These are the best cheap bath bombs to buy in 2019
WE’RE still not sure if it’s because of their easy Instagrammability, their ability to appeal to five-year-olds and 50-year-olds, or the fact they can flip a grumpy mood on its head, but we’re all obsessing over bath bombs.
Perhaps it’s also that bath bombs give so much pleasure – They smell delicious! They turn the bath crazy colours! They pack a punch no matter their size and often don’t come in wasteful packaging! – that we can’t get enough of them. Of course, it might just be that we can buy bliss (at least for 15 minutes) for under £3.
There’s one leading name in bath bombs: Lush, who launched the first bath bomb 30 years ago, in 1989 – and the interest in bath bombs, melts and fizzers has only grown since then, especially in recent years – did you know that bath bomb sales have increased 71% since 2015?.
In 2017 alone, Lush sold 21 million handmade bath bombs – and that’s just one brand.
There’s a bath bomb for everyone these days: healing bath bombs with CBD, bath bombs with hidden toy surprises inside.
You can even find bath bombs with jewellery surprises or bath bombs that smell like Prosecco.
While Lush bath bombs are perennial favourites (and earn bonus points for their inventive combinations and lack of plastic packaging), they aren’t necessarily the cheapest, typically ranging in price from £2.50 to £14.95.
For bath bombs in a variety of colourways and scents, Bomb Cosmetics has dozens of different options at around £2, and you can always buy bath bombs in larger quantities to get more bang for your buck.
Of course, you can always go the DIY route and make your own cheap bath bombs – Naissance has a delicious-smelling Make Your Own Bath Bombs Kit. Perfect for testing out if bath-bomb making is like baking: do you enjoy the end result even more if you made it?
Cheap bath bomb under £3
- Lush Ickle Baby Bot bath bomb, £2.50 at Lush – buy here
If your bath bomb philosophy is Lush or nothing, no one can blame you.
What we can do is find you the cheapest Lush bath bomb available online: the Ickle Baby Bot bath bomb, which contains calming lavender oil, camomile blue oil and Australian sandalwood oil.
People love its value for money, delicious lavender scent, cute shape (it’s suitable for kids) and how it turns the bath light blue.
Plus, fans say it helps you get to sleep.
Cheap bath bombs under £2
1. ASDA Cosmic Rainbow Bath Bomb
- ASDA Cosmic Rainbow Bath Bomb, £1.50 at ASDA – buy here
ASDA has a few different bath bomb options currently on sale for £1.50, including a flamingo bath bomb and this rainbow fizzer.
one reviewer states it is the ‘longest fizzing’ bath bomb they’ve ever had.
Plus, it turns the bath rainbow hues.
2. Bomb Cosmetics Bath Blaster, Sweetie Pie
- Bomb Cosmetics Bath Blaster, Sweetie Pie, £1.81 at Amazon – buy here
For the best Lush dupes out there (at around £2 a pop), check out Bomb Cosmetics, which has fabulous colours, designs and scents to delight tub-dwellers of all ages.
This berries and cream scented bath bomb contains palma rosa and black pepper essential oils – and looks and smells good enough to eat. Try to resist.
3. The Body Shop Mango Bath Bomb
- The Body Shop Mango Bath Bomb, £1.50 at The Body Shop – buy here
Know the expression ‘good things come in small packages’?
It may have been coined in relation to this tiny bath bomb from The Body Shop, which is wrapped like a sweet and packs a serious punch, both in terms of its orange colour and fruity mango smell.
Reviewers love that it manages to scent the whole bath and leaves skin feeling soft.
Look out for other scents like strawberry, green tea, vanilla delight and candied plum.
4. Westlab Relaxing Dead Sea Salt Bath Fizzer
- Westlab Relaxing Dead Sea Salt Bath Fizzer, £1.99 at Boots – buy here
Westlab is the company known for its healing bath salts, and the brand’s cheap bath bombs contains healing and beneficial salts like Himalayan salt, Epsom salt and Dead Sea salt.
This bomb has a soothing white tea and lavender fragrance to unwind, with almond oils to soothe the skin.
Cheap bath bombs gift set
- Efloral Bath Bombs Gift Set, £9.99 for nine at Amazon – buy here
We’re convinced one of the reasons for the growing popularity of bath bombs is that they make such thoughful, easy – and cheap – gifts.
This colourful set of nine bath bombs (that works out to them costing roughly £1.10 apiece) smells lovely and includes scents like rose, mint, lemon, chamomile, grape, rosemary, coconut and green tea.
Cheap bath bombs with a hidden surprise
- Bonne Bombe It’s Not Easy Being Green Bath Bomb With Toy Frog, £4.50 at Bonne Bombe – buy here
Bonne Bombe is your go-to site for bath bombs with a little something extra: inside, there are toys or pendants to delight any kids in your life.
This vegan bath bomb is scented with lemon and lime essential oils, contains cocoa and shea butter and reveals a toy frog inside the bath. Surprise!
Cheap DIY bath bombs kit
- Naissance Make Your Own Bath Bombs Kit, £17.99 at Amazon – buy here
Naissance, purveyor of gorgeous-smelling and not crazily expensive essential oils, has a make your own at-home bath bomb kit with lemon and geranium rose essential oils.
The set will make around eight bath bombs, which works out at about £2.25 per bath bomb, and should be a fun afternoon activity to do solo, with friends or with the kids.
Cheap best bargain bath bombs
- Bathtime Boutique – 50 Assorted Mini Marble Bath Bomb Gift Set, £11.99 for 50 at Etsy – buy here
Calling all bath bomb addicts!
This gorgeously packaged set contains 50 bath bombs, so they’re approximately 24p apiece.
They’re well-reviewed and come in scents ranging from strawberry to Parma violet to Armani for Men.
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