisturiser and the butterball just didn?t appeal to all my senses. The scent, ylang ylang and synthetic musk, was quite nice but the appearance was a let down. Personally I don't know why bombs can?t have bubbles too.

Well I wasn?t going to waste it now so I got in and it felt as oily as it looked. I could see the oil on my skin.

Having dutifully soaked myself for the recommended twenty minutes I didn't feel any more relaxed or any more moisturised than I usually did after having a bath with my regular bubble bath and using Olay moisturising bodywash. In fact my skin felt just a bit tacky for a while afterwards rather than soft and smooth. After a while however my skin did feel very soft and this was particularly noticeable on my hands. The effect of the butterball seems to last far longer than an Olay bath.

My verdict is that I don
9;t think I would bother with the butterball experience again unless I was going to be in a position where I needed to show off vast quantities, which I have, of soft and smooth skin for several hours. For normal everyday and most special days Olay's moisturisers work fine for me and at under £3 for up to 60 baths or showers at a far better price.

When I finally got round to having my sugar plum fairy moment I can't honestly say it was any better. I thought I was being adventurous and brave to even consider chucking this bomb in the bath shortly before going out for the evening with my rather conservative husband. It was our 35th wedding anniversary and he had given me a jade necklace and I thought it might look even better on a pale pink gold and pink glittery skin. So ran the bath and called hubby to watch the expected explosion - but it sort of went phhhhhh and sulkily stayed in the corner of the bath slowly fizzing to itself. Well that wasn?t very exciting! I'm afraid to say neither was the result on me. There were a few silver stars in the water along with pink glitter but for some unknown reason it decided to stay in the bath when I got out. So the end result was plain old zebra and I couldn't present my husband with a Sugar Plum Fairy for the evening after all.

So although I was hoping that bath bombs might add a new experience to my life I'm sorry to say I really can't see the attraction and I think I'm going to give up on them now.

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