LUSH Swansea bath bomb workshop joins Pride celebrations on May 16

The parade may start the day, but LUSH Swansea is staking out the handoff point. Its Luna’s Butterfly Bath Bomb Making Workshop will run on Saturday, May 16, 2026, from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm, right after Swansea Pride’s march leaves Wind Street at 11:00 am and as the festival fills the Guildhall and Brangwyn Hall from noon to 7:00 pm.

That timing is the story. The Pride route will move through the city centre along Oxford Street and St. Helen’s Road to the Guildhall, and the workshop is deliberately slotted into that same window, giving Pride-goers a short, low-cost place to land after the march. The listing frames it as a pop-in activity, with a glitter station and a chance to make a Luna’s Butterfly bath bomb for £5 per participant.

The format is built for speed, not a long class. The make-your-own portion takes about 10 minutes, which makes the workshop easy to fit between parade plans, family meetups and the rest of the day’s events. It is suitable for ages 5 and up, under-16s must have guardians present at all times, and anyone 16 or older can attend without supervision. For a Pride crowd moving through the city centre, that makes the table feel more like an inviting pause than a formal lesson.

Luna’s Butterfly also gives the workshop a clear product identity. LUSH says the bath bomb is part of its 2025 World Bath Bomb Day collection and describes it as packaging-free, with pastel colours and a fruity scent. The company says the product came from Luna, daughter of product inventor Julius, who asked her dad for a rainbow butterfly bath bomb. That backstory gives the workshop a built-in origin tale as well as a take-home item.

The Swansea event also fits a pattern. Lush Swansea’s event listings show the shop regularly runs themed making sessions and community workshops, including bath bomb making, crafts, Earth Day bath bomb making, Mother’s Day events, St Davids activities, Halloween parties and seasonal gift-making sessions. In that context, the Pride workshop looks less like a one-off promotion and more like the store doing what it already does best: turning a retail counter into a small community workspace. With 66% of LUSH’s products sold each year packaged free, the brand has made that kind of hands-on, packaging-free making part of its identity, and Pride day gives it a crowd-ready stage.