In general I'm much more of a bubble bar person because growing up mum always used bubble bath, so a bath for me means having a load of frothy bubbles. But when I saw that Lush's Halloween collection this year included a pumpkin bath bomb and a little ghost bath melt I knew I had to grab one of each. In case you're reasonably new to my blog I'm a Dr of Parapsychology (the paranormal) with a PhD in ghosts. I know a pumpkin isn't actually anything paranormal but pumpkins mean Halloween and you can't get much more paranormal than Halloween.
Pumpkin bath bomb is a pretty standard sized bath bomb that basically looks like a jack-o'-lantern. It's not quite as dark as a pumpkin actually is and my images have lightened him a little, but he is orange complete with the lines that run down a pumpkin and triangle eyes and nose and a not particularly scary toothy open mouth.
He contains cinnamon, vanilla absolute and pimento berry oil to give him a slightly sweet but mostly spicy scent. I'm not sure if he does smell anything like pumpkin pie as I've never personally tried it. Is pumpkin pie really a thing over here? I'll let you into a little secret, I only carved my first pumpkin two Halloweens back so I'm quite new to them and to be honest I really do find them quite yucky!
As is the case for me with most bath bombs I found him a little disappointing. He starts fizzing away as soon as he touches the water and to begin with the water turns quite a dark orange shade. I don't think I could really detect any scent coming from him, maybe just a slight aroma of spice, and after about 30 seconds he'd fizzed away and I was left with light orange bath water. At least orange water doesn't look like you've had a widdle in the bath. I don't have a picture I'm afraid because the lighting is far from great in my new bathroom and obviously I can't really take a studio light in there.
As I said bath bombs aren't really my favourite bath product so I am usually disappointed unless they put on an amazing colour show, really do have a strong (pleasant) scent and preferably last a reasonable amount of time. For £3.95 I wouldn't buy him again, but the first picture I put of him on Instagram did break my all time likes record, so he wasn't a complete loss!
Will you be trying out Mr Pumpkin?
Aw, that's a shame about this one. I bought him too because he looked cool but haven't used it yet. The monster's ball one looks like it would be really colourful though.
ReplyDeleteI do lime the look of the Monsters Ball one and might give it a try for the colours x
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