REVIEW: Bandai Lum Urusei Yatsura Bath Powder - Hot Pepper & Germa Ver.

Happy late St. Patrick's day everyone!
I live a few minutes away from several Asian markets, and I'd

wanted to try some of their bath-powder packets for a while now!

As spring rolls in, it's slowly getting to be a bit warm

for baths, so I'm going to review as many of these as I can before
it gets too hot for soaking baths.

Today I'm reviewing BANDAI'S Lum Hot Pepper & Germa bath!

Featuring the alien princess Lum from the Urusei Yatsura manga.

(this is the cutest packaging I've ever seen, Lum is the best!)

List of ingredients.

This is a "Hot Pepper and Germa bath" - I wasn't quite sure what that meant, but

it's very strong smelling.  I could smell it through the package!

(I tried to look up GERMA, but it thought I meant "German"....)

I don't have allergies to any of the ingredients so I figured it was worth a try.

WARNING:  If you're allergic to SOY this contains SOYMILK FERMENT.

(I'm assuming this is a skin-softening component.)

The powder is bright light yellow, and turns the water a matching color!

Not gonna lie it was a little bit offputting to be bathing in yellow water... oh well.

There's a noticeable citrus/spicy smell almost like lemon soda (think Sprite or 7-UP).  It's

not offensively strong but definitely noticeable, I think it's actually the smell from the

pepper - but to me it smells like soda!  Very nice. -u-

I noticed my skin started tingling a bit after about 10 minutes in the fresh bath.

The pepper is supposed to increase circulation (not sure what the germa does, but

I figure it's along the same lines), and I definitely felt the heat of the water much more

than with other bath powders / bombs I've used.

I don't really feel like my skin got much softer from this, although it does contain collagen.

That plus the soymilk ferment (????) made it very lightly moisturizing, but nothing that stuck 

around after a good towel rubdown.

However after getting out, my skin felt VERY warm and tingly, not to mention I was

REALLY PINK.  My skin also seemed a lot smoother when applying lotion, which

I think is the result of getting heated up by the pepper and germa (?).

The tingly feeling made me a little bit nervous for a while, I thought it might be allergies.

But it seems to be normal for "heating" baths, so no worries here!

It does last for a while, my skin kept tingling for about 30 minutes after I'd gotten out

(even after rinsing with cool water).

I really liked how there was no residue in the tub afterwards, but the smell does stick around 

for quite a while.  Not a problem for me because I enjoyed it, but it might be

if you don't enjoy the spicy citrus scent.

OVERALL RATING:

4 1/2 stars!

I really enjoyed this bath!  As someone who has a low body temperature, 

I'm usually really cold as soon as I get out of a bath or shower.

I was ridiculously happy to feel warmed up and relaxed, and it lasted

for about a good hour AFTER I'd gotten out!

The only downside is availability - I tried to Google this and it's hard to get online.

Also I don't think this is a highly popular product, so like most low-popularity

products at my local Asian market it will probably not be restocked

once all the packets sell out.  (Probably because of me, heh.)

BANDAI makes several different hot pepper bath packets though, so if

they run out of the Lum version I'll probably try another kind.

I would absolutely recommend this, particularly as a winter/cold weather bath!

I popped a snuggly sweater and socks on afterwards, and it was heaven.