LUSH Youki-Hi Bath Bomb; Worth Scrubbing the Tub For
Written: Feb 16 '06
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Pros: Amazing, lingering fragrance; leaves skin soft; rinses easily from skin and tub.
Cons: No time for a bath EVERY day!
The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line would rather be in a tub of peachy-pink water, soaking with a LUSH Youki-Hi Bath Bomb.
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| krissingene's Full Review: LUSH Cosmetics Youki Hi Bath Bomb |
Baths just aren't a big thing in my house. I enjoy them on occasion, but don't enjoy the tub-scrubbing that must ensue before I can relax it. I've never known my husband to take a bath, and even my two-year-old showers with me more often than she takes a traditional tub bath. But when I smelled the LUSH Youki-Hi Bath Bomb, I knew that I found something worth scrubbing the tub for.
The bath bomb itself is a large-ish peachy-pink ball, measuring 3" or so in diameter. Visible at one end of the ball is are large flecks of bright orange and lots of gold glitter - very pretty to look at, although that's not it's intended use. Youki-Hi's fragrance is immediately noticeable, but not overpowering - floral and feminine, including notes of jasmine, ylang ylang, cypress and palmarosa. A 6.3 ounce bath bomb retails for $4.95.
The LUSH website describes the Youki-Hi Bath Bomb as follows: "Our Chinese New Year celebration Ballistic is named after one of the world's three most beautiful women ever, a Chinese woman called Youki-Hi, according to Japanese tradition. It has the gloriously sensual, jasmine flower fragrance of Flying Fox and is regally decorated with gold sparkles and red sea salt - that's sea salt dyed red, not salt from the Red Sea - in the colours of Chinese dragons which dance along the street for new year parades. The other two most beautiful women, so legend has it, were Cleopatra and Onono Komachi, a Japanese storyteller. Perhaps one day they will have their own commemorative Bath Ballistics too. (It's pronounced 'you-key-hee' not 'you-key-high' except by Mark.)
~* Mommy Will Be Locked in the Bathroom... *~
I've heard of people addicted to LUSH's line of bath bombs that break them up prior to use, preserving them by using only 1/2 or 1/4 per bath (with apparently great results.) Me? No way. I eke out time for an actual bath so rarely that it was all or nothing one Sunday evening when I locked myself in the bathroom with my bath bomb and a good book.
Dropping the bath bomb into the tub is half the fun of this product - it immediately begins fizzing everywhere, including in your hand when you can't resist picking it up to see what's going on. The whole thing just begins to disintegrate, which of course, is the entire point. The fizzy blob, while fizzing down to nothing at all, releases tiny flower petals and gold glitter into the water, tinting it a pretty peachy-pink in the process. Less fun was the somewhat scary deep red spiky flower that emerged from the center of the bath bomb and attacked me as I climbed into the tub. I'm still not sure just what that flower is, only that it looks distinctly oriental, in fitting with the whole theme of the bath bomb. I also know that it stains the side of the tub pink when you fish it out of the bath water and place it safely out of reach. Fortunately, the pink stain is easily removed - and, having been warned, the flower incident will be less frightening to you.
The soft, feminine fragrance of the Youki-Hi Bath Bomb permeated the bathroom as the bomb 'exploded', and lingered in the room for several hours after finishing my bath. Happily, it also lingered on my skin for quite a while, although in a (pleasing) diminished form.
Relaxing in the peachy-pink water filled with floating flower petals and swirling gold glitter made the prerequisite tub-scrubbing entirely worthwhile. Even in the absence of foam or bubbles, my skin was noticeably softer after soaking for a while. And although I'm in the habit of turning on the shower to rinse off after a bath, the Youki-Hi Bath Bomb doesn't leave enough residue on your skin to make this absolutely necessary. At worst, you'll have a bit of gold glitter and a tiny flower petal or two to pick off after bathing. And everything contained inside the bomb (with the exception of the big flower in the middle) washes easily down the drain when you're finished.
Which wouldn't be an issue at all, if you had read the instructions on LUSH's website prior to use...
~* How to Use *~
Fill bath tub and drop bomb into water. For those bath bombs containing flower petals or other surprises, wrap the bath bomb in a nylon before use. To make your experience even more memorable, combine a bath bomb with a bath melt.
Obviously, I didn't think to check the website for instructions before using my Youki-Hi Bath Bomb (and none are included in the packaging), but everything worked out in the end. And now, I really need to order a bath melt.
~* Overall *~
What's not to love about Youki-Hi? True to its namesake, it is beautiful in every way - appearance, fragrance, and effect. Oh, if I only had time for a bath every night...I would keep a stash of Youki-Hi Bath Bombs on hand at all times. But I don't, so they'll have to remain an occasional indulgence for me.
~* Ingredients *~
Sodium bicarbonate, citric acid, sea salt (sodium chloride), perfume, jasmine absolute (jasminum officinale), ylang ylang oil (cananga odorata), cypress oil (cupressus sempervirens), palmarossa oil (cymbopogan martini), gardenia extract (gardenia jasminoides), red golden glitter (polyethylene terephthalate), FD&C red no. 4.
A visit to LUSH's website shows the list of ingredients in a color-coded format so that you can easily distinguish which ingredients are natural products, which are organic, and which are safe synthetic products. (Most of the ingredients of the Youki-Hi Bath Bomb are natural.)
~* More About LUSH *~
What is LUSH, you ask? So did I - after all, there are only 17 brick and mortar LUSH stores in the U.S., none of them located near our tiny middle-of-nowhere town. According to their website, the LUSH team formed in the late 70s and began making cosmetics by hand. Although their first company, called Cosmetics to Go and located in England, ultimately failed, they re-formed in 1994 under the new name LUSH and have been growing steadily ever since. Today there are more than 185 shops worldwide, with mail-order businesses in the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia, Italy, Japan, Sweden, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Hungary, Germany, and Taiwan. Their cosmetics are handmade the UK, Italy, Canada, South America and Japan, from which they are shipped to customers in as fresh a state as possible.
~* Cruelty Free *~
LUSH does not test any of their products on animals, use any ingredients or supplies tested on animals or support companies that do.
~* Also By LUSH *~
Buffy the Backside Slayer
Dream Cream
Honey I Washed the Kids Soap
Silky Underwear Dusting Powder
Ultimate Shine Shampoo Bar
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