The Comforter Bubble Bar Slice
We can now confirm the release (!) of 38 of our wonderful compounders from the Lush kitchens, who are all…
We can now confirm the release (!) of 38 of our wonderful compounders from the Lush kitchens, who are all equipped with everything they need to show you what it’s like to make our fresh, handmade products!
PLUS - You will be able to make an exclusive, limited edition product on the day! Get stuck in, your hands dirty (or should we say very clean?!) and take home your very own handmade treat.
27-Apr - Maidstone, Norwich, Inverness
28-Apr - Crawley, Colchester, Aberdeen
29-Apr - Basingstoke, Chelmsford, Dundee
04-May - Cork, Belfast, Edinburgh
05-May - Dublin (Henry), Newry, Carlisle
06-May - Dublin (Grafton), Dublin (Grafton), Newcastle
11-May - Sunderland, Preston, Derby
12-May - Middlesbrough, Man. Trafford, Nottingham
13-May - Harrogate, Liverpool, Leicester
18-May - Northampton, Watford, Gateshead
19-May - Milton Keynes, High Wycombe, Man. Arndale
20-May - Luton, Oxford, Sheffield
25-May - Chester, St Albans, Peterborough
26-May - Telford, Kingston, Cambridge
27-May - Birmingham, Guildford, Reading
01-Jun - Livingston, Manchester, Solihull
02-Jun - Glasgow (Sauchiehall), Wakefield, Redditch
03-Jun - Meadowhall, Lincoln, Worcester
08-Jun - Warrington, Glasgow (Braehead), Merryhill
09-Jun - Coventry, Stirling, Carmarthen
10-Jun - Swindon, Glasgow (Buchanan), Cheltenham
15-Jun - Bolton, Eastbourne, Romford, Stratford
16-Jun - Doncaster, Bromley, Lakeside, Wimbledon
17-Jun - Hanley, Croydon, Bluewater, Windsor
27-Jul - Brent Cross
28-Jul - Stratford City
29-Jul - White City
04-Aug - Regent Street, Liverpool St
05-Aug - South Molton St, Kings Road
10-Aug - Victoria Station
11-Aug - Covent Garden
Protecting this precious resource for the future.
22 March 2012 is World Water Day. Through Charity Pot we support grassroots organisations around the world that work on issues that affect water and we thought now was the perfect time to tell you all about it!
During the past two decades, the expansion of different types of industrial monocultures in agriculture, such as soy bean and tree plantations and particularly the use of genetically modified crops, has resulted in the widespread pollution of an increasing number of water courses. Such pollution is the consequence of an industrial agricultural model that requires the use of thousands of tonnes of chemicals in the form of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and fertilizers. As a result, water has been polluted, causing the massive death of native fauna, including fish, frogs, birds and many small animals. Pesticide Action Network Uruguay works to empower local people to challenge the use of chemicals in agriculture.
You may not have heard about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, since it has only just started creeping in to the UK. Fracking is a high risk extraction process involving cracking impermeable rock by pumping large amounts of water, sand and chemicals underground in order to release gas. Apart from causing environment harm and climate change, the process also results in toxic water pollution and up to 10 million litres of water is used to frack a single well. Fracking is common in North America, the film Gasland documents the struggles communities have faced there, including gas coming out of their taps! Groups like Frack Off have been busy educating people about fracking and campaigning to stop it before it gets started here in the UK. There are also extensive plans for fracking in Argentina, where CEPPAS is working with local communities to educate them about environmental and social issues associated with fracking and mobilising them to take action.
Hydroelectric dams, which use the power of rivers to generate energy, are used across the world. Damming rivers have massive consequences; an estimated 40 to 80 million people have been displaced by dams (and many more affected by other human rights abuses), they also affect biodiversity, block fish migration, cause climate change (through deforestation) and increase water-borne diseases. Volta Basin Development Foundation is working with local communities in Ghana to build a federation to tackle this issue, Alianca Tapajos Vivo educates people in the Amazon region to help prevent the many dams planned for the area and Colectivo COA works with communities affected by the Zapotillo dam in Mexico.
Other groups we’ve supported working on water issues include Surfers Against Sewage, who tackle marine waste, UK Tar Sands Network who campaign to end the Canadian tar sands which cause pollution of water and other environmental issues, Sea Shepherd takes direct action to save marine wildlife and Hippo Roller provides large, rolling containers to communities in South Africa so they can more easily transport large volumes of water.
Article Written by the Lush Charity Support Team
Hello All! Thanks so much for all your entries for the Article Competition! It’s been really tough trying to decide who should win and we couldn’t decide between two, so both winners will be receiving the following:
Dream Cream Moisturiser
Dreamwash Shower Soap
Dream Time Bath Melt
Dream Steam Steamer Tab
Angels on Bare Skin Cleanser
Putty For Your Hands Hand Wash Putty
All Wrapped with an Audrey Knot Wrap scarf!
Congratulations to Grace and Jenny, the producers of the https://www.lush.co.uk/content/view/4270 and https://www.lush.co.uk/content/view/4194 articles!
Word To My Mother
a perfect Mothers’ Day
My Mum would always tell us that she didn’t want anything big for Mothers’ Day. If pushed, she might admit to wanting a nice card or some flowers - but she always maintained that her ‘best present’ would be to go just one day when us kids managed not to fight. And we would manage. Sort of.
My brother, sister and I would start the day with the best of intentions,getting up early and gathering in the kitchen for Mission: Breakfast in Bed. Unfortunately good intentions can only get you so far - somewhere between one of us burning the toast, someone else spilling the tea (and let’s not forget the inevitable showdown over who got to carry the tray) - the mission would end in chaos and the operatives would have to be separated.
But you know what? Mum never complained. She realised that we were only bickering because we were trying to make things absolutely perfect for her. Although they never were, that was OK too; it was the fact that we were trying that mattered. Not to sound too cheesy, but in a way that’s what makes Mums so brilliant - they don’t need you to succeed, they love you for trying. Which is kind of nice, don’t you think?
This year I want to let my Mum know just how great she is. Because she made me want to try to do things, even when they proved hard, I’ve quite often ended up succeeding. And if I haven’t - well, I can always try again. A Mum who inspires you like that needs spoiling, don’t you think? She still doesn’t like big presents so this year I’m giving her some much need relaxation time instead. I’m thinking along the lines of a lovely Madame Butterfly bubble bath and, in a nod to the old days,maybe a Peace massage bar. And, of course, breakfast in bed.
Indeed, now we are in our 20s, I think my siblings and I can even manage to make breakfast without an argument - tray duty and all. Because that’s all my Mum really, truly needs: a bit of recognition and for us kids not to fight. Or, if you like, a word to my mother and for us to be nice, nice, baby.
Happy Mothers’ Day, Mum!
"— Anonymous on website
(Source: lush.co.uk)
Hi guys!
Did you know you can create articles on our www.lush.co.uk site?
To celebrate this, and our products like Dream Cream, we’re offering an amazing prize for our favourite article on any of the following:
- Dream Cream Moisturiser
- Dreamwash Shower Soap
- Dream Time Bath Melt
- Dream Steam Steamer Tab
- Angels on Bare Skin Cleanser
- Putty For Your Hands Hand Wash Putty
So get creative, and feel free to write articles on each product, one article on a couple of your favourites in the list, or one article covering them all, the choice is yours!
We’ll like anything that is creative, genuine, fun to read, concise (350-600 words) and engaging.
They can be in diary style/your routines, personal experiences, reviews, Poems, videos, animations, songs… You name it!
At the end, when it’s ready to go, add the relevant tags (Dreamtime Luxury Bath Melt, Dream Cream Hand and Body Lotion etc) and also add the tag:
Article Competition
So that we can find all of the entries easily!
Bare in mind our advice and tips, and for more on how to create articles, check the articles below for handy tips.
https://www.lush.co.uk/content/view/2351
https://www.lush.co.uk/content/view/2515
What do you win?
One of each of the products above, wrapped in a beautiful limited edition Audrey Knot Wrap scarf (pictured)!
Good Luck, and have fun with it!
Closing date Friday 2nd of March 2012
Hi guys!
Did you know you can create articles on our www.lush.co.uk site?
To celebrate this, and our products like Dream Cream, we’re offering an amazing prize for our favourite article on any of the following:
So get creative, and feel free to write articles on each product, one article on a couple of your favourites in the list, or one article covering them all, the choice is yours!
We’ll like anything that is creative, genuine, fun to read, concise (350-600 words) and engaging.
They can be in diary style/your routines, personal experiences, reviews, Poems, videos, animations, songs… You name it!
At the end, when it’s ready to go, add the relevant tags (Dreamtime Luxury Bath Melt, Dream Cream Hand and Body Lotion etc) and also add the tag:
Article Competition
So that we can find all of the entries easily!
Bare in mind our advice and tips, and for more on how to create articles, check the articles below for handy tips.
https://www.lush.co.uk/content/view/2351
https://www.lush.co.uk/content/view/2515
What do you win?
One of each of the products above, wrapped in a beautiful limited edition Audrey Knot Wrap scarf (pictured)!
Good Luck, and have fun with it!
Closing date Friday 2nd of March 2012
Body lotion might be the least-used cosmetic product there is. You buy a new bottle with great intentions; dream of how glossy your legs will look, how alluring your skin will smell. You applying it religiously for a few days, and then somehow you forget, and the tub sits unused on the side.
Or, at least, that’s what I do. I love Lush body lotions - their fine, carefully balanced formulas sink in quickly even on my resistant skin. I could live the rest of my life smelling of the beautiful Charity Pot rose and cocoa butter fragrance. Somehow, though, I end up abandoning the lotion, and my poor dry legs just have to cope alone.
Enter Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner. Smoothed into skin in the shower or bath, it leaves skin soft, glossy and deeply hydrated. The gloriously girly rose jam fragrance perfectly complements this gorgeous lotion.
It only takes a moment to apply your body conditioner. Use it like you would hair conditioner: apply after washing, leave to soak in and then rinse. Gently buff your skin dry with a towel, and savour how plump, clear and fresh your skin looks, and how wonderful it smells.
Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner is fantastic after shaving. Try exfoliating first with Sugar Scrub; the stimulating fennel oil and fresh ginger will get your circulation going, while the massaging effect and the sugar grains will lift the hairs and remove any dry and dead skin, giving you a close, clean, smooth shave.
For perfect pins, use Turkish Delight Body Polish to shave. A slippery, foamy, indulgent shower soap, the scent combined with the Rose Jam fragrance in the Body Conditioner is just divine. Once you’ve shaved, rinse your legs well and smooth over a handful of Body Conditioner.
The ‘Q.I.’ (quantitative ingredients list) for this product is just delicious! Glycerine and fresh spring water keep your skin plumped up full of water, while the rich, nutritious oils and butters soften and moisturise it, for a red-carpet gloss. The vitamin E and essential fatty acids in argan oil combined with almond oil and goji berry juice work to make your skin look young and feel healthy, while toning and brightening lemon and geranium oils make for sexily firm, smooth skin.
The best thing about the ingredients is that there’s no lathering agent, so every last bit that your skin can absorb it does. It also means you can skip the rinsing step if your skin is especially dry, and just massage it into the skin. Don’t tell, but I’ve even used it as a hair mask!
So apologies to my lovely tubs of body lotion; Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner has stolen my heart.
