If you didn’t use body butter, were you even there for the ‘90s?
Introducing The Lush Version: a fresh take on some treasured favourites, Take a trip back in time with us to revisit some iconic formulas from the past and some of our own creations that we bet you never knew about. We’ve picked much-loved formulas back up, dusted them off, and reformulated them for a new era.
Launching online on 9th September 2024, and then in UK&I anchor and large stores and part of endless aisle (where customers can order from any shop and have items delivered to their home) from November 2024.
Haircare
Ginger shampoo … off-the-scale anti-dandruff shampoo
£10.00 for 100g / £20.00 for 250g
A ginger anti-dandruff shampoo that’s a pleasure to use. Our tailored blend of helpful herbs, spices and nourishing ingredients alongside anti-fungal piroctone olamine and soothing salicylic acid delivers off-the-scale cleansing to keep your scalp looking clean and clear and your hair shiny and fragranced. Made with sea salt to lift away residue, fresh ginger root for its deeply clarifying action, and soya kefir yoghurt for its probiotic properties.
Banana shampoo …. Best of the bunch for processed hair!
£8.00 for 100g / £16.00 for 250g
For dry hair you can do no better than this blend of intensely softening ingredients to bring moisture, shine, volume and strength. We blend over 45% sea salt with fresh banana and sugar cane molasses to make a smoothie for your locks and add softening oils to support tensile strength and shine. Molasses is a rich source of inositol: a popular supplement to boost hair health. We use over 5% molasses in this blend to make your hair look healthy and shiny.
Banana conditioner … so a-peel-ing for dry hair!
£16.00 each
Take your hair from strength to strength with fresh banana, softening oils and soya yoghurt. Apply to freshly shampooed hair and rinse. We’ve packed this one with soya yoghurt for the protein, and argan and olive oils to support the tensile strength of each strand as you brush, along with seaweed agar to leave hair soft and shiny.
Skincare
Mostly face wash … make the most of your skin
£11.00 for 100g / £22.00 for 250g
Apply this thyme, honey and apple juice wash to damp skin to gently attract dirt and excess oil and rinse away. Packed with ingredients known for their clarifying properties, it’s mostly for bristly, blemish-prone skin (but you don’t need a beard to love it!). Leaves coarse hairs feeling softer too.
Pineapple facial wash … pulp friction
£11.00 for 100g / £22.00 for 250g
Scrub smarter not harder with naturally exfoliating fresh pineapple enzymes in a smooth and creamy cupuaçu and almond base. We balance enzymic fresh fruit juices with gentle butters to care for your complexion. Juiced or pulped, we put the whole fruit in, so your skin can benefit from all the minerals and vitamins too! The beautiful cupuaçu butter inside comes from the Amazon, where it’s grown in an agroforestry system.
Japanese Washing Grains … just add water!
£12.00 each
A beautifully simple waterless scrub for simply beautiful results. Softening tapioca flour and silky cornstarch perfectly balance the fine exfoliating action of ground adzuki beans to protect the skin as you lift away dirt. Take a pinch of this softening scrub and add a little water yourself, making a paste in your palm. Apply to damp skin to finely exfoliate and leave the skin looking fresh, firm, velvety smooth and radiant.
Cocoa Butter hand and body lotion … butter up your skin!
£10.00 for 100g / £20.00 for 250g
The sublime and creamy combination of cocoa butter and almond oil was pretty radical back in the ‘80s when everyone was formulating with synthetics. Crack open a tub and you’ll soon see why it caught on. An elegant, simple cocoa butter formula that’s expertly balanced to give just the right level of slip and absorption. Our organic, Fair Trade cocoa butter supports smallholder farmers and local communities and it’s a beautiful emollient that helps to lock in moisture. Perfected with a nostalgic fragrance, this product is quite simply a classic.
Hemp hand cream … hemp hemp hooray!
£8.00 each
Get your hands on this easily absorbed, hemp seed softener that’s packed with skin-conditioning ingredients like rosemary, linseed oil and wheatgerm oil. With over 10% hemp seed oil to nourish and moisturise and glycerine to draw moisture into the skin, this is one for keeping dry hands feeling soft and supple. Packaged in a handy tube for on-the-move hand hydration.
Peppermint foot lotion … good for the sole!
£7.00 for 45g / £22.00 for 225g
Get your feet back in mint condition. With enlivening mint, tagetes, arnica and almond oil to hydrate and revive rough heels and tired toes, this light lotion is a tingly blend of herbal TLC. It sinks in quickly to put a spring back into your step and leave feet soothed and supple.
Body Butters
If you didn’t use body butter, were you even there for the ‘90s? It’s one of the many iconic products that made The Body Shop a high street phenomenon.
Lush Co-Founder and Product Inventor Helen Ambrosen has many treasured memories of friendships and products forged from this happy, hectic time. “Body butters really became a genre!” she recalls. “Back in the day, they were invented by the Lush co-founders and our colleague Cosmetic Scientist Stan Krysztal but found a home elsewhere. So, it’s fitting that they are coming back to where they started.”
Massage into dry skin after washing, paying extra attention to dry areas. We’ve steamed these butters so that they break down easily on the skin, enabling water to be absorbed, while a layer of butters and oils seal in moisture.
This expertly balanced blend of virgin olive oil, fresh lemon and murumuru butter will leave you feeling soft and dewy. We use virgin olive oil from Marda Permaculture Farm: a longstanding partner in Marda, West Bank that we’ve worked with since 2013, whilst the murumuru butter comes from Candela: a social enterprise based in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon that supports local and indigenous producers.
Coconut body butter
£22.00 each
A supremely creamy butter, made with over 10% coconut ingredients that your skin will lap up. A triple whammy of coconut makes this butter special: luxurious coconut oil, coconut creamed with glycerine into a nutrient-rich skincare smoothie, and a freshly prepared infusion made from the delicate flesh of the fruit. This beautiful ingredient comes via a supplier that supports sea turtle conservation programmes in the Aceh region of Indonesia.
Brazilliant body butter
£22.00 each
A richly softening treat of a butter, made with Brazil nut oil, aloe vera and avocado oil to lavish dry skin and leave it smooth and fragrant. This recipe is rich in Brazil nut oil, known for its high content of unsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E, plus reputed antioxidant qualities. We source our Brazil Nut oil from Candela: a social enterprise based in the heart of the Peruvian Amazon that’s reforesting Brazil nut forests and supporting families in Madre de Dios. Lightly fragranced with uplifting sweet orange to perfect the tropical effect.
For further information or comment, please email lushpr@lush.co.uk
Notes to Editors
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.
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.
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