Advantages: Smell gorgeous and look delightful
Disadvantages: Too expensive for daily use

...The backbone of Lush's product range, ballistics are a source of bemusement to all Lush virgins when they first go into the shops. They are one of the main reasons the shop can be smelled way down the street and are the ultimate products for anyone wishing to cut down on the packaging of they products they buy. At their simplest, ballistics are simply balls of bicarbonate of soda and citric acid, which fizz away to soften bath water. Lush adds perfumes, colours and 'extras' (see below), to make a ballistic bath a decidedly 'different' experience. As well as the colours and perfumes, a lot of the ballistics in the range are also packed with flowers, glitter or even bits of fruit(!), so if you don't want to be covered in glitter for days (Fairy Jasmine is rumoured to have precisely that effect), it's a good idea to thoroughly read... Read review

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Advantages: The smell. Looks so lovely.
Disadvantages: None

...The 'Sakura' is a new bath ballistic recently launched by Lush (the handmade cosmetics company). In case you don't know, a bath ballisitic (or bath bomb) is a combination of sodium bicarbonate, citric acid and a variety of different essential oils and colourings, all condensed into a ball. When dropped into a bath the bomb merrily fizes away dissolving lovely essential oils into the bath for you to wallow in. The Sakura ballistic (Sakura is the Japanese word for Cherry Blossom by the way) is a particularly attractive version of a bath ballistic. Its a very very pale pink colour dappled with speckles of pale green, with a bright pink and green layer of exfoliating sea salt sitting at the top of the ballistic. This particular ballistic cost £2.10 for a 200 gram bomb. This is about average price for a Lush ballistic. I suppose... Read review

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Advantages: Relaxing and enjoyable
Disadvantages: flowers stick in bath if not cleaned straight away

...Lush Summer Blues Bath Ballistic I think everyone likes to receive presents and I especially like to receive surprise presents, so yesterday when my friend came to visit with a little carrier bag full of Lush bath ballistics I was delighted. There were four bath ballistics in the bag as they had been shopping in the merry hill shopping centre in the midlands and thought of me and one of the ballistics was a summer blues bath ballistic. Each ballistic came in it's own little bag and the summer blues one was a lovely shade of light blue, a good size nearly about the same size as a tennis ball, when I turned it over in the bag I could see dark blue flowers embedded in the ballistic. I really couldn't wait until the night to have a bath and was so excited, as I have used lush products for about a year now and so far have never been... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, great for skin, body and mind..
Disadvantages: Absolutely none!

...I worked in a Lush store for quite a while. I fell in love with the gorgeous smelling products, which filled the air (and all our lungs) like a pleasant drug. My favourite, of all the products, were the bath ballistics that were stacked high in a paint pallette of colours. Each contains a different essential oil - working wonders ona variety of problems - skin irratation, stress, tiredness, anger.... Or, they are just a wonderful treat - for any time of the day, night or afternoon. Just plonk one in the bath and have a whale of time!! So, how do they work? The balls are packed full of bicarbonate of soda. Once put in the bath, the soda reacts with the water and starts to fizz away. In the dissolving, all the wonderful oils are released into the water. If you look closely, you can see the oils rising off the ballistic into the air... Read review

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Advantages: Smells devine, turns bath water pink, leaves skin feeling soft and smooth, doesn't irritate, not tested on animals
Disadvantages: No