Lush - how do they get away with charging so much?

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This depiction of shopping in Lush made me laugh!

I occasionally buy their shampoo bars, the seaweed one and a lemon one. I still have a conditioning bar from yonks ago. I intersperse buying these with the shampoo bars from the supermarket, it's just when I am passing I go in which is not often.

BodyShop is opening up again in our local town and I am going to see if they've actually started selling shampoo bars and will probably switch.

@Ninerainbows I didn't know about the Snow Fairy ripoff, DD loves this and I will let her know - thanks

I used to love them back in 2001-2007. You could get a decent moisturiser for £8 and I remember the outrage when their Skin's Shangri-La moisturiser was launched at over £20. I haven't shopped there in literally years as I was put off by some awful marketing campaigns - I get the Snow Fairy ripoff shower gel from Lidl and Aldi at Christmas!

The same way Jo Malone does for their candles. People bay for a brand not quality

Exact same scent candle and same size, on Etsy from a small business (who have far higher overheads comparatively) will cost you £20. But Jo Malone charge £60. I've bought the same shower gel/bath bombs from Etsy for a fraction of the cost that Lush charge.

There were whole threads about it at Christmas...couldn't resist trying the dupes that people on here recommended and tbh they were always just as good as the original and the customer service was a million times better.

Never bought their products, only went in once to their shop due to the smell! But they do have a nice bathbomb making session they offer. Various prices. I'd rather get that than any products. At least that way the children experience making something and you never know it might set them off on a quest to invent!

I hate those massage bars as my hands are cold and the blo*dy thing doesn’t melt. So I put it on the radiator and it melted completely.
Just do a body cream/ lotion in Lord of Misrule.
I don’t like the gender thing either.

There is one body spray which I bought after being influenced by someone online. I absolutely LOVE it. It is sweet and not my regular fragrance but I use it before gym and when I go running. Not a day goes by without someone commenting on how nice it smells.

But other than that, their shops do smell and it’s hard to be in there. It’s very fragrance heavy and I’d imagine if you have asthma or allergies it may be a bit too much.

same here except not asthma, it makes me feel nauseous and always has. I don't know if they still do it but the one I used to walk past used to blast the smell out into the street. Horrible.

Lol anti genocide and ethnic cleansing is political! Seriously lol. Flabbergasted

The stench is enough to stop me entering 😂
They tortured a woman in the shop window in a flesh coloured body suit to make a point about animal testing. Not a man. Not a dressed woman. Righty ho.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/demonstrator-tortured-in-shop-window-in-protest-805286

Not just neurodivergent adults.

Just don't get him a gift from Lush! You'll have to think of something else. £10 is my maximum for a primary aged child's birthday party gift (unless it's a family member) and besides that I'd be fairly offended to spend over a tenner on something so ephemeral. Though I suppose there's a lot to be said for tat that vanishes after one use ...

I used to use Lush, back when I had a disposable income and my work walk took me right past one. Back then, it was about £4.50 for a bath bomb which seemed like a reasonable occasional indulgence, and I did have a brief foray into their skincare. There was something in a little black tub that cost about £30 (moisturiser) which for a while seemed like the ONLY thing that worked for me (I think I mostly liked the smell) but fortunately I came to my senses eventually and went back to good old Oil of Ulay.

Since then I've gone right off the brand, with its slavish kowtowing to whatever the current cause du jour is for the under-25 crowd. Using Lush branches as distribution centres for binders means I'll never darken their doors again, not even for a sniffy look around (plus they REALLY do a hard sell in there! You get pounced on by young men with flowing hair and too many piercings who really want to know an intimate amount about your skincare regime and why it's wrong). But the anti-police thing was just weird, and that stunt they did where they were selling kisses from their young female staff? 'Questionable' doesn't come close. They are a very, very strange and often sinister brand.

I’ve used their henna and the Roots scalp treatment for over ten years because they do wonders for my fine, frizzy hair.

Would you mind linking the henna product please? Been meaning to try one.

Let’s just say, I’m off to Aldi to do my weekly shop, and leave it at that!

Me too! We had CTG stuff delivered to our uni digs, and it was lovely, quirky, fresh-smelling stuff.
Lush OTOH is cloying and overwhelming.

Probably this - I used to love Lush when I was younger, up until about 22-24yo. Doesn’t appeal to me now. I don’t think I would have been as into it given the choice that today’s tweens and teens have!

Me too! They did the only perfume I have ever found that I liked!

What has been said above. Used to love the 'home made' feel. Started to get disillusioned when you could only get certain products online.
The moment you got loyal to a product, seems it would go - Tramp, Sonic Death Monkey etc. I bought a 'Posh White Chocolate and Rose' body wash recently and had to throw it out. The smell was pervasive and headachy.

I also hate hate hate being accosted by multiple staff when you go in. For a brand with a neurodivergent - acceptant ethos they are stunningly insensitive.

The only things I buy now are two of the perfumes which have become my signatures, and are complex and challenging (like me) - although I'm equally fond of Rose Exposed and Esscento Molecule 01.

Completely missing the point of your post, for which I apologise, but please would you tell me/us which Korean bath products you use?

I quite like Lush but it is expensive and I would buy it only as a treat rather than all the time. How much do you usually spend on your friend's DC? There are bath bombs starting at £8 (from what I can see on the website) so you could buy one of those?

I used to adore lush-i used to save up for a trip to them (I used their first company 'cosmetics to go' as a teenager)

It filled a gap the body shop had left-it was more modern and 'fresh' and the body shop was much more old fashioned

We all loved daddy-o shampoo,flying fox shower gel,dark angels facial wash,rock star soap,snow fairy shower gel and ds loved their bath bombs

Then they started with the breast bindings and other woke crap

I refused to go back and then moved area (which doesn't have one) but often see the one thats in the town centre of where my mil lives-its always full

You couldn't pay me to shop there now

I got Lush vouchers over christmas and all i could get for £30 was a smallish shampoo and a smallish conditioner. I am getting through them quickly so goodness knows who can afford to but them on a regular basis.

It’s overpriced but people love it ? I would put some money in a card tbh. Kids love money.

I’m allergic to Lush, primarily to their beliefs.

What's the Korean stuff you buy, OP? @Marissa5