Bath Bombs

Today I want to talk about bath bombs. I just had a bath with a Lush Twilight ’21 (yes, I know it is 2023 but the bomb only just came into my possession). It seemed like it had layers – so there is the pinky lilac outside layer, and in the middle a turquoise coloured layer and when it all dissolves the bath water is a lavender colour. But the compound that makes up the different layers, chemically, must be slightly different – because they dissolved at different rates, and rather like an apple with the core dissolving before the outer layer, the turquoise inside layer fizzed and dissolved faster than the outer pink/lilac layer. So I had an intact outside while the interior fizzed and dissolved. Something must be slowing the outside layer down while the core dissolves at the usual rate. Interesting!

A note about what I’ll talk about in this blog – Perfumery things, from a Perfumer’s point of view, occasionally products, but I’m not going to do reviews – there are plenty of people doing that already. Botany, again relevant to perfumery, and sometimes, ingredients.