Drop a ghost into the bath, lather up with a green monster hand or swap your usual shower gel for something a little more sinister. Lush’s Halloween collection has arrived in the UAE, bringing its annual parade of peculiar creatures, sweet-shop scents and colourful bath-time theatrics.
This Halloween, real horrors aren’t things that go bump in the night–it’s the Sunday scaries hitting hard during an evening doomscroll. Last year, 9 in 10 people experienced high or extreme levels of pressure or stress linked to burnout in the last year, and 60 per cent of young people (aged 18 to 24) have felt so stressed by the pressure to succeed that they have felt overwhelmed or unable to cope.
The simplest of tasks, like leaving the work group chat, turning on an out-of-office or leaving your phone alone, have become terrifying. Meet Lush’s Halloween collection: a curation of wonderful moments of respite that are lifemaxxing and hustle-culture-free so you can finally rest in peace.
There are familiar favourites alongside new arrivals, and plenty for anyone whose idea of Halloween involves a long soak rather than a late night. Behind the playful shapes are some useful sourcing details, too: bergamot from small-scale Italian citrus farmers, wild-harvested kokum butter from India and Fair Trade organic cocoa butter in the Boo Bears gift set.
Ghosts With the Most
Returning favourite Ghostie (AED 40) looks innocent enough until it hits the water. The little white bath bomb releases rainbow colour and crackling popping candy, making it a particularly entertaining choice for bathers who like their soak with a bit of a spectacle. According to Lush, its manufacturing teams made 103,400 Ghosties last year.
For something more autumnal, Punkin Pumpkin (AED 50) combines organic pumpkin powder with cinnamon leaf and sweet wild orange oils. Toffee Apple (AED 65), meanwhile, takes its cue from the Halloween sweet, blending maple syrup with illipe and kokum butters. The latter is wild-harvested from the forest floor beneath Garcinia indica trees in southern India.
Prefer bubbles to fizz? Crumble Midnight (AED 55) under running water for a blackberry-scented bath, complete with a mischievous grin on the bar itself.
No Bath? No Problem
The shower contingent is just as strange. Mystic Hand (from AED 75) is a green shower gummy with individually hand-painted purple nails, scented with lime oil and almond essential oil derived from Moroccan bitter almonds. It’s certainly one way to make guests look twice at the soap dish.
Boo shower gel (from AED 70) takes a woodier direction, pairing cedarwood with seaweed extract, glycerine and bergamot. Lush sources the bergamot from small-scale, multigenerational citrus farmers in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy, through a family producer it has worked with since 2005.
There’s also Ghost In The Dark soap (AED 50), a returning lemongrass-scented favourite, and Creature Of The Night shower jelly (from AED 90), which conceals a facial gummy inside. The latter combines coconut water with Lush’s Butterball fragrance and sweet ylang-ylang oil.
Treats Worth Wrapping
For a ready-made present, Boo Bears (AED 125) brings together three bear-shaped bath bombs, including two gift exclusives, enriched with Fair Trade organic cocoa butter. House Of Horrors (AED 225) gathers four bathing products and a colouring-in sheet, while Charmed (AED 395) contains six bath and shower treats in a 100 per cent recycled box illustrated by Iain Burke.
Or choose a few favourites and bundle them into an organic cotton Knot Wrap (AED 50). Reusable long after the last ghost has fizzed away, it can wrap another present when the next celebration rolls around.
Lush’s Halloween 2026 collection is available now in UAE and Bahrain shops, online and through the Lush app.
