14.5-Inch Silver Base Lava Lamp with Purple Wax in Blue Liquid - 2118

Purchased as a gift for my granddaughter and she loves it.

While it is possible for you to get bad one, that can happen with any product. Mine came to me 100% awesome. Seriously though read the instructions it takes at least three hours for these to get going, it's not going to instantly melt. It uses a low wattage bulb to heat up the coil and melt. If you get it and the wax is coned on the top, and you see a metal spiral ring in it, you need to flip this until it's at the bottom. This is what the bulb heats up. Eventually it melts the wax but it will take probably about three hours. It is worth it. I got the purple and blue one for about seven dollars this is an amazing deal since back in the day they were $50. Stop leaving reviews when you have no clue how to use things. Stop reviewing because you didn't bother looking it up or reading the instructions. This one works great!!!!

Got one of these each for my son and daughter for Christmas (different colors). It is a very cute lamp. They love them. My son is 15, my daughter is 9 and my son's half sister who also got one from her dad is 12 and all 3 of them loved them so you could say it would be a good gift for a variety of ages.

I want to start by saying that I *thought* the lava (wax) of the one I ordered was going to be a dark shade of royal purple because it very definitely looks that way in the pics on Amazon, and on the actual box itself, but it's actually more of a fuchsia color... Quite a difference in color, if you ask me.If I'm being honest, the reason I actually bought it was that I love dark purple. Yes, obviously, I like lava lamps, but I had no immediate want of one. However, dark royal purple lava set against electric blue water just looked really cool, modern, and happened to only be about $13. So, I decided I needed it.Fuchsia though? Meh. If I knew it was gonna be fuchsia, I wouldn't have bought it.That being said, it IS a good product; easy to set up and works perfectly. The base and topper aren't the *highest* quality (which is why it gets 4 stars instead of 5, along with—obviously—the color confusion due to their use of poorly representative photos...) but they aren't actually demonstrably "cheap" either. The metal is a bit thin, but I don't feel like it's going to bend under the weight of the bottle or anything, it doesn't overheat, and the company put a thin layer of felt on the bottom of the base so it won't scratch surfaces.You HAVE to let it heat up for at *least* 3 hours for it to work properly, just FYI. The longer it's on, the better it works/looks. People complaining that theirs "didn't work" simply didn't wait long enough in the vast majority of cases, which is weird because the lava bottle comes with a red notice about the necessity of doing so wrapped around its neck...You're waiting for a tiny light bulb to heat a huge blob of wax set in water to a particular consistency; it's gonna be a little while.

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.

This is such a fun addition to my bedroom. I ordered it during the winter months when it was cold so it took a bit longer than I expected to get the lava flowing. But after leaving it on for about 8 hours, the lava started to do its thing. The colors (blue and fuchsia) are vibrant. I haven’t had any issues with cloudiness and now that the weather is warmer, the lava gets flowing pretty quickly after I turn it on. I wish I could leave it on all the time.