LUSH Plymouth bath-bomb workshop brings family fun to Drake Circus

LUSH Plymouth will turn Drake Circus into a school-break craft stop for families on Monday, May 25, 2026, with a £15 bath-bomb workshop running from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. The package is built to compete with any other half-term outing: product making, free samples, a LUSH party activity, a £5 gift card to spend in store and a tree-hugging surprise in the goody bag.

The session will take place at LUSH Plymouth, LUSB 01, Lower Mall, Charles Street, Plymouth PL1 1EA, inside Drake Circus Shopping Centre. LUSH’s shop page lists in-store parties, complementary samples and plastic-free consultations among its services, which fits the way this event is being framed, less like a technical class and more like a hands-on experience for families and first-timers who want something playful to do together.

That positioning matters because Drake Circus is not just any mall. Visit Plymouth describes it as the West Country’s premier shopping destination, with more than 70 of the UK’s leading high street brands and the largest stores in the region. A workshop like this keeps people in the centre, gives them a reason to spend beyond the ticket price and turns a routine shopping trip into a destination visit. For retail centres, that mix of making, gifting and browsing is the point.

The bath-bomb itself gives the event extra weight. Lush says co-founder Mo Constantine invented the first bath bomb in 1989, calling it “Aqua Sizzlers,” and the company says it has since created more than 500 designs and sold over 350 million bath bombs worldwide. Lush has also long tied the product to its packaging-light identity, saying it uses less than half the packaging materials a comparable cosmetics company would use by selling products without packaging.

That history helps explain why bath-bomb workshops keep showing up as more than novelty events. Lush promoted in-store bath-bomb-making sessions across UK and Ireland shops for World Bath Bomb Day in 2025, and the Plymouth event follows the same logic: make the product, take home the scent and color, and leave with a reason to come back. In a month when Plymouth is also lining up family draws like Pirates Weekend, the £15 workshop slots neatly into the city’s half-term rhythm.