Product Description This charming snowman is a soothing bath bomb. He melts pieces of cocoa butter into the bathwater to moisturize and soften your whole body. A classic way to get children into the bath when they've been watching too many cartoons, eaten too much chocolate and are all too excited about the holidays. (Same goes for adults.)
Customer Reviews:
Mr. Butterball left me feeling GREASY!December 13, 2007 4 out of 5 found this review helpful
LUSH Mr. Butterball does what it is supposed to . . . coat you in cocoa butter. Although this little charmer comes in the shape of an adorable snowman (which makes me feel awful for panning it in this review), my opinion of it melted in hot water. Mr. Butterball is a seasonal offering from LUSH, but is the same as the Butterball bath bomb offered year round. For some reason, it costs less for more product. The cost for a bath with Mr. Butterball is $ 3.95 for 3.5 ounces of . . . well . . . greased up skin.
I want to talk briefly about what constitutes a good moisturizer for the body. One way is to coat the skin with a substance like cocoa butter that forms a barrier between the body's natural moisture (what is already there) and feels "soft" but does not really soak in quickly. This is what Mr. Butterball does. The moisturizing experience I look for is one that quickly penetrates the skin - not coats the skin and ADDS moisture and hydration. If you are looking for soft skin, usually what you need is exfoliation - I have bathed with a 50% Sake product from Fresh that left my skin incredibly smooth and soft, because the Sake was removing all the dead stuff from the surface of the skin.
A bath bomb from LUSH is a real treat, normally. And since individual tastes differ, what is heavenly to one person just doesn't do it for another. For me, I didn't like LUSH Mr. Butterball for several reasons:
1. The bath water color is not affected at all. I guess I just like to have a fun color in my bath, which most LUSH bath bombs give you.
2. Part of enjoying a bath bomb is watching it slowly dissolve. But Mr. Butterball is wham, bam, thank you ma'am - it fizzes away so quickly you can barely enjoy the experience. The bomb releases little chunks of cocoa butter, which dissolve in the bath water, leaving a coat of, well, greasy film on the surface.
3. The fragrance for this bomb is that of musk and ylang ylang oil. It is barely noticeable. I prefer a room filled with a strong, sweet scent that lingers on my skin and hair. For those who like a VERY subtle scent, this bath bomb would be find.
4. My biggest complaint is the absolutely greased up feeling my body had in the tub and out of the tub. Now eventually, and I mean 30 minutes later, when I hoped it had "sunk in" to the skin, I asked my boyfriend to feel my skin. "It feels like you've put on a lot of hand lotion," he said. "It feels lubricated." Hmmmmm. . . . I'm not sure that's the reaction I want.
5. Peppercorns. There are about 3 teeny tiny peppercorns - bright red, and their skin peels off to reveal the brown peppercorn. These do not float, and during the bath, two of them disappeared. Now I don't want to get graphic, but I was a little more than concerned about just where these tiny things went. That bothered me.
To be fair, on the LUSH.com website, this bath bomb averages 4.5 stars out of 5!! This makes it a bestseller. But when the description of what a bath bomb is supposed to do does not match up with my experience, I usually don't buy it again, and here is the description from LUSH.com for their LUSH Mr. Butterball bath bomb:
"A vanilla sweet tonic for over-dry holiday skin"
This charming snowman smells just like our sweet, soothing Butterball bath bomb as he melts pieces of cocoa butter into the bathwater to moisturize and soften your whole body. A classic way to get children into the bath when they've been watching too many cartoons, eaten too much chocolate and are all too excited about the holidays. (Same goes for adults).
EWWWWW! Stick your kids in this greasy mess of a bath? Trust me, this cocoa butter gets on your towels, your flannel pajamas, and I don't think a child's skin needs this much lubrication.
LUSH Mr. Butterball Ingredients (from www.LUSH.com):
All I have to say here is that again, the Ylang Ylang oil is barely noticeable, and Mr. Butterball left me without a scent that I or my boyfriend could notice at all.
Where NOT to purchase?
I have tried in the past to bypass high shipping costs and find a LUSH product on eBay.com. This is a mistake. You cannot guarantee a fresh product, and there is nothing worse than someone selling a bath bomb a year old that sinks like lead in your tub . . . the fizz is just gone out of it!
Thanks for reading my review on the LUSH Mr. Butterball Bath Bomb. I'm finding it hard to decide whether or not to recommend it for purchase, because it received such high ratings on the LUSH website and perhaps the cocoa butter basting doesn't annoy others as it did me. Let's just say order at your own risk, and perhaps write an opinion of your own if you enjoy it to balance my negativity! Check out some of my other reviews on the different Bath Bombs LUSH has to offer - there is such a great variety to choose from.
Melissa
"hempem"
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