Although my kids already made each other gifts they wanted to get each other bath bombs as well, of…read morecourse they told me this on Christmas Eve morning haha.
We typically go to Lush but I had seen this business going in a few months ago and I wanted to see if they were open yet and try them first with Lush bring our back up. I'm glad we went to Buff city first as they were open and fully stocked.
The staff was extremely friendly, very helpful, and offered some coffee beans to help my daughter to stop sneezing (she was being a bit overzealous with deeply smelling everything haha).
My kids are young so we were able to distract one while the other shopped but what made it cool was they were making the products out front where you can see and interact. One was working on putting a whipped soap or lotion in a container and another had a kitchen aid mixing bowl and was putting ingredients into the bowl, this made it fun for not only the kids but my husband and myself found it interesting as well.
I always love an open kitchen, and this is basically an open kitchen for soaps and lotions, it's very cool.
The bath bombs smell great.
I did directly compare these with Lush and this is my thoughts on the bath bombs directly compared to lush are as followed:
Lush bath bombs do lots of colors and "big shows" as they break down they typically bubble so much they float and often different types of bubbles to move them in a specific pattern such as in a circle or a rocket that moves around the tub like it has rocket boosters. Buff Citys bath bombs, although very nice sink in the tub, the colors they leave are more natural and more of a milky/chalky residue vs bright blue or other vivid colors like lush. Buff city's bath bombs do not move around the tub and they are no as interesting as far as shapes go.
Lush and Buff City seem to put oil on the bath bombs and leave your skin feeling moisturized and soft. I like both companies bath bombs for different reasons, at lush you get more entertainment with your bath, the dents are very strong, and the colors and shapes are interesting but the bath bombs are $7-$10. Buff City has excellent employees, a fun open kitchen for kids to watch products getting main and most things in the store are $7-$8 . I'll continue to shop at both and look forward to see if Buff City starts adding some floating bombs with more vivid colors for kiddos.
