Name: Sympathy for the Skin
Brand: Lush
SKU: 1314-NA
Price: 10.5 USD
Availability: InStock

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Moisturising 

Soothing 

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Vegan Society

White

Aqua (Water)

Vanilla Pod Infusion

Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis Oil (Almond Oil)

Theobroma Cacao Seed Butter (Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter)

Musa Paradisiaca Fruit (Fresh Organic Fair Trade Bananas)

Stearic Acid

Glycerin

Triethanolamine

Sandalwood Oil

Lemon Oil

Cistus Ladaniferus Resin (Labdanum Resinoid)

Cetearyl Alcohol

*Farnesol

*Limonene

Parfum

Methylparaben

Propylparaben

MENA

Slide all over the body, and treat dry and sensitive skin to this soothing lotion, leaving it feeling soft and supple.

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Citrus Limon Peel Oil (Lemon Oil)

Vanilla

Almond

Citrus

Coconut

Sandalwood

Cocoa

Glycerine

Lemon

banana

Banana

Sticky Dates

Vanillary

Let The Good Times Roll

Super Milk

Hemp

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Comforting

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Vegan

100% Recycled Pot

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Rich, banana-based moisture

Body Lotion

3.1oz

Fresh Organic Bananas

240g

8.4oz

Body Lotions

Body Care

Vegan Body Care Products

Winter Cosmetics

Skin Care for Cold Weather

Self-care Under $20

 Lightly-scented

Gourmand

Summer Gourmand

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Gifts for Cancer

Customised Lush Gifts

The Mini Collection

Cocoa Butter Collection

Banana Beauty

Sensitive skin

Your skin certainly deserves a little sympathy if it's feeling chapped or dry, so don't delay in smoothing on this delicious vanilla-banana cream. Made with cocoa butter, almond oil and organic bananas to moisturize skin, making it softer and more flexible, this formula also has loads of vanilla for its gorgeous creamy scent and its skin-soothing properties. Made in Canada.

<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

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

Soothing

Fragrancing

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Natural

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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 specialised know-how and must be carried out a few hours after the flower opens; otherwise, it will wilt. <a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/a/growing-vanilla-beans-in-uganda">Read about our Ugandan suppliers hand-pollinating their flowers here</a>.

Each blossom produces a single bean, which is normally harvested after eight or nine months. The beans then pass through a complex curing process before becoming 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 caused demand for the spice to exceed supply. Since vanilla is a rather rare natural delicacy that cannot be rushed, the situation quickly snowballed into huge 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 develop all the notes of their wonderful taste and aroma, and to prevent 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. Thanks to our dedicated team of creative buyers, year after year and month after month, we have found solutions to the market’s turmoil. 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 Extract</a>, combines several ingredients whose comforting scent enhances our perfumes and skin-soothing cosmetics.

<a href="https://www.lush.com/uk/en/i/vanilla-pod-powder">Vanilla Pod Powder</a>, which adds vanilla’s signature tiny black dots to our products.

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>.

Ingredient

Moisturising

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!

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

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Slip on some fresh banana for ap-peel-ingly shiny hair and hydrated skin. Bananas are rich in vitamins and minerals and have a high potassium content. They are moisturising for the skin and help to condition the hair effectively.

The banana plant,&nbsp;Musa paradisiaca,&nbsp;is a large, perennial herb. Its trunk consists of tightly wrapped leaf sheaths, with a stem that pushes up from the centre and grows flower spikes. Blossoms grow into upturned ‘fingers’, with each bunch containing as many as twenty fingers or bananas. Some plants have been producing fresh fruit for over a hundred years.

Bananas are made up of 12% starch and lots of fibre, giving them their unique texture that we know and love. It makes them perfect for creating a sumptuous, thick consistency in certain products, such as hair treatments and body lotions.&nbsp;

Bananas are good for you when applied topically, not just as a healthy snack. They&nbsp;are rich in vitamins A, B, C and E, which are essential for maintaining supple skin and strong hair. Banana skin is thought to possess antifungal properties, and both peel and pulp contain natural oils to boost shiny hair and give the skin a nourished, healthy glow.&nbsp;

Every week, perfectly ripe bananas arrive fresh from local suppliers and go straight into our handmade products. That means you get the freshest fruit possible - no peeling back on quality here!&nbsp;

Nearly all of our fresh fruit and vegetables are purchased from the same specialist distributor, with whom Lush UK* has been working since 2005. Depending on the time of year, they source products from different countries to ensure availability all year round. They work hard to supply as many organic products as possible and provide the highest quality available the rest of the time.

*With several manufacturing sites across the globe, this information may vary depending on where your Lush products were made.

A banana custard-scented lotion with fair trade organic cocoa butter for silky-soft skin.