Name: Sticky Dates
Brand: Lush
SKU: 64875-UK
Price: 18 GBP
Availability: InStock

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Vegan

Bronze

265g

Spritz over your skin and hair to stand out and sparkle!

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Aqua (Water)

Perfume

Maris Sal (Fine Sea Salt)

Ceratonia Siliqua Gum (Carob Resinoid)

Styrax Tonkinensis Resin Extract (Benzoin Resinoid Extract)

Santalum Album Oil (Sandalwood Oil)

Chondrus Crispus Extract (Carrageenan Extract)

Titanium Dioxide

Synthetic Fluorphlogopite

Calcium Sodium Borosilicate

Silica

Tin Oxide

*Benzyl Benzoate

*Cinnamal

*Farnesol

Colour 77491

Methylparaben

Benzoin

Sandalwood

Seaweed

Carob

Golden Egg

Super Milk

Swirly Sticky Dates 

Banoffee Pie

Sticky Dates

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Comforting

Playful

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Contains Glitter

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Universal Export (Unsuffixed): No

Sweet

glitter mist,

Send to FSMS: Yes

Gourmand glitters

Glitter Mist Spray

265g / 5

Glitter Mists

Vegan Body Care Products

Body Sprays

Easter

Vegan Makeup

Gourmand

Fragrances

Indulgence

Our famously syrupy-sweet scent, now with extra sparkle — all that’s missing is you! Make a scene and spritz these starlit sparkles whenever you’re in the mood to be dazzling. 

What's in it for you? Ideal for creating your own spotlight.

- Carrageenan: hydrates and soothes skin. - Benzoin resinoid: warming and sweet with notes of vanilla. - Sandalwood timor: warm, sweet and woody aroma.

Leaving the world Lusher than we found it The benzoin forests provide a valuable income to communities while safeguarding biodiversity.

The sensational sparkle that lights up this product is made from synthetic fluorphlogopite, a plastic-free alternative to polyester glitters.

Made with sandalwood from responsibly managed forests mainly in West Timor, where our reforestation efforts ensure more trees are planted than harvested.

How to store: Keep somewhere cool and give it a good shake before use.

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/a/bring-it-back-our-new-look-recycling-scheme">It pays to recycle with us!</a> Return the packaging for this product to any a Lush shop and receive money towards your next purchase. Alternatively, return 5 qualifying items packaging for a free fresh face mask.

Bring it back

Your order will be expertly protected against impact during transit by biodegradable <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/a/wed-rather-have-box-eco-pops">Eco-Pops</a>, compostable packaging nuggets made from potato starch! They're easily dissolvable in water or soil.

Handled with care

Fresh cosmetic ingredients are more effective on skin, hair, and mind than heavily preserved beauty products. 65% of our raw material spend is on natural ingredients.

Fresh is best

Sweet aroma

Mouth-watering

Fragrancing

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Sticky, warm, and mouth-watering, carob lends a deliciously sweet aroma to our products, making it a gourmand-lover's delight.&nbsp;

Whether it's used to give our <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/p/sticky-dates-lip-scrub">lip scrubs</a> a cake-like flavour or to add a nostalgically comforting aroma to our fragrances, shower gels, and beyond, carob should come with a disclaimer that you will smell so delicious you'll leave everyone craving a freshly-baked treat.&nbsp;

A hardy evergreen plant that thrives in harsh, arid conditions, carob trees are native to the Mediterranean, especially Morocco. The trees produce hanging seed pods that turn from bright green to dark brown as they ripen. Pods contain up to 15 seeds and are usually wild-harvested.

Once shelled, the bean-like seeds inside each ripened pod can be ground into a powder and made into a gum also known as locust bean gum - a natural and vegan-friendly thickener and stabiliser. A by-product of carob gum production, empty carob pods have long been considered waste, however the pods have other uses that improve circularity of the ingredient. Roasted and ground into a powder, they can be used as a substitute for cocoa powder, or transformed via solvent extraction into a resinoid. Resinoids are popular perfumery ingredients, thanks to their sweet, spicy fragrance - one of reasons we love using carob in our products!&nbsp;

Across the ancient Mediterranean, carob seeds were used as a countermeasure when weighing precious stones and gold. In the Bible, it was thought to sustain St John the Baptist during his hermitic time in the desert, giving the tree its pseudonym St John's Bread - a name echoed across several European languages. In Islam, carob juice retains cultural significance as a traditional drink served during Ramadan. A fitting nod to the origins of our bestselling carob queen&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/sticky-dates">Sticky Dates</a>, which began as part of our seasonal Eid range.&nbsp;

Head over to our page on <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/carob-resinoid">carob resinoid</a> to learn more about where we source this sweet treat.

Ingredient

Soothing

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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.

Astringent

Grounding

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Sandalwood is a distinctly reassuring and grounding scent; it creates the base of many marvellous perfumes.

Sandalwood is an umbrella name for many scented trees, all belonging to the Santalum genus. These evergreen trees can grow up to 50 feet tall and have to be at least 25 years old before the wood is ready for distillation.

There are about 10 different types of sandalwood acress various parts of the world. Its aroma can change slightly depending on the origin.

Because of its popular fragrance and importance in many rites and folk medicine around the globe, sandalwood has been overexploited and the harvesting badly managed for centuries, leaving some species endangered. Although regulations have been made by governments, the high value of the wood still leads to smuggling, counterfeits and corruption, making it very difficult to find sustainable sources and a good oil quality. After long investigations and adventures, Lush buyers have found a few reliable sources. To find out more about our 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!

Shine-enhancing

Softening

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Under the sea, forests of slimy algae grow, and they’re full of benefits for the skin and hair.

What are the benefits of seaweeds in cosmetics?

On this last point, it should be noted that certain seaweeds have gelling properties, especially <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/agar-agar">agar-agar</a> and <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/irish-moss">Irish moss</a> (from which <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/carrageenan-extract">a powder called carrageenan</a> is extracted). When combined with the right ingredients, they can help create a wide range of textures and shapes for our products such as <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/shower-jellies">our shower jellies</a>.

Lush was founded in Poole, a coastal town in southern England where it is still strongly rooted in today. Outside the headquarters, massive seagulls soar and cry, and salty waves crash onto the quay. No wonder the seaside has been such an inspiration for our products! It's also why we're not afraid to use strong-scented <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/seaweed-absolute">seaweed absolute</a> in some of our fragrances.

Saying that we source them from the sea would probably sound a bit vague! At Lush, we purchase a lot of different algae from around the world - fresh, dried, powdered, and even distilled. To learn more about each of these, you can go through your product’s ingredient list and click on the one you’re interested in. You can also click on this list of curious names below for a sneak peek:

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/toothed-wrack-seaweed">Toothed wrack</a>

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/dried-bladderwrack">Bladderwrack</a>

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/dried-sugar-kelp">Sugar kelp</a>

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/wakame-seaweed-powder">Wakame</a>

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/kombu-seaweed">Kombu</a>

Our famously syrupy-sweet Sticky Dates scent now as a hydrating glitter body mist!

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