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👀 Having spent the past 12 years very fortunately looking at Poole Harbour (the worlds 2nd largest!) from the LUSH office window, we (well mostly Jack Constantine) always wondered if we could somehow harness the huge amounts of untapped tidal energy in the harbour and use to power "off grid" a server or data-centre. 🚀 After a very lucky discussion with Matt Desmier, which led us to partnering with Bournemouth University (big thanks to Zulfiqar Khan and Finn Morgan) where we are co-funding a PhD Studentship for 3 years to research a tidal energy station solution. ⚡️ Applications are now open, and you've got until September 27th to apply for this quite amazing opportunity to work with the university and Lush: Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eMMdpv_C

In celebration of the game’s 15th anniversary, we have collaborated with Minecraft, one of the world’s most popular video games. Bridging the digital and physical worlds, we created a range of products inspired by the blocks, mobs and tools of Minecraft’s Overworld. “We have many Minecraft players within the business, so there was lots of reference and resource to pull on when it came to products, creative and messaging,” said Lush Collaborations Creative Lead Kalem Brinkworth when he spoke with The Guardian about how the collection was developed. Check out the full article here: https://bit.ly/3Mei86W Craft your calm with Minecraft x Lush: https://lnkd.in/djU_ewxt #MinecraftxLush #Lush #LushCosmetics

SPRING PRIZE APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! 🌱 🌱 LUSH SPRING PRIZE is a venture between Lush and Ethical Consumer Magazine to award grassroots organisations dedicated to ecosocial regeneration. With our partners at Be the Earth Foundation, The Savitri Waney Charitable Trust and Permaculture Magazine! 🌱 It happens every two years and next one is in 2025. 🌱 Applications are simple to fill in, can be written in many languages and are open until *September 27th* on www.springprize.org 🌱 Know a great organisation doing this work? Nominate them by *September 3rd* and we will invite them to apply. 🌱 You can join in too! Become a staff or customer judge by applying here by *September 6th* https://lnkd.in/es56dCyd 🌱 If you know a family office or foundation that may be interested in collaborating, please send them my way 😀

We’re thrilled to share a closer look at our partnership with LUSH and Prevented Ocean Plastic. 👀 In this video, Spectra's UK Sales Manager, Alex Beveridge, takes you through the journey from "collection to consumer", showing how we’re turning ocean-bound plastic into sustainable packaging solutions. 💡 This collaboration highlights the power of innovative partnerships in protecting our planet. 🌍💚 #PreventedOceanPlastic #ChooseRecycled #LUSHCosmetics #RecycledPlastic #SustainablePackaging

Today was a very different kind of shop visit - a visit to our closed, vandalised, looted and boarded up shop in Hull. It’s easy to be angry and sad, and don’t get me wrong I am both. I’m angry with the small number of people senselessly attacking minority groups and I’m sad for the communities that are being targeted and the harm that’s being caused. This weekend was overtaken with this - watching what was happening up and down the country, but today I was reminded of the resilience and kindness of the wonderful people within the business and outside of it. Just yesterday our store team showed up to a store that was beyond recognition to the one they left on Saturday - and within the space of 8 hours they, and their partners and friends who volunteered their support, did an amazing job of coordinating contractors, assessing the damage, cleaning up the mess caused and getting a stock order ready for our warehouse in Poole to start picking first thing this morning so that we’re up and running again as soon as possible. Today was more of the same - assessing damage, counting and double counting the stock that was left, and endless cleaning. It could have been a frustrating and thankless task, but it wasn’t. Team members rearranged shifts to be available to help. Everyone brought the same positive energy, possibly even more, that they do to work every day and it was a pleasure to work alongside them. During the day customers have been in touch with the shop and our customer care team offering to come and help, nearby businesses have offered food, coffee and support, and my personal highlight was a local person who saw us working in the store popping by with chocolate. They weren’t a regular customer of ours, they’d never met the team before, they just saw what had happened and were saddened by it and wanted to do something to help. Across the rest of the business teams have continued to rally behind our statement that All Are Welcome, Always. Our stores, warehouses and offices will be a safe space for everyone. We’re proud to be a diverse company, united against hate. There is more that unites us than divides us. To all other retailers out there who have been impacted by the riots, let us know if there’s anything we can do to help. Thank you to the wonderful people who have supported us, all of team Lush Hull for the amazing work they’ve done, Sarah Scott and Rebecca Meara, our H&S and Maintenance managers who pulled out all the stops to do everything possible to support over the weekend and to be on site today and Kasey Swithenbank, Head of Retail who supported and coordinated the retail recovery over the weekend and from store today and Abi Herbert our Wellbeing PR specialist for being on site today with press and getting involved in the clean up. Our thanks also to Simply Solutions (Europe) and Nicole in particular. There are so many others who have done so much to support directly and to check in and offer kindness - thank you.

And we’re open 🥳 On Saturday evening I watched, live on social media, our LUSH Hull shop get broken into and looted. The scenes were shocking and heartbreaking! Thankfully, the team had received advice earlier on the day to close the shop early and so thankfully all staff were safe at home. I’ve spent the last few days with the team in Hull supporting where I can with the clean up and I’m beyond proud to say that we opened at 9am this morning! I want to thank Ben the shop manager and the whole team in Hull as well as staff from other local shops who came together under difficult circumstances to get the shop re-opened as quickly as we could. To our manufacturing teams, who are made up of individuals from over 30 different countries, thank you for turning that stock replenishment order around in 24 hours! To Ellen Peters and Rebecca Meara our property and maintenance managers, thank you for reacting so quickly, ensuring the building was secured, safe for use and organising the repairs to which there are many! Bethan Watts from my team who also just so happens to be a visual merchandiser queen, thank you for jumping on a train to help us get the shop looking the best it can for our team in Hull and our community members! And to our Hull community, the biggest of thank yous to you all for your well wishes and gifts you have dropped in over the last 3 days. We promise to continue to lift your spirits in the days and weeks ahead! Today (7/8/24) we’re holding free product making sessions to anyone who pops in to say hello, we can’t wait to see you ❤️

It's official! The LUSH Spring Prize 2025 is now accepting applications until 27th September 2024. Organisations, formal or informal groups, networks, or individuals can apply to the prize if they are working in ways that regenerate the ecological and social systems that they are part of. The Spring Prize welcomes applications from anywhere in the world. The prize was founded in 2017, and is run in collaboration between Lush and Ethical Consumer Magazine. We're excited to welcome other partners like Be the Earth Foundation, Permaculture Magazine, and The Savitri Waney Charitable Trust, supporting some special prize categories this year. As well as receiving prize money, the award recipients are welcomed into a space of peer learning, to share wisdom, techniques, and solidarity with a global movement of regenerators. The Spring Prize awards those that go beyond sustainability by taking holistic approaches to building the health of ecology, economy and social systems. Find out more about the process and apply online at www.springprize.org . Good luck to all the applicants of the Lush Spring Prize 2025! #Permaculture #Agroecology #RegenerativeAgriculture #IndigenousKnowledge #Regeneration

Every single product in the #TMNTxLush range is made fresh, by hand, by super skilled LUSH manufacturing staff. Check out how our Bubbles departments are expertly rolling these stunning Green Machine Bubble Bars! #turtlepower #manufacturing #fresh #handmade

It has been a really busy few months in LUSH Glasgow City! After the success of our Bridgerton collaboration, we launched our new Magik CBD range, introduced our new mini bubble bars, hosted a community event showcasing 6 new limited edition shower gels, launched our summer freshness sale and installed our latest collaboration! LUSH X TMNT 😍 🐢 We have collaborated with Paramount once again to celebrate the iconic TV show Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, showcasing PLASTIC FREE products 🎉 Our space on our 1st floor has been transformed into the Turtle's lair, complete with a sewer tunnel into our party space for a unique and fun experience. 😍

First come, first served! 🎾 Lush Wimbledon has launched a limited edition tennis ball-shaped bath bomb. This grand slam of tangerine and orange oil is a real hit, and a real exclusive... only available for you lucky Wimbledon lot! #wimbledon