to not understand Lush products

[YoMamma]

I would never buy then for myself because I can barely walk past the store without getting a headache from the fumes but I got a gift set for my birthday. This contains 5 bars of goop. One said it was bubble bath so I merrily threw it in the bath where it frothed for a bit, turned the water pink and made lots of lovely bubbles BUT there is still a huge lump of sticky pink mess left behind. What am I meant to do with this? It's all well and good being sanctimonious about using no packaging (not true though considering these goop bars were wrapped in 2 separate cardboard boxes each stuffed with filling) but I can hardly leave a half digested splodge of mess on the side of the bath for my DD to eat at bath time can I?

Lush have stopped using palm oil in their soaps. They also produce a cream that it brilliant for eczema - I think it's called Dream cream (something similar to that) & it worked for my DD when nothing else did. I love Lush (although I was unable to enter the shops when pregnant as the smell caused me to almost pass out!)

YANBU.

I hate Lush. I mainly hate them because of the amount of bloody glitter in their products. Glitter is made of plastic. It's like wilfully scattering millions of bits of plastic rubbish into the water system and the sea. Grim.

The staff in the Doha shop, I can assure you are not capable of making stuff. I suppose the vile stinking ingredients fly on the backs of organic unicorns from Poole to Doha do they? I hate them and wish them nothing but ill. As for those smug labels handmade in poole by Gary, who cares which smug little student packed the chemical ridden stinking filth.

Clearly a Lush employee on here, I admire your loyalty but there are lots of far more honest employers to crow about who don't peddle crap and pretend its natural, cruelty free and not funding terrorist ares wipes.

I recall a previous thread on here where someone linked to them buying ingredients from China that had been tested on animals there. And China has such a marvellous animal welfare record.

I like Lush but it is overpriced. I love the smell but the sales assistants put me off going in there; they won't leave you alone. I'm capable of asking for help if I need it.

I hate LUSH's sales assistants (or rather, the training they're given as I can't imagine anyone is that obnoxiously perky about soap in real life)

I worked there a few years ago but quit after a month - I'm quite a diffident person, really, and wasn't comfortable AT ALL with the upselling required.

That said, I am still fond of Lush. I'm another fan of Angels on Bare Skin, mentioned by a PP. It's only £6 a pot, lasts ages and is just brilliant. I have been using it for over a decade and will use it forever, or until (perish the thought!) it is not available any more.

I agree the bath products are overpriced and rarely buy them any more, but the skincare and bodycare items are often lovely quality IME. I'm a pathological label-reader and am happy with the quality and quantity of natural oils and other ingredients they use. I got sucked in by a generous offer from the Body Shop recently, but the products I got were disappointing and no different from the sorts of things you get in Boots

All of THAT said, there are apparently some major issues with how they treat their staff. Am not sure of the details but it blew up all over the Lush forum recently.

I love Lush. I really like fruity smells rather than floral and there's always something for me in Lush.

I have a blackcurrant solid perfume that is just the nicest smell ever. They don't make it anymore though. Woe. I still have some left even though I bought it about 6 years ago! Now that's value for money.

I'd buy more often from them if it wasn't for the fact that their store is on Princes Street (Edinburgh) which is a bugger for parking so I rarely go. .

I love lush!

The smell emanating frim Lush stores makes me ill, quite literally. DH, who's a scientist, says that if you could smell one of their labs from several metres away like that, they'd close it down as a potential chemical hazard.

Vile.

I used to love Lush. Then I opened my eyes. They trade based on an ethical reputation that they don't deserve (the company have no proper HR, did you know that?).

The ingredients certainly aren't all natural. I laughed my arse off when the owner was caught ranting about the dangers of a particular ingredient, when it was being included in his own products as a 'safe synthetic'.

There's an excellent blog about the dodgy side of Lush, if people are interested in reading. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post a link but if you google 'Mitherings from Morningside' and 'Lush', you should find it.

I thought the glitter stuff they use wasn't plastic anymore something to do with customer complaints I know they have changed because they used to make such an amusing gift for women near there due date for that last bath in peace followed by glittery fanjo.

I quite like the herbal shampoo bar and coal face soap they other stuff not so much.

I was I. A city I don't go to much with my dd a few weeks ago trying to find lush she nearly pissed herself laughing when I said wait for the wind to blow then sniff to work out the direction to walk

Love lush, lots of perfumes give me a headache but I,m ok with lush shops.

I hate walking past the shop because it makes me feel sick and as a result have never stepped inside one. Walking passed the Covent Garden shop years ago my sister sing songed "Lush, Lush, it gives you thrush". So another reason not to go in

Lush have (nearly?) stopped using glitter in their products

www.lush.co.uk/content/view/7772

I never understand why thy keep using SLS though - I would have thought that a vast amount of their potential (hippy, green freak, organic) customer base would avoid their products for this reason, and they would sell a lot more stuff if they stopped using it.

I love lush. I never used to be able to use bubble bath because of my eczema but I'm fine with lush stuff.

I luuurrrve Rock Star (soap), Snow Cake (soap), Flying Fox shower gel and the heart shaped massage bar. Mmmmmmmm.

I actually keep the soaps near where i sit while they are still wrapped because i adore the smells so much They make the bathroom smell wonderful.

I wonder what these alternatives are?

And it's a shame they used glitter for so many years, when plastic particles are pretty much eternal.

Bleugh.

I wish they could be banned from closed shopping centres.

I wish even more that my lovely mate didn't keep buying me them as a 'treat' and that I'd had the sense to tell her the first time that I think they're revolting, instead of nodding weakly and saying it was such a kind thought.

Any product sold in china has to be tested on animals
So the likes of avon, Clinique, Estée Lauder all now test on animals where they didn't before because the Chinese say they have too

Don't know about lush but just wanted to pop that cherry in the animal cruelty convo

I do love their stuff but agree it's really quite expensive; the soaps I bought smelled gorgeous but while one disintegrated after a couple of uses the other is so completely rock solid that I can't get a lather out of the damned thing. So I've made my own. Lavender, Lime and Cedarwood mmmmmm. Will be cured by Christmas day so I'm looking forward to a nice bath with me nice smellies while the kds run riot downstairs

We all love Lush stuff. The Buffy the Backside Slayer is the best exfoliator ever! Dcs will all get bathbombs in their stockings, dh likes the shampoo bars and their Flying Fox shower gel is gorgeous. Dream cream is also fab.
So there

sebsmummy1 , I've just bought the perfume version of the Big shampoo from eBay, i'm wearing it right now! It is EXACTLY the same as the shampoo. Very unusual but amazing!