To wonder what Lush were thinking......

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When they designed bright blue bath bombs?

My lovely husband bought me some bath bombs for Christmas to celebrate us having a bath for the first time in nearly two years (we moved into a complete renovation project and our bathroom is one of the last rooms to have been started). I've never really expressed a desire or even an interest in bath bombs, but really appreciate the thought behind the gift.

However, they're bright bloody blue!

I braved one tonight and I lasted about 3 minutes in the bath with it. The water went a deep blue and the hand I picked it up with is now very slightly stained a lovely shade of smurf blue.

I can't imagine anyone would bathe with one of those and come out feeling cleaner. I hosed the bath out once I got out and the blue and gold sludge that remained was disgusting.

I appreciate that I'm getting a little over invested in a bath bomb, but I know they were expensive and now I have about £15 worth of bombs that will never get used.

Is this a marketing ploy from Lush? It seems a strange one from a company so interested in being environmentally friendly.

Blackberry bath bombs used to dye the limescale deposits on my aging tub a delightful purple. Once I'd given the bath a good once over with Cillit Bang, I had no problems. If it went purple, I was reminded to give the tub a good scrub!

Gutted Lush no longer make them - the only thing from CTG days that I liked.

You have to choose wisely.

Butterbears at Christmas.
Milky bar or dreamtime or the robot lavender ones.
Cerewidens cauldron bath melts.

No glitter. No smurf hands. The dreamtime one sends bath lilac but omg it's lovely and sleep inducing and leaves your skin soft.

The glittery bad ones can stay in the shop!!

I got a bomb cosmetics chocolate kisses bath bomb for Christmas. It looked like someone had a poo in the bath and took ages to clean all the bits off

There are loads without bits and glitter in which I find annoying so don't buy. None have ever stained my skin or given me thrush or a headache

My partner pressed a good few thousand of them in the last couple of months and was stained bright blue for ages!!

Agree about the smell. Whenever I get dragged into one of their shops it's instant headache-inducing nausea from the smell.

I find the smell from the shops awful just walking by.

I have to cross the road before passing our local Lush shop, otherwise it trigger asthma - just from the scents coming out of the door - and I have to use an inhaler within about 15 yards.

Never known anything like it.

I use them maybe once a week and I never get stained skin or bath? I just rinse the bath down with hot water after. I know they’re exoensive but they’re a nice little luxury for me. Also never got thrush from them? I’m obviously really lucky

I like their products but they need to ditch the glitter.

Whatever happened to these simple little beauties

I was given a bunch of roses, thought they were plastic. Nope the gift giver told me they are made from soap, in a moment of madness I plucked and threw a couple of petals in the bath. They stained it and me bright red and turned into a gooey mess that stuck to everything.

I miss those too Uncle

Jocasta2018 That's like a sort of dental disclosing tablet but for bathrooms!!
You could be onto something there

You can still get bath pearls! Dirty Works do some, and can get them in Waitrose (or just look online.)

Ooh bath pearls. They never quite dissolved, did they?!

I like an Epsom salt bath too, the lavender one. They're my go to but lush dreamtime is great for a wind down too.

When I buy roses and its time to throw them out I scatter them in the bath. I swear they are beautifying some how. I have a new bath though nothing sticks to it my old bath was gross. Nice bathrooms are the best.

PeapodBurgundy HAHAHA, i literally Lol'd
because not only is that funny, i can totally relate to a very similar scenario!!!

i love lush, but someone once bought me one called the big blue i think.. the blue colour wasn't the bad part... it was the fact it was filled with little bits of seaweed. i felt like i was bathing in a swamp. and then getting all the bits out of the bath after was a nightmare because they had all gone slimey. they still sell it now. i steer clear of it

@Pigsinblancketsforeveryone seaweed trumps glitter by a mile!

Maybe you’re imagining it.

I'd bet she isn't. I used to be a HUGE fan of Lush (only stopped shopping there when they started supporting hunt sabs) and I adored their products. I bought a newly-released orange bath bomb and not only did it stain the bath bright orange but I looked like an Oompa Loompa. I had to scrub and scrub and SCRUB both me and the bath. Lush said there'd been a problem batch, apologised and sent me a voucher, but it goes to show that OP's experience isn't the only one of someone being dyed by a bath bomb!