Name: Snow Bear
Brand: Lush
SKU: 313-UN

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Vegan Society

Christmas

Secret Santa Gifts

Stocking Filler

Christmas Eve Boxes

Deze schattige knuffelbeer ruikt naar zoete marsepein en heeft een romige basis van cacaoboter en castor- en kokosolie. Voor heerlijk zachte pootjes. 

Wat zijn de voordelen voor jou? - Sojayoghurt is verzachtend en romig. - Havermelk kalmeert en hydrateert. - Vanille-extract heeft een zoet aroma.&nbsp;

Gebruiksaanwijzing: Deze zachte berenvriend is geschikt voor handen en lichaam.

Hoe te bewaren: Bewaar op een koele, droge plek, zoals een van onze zeepbakjes.

Your order will be expertly protected against impact during transit by biodegradable Eco Pops, compostable packaging nuggets made from potato starch! They're easily dissolvable in water or soil.  

Handled with care

All of our products are made by hand, fresh, every day, across 6 manufacturing sites all over the world. We believe in happy people making happy soap, putting our faces on our products and making our mums proud.

Handmade

It's better naked. 66% of products sold each year are packaging-free.

Packaging-Free

Soothing

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Natural

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Milky, soft, soothing… Even when they’re exfoliating the skin, oats are incredibly gentle.

Oats are among the many members of the grass family, which together provide a staple diet for most of the world’s population. Wild oat seeds dating back to 2000BC have been found in Egypt. The oat grain in its natural state takes a long time to cook, so they are usually rolled and flattened into flakes, as this makes them easier to prepare.

A moisturising and replenishing oil can be extracted from oat kernels. It contains ceramide, a lipid that can be naturally found in the epidermis, creating a barrier on the skin alongside sebum to protect it and maintain moisture. Applying an oil with ceramide, like oat oil, helps restore and strengthen the skin's natural defence.

At Lush we purchase different types of oat and oat-derived products depending on the effects we want to obtain. To find out more about each of them and their suppliers, browse your Lush product’s list of ingredients and click on the ones you are interested in. This should take you to a page full of details!

Ingredient

Fragrancing

Comforting

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Vanilla is the unmistakable, uplifting and sweet scent we all know and love.

Vanilla beans (pods) are the fruits of the orchid Vanilla planifolia. Centuries ago, one could only purchase vanilla from Mexico, as the flowers required a local bee to pollinate and grow the precious pod. Thanks to the discovery of a hand pollination technique in 1841, orchids can now be cultivated in most tropical areas close to the equator. This step requires crucial know-how and must be carried out a few hours after the flower opens; otherwise, it wilts.

Each blossom produces a single bean that is normally harvested after eight or nine months and then passes through a complex curing process before resembling the black-brown fragrant spice we all know. This process usually involves four steps: soaking in hot water, sweating in a warm environment, drying for a few weeks, and conditioning (packing in boxes) to develop flavours.

Since Madagascar, the world's first vanilla producer, stopped regulating vanilla prices in the 1990s, its trade has seen ups and downs. The latest struggles began in 2012 when very low harvests made demand higher than supply. Since vanilla is a rather rare natural delicacy that cannot be rushed, the situation quickly snowballed into crazy price increases (over 100%), poor quality and crime.

In 2016, the situation in Uganda (where we buy our pods) became critical and <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/a/not-such-sweet-deal">was reported to us in an article</a>&nbsp;by Lulu, owner of the Ndali farm. Resellers and agents working on commission began buying vanilla that was not even cured properly yet. Vanilla pods must reach maturity and undergo the full curing process to obtain all the notes of their wonderful taste and smell and to avoid mould. During price crises, crops are sold far too early and pods can even be stolen from the fields before they're ripe. Farmers try to expand their crops to meet demand, and governments implement drastic measures. Eventually, when things finally calm down, farmers find themselves with too much production and prices drop tragically, as has been the case since 2019.

We love natural vanilla so much that we couldn't stop using it despite the market’s turmoil. Thanks to our dedicated team of creative buyers, we found solutions year after year and month after month. Find more information on each source in the description of the main vanilla ingredients we use:

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/vanilla-absolute">Vanilla Absolute</a>, a powerful extract found in perfumery and skin-soothing cosmetics.

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/vanilla-pod-infusion">Vanilla Pod Infusion</a>, made in-house from beans soaked in hot water.

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/vanilla-pod-extract">Vanilla Pod Extract</a>, for which humectant propylene glycol serves as a carrier.

Want to dive straight into our range of vanilla-scented products? <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/vanilla-scented">They're ready for you</a>.

Vanilla

Sweet aroma

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The tall camaru tree (Dipteryx odorata) belongs to the legume family (Fabaceae) and grows in Costa Rica, Brazil and Peru. It bears fruits that contain a single seed, oblong and smooth, called the tonka bean. The bean is used as a spice, grated into culinary preparations such as desserts to give them a sweet, complex taste. It can also be subjected to a solvent extraction process to obtain an absolute: a thick, concentrated extract of the bean’s scent.

Some say that tonka smells of vanilla, but the bean has its own perfume. It is sweet but also fruity, reminiscent of cherries and bitter almonds, and has notes of hay. This complex scent is mainly due to coumarin, an aromatic compound that naturally occurs in tonka in such quantities that it creates a white crystallised coating around the bean when it dries.

The tonka beans we purchase are wild harvested by indigenous and local communities in the Amazon forest, helping provide livelihoods for those who are protecting one of the richest ecosystems in the world. Through these partnerships, we ensure quality products, empowerment and economic support.

Among these communities are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXcV7lxTam4">the Kayapo people of Brazil</a>, who carefully collect fallen tonka fruits and manually crack each one open with hammers to extract the valuable beans. The beans are then sun-dried and gathered in large sacks before being transported to France, where they are refined into an absolute for use in our products.

Tonka absolute reveals its sweetness in some of <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/gourmand-fragrance">our most tempting Gourmand fragrances</a> while complementing the lullaby sung by lavender and vanilla in <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/sleepy-collection">our relaxing Sleepy range</a>.

Tonka

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Benzoin has been used in incense and perfumes for centuries. Its sweet, spicy and slightly earthy aroma brings comfort and calm to the mind.

Benzoin is a natural resin that can be collected from two types of styrax trees: Styrax benzoin, native to Sumatra, and Styrax tonkinensis, which grows in Southeast Asia.&nbsp;

Resin is a natural bandage for trees. It drips from wounded trunks and hardens in the open air, protecting the wounds from possible disease, fungus, and insect attack. Resin is full of potent aromatic compounds, which probably inspired humans to try and make something out of it centuries ago. Some trees produce a lot of it, making it easy to harvest. Once hard, the resin can be burned pure, ground into powder, or refined with solvents to produce a fragrant extract called resinoid.

What does benzoin smell like, and what are its benefits for the skin?

Lush purchases a tincture of benzoin from a UK-based company and a resinoid from a supplier in Laos. The latter works with 80 farmers who collect resin from Styrax tonkinensis trees, using traditional methods and focusing on quality. The trees are grown and harvested sustainably, and the forest is managed according to agroforestry principles. Farmers receive fair payments and labour security and safety.&nbsp;

Find out more about each of our benzoin ingredients on their dedicated pages:

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/benzoin-resinoid">Benzoin Resinoid</a>

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/tincture-benzoin">Tincture of Benzoin</a>

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/benzoin-gum-powder">Benzoin Gum Powder</a>

Or browse through two collections of iconic Lush scents: <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/sleepy-collection">The sleepy range</a>, which combines sweet benzoin and tonka with calming lavender, and our <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/gourmand-fragrance">gourmand selection</a> of irresistible fragrances.

Benzoin

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Soothing 

Softening 

CITES: No

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Lather up this super gentle bear to clean and care for your skin before rinsing away. Sit your Snow Bear by the side of the sink, ready to use any time.

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Creamy, soothing, softening, sweet

Oat Milk

Rapeseed Oil; Coconut Oil

Glycerine

Propylene Glycol

Water (Aqua)

Soya Yoghurt

Titanium Dioxide

Rice Bran Oil

Perfume

Tonka Absolute

Benzoin Resinoid

Mimosa Absolute

Vanilla Absolute

Sodium Chloride

Citric Acid

Sodium Hydroxide

Sodium Bicarbonate

EDTA

Tetrasodium Etidronate

*Benzyl Benzoate

*Benzyl Cinnamate

*Cinnamal

Coumarin

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Polar Bear Dreaming

Bubble Bear 

Sleepy Bear

Yog Nog

Turmeric Latte

Shoot For The Stars

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Vegan

Naked

Sweet

Send to FSMS: Yes

Nourishing, soothing, and really cute!

Tax Free Exempt (Tills): No

Soap

Weighted: No

Avena sativa

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Brassica napus; Cocos nucifera

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Synthetic

Aqua

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Glycine soja

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Oryza Sativa

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Dipteryx odorata

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Earthy scent

Spicy

Styrax tonkinensis Pierre

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Acacia decurrens

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Vanilla planifolia

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This gentle limited edition Christmas soap is made with soothing oat milk and the moisturising duo of coconut oil and soya yoghurt to calm dry and sensitive skin.

Snow Bear

Zeep

Voedend, kalmerend en lief

Ingrediënten

Haver

Vanille

Tonka

Benzoë

Natuurlijke Ingrediënten

Veilige Synthetische Stoffen

*Komt van nature voor in etherische oliën.

Ontdek

Fighting animal testing

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