Lush bath bomb pressing event brings hands-on summer fun to Valencia Town Center

Valencia Town Center listed a LUSH Bath Bomb Pressing event for July 11 from noon to 2 p.m. near The Patios entrance on the mall’s second floor, with a $10 plus tax ticket and a behind-the-scenes look at LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics’ private party experience. Shoppers could create their own bath bomb to take home, and the listing pitched the session as a fun, creative stop for friends and families while supplies lasted.

That made the event feel more useful than a standard mall demo. Instead of just seeing finished product on a shelf, visitors got a close look at how a bath bomb is pressed and shaped, then left with one they had made themselves. For beginners trying to get cleaner edges, tighter compaction, and a more consistent form, that kind of live, in-person process is often worth more than a tutorial video because it shows how much pressure, timing, and handling go into the final piece.

The July 11 pressing also sat inside a broader summer run of Lush activations at Valencia Town Center. The mall’s calendar showed a Bath Bomb Making Workshop on June 28, 2026 and a Bubble Bar Pressing event on July 18, 2026, suggesting a steady push to turn bath bombs and bubble bars into experiences rather than simple retail items.

Lush has built that approach into its brand identity. The company calls itself the inventor of the bath bomb and the home of bath art, and says co-founder Mo Constantine invented the first bath bomb in 1989 in her garden shed. Lush also says April 27 is World Bath Bomb Day because it was awarded the trademark for the first bath bomb on that date in 1989.

The scale behind that story is large enough to make the mall event feel less like a novelty and more like a live version of a core product. Lush says it has sold more than 350 million bath bombs globally and created more than 500 different designs. It also says that in the United Kingdom alone, more than 11 million bath bombs were pressed in 2025, including 361,000 Butterballs. The company opened its first store outside the UK in Vancouver in 1996, another marker of how far the brand has carried that bath art identity.

At The Patios entrance, that history showed up in a small, hands-on format: a $10 ticket, a short window, and a bath bomb pressed in front of you instead of picked off a display wall.