Come and tell me about your love of "Lush"

[Liltzero]

So I was out for a Boxing Day run this morning (madness many of you may think) but not as mad I thought as the folk queuing outside Lush in the city centre waiting for the doors to open and the sale to start.

Please, what am I misssing out on? I've never shopped at Lush! TIA

I absolutely love lush bath bombs, but they’re a once in a blue moon event for me because they’re so expensive. So I get the appeal if it’s a massive sale they’re having in store.

It's nothing special, it has extremely pushy staff who have extremely pushy managers.
It's over priced
The company has some "interesting" ideas feel free to search this

All their Christmas sets are half price which is decent if you like the stuff.

I've never wanted a fragrances, glittery, thrush ridden fanjo.
So I don't bother with lush

Everyone in this household loves The Comforter bubble bath. It smells gorgeous, and a little goes a long way

Can I also comment about how even padding within 50 yards of a Lush makes me gag and want to throw up?

It smells so bad, I have to cross the road to avoid gagging.n

I'm with @Spirallingdownwards. I can't stand the stench that emanates from there and poisons everything around it. Plus their misogyny is as repugnant as the stench of their products.

Also with @Spirallingdownwards. I get headaches from the potency of their products just being in vicinity of the stores. I hate Lush. About only thing I said “no” to re: beauty stuff with my DDS.
The v strong smells induces me to rage 😤 🙀☹️

My husband likes their shampoo bars and conditioner, but the prices are just absolutely insane and has since found a local refill shop which sells similar stuff for a lot less. Personally I find the smell of the shop headache inducing!

Hate it it stinks. Kicks off my chest. My kids love it, felt like I had been mugged by a seagull for what I spent the other other day.

@Squeezetheday try the shampoo bars in home bargains /B&M they are either 79/99p they are great! Better than most the others I've tried

The skincare is very good and lots of it would have been 50% off today. Minimal packaging that they take back and recycle.

Used to work there though and senior management and head office were monumental twats. It's a miracle it survived with such half arsed organisation. Never known anywhere like it.

Likewise. Nasty smell, and some very nasty policies in the past (don't know if they're still as bad ... I'd say I wouldn't hold my breath but I literally have to when passing their shops.)

I like some of it, in particular the solid bar shampoo. I thought it would be helpful to be specific when someone asked what I would like for Christmas so I asked for lush bar soap and bar shampoo for christmas. I've had these before and they last forever. I was given a selection of bath bombs, shower gel, body lotion etc. None of which I will use. It does however make a decent room / air freshener.
Agree the HB bar shampoo is good but it loses it's scent.

Oh for the days when it was called 'Cosmetics to Go' back in mid/late '80s. No lurid colours but really good soaps and shampoos etc. The bath bomb was wrapped to look like a comedy bomb and there was none of the glitter and over perfuming. Tangled shampoo was excellent as was King Coconut and Isobar soap

I used to like Lush, but it seems a bit old hat now if I am honest, highly fragranced and over the top prices, surprised they are still in business to be honest.

This thread will attract the same weird competitive types as any mention of polyester - people desperately trying to demonstrate that they are so sensitive and refined that they can't be in the same postcode as a scented soap/ artificial fibre/ processed ingredient/ (insert your preferred declasse reference here).

I don't think I count as a Lush 'fan', rarely go in or buy, but if I got given a gift card I do know I'd get a fragrance. There are a few I really love. I hate baths so no bombs for me, but I wouldn't say no to soaps!

They obvs have very poor taste. Lush is vile - the products, the smell and the company's stance on many issues including political ones and employee wellbeing.

I expect people are queuing up because the fairly expensive things they sell are heavily reduced today and so people who like lush want to buy them.

I’ve shopped there for years. Basically I mostly buy shower gels, plus shampoo bars. I find their shower gels much kinder on the skin than many others, I really love a lot of the scents (not the lurid Xmas pink ones) and I like the one off ones they bring out at different times of the year. Used to use their skincare in my 20’s but as my skin changed into my 40’s I couldn’t find one I got on with so I don’t buy that now.

I can understand why people don't like Lush because it does smell overwhelming when you walk past it and the products are expensive. I find perfume shops equally overwhelming to walk past, but can appreciate some of the individual perfumes, so I get over the smell of walking past a Lush shop. But some of their items are genuinely brilliant, or at least for me. Their Ocean Salt face scrub feels incredible and makes my skin glow and their Dream Cream was the only thing that got rid of my eczema several years ago, even steroid cream struggled to manage it. A lot of it is crap and I think the bath bombs are a total rip off, but I think their face and body products are worth spending money on. I think it's a Marmite place, I've never had a problem with their products, they've never irritated me and a few friends I know that also use their products , but other friends have had skin flare ups with it and won't touch their stuff. I wouldn't queue up outside on Boxing Day morning though either!

Oh yes. This thread is the meeting point for those who can't be in the room as someone using scented sanitary towels or - gasp - fabric conditioner and the other contingent who have such exquisite taste they can't bear anything that is widely considered an 'upgrade' eg Hotel Chocolat, Yankee Candles etc.

Could well have been waiting for a replacement! My son opened his present from there and it was used!