Name: Karma Kream
Brand: Lush
SKU: 3886-NA
Price: 10.5 USD
Availability: InStock

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Soothing 

Moisturising 

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45g (mini)

A little Karma goes a long way. Massage into skin, inhale the feel-good fragrance.

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Water (Aqua)

Orange Flower Water

Almond Oil

Glycerine

Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter

Stearic Acid

Triethanolamine

Dark Sumatran Patchouli Oil

Brazilian Orange Oil

Lavandin Oil

Pine Oil

Lemongrass Oil

Elemi Oil

Tincture of Benzoin

Cetearyl Alcohol

*Benzyl Alcohol

*Benzyl Benzoate

*Benzyl Cinnamate

*Cinnamal

*Citral

*Coumarin

*Geraniol

*Farnesol

*Hydroxycitronellal

*Citronellol

*Limonene

*Linalool

Perfume

Methylparaben

Propylparaben

Almond

Citrus

Cocoa

Patchouli

Orange flower

Orange

Lemongrass

Pine/Fir

Benzoin

Orange Flower

Karma

Good Karma... Everybody Needs Some

Karma 4 Wick Candle

Grounding

Comforting

100% Recycled Pot

Vegan

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Grounding orange, patchouli, and pine for soft skin

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This gentle hand and body cream nourishes skin and perfumes it with our iconic bohemian scent. Loaded with almond oil, cocoa butter and glycerine, skin will be left feeling supple, soft and positively glowing. Blended with uplifting lemongrass, bright orange and grounding patchouli so your skin will smell glorious all day long. 

Smooth all over your body, taking extra care with your dry areas.

Earthy scent

Antibacterial

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The scent of patchouli is grounding and bewitching, and will transport you to dense Indonesian forests.

Patchouli is a fragrant bushy herb that belongs to the same family as mint. It can grow as high as three feet tall, with purple and white flowers growing from its long stems.

On Saturday, 4th July 1846, the <a href="http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000051/18460704/033/0001?_=1486388422470">London Daily News</a> advertised: “Viner’s patchouli is confidently recommended as the only remedy known to prevent moth. In foreign countries, the peculiar properties of this Indian perfume are highly appreciated.” This perfectly illustrates how patchouli arrived in England during the Victorian era: the plant's aromatic leaves were slipped into the folds of Indian textiles to avoid the ravages of insects during their journey to other lands. Impregnated with an unmistakable aroma, Indian shawls were sent to Great Britain, where they were all the rage. The ubiquitous scent soon became symbolic of luxury and the mark that distinguished a material of Indian origin.

The scent of patchouli made a comeback in the 1960s, also imported from Asia - but this time in backpacks! The Hippie Trail was a promising mystique adventure and, if lucky, a spiritual enlightenment. An overland round trip of roughly 12,000 miles, this trail took hippies through Istanbul to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal and India. Herbal handbook writer Stephen Orr writes that patchouli’s association with the era is “due to the Asian travels of backpacking hippies, who brought home the scented oil and incense as a reminder of their spiritual awakenings.”

The story also goes that patchouli oil was used to mask the scent of marijuana. In terms of pure usage, it’s plausible: cannabis was a booming business in the American counterculture of the 1960s. It was also suggested that marijuana and patchouli don’t smell all that different and hippies simply wanted their bodies to smell like their bedrooms. An argument can also be made that patchouli smells of fresh soil and roots, an ‘authentic’ scent that recalls hippies’ aspirations to connect with the natural world.

Patchouli is used in our products in several forms (essential oils, root…), and each of them can be purchased in different places worldwide. For example, our dark Sumatran patchouli oil comes from a remarkable producer, the <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/a/regenerative-patchouli-oil">Gayo Lues Permaculture Center</a> in Indonesia. Their practices are designed to support the health of Sumatra and Borneo islands’ ecosystems, protecting the primary rainforest and its inhabitants, like the noble orangutans.&nbsp;

To learn more about our other sources, 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!

Two of Lush’s most iconic fragrances contain patchouli. If you’re a fan of the earthy oil, have a look (and smell!) at our best-selling <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/karma">Karma</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/lord-of-misrule">Lord of Misrule</a> ranges.

Ingredient

Fragrancing

Uplifting

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Orange flower has an intensely floral aroma with fresh green notes and is one of the most popular essential oils used in perfumery.

Lush uses a few different types of orange flower (or orange blossom) in products, with varied purposes and perks to them. They’re all derived from the bitter orange tree (Citrus aurantium amara), which is an evergreen member of the Rutaceae plant family. The fruits flavour food and drinks, the flowers provide neroli oil and orange flower absolute, and even the leaves and twigs can be distilled to obtain petitgrain oil.

Orange blossom honey can also be found in Lush products. This is produced when bees collect nectar from the flowers of the bitter orange tree. The honey retains some of the beautiful floral-citrus flavour and fragrance. It is considered luxurious and exotic.

Where does Lush source orange flower from?

Lush purchases orange flower absolute from a producer based in the north of Tunisia. The business is run by three siblings, whose father started many years ago. They have been supplying Lush since 2005. To find out more about the other orange flower-derived ingredients and the 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!



Soothing

Moisturising

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A staple in cosmetics, the tear-shaped almond is beloved for its moisturising oil, soothing properties and comforting scent.

Almonds are the seeds of the almond tree, which belongs to the plum family (Prunus). Its fruits share considerable similarities with those of its relatives, such as apricot and peach. These crops flourish in sunny regions, such as the Mediterranean, California, the Middle East, and North Africa. Hiding deep within the soft flesh of the fruit is a hard pit that reveals a tender almond when broken open.

There are two types of almonds: sweet and bitter. Sweet almonds, which grow on the Prunus dulcis tree, are the ones we eat. Their scent is very faint, if there's any. They can be ground, pressed into oil, or blended with water to produce milk. This explains why almond oil is often called 'sweet' almond oil. On the other side, bitter almonds (Prunus amygdalus amara) are not suitable for consumption, but they can be distilled into a fragrant essential oil, renowned in perfumery.

What are the benefits of almonds in cosmetics?

In general, almond-derived products are soothing and conditioning to the skin and hair, as well as being emollient and packed with <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/tocopherol">vitamin E (an antioxidant)</a>.

But the benefits also depend on the type of ingredient, of course. For example:

We use a lot of almond-derived products, so don’t hesitate and browse your Lush product’s list of ingredients to click on the ones you want to know more about. And if you like a good selection, here’s one!

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/ground-almonds">Ground Almonds</a>

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/almond-oil">Almond Oil</a>

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/organic-almond-oil">Organic Almond Oil</a>

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/fair-trade-almond-oil">Fair Trade Almond Oil</a>

If almonds are your thing, you’ll be happy at Lush! We love them too. Why not take a look at our <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/body-care">bodycare</a> and <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/skincare">skincare</a> ranges to begin with?

Conditioning

Mouth-watering

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A key ingredient in chocolate making, cocoa is also a staple on Lush shelves for its amazing effect on the skin, body and mind.

The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) grows in warm, humid forests near the Equator. It yields large dark red or yellow pods containing up to 50 seeds each, coated in soft, edible flesh. The seeds, also called cocoa beans, are covered to ferment and then dried. During this process, they lose their acidic taste and develop their familiar chocolate scent.&nbsp;

To obtain cocoa butter, the prepared beans are cleaned, dried and roasted and then ground into a thick, oily paste called chocolate liquor. The liquor can be used as such for chocolate-making or subjected to high pressure to separate the cocoa powder from the butter. An additional step can be carried out to deodorise the butter. This often happens for its use in cosmetics as it could interfere with the other scents of a product. The powder, which contains almost all of the scent and flavour of cocoa, can be used pure or put through solvent extraction to obtain a fragrant absolute.

What are the benefits of cocoa-derived ingredients?

In 2017, a new type of chocolate was patented, called ruby cocoa. It has a dark pinkish colour, due to a special variety of cocoa trees that produce ruby-coloured beans.

The sources will vary depending on the ingredient, but we make sure that they never involve child labour. The Lush buying team always tries to make purchases that contribute to the well-being of people and the planet’s regeneration. To find out more about each of the cocoa 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!

Our signature patchouli and sweet orange scent in a creamy almond oil and cocoa butter base for seriously soft skin.

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Aqua

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Citrus aurantium amara

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Prunus dulcis

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Theobroma cacao

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Synthetic

Pogostemon cablin

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Citrus sinensis

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Lavandula Hybrida

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Pinus Sylvestris

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Cymbopogon flexuosus

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Canarium commune

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Styrax benzoin

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Reap the rewards of supremely strokable skin with our cocoa butter moisturiser and body lotion, scented with our signature patchouli oil, Karma fragrance.

Karma Kream

Body Lotion

Grounding orange, patchouli, and pine for soft skin

How to use

Ingredients

Patchouli

Orange Flower

Almond

Cocoa

Natural Ingredients

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*occurs naturally in essential oils.

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