Lush puts "trans propaganda leaflets" in children's party bags

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Fuck me, just when you think they couldn't actually stoop any lower:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/lush-trans-campaign-bath-bomb-w8xtc3dzp

Archive link: archive.ph/QNVs4

They really are a ghastly company with no boundaries, and I'm surprised they haven't breached something legal in terms of trading? Shops should not be allowed to peddle politics like this, particularly not to children.

I'm always staggered they're still going. Who is paying nearly 9 quid for a one-use bath bomb?!

£9 for a bath bomb? That’s almost as shocking as that leaflet. I used to love Lush and spent a fortune there but have boycotted them for years.

And as for that leaflet, well it’s got it all, hasn’t it? Reference to Nazis, intersectionality (aka hitching yourself to other people’s wagon) sob stories, vague references to “hate crimes” and last, but by no means least, a claim that trans people are tortured in prisons.

HOUSE!

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02940032/officers

Always fun to look on companies house.

https://www.lush.com/uk/en/p/liberation-bath-bomb?queryId=bce28224d78761ba954294140cbfa274

American Cream?! 😶

final straw for me too. A shame as I do like their (very expensive) shower gel. For me it's the dusting powder I'll miss. Not exactly the same as talc. Need to research.

@Minimili I’ve just bought some Ascent goodies!! 😊

Does this meet the criteria to be reported to Prevent?

that's a very good point try it

Transactivism plus a Hello Kitty tie-in? Where's the vomiting emoji when you need it?

I'd already checked out of Lush before the breast binders. I'm not one for smellies and buy hand made soap from women with faces who make and sell it on a small scale.

Lush are awful. I agree, well done 👏

Yes! I can't boycott them because I have never been in one. I have to cross to the other side of the shopping centre to get away from the awful smell emanating from the shop. I hope this hits them hard, though.

What kind of business puts leaflets like this into children’s hands?

I second this for Ascent Bath and Body. They’re amazing

I know this is getting slightly off topic but can I ask what the bubble bars are on Ascent? The bath bars look as if they will be oily rather than bubbly.

Oh wait - it looks as if they're out of stock of the bubble bars! So I'll try to remember to get some later.

I ordered some body powder from Megababe - my Lush days are done!

I am happy to say I have stopped buying from Lush-it has been a few years now. And DD loved the bath bombs so I spent a fortune in there but they will never have a penny of my money ever again.

As I said on another thread-too political for bath bombs

Well done @TinyRebel you absolute star.

I do think any parent whose child has been given one of the leaflets trying to promote child sterilisation do have a legal case to bring. Cass said social transition is not neutral, and this is what a beauty brand is pushing! There's also the consumer protection laws - they're not allowed to lie about their products, lying to children about puberty blockers honestly seems worse.

This is shocking

I love their perfume, cardamon coffee as well as lust. I have been wearing their perfume since my uni days (not everyday as i am an occasional perfume wearer)
, they bring back so many memories of falling in love. Cardamon coffee perfume is quite a political perfume too, apparently it was inspired by a cup of cardamon coffee perfume served in a Palestinian refugee camp..it is ludicrously expensive, I wanted to boycott lush for raising the prices from 30 quid to 150 quid for a large bottle in just a few years. My current bottle is a valentines day gift from dh, I tell him not to buy it cos it's not worth it but he buys it cos he knows its my favourite. I do wear hermes twilly too but I always return to lush. I like their bubble bars too but very occasional treat.

They are the only present my MIL likes (and she is an orthodox jew so doubt she agrees with all their political stances but her home/bathroom is a shrine to lush literally).

I don't think I can give it up...

Lush stinks

This part of the article jumped out at me:

“It [the leaflet] then tells the story of a trans student in the US who killed herself after her Saudi Arabian family “hired lawyers and fixers” to take her back home.”

Saudi Arabia is one of the worst oppressive regimes in the world, especially for women. Many women have tried to protest or escape over the years and have mysteriously ‘disappeared’ after being caught. There are numerous accounts of kidnappings, torture, imprisonment, beatings, forced marriages, rape, and murder.

A quick google will provide lots of examples (I could go on all day!) but here are a few links to illustrate.

‘Lolita’, who fled to Australia to escape the older man she was forced to marry as a child, only to be bundled into a black van by a group of Saudi men and has been missing ever since. From the BBC, there are links within this article to other cases https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmj26102l2jo

An archived article from the New Yorker from 2023 - Saudi Arabia’s vanished princesses https://archive.ph/BbE5z

From Amnesty - who don’t actually know what a woman is - a call for the authorities to reveal the whereabouts of Manahel al-Otaibi who got eleven years in prison for making social media posts about womens’s rights, and has been disappeared https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/saudi-arabia-authorities-must-immediately-reveal-whereabouts-woman-unjustly

I guess the brutal oppression of half the population isn’t a righteous cause for Lush 🤷🏽‍♀️

In many ways. I can’t even walk past it without my eyes watering and sinuses itching, so I’ve been boycotting them since long before their SJW bullshit.

Saw a recent awful window display too.

Are they significant people?

American Cream was (is?) a conditioner that I used for years and years. It actually smelled really nice.
Fun fact: It was called "Vive la Revolution" in France, IIRC.

Haven't shopped in there since just before Christmas 2022 when I was asked by my sister to buy her some shower gel. Luckily, I managed to convince her that there are better products out there.

Lush won't get another penny from me.

• FY2021: Pre-tax profit was £3.3 million, representing a 0.5% profit margin.
• FY2023: Lush posted a pre-tax loss of £28.1 million.
• FY2024: The Group recorded a Loss Before Tax of -£34.5m, according to Lush's own website

May the decline accelerate!