LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics

While traveling over the holidays, I came across a delightful retail store: LUSH. Headquartered in Canada, LUSH sells a wide assortment of "fresh, handmade cosmetics" in stores across the US and Canada. They also have a great website with descriptions with each of their products including detailed lists of ingredients, user comments, and ratings.


Irreverent and quirky, LUSH has products like Sex Bomb (get your minds out of the gutter, it's bubble bath), Mask of MagnaMinty (a minty face mask), and The Big Tease (hair styling gel). Their core philosophies are environmental consciousness, no animal testing, and fun. Here's some information about the company from their web page.

A LUSH LIFE.......what we believe!
FRESH...We believe in making effective products out of fresh organic fruit and vegetables, the finest essential oils and safe synthetics, without animal testing, and in writing the quantitative lists on the outside. We also believe that words like FRESH and ORGANIC have honest meaning beyond marketing.
NO ANIMAL TESTING...We also believe in buying only from companies that test for safety without the involvement of animals and in testing our products on humans.
HAND MADE...We believe in making our own fresh products by hand, printing our own labels and making our own fragrances.
AMBIENCE...We believe in long candlelit baths, massage, filling the house with perfume and in the right to make mistakes, lose everything and start again.
GOOD VALUE...We believe that our products should be good value, that we make a profit and that the customer is always right.

I purchased Dream Cream and I absolutely love it. It's a rich hand cream that is very moisturizing but is somehow not sticky or greasy. Even better, the effects last for a long time. Most hand creams I've tried seem to last for about 10 minutes. Now I'm wishing I'd purchased more things when I was in the store.