Ah, this was the product from Lush’s Christmas collection that I just had to try, but it was always sold up. I ended up doing an online order just for this when it came back into stock.
When this arrived, I won’t lie I was disappointed. Online, these product looks like 5 doughnuts, but in reality they were 5 flat rings that resembled chatter rings more than round doughnuts.. hmmm! I had high hopes for this product and my hopes were already dropping and fast.
This product comes on a string with the flat rings, and it is absolutely covered in gold glitter. I love glitter so you get no objections from me. However this product was meant to smell like vanilla, and all of Lush’s products tend to have a strong (delicious) smell to them, but I literally can’t smell anything with these rings.
I used one ring and just hold it under running water to create the bubbles. It quite a hard product and there is no way to really crumble it so it just had to hold it there and rub it a little to get the bubbles flowing which didn’t take long. It also turned my water yellow, instead of the golden colour I was expecting, and we all know that a yellow bath is not a good look! At least the golden flecks on glitter were nice in the bath, and the room did have slightly sweet smell but I wish it was stronger because I love vanilla.
Overall, these rings are a good buy because they last at least 5 baths, and give you bubbles as well as a touch of glitter. I do wish they smelt stronger, and turned my bath golden rather than pee yellow, but I will definitely be using the other 3 rings (yes I have already had two baths). Will I repurchase them? I am on the fence at the moment.
Lush has put a new spin on the five gold rings in the 12 days of christmas carol with their five mini bubble bars.
You could be super indugent and use all five rings at once, but for me this set is a really nice way of seperating my bubble bar into five baths instead of having to cut it into pieces myself.
The rings are gold with gold glitter that washes off fairly quickly when under the tap. The water then becomes "golden" as the bubble bar dissolves into the water. But it really looked more of an interesting shade of yellow. But other than the water that looked toxic it was lovely.
The bubbles are lovely as usual and have a light vanilla scent. I always recommend using spa jets if you have them to really boost the bubbles but agitating the water by hand works fine too.