I've had it with Lush

That Reddit thread, Upstart

But it does have some brilliant comments:

"Dammit, Scotty, what's going on down there?"

"It's the brocialism, captain. It's overloading the warp core!"

To be honest I've always hated their products. They stink. Someone bought me a hand treatment from there once and I used it on my hands which were very dry after having my baby - the product irritated my hands and made them sting - probably the amount of fragrance added to them. This trans bullshit is absolutely ridiculous. I hope they lose a lot of custom over it. Perhaps they ought to put more focus into treating their staff with a bit of respect instead of jumping on the latest bandwagon in their desperate attempt to appear trendy and attract young customers.

Noooo!!! I love their "Celestial" cream! I knew nothing about them as a company though...
Bye bye Lush.

The twitter thread is good. Lots of virtue signalling but a lot of pushback also. I hope it's given Lush pause for thought bet it hasn't

Lush is beginning to sound like the retail equivalent of the DPRK.

When I went into Lish about a year ago they were selling charity lip balms. The charity they were raising money for was trying to find alternatives to the South Devon Bypass. A road that construction started on 4 years ago and has now been open for over a year.

They have also supported an animal rights charity that actively campaigns against CRUK and CRUK at the same time.

They do a lot of virtue signalling and fuck all else. Nice solid shampoo though.

How about printing off the TrendGenderTrend cover and slipping it into their windows or just leaving it on their displays.

I disagreed politically and was told it was non negotiable and I was welcome to resign.

That's horrible, I'm sorry that happened to you!

It's also really unprofessional! The CEO of the company I work for has some fundamentally different political views than myself. Due to my visibility as of the few token women, he's well aware. He might be wrong about politics, but - to his credit - it's never held me or any of my fellow lefties back!

This alone is shameful enough!!!

Thank you for the insight Thorny

Terftastic I'm with you. Just as you think that's it, it cannot become anymore bizarre there's another slap in the face.

yy thorny. You've nailed it with the "dear leader" comment. Used to drive me up the wall, I was old enough to not be impressed.

I was told in store their glitter isn’t the microplastic type. Just looked on the website and it’s synthetic mica. No idea whether that’s any better.

I'd never seen that 'naked' or 'kisses' thing - I'm shocked. I actually spend so much of my time being shocked at the moment, it's a surprise my jaw is ever off the floor...

That guantanamo thing too... bloody hell. They seem to be keen to dabble in politics that are way above their understanding.

My DD loves the bath bombs, and frequently gets me and her friends Lush stuff for presents.

I've wondered about the glitter in them recently - is it environmentally friendly? Or does it drain into the ocean to be eaten by fish and enter our food chain?

Funny how it’s always women in the window, tied up or naked. Do they make a point of only hiring women?

TERFousBreakdown

There was a campaign to fund the legal aid of Guantanamo Bay detainees. I disagreed politically and was told it was non negotiable and I was welcome to resign. I didn't because I was pregnant and needed the job. They secured the release of a prisoner who was then implicated in UK terrorism. I will try and find details but it was subject to a press injunction at the time.

LUSH are very lucky that their workforce is so very young and impressionable.

I usually by a few things in my local branch at least every couple of weeks. Not any more. I had no idea about their dubious activites with staff either. Thanks to posters for bringing this to my attention

I had just filled a basket on their website and was going to spend quite a bit...not anymore!! CRUSH LUSH!!😡😡😡

Neals Yard products are lovely. Expensive but worth it.

Don't you fucking 'CIS' me

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/apr/27/lush-animal-cruelty-performance-art

This was the thing I was thinking of. This article is in support though. I remember I was absolutely appalled at the time.

@thornyhousewife, I know next to nothing about them (apart from the lentil-weaver-but-cool image they're trying to project). Can you say more?

I was waiting for LUSH to do this.

I worked for them for years - run by a family of the most embarrassing champagne socialists you'll ever meet.

It's honestly like a cult - there is no room for political discussion whatsoever, only fulfilling the wishes of the Dear Leader..

I started boycotting Lush years ago when they ran a publicity stunt where a woman was shown looking like a corpse on a trash heap. It was meant to be some kind of protest against animal testing, but I just thought it was shockingly distasteful.

They've also got bad form for making their young female employees strip off.

Brilliant!

I can finally return to using actually well-made cosmetics without having to have an internal ethics debate with myself, then!

Moisturiser that doesn't go off after a few weeks, here I come!