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Flavour Bombs

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Food & drink · Blew up: Feb 2026 (week of the Dragons' Den broadcast (article 18 Feb 2026))
What going viral did to them
Sold out

Whole range on pre-order within days despite preparing for the 'Dragons' Den effect'.

Latest published report: 18 Feb 2026

Next check-in
2 Nov 2026catch-up check-in (12-week mark passed before launch)

⚡ The trigger

Appearance on BBC One's Dragons' Den (Peter Jones invested £50,000) on top of an existing TikTok following.

🪝 The hook

'A bath bomb for your saucepan': a one-line concept that explains itself in a two-second clip.

📈 The numbers

  • Sales up 3,600% in the week after broadcast
  • 87,000 website visitors (vs 1,500 the week before)
  • 5,649 new customers
  • Entire range sold out; all flavours moved to pre-order

Figures come from the sources below and are often the owner's own claims. We don't estimate.

🗓 Check-in schedule

Every entry is checked 2, 6 and 12 weeks after it blew up (from 15 Feb 2026, the mid-month estimate of blow-up date).

  • 2 weeks · 1 Mar 2026 · passed before launch, no It Blew Up check-in
  • 6 weeks · 29 Mar 2026 · passed before launch, no It Blew Up check-in
  • 12 weeks · 10 May 2026 · passed before launch, no It Blew Up check-in

🔁 Check-in history

From published reports (pre-launch backfill). It Blew Up hasn't run its own check-in on this business yet.

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