Sunday 20 March 2016

Lush sells bath bombs and cosmetics. It also gives nearly £6 million a year to far-left groups - Quartz

Lush sells bath bombs and cosmetics. It also gives nearly £6 million a year to far-left groups - Quartz

Lush sells bath bombs and cosmetics. It also gives nearly £6 million a year to far-left groups

The first thing most people notice about Lush is the smell.

There’s no escaping it in the shop most famously known for its candy-colored bath bombs. Cheese-shaped wedges of soap, as well as shampoo and deodorant, are nestled between black pots that boast names like “Jasmine & Henna Fluff Eaze.” The handmade products have minimal packaging, but they do bear stickers with illustrations of the smiling factory workers who made them.

The hovering staff are enthusiastic to sell not only these wares, but the joys of “living the Lush life.” The UK-based company believes in “long candlelit baths, sharing showers, massage, filling the world with perfume and the right to make mistakes.”

It also ardently believes in blockading a runway at London’s Heathrow airport to protest planned expansion, occupying Westminster Abbey to oppose cuts to disability benefits, and campaigning fiercely against border controls. Staff members once tried to board a train to France using a travel document called the “world passport.” (They failed.)

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