21250400US2125 Lava the Original Silver Base Lamp with Yellow Wax in Purple Liquid, 14.5", Yellow/Purple

My daughter decided that she wanted a lava lamp for her 9th birthday - she saw that one of her classmates has one while they were having a "Zoom" school-day class (Coronavirus social distancing times!) and thought it was super cool. I picked this one based on the reviews and the price, and she loves pink and purple so the colors were perfect. It was packaged well, arrived intact, and works great! Yes, it does take a WHILE to get that lava going, but that's what happens with any lava lamp - the lava is wax and has to heat up to a "liquid" state, and it's just a small incandescent bulb in the base of the lamp that provides that heat, so of course it doesn't start up right away. But once it gets going... wow. When I was a super cool teen in the early 90s, groovy 60s and 70s stuff came back into pop-culture popularity, and I sooooo wanted a lava lamp but never got one (no one-click online shopping back in 1993! :) ) so now I sit with my kiddo and watch hers and oooh and aaahhhh over how cool it is. Maybe I'll just have to order one for myself!!! So: great price, great product, LOTS of fun!!

You know, I've gotten 4 lava lamps from here over the past 11 months. 1st one, this particular one, is and will be awesome! Works perfectly, looks perfect, you get it, the thing is perfect! 2nd, and 4th lamps are pure shit, threw one in the garbage that's how pure the turd is. Turd Uber alles one could say, I am that one. First was just a cloudy mess no matter what I did short of opening it. The 4th ordered another cloudy POS, less cloudy, and I could see the improvements to the lamp frame, etc, yet the internals still fell short. Lastly is the 3rd one I bought, was slightly cloudy with one solid chunk of wax, but still pretty when she cleared up. What am I trying to say in this review? Just that it's a crapshoot buying one online apparently, mine were packed right, unopened, yet still sucked.

I see people have problems with bulbs. I engineered mine a little and I love it! I've noticed if you see a display with multiple lights going, they are all different. Some rise slowly, others are perky, bubbling away. This lamp is a little science experiment: heated liquid rises, cools and sinks back down. The problem is, its all thermal. If the bulbs are not consistent, they give off differing amounts of heat. The temperature of room air affects it too: in warm air it bubbles more, less with cold air. For starters, the bulb is a simple appliance bulb, sold in hardware stores. If the lamp is too slow, replace it. No need to order them. Second, I put a table top dimmer on mine (yea, another $12). The lamp plugs into the dimmer cord, then into the wall. The dimmer slider sits on the table next to the lamp. If it gets too perky, I dim it and slow it down. I keep it on my desk at work, and dim it so it is VERY lazy. I find it calming. Third, maybe I shouldn't recommend, It might cause a fire or something. However, I put the next higher wattage bulb in mine (yea, another $3), so it warms up in like 20min. Then I turn it down. Who knows what will happen if I forget... I wanted to share this because I love mine. Its totally adjustable. It might even be fun to keep it perky or quiet on your desk to match your mood. If someone comes in and that thing's bubbling away, just quietly tip toe out! Coming from CO, it reminds me of tending a wood stove: keep adjusting it so the flame is lazy and mesmerizing. No chimney required!

When this lamp first arrived, it was almost unusable. The liquid was so cloudy that the wax inside was practically invisible, and repeated heating cycles (the manufacturer’s suggested fix) did very little to help. It was clear to me that the problem stemmed from poor storage and handling, likely exposure to too much heat before shipping, which can ruin these types of lamps. Out of the box, I would have returned it had I not been comfortable making repairs myself. Filtering the liquid cleared things immediately, transforming the lamp from a cloudy mess into a handsome piece. The wax color is not as pictured, but it has a dynamic beauty of its own: a pinkish-purple glow near the base, shifting to a deeper purple on top, with blue-violet reflections along the undersides of the moving wax. Meanwhile, the fluid appears more teal when illuminated than the stock photos suggest. The result is striking, just different than advertised. Performance is mixed. The lamp tends to run hot, which causes the wax to fragment into smaller bubbles that hover near the top instead of flowing gracefully. Using a dimmer to manage heat output helps, but in my opinion this is a workaround for an issue that should not exist. My four-star rating reflects the lamp as it currently sits on my desk: attractive, functional, and enjoyable once repaired. If I were judging it solely on how it arrived, or assuming I lacked the know-how to fix it, my rating would be much lower. Buyers without the willingness or ability to troubleshoot should keep this in mind.

I remember buying a lava lamp, actually receiving it as a gift in high school back in the very early 2000s. It was beautiful, I ran it nonstop and I only threw it away because the base got bent. I feel like an idiot for doing it and wish I hadn’t. Apparently the company has been resold once or twice since then and every time they get resold they become more and more crappy. The current company is actually a toy company that has no idea about chemicals and how to make proper lava lamps. It certainly shows in the quality of their product. I tried purchasing more about 5 years ago and they faded very fast. Almost as though you left them sitting in the sun, pink and purple turned to brown within a month, it was so weird, and in rooms that were north facing that get very little light I don’t understand how that could have happened. I decided to try again and ordered them again here on Amazon. This is my experience with these current ones made by Schylling: I purchased a couple other colors, they aren’t perfect but they’re okay. I had issues with cloudiness, but it was very little and the more I used them the less the cloudiness was visible so I’m glad for that. For some reason this one, (I purchased the blue liquid with purple wax.) was a chore to get one that I could actually use. I purchased 2 at first, one for my daughter and one for me. Hers was perfect, mine looked slightly empty. It was about an inch lower than hers was. It was also cloudy but I decided I’d try it out anyhow and see if I could get the cloudiness to subside because it worked with the other colors. I set it up and let it run for about 4 or 5 hours. It looked like it was losing liquid even though it wasn’t clearly leaking anywhere. Well I took the bottle out of the base and the light bulb exploded. The whole base was full of the blue liquid. We couldn’t see any leak at all on the bottle, it didn’t even feel wet. I had to wait until the next day when it was bright and sunny out to take it outside and see a hairline crack in the bottle. I was kind of surprised by this since the shipping box, it’s own box, and all packaging was in perfect condition. It must have been a defect during manufacturing since it was right along it’s own seam. What is odd is that it didn’t leak during shipment but perhaps the heating of it was what really made the difference. Could have been very dangerous. I was hassled by Amazon about the return and they requested several photos and I had to speak with like 3 people to get the refund. Kind of ridiculous. (I am including some of the pictures of this one.) After that fiasco, knowing that manufacturing defects happen and it doesn’t always deem the product to be complete crap, I ordered another one. This one was so cloudy you couldn’t barely see the wax at all while it was running. (I am including pictures of this.) I tried the “cycling” they suggest on the website, I joined groups and forums, tried everything, no good. Returned that and bought another one, same thing. At this point I’m aggravated and couldn’t understand why the one my daughter has is perfect. You can see white film on the wax on the bad ones, the good ones still have it but they have less. If you get one and your liquid is cloudy, it’s pretty likely it’s going to stay that way unless it’s only a little bit. If you have one that is VERY cloudy you are pretty much guaranteed to have to send it back, it will never be fixed. I decided to give it one last try because I wanted this color so badly. Thankfully I finally received a good one. Doesn’t appear cloudy at all and when runny it doesn’t have any issues. What a nightmare though. Pretty bad that I had to order so many just to get 2 good ones. I haven’t done enough research yet but basically if you want a GOOD lava lamp buy a vintage one, anything made in the early 2000s or older. Don’t quote me on this year but I think I read in the groups that 2003 was when they were sold to some factory in China and quality took a dive. They’ve since been sold again like I said earlier. There is also a company called Mathmos but they are also going downhill and only in the UK or something so you have to buy them online and spend quite a bit just to get one. Also I’d like to reiterate do not settle for a crappy one. If it’s cloudy or defective SEND IT BACK. It’s free to return it if it’s defective. Don’t allow this company to keep making crap products. Maybe if they realize they’re getting so many returns they need to fix their low quality product or sell to a company that will so people can still buy and enjoy lava lamps.

I'm glad I took a chance on this - there were a lot of negative reviews. I opted to give it a shot and see how it was - I was so happy to find a lava lamp in my son's favorite colors for Valentine's Day. Product came well packaged and despite sitting out on my front step all day in below freezing temps it didn't break or leak. When I took it in I let it fully warm to room temp before I attempted to plug it in and start warming it up. It does take several hours to get it going initially and then just an hour or so to get it really moving after that. The product does put off heat so you will need to monitor where you put it, not leave it in reach of small children, and make sure you aren't running it past the suggested time frame. Very happy with the purchase and product. Only one complaint - the manufacturing of the glass could be better, you have a small but slightly visible seam on the glass and then a couple areas where there are small clusters of bubbles or flaws within the glass itself. Not high quality but what do you expect for the price right?

If you're looking for a Lava lamp, but are afraid of wasting money on it due to the reviews, PLEASE keep reading! -This product is definitely worth a purchase!‐ I was extremely hesitant to buy online because of all the reviews stating that the lamp was defective in some way (broken bulb/glass, coil not working etc) but what made me want to try was another review expressing how to troubleshoot with the lamp in the case of it not doing what was expected out of it immediately. I really appreciate that reviewer and I hope this review will be worth the read for others who are on the fence but really want one. I received the package in fine condition, read the start up instructions (please read them!), and set up my lamp with no issues! Since it's cold where I live, I had to let the bottle warm to my bedrooms ambient temperature before turning on the lamp The lava process needs patience in order for it to work. The rest of the checklist was fine (coil was nestled in the right spot, bottle was not cloudy, bulb was packaged well and was intact.) After I turned on the lamp, it took about 5 hours for the wax to start "towering", and after a day, it was working perfectly. Now this is where ambient temperatures come into play for me. I have a bedroom that is either too warm or too cold. The instructions state that the lamp works best in a certain temperature range, that way the bottle can stay warm enough throughout the day to keep the wax melted as it flows to the top. I had turned my lamp off for 2 days when my area had a cold front move in, so my room got colder. The lava never settled to the bottom fully, so it was left in a "stalagmite" or lumpy shape for those 2 days because it didn't cool slow enough. I ran it for 3 days after, on and off like the instructions say to do, but it never melted the wax fully. I researched what I could do to fix it but since my coil was where it should be, I wasn't finding help online. (Last pic is an example of this problem.) I decided to take a risk and heat some water to a simmer (almost boiling), and poured the water into a seperate large container so I could gently melt the wax and warm the bottle without breaking the glass. It worked well enough, and it seems that the lava is working perfectly now! TL:DR - take the plunge and buy this lamp. If the product is not working as intended, customer service is here to troubleshoot or even replace your lamp (I didn't need to contact though) and if you follow the instructions as best you can, this lamp works just fine! Make sure to keep your room at a good temp and you shouldn't have the same issue as me. If you do, just heat the bottle back up in some hot water (like giving it a "bath" 😅) and it should solve the issue! Thanks for reading!

This takes me back to disco and those carefree days! Works great, just like in the old days. For those having trouble remembering Lava technology (memory is the second thing to go) I offer the following. A Lava Lite works by heating the goo (the lava) and thus changing its density to less than the fluid. It then rises to the top and cools where it cools and falls down to begin the cycle again. If the goo is not at the bottom of the light, at its hottest part, it will not get hot enough and will not rise - bummer. In shipping, the light is frequently placed on its side and the goo settles against the side of the light, not the bottom. When first turned on, this is where the goo stays; does not 'melt' and go to the bottom; does not get hot enough to rise; and the light does not work. Solution is simple. Let the light warm up for a few hours and then shake the light till the goo is at the bottom and at its hottest part. Shortly the goo will heat, rise, and you can put on your favorite disco record. NOTE: wear gloves to handle the hot light - the light will not work after its been dropped and broken.

Tenía mis dudas por las calificaciones del producto, en mi caso no tuve problemas, ha funcionado normalmente por el tiempo que la he usado, sin escurrimientos, olor a quemado, bombillas fundidas ni partes rotas. Todo bien, lo único que puedo objetar es que casi no se aprecia la diferencia de color entre la lava rosa y el líquido púrpura cuando están encendidas, pero es una buena compra precio-calidad.

It's good but the liquid is very cloudy. So it's not clear.

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I was so excited for this product…but I put the lightbulb in, plugged it in…and it won’t turn on at all. :( Can’t find a way to contact the seller to try to get a replacement. Would rather exchange than flat out return!!

Love! Needed to make my work from home desk a little warmer and girlier. Reminds me of the one I had as a kid. Warmed up on the first time very fast and the pink colours are vibrant.