i remember being 10 and watching my mum use her apricot scrub, completely fascinated by how brighter her skin looked after it. never tried using it tho. the smell of that scrub makes me feel like a 10 year old again <3

My favourite body wash is The Olive Branch. I love how it smells and how it makes me feel. In fairness, Naturium body washes cost around £16-£18 but that's for 500ml. The 275g/ml bottle form Lush costs £17 - almost half the amount of product! It is just not possible to justify putting that amount of money into a body wash. Maybe the ingredients and the ethics actually do make it worth that but salaries aren't made for products like that, at that amount, to cost that much. We're already being bled for money in all directions, we can't be spending that much to clean our bodies too.

This is excellent! In Marketing for 20 years, i can vouch a lot of promotions, campaigns, positioning statements are all created by snr mgmt and not a lot of it is authentic...its just telling the target customer what they think will make them choose to buy from that company rather than competitors. It's only ever about $$$$$

12:15 ANTM MODELS🤪🤪

I was just a tween/teen during the rise of KVD, perpetually broke, and by the time I had the money to invest, the brand had killed itself. I'm still a little sad about it but the eyeliner is quite good and I've heard good things about the new foundations.

well it exists for a long time and i have a favorites of mine so i will always keep on buying while i can, also know a lot of people who still do, i mean it depends but covid-19 and wars were/are a huge shock for markets these days

No, there won't be the changes you speak of because you all make these "rise and fall" videos for views and none of the companies have fallen. At all. You use social media outrage to create more social media outrage.

Huda was the same skintone as the girl using colour correctors. She was using an outrageous, probably clout-chasing amount for views hoping to go viral when she had minimal colour correcting needed and it didn't actually lighten her skintone (ergo the colourism argument won't fly with me even a little bit and again, how different was she from Huda?). Giving makeup advice is bad now. Gen Z need to grow a spine.

I LOVE Lush products but I can not justify spending that much money. I think I’ve only shopped there a couple of times. If their prices were more affordable I’d be a regular customer.

I LOVE Lush products but I can not justify spending that much money. I think I’ve only shopped there a couple of times. If their prices were more affordable I’d be a regular customer.

surprise appearance of Joanie and Lisa D. from ANTM @ 12:18

My friend works for them and she hates it. Reckless nepotism, understaffing, when corporate came to visit they DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT "K-BEAUTY" is. Lush is over.

I stopped shopping there after that bimbo marketing babe tossed the OG logo for the black and white chalkboard look. The kid on Undercover Boss had it right. Made it look like a craft sale or whatever he said. I think that was their first mistake letting some marketing person try to elevate and rebrand. My opinion.

I loved Cosmetics to Go and I did love Lush. However it is mad expensive now.

Glad this got recommended.... I am now addicted to your videos 🤠

Not you saying Shrek and spongebob is for millennials, I'm only 20 mate 🤣. Barbie, Mario, Shrek, Spongebob they're all up my alley

No matter what I buy at a Lush, a staffer will inevitably say, "That's my favorite." 🙄

I don’t know how Lush is profitable in south east Asia where our wage is definitely lower. In Malaysia, the average salary is about RM6000 and one bath bomb costs can cost RM50-150 which is crazy. People don’t pay that kind of money for a single use item. To put into perspective, the cost of a bath bomb is equal to a meal for 2-3 in a decent restaurant. Thankfully, they are shuttering everywhere in the past couple years.

I feel like the two biggest things that have turned me away from lush are the prices and the sales tactics. Even a few years ago the prices of things wouldn't be too bad, but they just seem to keep hiking them out without seemingly changing anything other than the packaging. Second, I absolutely HATE going into a LUSH store because you're bombarded by staff as soon as you walk in. Of course I don't blame the employees for this, it's what they're told to do, but I'd rather be able to explore the store and the products by myself. The smell of the shop is overhwleming for my autistic brain without a sales person coming up to me every 5 seconds. I think for Gen Z especially this sales tactic is really counterproductive, I have several friends who actively avoid going into lush, like myself, because the sales people are so aggresive.

I used to be so obsessed with lush I used to go every week after getting paid to stock up on bath bombs and yeah it was a treat but it wasn’t unaffordable but with their current prices I cannot at all justify spending that kind of money on something so unnecessary

i do think the critic of those idealistic companies is way too harsh everyone in their wright mind would go for clean products, animal testing free, organic, package free etc you can not steal or copy ratio

I once visited the flagship store in Oxford Street London and it seemed every member of staff came up to me to see if wanted any help. I guess they were bored out of their mind and talking to a customer would help. I have not been back since as I felt it was ridiculous harassment.

I thought Lush was a band I'd never heard of 😂

I like lush

omg as a linguist love the map with country names written in their native languages

I actually like some of their stuff, but I refuse to pay the prices.

I am a home based soap maker and to me their products were garbage. I was horrified by the “fresh” products they were selling. They are real lucky nobody died from bacterial contamination.

I really love Lush products but still use small business skincare too. Lush is just a treat every few months.

I can't get past the door: the smell gives me a headache.

I like both of your ideas for longer videos.

I used to love lush I stopped buying from them after they did an anti-police window campaign

Soon as they stopped selling Jungle I was outta there lol.Love to support Canadian co,pansies but the aggressive sales pounce and push to buy more things I didn’t want made me hate the company

I never looked very deeply into the Lush/Body Shop stuff. I always assumed they were owned by the same parent company to milk both sides of the ensuing consumer war, because they were so incredibly similar...

I remember when I used to work in retail one of there hr aproched to hire for lush when I read the contract was just slavery to get 2,days off you were obliged to work 60 hour a week no lunch break I was on the spot no thank you bye since then never steped to this day in any lush shop

Chemist here who focuses on science communication and cosmetic chemistry. 👉🏼 I think part of their downfall could also be growth of science education and higher education among consumers about greenwashing - and the understanding that natural is not better, but actually often times worse for the environment (synthesising vitamin C or menthol in the lab is much "cleaner" and more eco green than growing and watering plants, harvesting them, transporting them in cars that use fuel to factories, extracting them etc). We are not feeding everyone on the planet. We don't have space to grow all cosmetic ingredients.

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I like their Grass stuff.

I spent way to much money in the past but in my opinion The skin care never worked for me and the shampoos and conditioner smell good but hella way toooo over priced! And the bath bombs are just a waste of money lol The only thing i ever buy from lush now is the lord of misrule perfume…thats it….

I worked for Lush and it was horrible! Forced to annoy all customers for little pay

Ngl Selena and her stans are so stupid and fake I don't think they would actually care. She'll just take another 20 minute social media break and her stans will victimize her for being "bullied" Elton and Miley aren't grifters like she is.

Worked at my local lush for two seasonal years, they taught us such predatory selling practices and would constantly keep an eye on you to give you 'feedback'. 0/10 job if you don't like harassing people

Haven't set foot in Lush since a sales assistant swiped lotion up my arm without asking first. To make matters worse, when I complained online I was told "Oh, they're trained to do that!" as if it was a reason why I was being unreasonable. I'm allergic to lemon grass; if it had been a different lotion she could have put me in the hospital.

I don’t think people really understand how expensive the raw ingredients are and how much MORE expensive the ethical raw ingredients are. I’m seeing a theme in the comments and no it is not going to be the “standard” to be ethical bc that requires the whole word to be ethical and the reality is that is not possible. What is possible is to find the few and far between that choose to do the right thing. Also palm oil is not all bad and there is very so ethical fair trade palm oil

I remember I worked at a DavidsTea (canadian here!) (was another culty brand selling loose leaf tea on a country level and took a lot of marketing and product inspo from companies like Lush, Lululemon, Starbucks, and The Body Shop). While I was working there part-time, I'd been approached and harrassed by one of the Lush managers in the same mall to come and work for her. I was flattered at first, but I was also a student, so I really only had time for the one job and I told her that, but she just WOULD NOT STOP. If I wanted to shop at Lush, I had to buy online or go to another mall just so I wouldn't have to deal with her. Another time, I went into another Lush that I wasn't familiar with, and within 30 seconds of talking this worker GRABS my arm and starts scrubbing shit on it. Without asking. I was super taken aback. Thankfully, I didn't have any allergies! I left super quickly.

Fabulous video!