{"id":5890,"date":"2011-08-19T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T05:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=5890"},"modified":"2011-08-19T21:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T05:45:28","slug":"lush-review-the-ex-factor-bath-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=5890","title":{"rendered":"Lush Review: The Ex-Factor Bath Cocktail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect bath to chase away any blues (post-breakup or otherwise).\u00a0 This bath cocktail has a citrus-lime fragrance punctuated by a muskiness\/woodsiness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite masculine; I didn&#8217;t mind though (kind of like sleeping in a boyfriend&#8217;s t-shirt).\u00a0 Reminds me slightly of Aquolina&#8217;s Blue Sugar (would be great to use post-bath for guys).\u00a0 Once I bought a small pot of vegan lotion dupe for Blue Sugar from Etsy as part of a sampler set and loved it!\u00a0 I suggest this wonderful sky blue bath cocktail as an anytime detox soak or stress reliever\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Ex-Factor Bath Ballistic:<\/strong> Sweet, candy vanilla.\u00a0 1 Ex-Factor will be more than enough; you can even use a 1\/2 chunk.\u00a0\u00a0 Like most of Lush&#8217;s bath ballistics, this is a fast fizzer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lush-ex-factor-bath-bomb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5891\" title=\"lush ex factor bath bomb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lush-ex-factor-bath-bomb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/2 Blue Skies &amp; Fluffy White Clouds Bubble Bar: <\/strong>This scent is similar to the Big Blue bath bomb only a little more mild and sweet.\u00a0 At first whiff, there seems to be a nuttyness similar to those in chocolate candy bars e.g. Snickers.\u00a0 Not sure if I was imaging this?\u00a0 I think of it as the more masculine counterpart to The Comforter Bubble Bar.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patchouli oil<\/li>\n<li>Frankincense resinoid<\/li>\n<li>Cinnamon leaf oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lush-blue-skies-and-white-fluffy-clouds-bubble-bar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5892\" title=\"lush blue skies and white fluffy clouds bubble bar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lush-blue-skies-and-white-fluffy-clouds-bubble-bar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1\/3 Happy Blooming Bath Melt:<\/strong> Sweet scent which does remind me of candy cherries.\u00a0 I loved Happy Blooming with the other elements I chose for this bath!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passionflower<\/li>\n<li>Dried cherries<\/li>\n<li>Fresh passion fruit<\/li>\n<li>Ylang ylang oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lush-happy-blooming-bath-melt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-5893\" title=\"lush happy blooming bath melt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/lush-happy-blooming-bath-melt-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Photocredit: Lush Cosmetics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perfect bath to chase away any blues (post-breakup or otherwise).\u00a0 This bath cocktail has a citrus-lime fragrance punctuated by a muskiness\/woodsiness.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite masculine; I didn&#8217;t mind though (kind of like sleeping in a boyfriend&#8217;s t-shirt).\u00a0 Reminds me slightly of Aquolina&#8217;s Blue Sugar (would be great to use post-bath for guys).\u00a0 Once I bought &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[895,22,1022,23],"tags":[1115,1108,1393,1109,1507,1067,1506,1118,997],"class_list":["post-5890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beauty-products","category-cosmetics","category-lush-reviews","category-spa-retreat","tag-bath-ballistic","tag-bath-bomb","tag-bath-cocktail","tag-bath-melt","tag-blue-skies-white-fluffy-clouds","tag-bubble-bar","tag-ex-factor","tag-happy-blooming","tag-lush"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5897,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions\/5897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}