We Are Lush

And this will be the company we want it to be

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1995 – 2024

A brief timeline of Lush

1995

Lush opens its doors on Poole High Street, UK

1996

We Believe statement written

1999

A Lush bath bomb is exhibited in the Tate Art Gallery

2001

First Lush patent granted – for Bubble Bars

2002

The Queen accepts a Street Party bath bomb

2003

B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful opened its doors

2004

Number 10 in The Sunday Times’ Best Companies To Work For

2010

The Lush Prize is launched to support animal-free testing

2011

Lush becomes the first retail company to pay the London Living Wage

2006

Lush dumps 2 tonnes of manure at European Parliament

2009

Lush launched Charity Pot, Knot Wraps and the Black Pot scheme

2009

Lush launches first Spa in Poole

2012

A ‘live human testing’ window in Regent Street is installed as a protest

2013

Lush sets a new Guinness World Records

2014

The Self Preserving range is launched everywhere

2014

The Experimenter video hits the headlines

2014

Lush wins its court case against Amazon, for infringing its trademark

2015

Awarded the Fair Tax Mark

2016

Lush’s website switches off in support of #KeepItOn

2017

The EBT is established, holding 10% of the company for the benefit of Lush staff

2018

The first Naked Concept shop opens its doors in Milan, Italy

2017

Lush commits to the Real Living Wage for all UK retail staff in April

2019

Lush Lens is launched, reaching over 1million scans in just a few months

2019

The first carbon positive packaging at Lush arrives, by boat… Cork Pots

2020

Lush turns 25 and launches We Are Lush dot Com

2021

New website launched

2021

Lush support HSI by encouraging EU citizens to sign a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to save cruelty-free cosmetics.




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2021

Lush turns its back on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat


2022

Lush launches bespoke Bathe App


2022

Lush celebrates 15 years of Charity Pot


2022

Lush launches its first brand collaboration

2023

Lush launches new Green Hub


2023

Refugee Action and Lush launch ‘Refugees Welcome’ high-street campaign


2023

Lush returns to iconic London location, Covent Garden


2023

Lush opens its largest store in Scotland, Glasgow City Centre


2023

Lush launches first Hair Lab in Brighton


2024

Lush is the first Global cosmetics retailer to make the swap to Prevented Ocean Plastic


2024

Lush launches the Bath Bot


2024

Lush Celebrates £100m Giving


2025

Lush Celebrates 30th Birthday


Lush in numbers

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All the need-to-know numbers from Lush 2021/22 audited accounts, and much more!

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All companies need a vision. Although we didn’t really understand it, the Lush founders did have a vision. We believed you wanted effective products. Natural, fresh, and we didn’t want to spend more money on the packaging than on the contents. 

Mark Constantine, the secret Lush cosmetics masterplan
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