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Spring is in the air and with that in mind, we thought
it'd be a good idea to remind us all of the fresh LUSH
concept and ethic standards.
There are 233 products on our site, all are vegetarian,
171(73%) are vegan & 154 (66%) are preservative free. We
test for safety on humans. We will not purchase any
ingredients from organizations that test on animals.
This means we can’t currently supply sun protection
products or hair gels until certain ingredient
manufacturers change their animal testing policy.
HANDMADE
All our products are made by us by hand. We don’t make
anything for anyone else because we’re too busy so if
anyone else tells you their stuff is ‘just the same as
Lush’ we beg to disagree.
Bath Ballistics and Bars and individually hand molded.
Soaps are poured into molds and hand cut. The juice is
freshly juiced and ‘dairy’ products (bottles and jars)
are
hand filled and labeled with the maker’s name. The
chocolate is the finest Belgian and has to be hidden
until the last minute so that it gets into the massage
bars!
Our solid Lush products can be very beautiful to look at
and we would understand if you want to put them
somewhere so you can admire them. However, they are
really best kept in the bathroom. Some of the melty ones
(like Luxury Bath Melts, Massage Bars and Body
Conditioners) are designed to melt at body temperature;
if you put them on the radiator or in direct sunlight
they’re going to turn into liquid. Please keep them
somewhere cool.
Lush solid products contain perfumes, mostly essential
oils from plants. These natural perfumes are strong and
have active ingredients (which is why we use them) but
we carefully add them to our products so that they have
an effect on the hair and skin. It’s not a good idea to
store our products naked on anything that may be
damaged.
FRESH, NATURAL & ORGANIC
When we say ‘fresh’ we mean that we squeezed the fruit
or veg in our workshops and poured it straight into the
mixture. When we say ‘organic’ we use the agricultural
term meaning grown without the use of synthetic
fertilisers or pesticides. Natural means taken from
nature. Some ingredients which we label as synthetic are
derived from plants but go through such a lot of
processing that they become unrecognisable; for example,
sodium palm kernelate (in vegetable soap) is derived
from palm trees but we think it is more realistic to
describe it as a synthetic than to claim it is natural.
PERFUME
Legally, we can lump together all the essential oils,
plants absolutes and synthetic perfumes we use and call
it ‘perfume’ in our ingredients lists. Usually we choose
to state most of them separately because we don’t just
use them for scent, we also use them for their effect on
the mind & body and we like to tell you exactly what we
use. However, we don’t want to give everything away!
(You’ve got to keep a few secrets, haven’t you?) So when
you read ‘perfume’ in our ingredients lists this
describes a mixture of several different fragrances
which will remain a mystery. (It also makes our products
a bit more difficult to copy) If ‘perfume’ is printed in
'red' it means that it is a mixture of purely natural
fragrances; if it is printed in black then it also has a
synthetic one in there. So now you know.
NUTS
We use ground nuts and nut oils in some of our products
and as our factories are very small it is possible that
nut traces could get into anything which we make. |
