To treat myself to a couple of bath bombs ....

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.... After reading yesterday the boss of the chain LUSH is increasing wages of his London employees to that of a so-called Living Wage. And calling for other retailers to do the same.

Bravo!

YANBU. You keep them employed and in return smell nice .

do it. I love lush products.

Used to work for them, they are, genuinely, lovely.
And the Big Boss is a sweetheart (and his lovely wife too)
(especially as she came up with the whole bath bombs thing in the first place)

I used to like the body shop too but not so much now as the whole 'no testing on animals' thing is wrong. The company is now owned by loreal who do test on animals. So all the hype from the body shop isnt that true anymore as all the money goes to testing anyway.

On a lighter note, what are your fav/recommened lush products?

Mine are scrub a dub, banana moon soap and rockstar range. Porridge soap, olive branch shower gel and wiccy massage bar.

I'm kind of amazed body shop are still going. Everytime I pass one they are largely empty. Quite a turn around really.

Haven't been into lush for a while - in recent years I've stopped using lots of products - haven't used shower gel etc for about 10 years, use oil cleansing method on face etc. But next time I pass a Lush I'll pop on for a face scrub and a massage bar. Last thing I brought there was a glitter bug which DD rubbed herself in today.

It's just great to hear of a company sharing the wealth a little more evenly and let's face it, Lush love to plaster the faces of their employees all over their products so I'm really glad they have taken this step.

I was thinking that today about Body Shop. It was such a 90s thing, and now most of the stuff you buy in Boots isn't tested on animals. Plus I reckon by now everyone's seen through the shite that is 'tea tree oil beats spots' - no it doesn't, it just strips the skin. The shampoo doesn't make my hair clean and it's all about 30% too expensive

otoh Lush stuff smells too much, iyswim

I'd wait till I found out what the "living wage" proposed is..minimum is so far off I would be surprised at an increase to get to a REAL living wage..but a great step in the right direction!

This is nice to hear.

I recently bought a strawberry bath bomb which went disturbingly red in the water. Then I dozed off. I luckily woke up before DP entered the bathroom to a scene of apparent trauma It would have made an excellent ghoulish April Fool.

I won't shop in Lush. I think their staff are very snotty and not willing to help.

I was looking at bath bombs one day and non of the boxes had labels as to how they smelled. So I asked a nearby assistant 'what scent are these?' She looked at me like I was crazy and said 'They're bathbombs!' and walked away.

Haven't been back since.

Products themselves are not tested on animals.but ingredients have been at some stage. Most companies will buy the ingredients from a source that have tested,often years before,they can say 'We don't test on animals' because they have not tried that hairspray,lipstick etc but the components have been at some time.
Body Shop ethos was a 80s/90s phenomenon,thank god the world doesn't smell of dewberry anymore!

I've always found their staff completely lovely. Even the young man in the Covent Garden shop who approached we with a murky looking bowl and said "do you want to smell my concoction?" I politely declined.

Yay another reason!

The guy who set up Lush used to work in the body shop. They didn't want to use some of his more radical ideas so he left and set up cosmetics to go, then lush. My theory is that's why the body shop seemed more radical in the '80s '90s and now just seems rather pointless.

Tee2072 - I'd try Lush again. The friendliness of the staff is one of the reasons I go in. Can't walk in mine without at least one genuinely warm chat with the people who work there.

I hate lush. The smell is overpowering. OTOH, DD adores it. I got her a bar of soap with seedy stuff in it. Unfortunately, a couple of months later we got a plant growing up through the plug hole.

Bloomin heck Kreecher! [bugrin] What kind of plant was it?

Long and green and grassy.