The Power of Fridge-Fresh Skincare

Just like you pay attention to the labels on your food, it's time to do the same for the ingredients in your skincare. 

This Mother's Day, we’re inviting you to take ultra-processed skincare off mom's plate and treat their skin to the quality it deserves with our ultra fresh skincare. Embrace the vitality of fridge-fresh natural ingredients served at their peak, with minimal processing and maximum care.

What inspires Lush skincare inventors?

Nourishing ingredients and multi-generational expertise has always been at the heart of our skincare. So it’s no surprise that Lush can trace inspiration for many of its marvellous recipes to the Constantine family kitchen, which has always sparked creativity for Lush Co-Founder and Product Inventor, Mo Constantine. 

A lover of home cooking, it’s not uncommon for Mo to look at the food on her plate — full of healthy, fresh ingredients — and ponder what it might feel like on the skin. Come for dinner at the Constantines and it’s quite possible you’ll be feeding your face with a deeply nourishing face mask rather than the famous homemade bread you were expecting.  

Claire Constantine, Mo’s daughter and one of the masterminds behind our newest ultra fresh skincare, has inherited her mom’s passion for the power of minimally processed ingredients fresh from nature. If it’s good enough to eat, it’s good enough to go on your skin! 

She feels that products with short shelf lives, full of fresh ethically-sourced ingredients ensure that we’re delivering real value every step of the way. And she’s passionate about offering an effective alternative to the skincare widely available on both drug store and department store shelves.

What makes our skincare different from most skincare?

We believe that the fresher the ingredient, the better it nourishes your skin and hair. That’s why so much of our skincare is packed with super-fresh ingredients. This dedication to minimally processed, whole ingredients ensures your skin receives carefully crafted product offerings made by hand in Lush’s own kitchen-like factories and delivered to stores, sometimes the very day after they are made, so you can enjoy them at their peak. 

As a mom herself, Claire is interested in the wider shift toward replacing packaged foods with whole foods full of vitamins and minerals. Holistically, she argues, it makes perfect sense to treat our skin, the body’s biggest organ, with the same care and respect we pay our digestive system. 

"For the past 30 years and beyond, Lush has been perfecting this offering: cutting out [traditional] cosmetics and replacing them with simple, effective formulas made with plenty of whole ingredients, as you would expect a fresh meal to be made," explains Claire. "It's a wonderful way to reconnect to nature, as well as treating your skin with the respect it deserves.”

Lush skincare has long been inspired by the power of plants. Our herbal heritage means we have over three decades of experience working with whole fruits and vegetables. We weave these beautiful ingredients into handmade, self-preserving formulas that are vibrant, effective and made with a long-term interest in the skin's microbiome.

We don’t stop with family recipes either. There is a wealth of wisdom ripe for the picking in the history books. Our predecessors might not have known the science behind why certain ingredients had the effects they did, but mastery of their craft taught them how to use fresh produce for its naturally beautifying and healing properties. 

Some of these carefully refined recipes have stood the test of time, providing a foundation for our own creations. Take our super gentle fresh cleanser, Angels On Bare Skin. This is one of Mo’s original inventions that uses calming, minimally processed ingredients to care for delicate skin, inspired by an entry in a 1600s book of household recipes and remedies.

The fresh, handmade nature of our full skincare menu makes it the perfect place to start if you are looking for an alternative to your usual routine.

How our fresh recipes are inspired by our moms and mother figures

As well as drawing inspiration from the recipes passed down from Mo to Claire, another Product Inventor, Michelle, sees the skincare she creates as a tribute to some of the adopted mother figures in her life. 

Movis Fresh Face Mask, for example, is a nod to Mo’s top-secret bread recipe and works wonders on dry or mature skin. 

Dancing Queen Fresh Foot Mask, meanwhile, pays homage to Co-Founder Rowena Bird’s eternal love of being both the first and last person on the dance floor, and is packed with fresh tomato and fresh mint: powerhouses for invigorating tired tootsies.  

Family Face Time Fresh Face Mask, with cooling fresh cucumber and mellow chamomile, is inspired by Michelle’s recollections of enticing even the most reluctant family members (we’re looking at you, Dad!) to enjoy quality time together over a pamper session so soothing that even the kids can get involved.

So, whether you’re celebrating your own mom or a chosen mother figure, this Mother's Day, choose a gift that honours the generations of care and wisdom passed down in family kitchens. 

We invite you to take a seat at our skincare table and enjoy a cream-of-the-crop, fridge-fresh product range designed to give “fresh-faced” a whole new meaning.

Written by Lou Harrison, Ingredient Writer and Coordinator