Before I even get started on this little Lush lovefest let me give the usual no affliction disclaimer. I don't know a soul who is profiting in any way by my purchase of LUSH products, but boy I wish I did.
Perhaps I have mentioned before that I listen to a really great podcast called Lipgloss and Laptops. Two Canadian friends do reviews of beauty products and the beauty culture in general. Good stuff and I highly recommend it. They are funny and smart and very entertaining while giving great information. Anyway, one episode they were discussing how much they loved LUSH and I made note. At the time, the closest LUSH store was in downtown Chicago so I let it go. We head to the burbs fairly often (Amazing Husband works in Vernon Hills), but downtown, not so much. When we decided that we were going to spend Saturday in Schaumburg I looked to see if Woodfield had anything new to explore and there it was.......LUSH.
LUSH (I'm linking you to the wiki page here, not lush.com so you can read the real scoop and not the spin version.) is a company that makes skin products. I think the word "cosmetics" give the idea that there is make-up in the store, but there isn't. Bath products, creams, facial products, etc. They do a mighty fine job of keeping their products as healthy and green as possible by making many of them in a dry form, thus eliminating the need for preservatives such as parabens which some studies have linked to certain types of cancer. Parabens are used in their cream and liquid products, which I can live with because you have a choice. Also, and this is big for me, they don't test on animals or use any ingredients that were tested on animals. (YAY!)
So Saturday was my first LUSH experience and kids, I lost my mind. I wanted one of every.freaking.thing. I went right for the signature Karma scent and fell big time. It's spicy and warm and smells exactly like I want to smell. Sort of chic hippie. I got some of the solid perfume and a jar of Karma Kream along with a few other misc things to try. The most fun thing was the bath bombs. If I had known what a great product they were I would have purchased ten. Seriously. A person needs to build a big 'ol bathtub just so they can get the full effect of these crazy little balls. (Just for the record, I personally, do not have a big 'ol bathtub. I have a teeny, bordering on useless bath tub, but I made it work.) You fill your tub up with hot water, drop in a bath bomb and it goes to town fizzing up like a giant Alka Seltzer releasing fragrance and bath oils and all sorts of wonderfulness. I used the Avobath and it turned the water a lovely green. After luxuriating (or, in the case of my tub, moving around so that all my body parts spent some time under water) in the bath bomb water you come out smelling beautiful and with silky soft skin. Really. My skin was glorious. La de da.
Here's another fun little thing about LUSH products, the expiration labels. That's Sara 
and she made my Karma Kream on July 7 of this year. Thanks, Sara. I've got about a year to use it up (yes, it has parabens in it.). Isn't that fun? Fun, ecologically responsible, and good stuff. Somebody, Mr. LUSH?, gave this company a great deal of thought. I'm impressed. I understand that they pack everything they ship using popcorn instead of peanuts or shredded paper. I'll have to check that out.
LUSH-two thumbs up and five stars from the hippie chic in Illinois.
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