Become a skincare expert with Lush’s  free workshop to ‘Meet Your Microbiome’ including product making

Fresh handmade cosmetics company Lush is launching a complimentary, educational skincare service, available to book from 24th March 2025 in all stores in the UK&I. ‘Meet Your Microbiome’ is a 45-minute service created to allow guests to better understand their skin, its functions and to feel better able to make informed decisions when choosing skincare. The experience includes getting hands on, making Lush’s bestselling Angels On Bare Skin cleanser to take home. 

Meet Your Microbiome: free 45-minute skincare service

• Make (and take home) your own fresh cleanser 
• Free on-face skincare application and consultation
• Insights into your skin and its microbiome
• A closer look at why we like our products fresh, not sterile

“We’re thrilled to be offering the free workshop as part of our commitment to empower customers with knowledge about their skin. At Lush, we believe skincare should be personal and this experience allows people to get hands-on with fresh ingredients while gaining insights into their own unique microbiome. 

We want everyone to feel confident in making informed choices about their skincare, and what better way to do that than by heading into your local Lush shop and experiencing it for themselves.”

– Kasey Swithenbank, Head of retail stores, UK&I

What is the microbiome?

Much like the forests and seas of planet earth, the microbiome is the skin’s own ecosystem and an essential part of the skin barrier. It’s a unique community of bacteria, fungi, viruses and yeast that live on your skin. Each square centimetre contains approximately one million microorganisms that form an important part of your skin barrier. They compete for food and resources and make it harder for pathogens to move in. 

The microbiome is established at birth when you receive important ‘kickstarter’ microbiota from your birthing parent.  But, as we grow, hormones, age, lifestyle, environment and ethnicity also inform the microbial differences that make us unique. The unique makeup of your microbiome also varies wildly in different body sites, meaning you’ll find different abundances of life from your head to your toes.

Image: Angels On Bare Skin fresh cleanser

Lush Co-Founder and Product Inventor Helen Ambrosen is passionate about making fresh, effective skincare for all ages. While Lush has always created solid products that require no preservatives, like bath bombs, bubble bars, massage bars and more, it was Helen who pioneered Lush’s self-preserving skincare formulas. These are products formulated to stay fresh, effective and safe without synthetic preservatives. In 2023, an amazing 84 percent of Lush’s year-round products were self-preserving. 

Lush was built on the premise that we want to get the freshest ingredients into products and onto your skin as quickly as possible. The process includes meticulous product formulation, a panel of human testers, in-house and external microbiology testing, speedy dispatch from factories, and shorter use-by dates. All of this, we believe, gives the customer a better final product. In exchange for a shorter shelf life, and sometimes a bit of space in your fridge, customers get products packed full of effectiveness, not preservatives.

To book a space for the ‘Meet Your Microbiome’ service, please search for your closest Lush store on Eventbrite to view available dates. 

A Lush Spa treatment for the microbiome: Rewilding Facial

For anyone who wants to elevate their skincare experience, Lush is launching a new, lifting facial spa treatment, with ingredients that help rewild habitats across the globe and fresh formulas that provide nourishment to the skin.

This 50-minute lifting facial utilises hot and cold therapy, facial massage and lymphatic techniques to make skin look sculpted and rejuvenated, all to the tune of a bespoke soundtrack of historic nature folk songs.

This new facial has been created by Lush’s in-house spa development team to achieve maximum results with minimal interference. 

Rewilding Facial (50 minutes, £125) is now available in Lush Spas nationwide.

Book via the Lush app, or by contacting your local Lush Spa by phone or email.

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About Lush

Since establishing in 1995, Lush has been driven by innovation and its ethics. Creators of pioneering beauty products, one of Lush’s most well-known creations is the bath bomb. 

Invented in 1989 by Lush Co-Founder Mo Constantine in her garden shed, bath bombs have become a global sensation – all hand pressed in Lush’s own manufacturing sites across the world, Lush sold over 21.2 million last year.

A beauty company with a campaigning heart, Lush is on a mission to create a product for every need and a cosmetic revolution to save the planet. The ultimate goal is to leave the world ‘Lusher than we found it’.

In August 2024, Lush reached £100 million in charitable giving, supporting grassroot organisations and activists through multiple programs since 2007. In FY23 Lush donated just under 1% of the company turnover to grassroots groups driving tangible positive impact, showing commitment to a long term giving strategy.

Today, Lush operates in 50 countries with over 850 shops, 38 websites shipping worldwide and a global network of native apps, broadcasting channels and digital communities in over 30 languages.