LUSH Swansea launches £5 summer bath bomb-making workshops for families

LUSH Swansea is putting Fizz-tastic Summer Bath Bomb Making on the calendar from Monday, July 20, through late August at Lush Cosmetics Swansea on Oxford Street, with tickets listed at £5 per person through Eventbrite. The workshop is pitched as a simple, hands-on summer outing: young makers can discover how bath bombs come together, work with the ingredients, and leave with a handmade one ready to fizz at home.

For families weighing whether to book it, that is the draw. This is best for beginners, parents looking for a structured school-holiday activity, and gift-makers who want something more personal than a boxed bath bomb off the shelf. The session gives you the part retail cannot: the chance to see the product assembled and walk away with one made on the day. At £5, it lands in the cheap-and-cheerful category, and the fact that it runs on multiple dates suggests LUSH expects real summer demand rather than treating it as a one-off promo.

The venue helps too. LUSH describes Lush Cosmetics Swansea as a step-free shop with an open layout on a busy high street, which makes sense for a store that is doubling as a workshop space. This is not a random experiment, either. A similar LUSH Swansea bath bomb-making event ran in 2024 at 808 Oxford St, Swansea, pointing to a seasonal format the store has already used before.

The brand’s own backstory still hangs over the whole thing. LUSH says co-founder Mo Constantine invented the first bath bomb in 1989 in her garden shed, and that the company was first awarded the bath bomb trademark on April 27, 1990, a date it now marks as World Bath Bomb Day. LUSH says it has created more than 500 bath bomb designs and sold more than 350 million bath bombs globally, which helps explain why a £5 workshop still carries commercial pull. Grand View Research projects the global bath bombs market will reach USD 2.84 billion by 2030 and says Europe was the largest revenue-generating region in 2023, so the Swansea workshop sits right where brand heritage, low-cost entertainment and retail theatre meet.