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ISSUE #002
SPRING 2024
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Lush Co-Founder, Mark Constantine, shares what’s on his mind. MARK'S RAMBLES “I was brought up in different times. There was a lot of violence: from teachers, the other kids, the Headmaster. People were often horrible to anyone different. Rockers beat up Mods, Skinheads fought racist battles, being gay was illegal and it was deemed okay to make fun of those less fortunate. Like most, I like kindness and politeness. It seems to be that those who complain about the world becoming “too woke” want to return to those bad times that I grew up in. Although we have a long way to go, how lovely is it that societies are now starting to move beyond those old ways. On the topic of kindness, we believe in being kind to your skin. At Lush, we have had a lot of young folk come to us who have overused products with harsh, active ingredients and ended up with problems. If this chimes with you, the solution is Lush’s Ultrabland Facial Cleanser. Use it to clean the skin regularly for a month or so, and nothing else, to get things back to where they belong.
LUSH NEWS
WHAT’S IN A PRODUCT NAME? The latest addition to our core fragrance range, Alina, was created by the Lush perfumer of the same name. Inspired by the generations of women who came before her, Alina sought to celebrate inter-generational connection in this complex and timeless three-part scent.
Trinity Wong at Lush Toronto Eaton Centre
Forbes’ ‘Best Companies for Women’
Lush was listed as one of Forbes’ World’s Best Employers, as well as Best Companies For Women. Co-Founder Helen Ambrosen says: “A culture which enables women to pursue their long-term career ambitions has brought their influence and ideas to the company. Lush has benefited greatly from their hard work and commitment. We are so proud to see this has been recognized with this award and we dedicate it to them.”
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All the love for Charity Pot Last year you put your support behind the little pot that does a lot, making it our most-sold product of 2023. Because of your support, since 2007 we’ve donated just over $93m USD/$125m CAD globally to grassroots organizations working in the areas of animal protection, human rights, and the environment. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you.
Q What does Alina smell like?
Q Why did you name the perfume Alina?
The below ingredients are blended to give a sweet, spicy, powdery, earthy, soapy and musky character to the perfume.
It’s my name, a name which was chosen by my grandmother. It is an example of how generations influence each other; how they are still and always will be relevant in our lives. Q What was the inspiration for the fragrance?
TOP NOTES The first impression
Thank you for Bringing It Back
At first spritz, Alina is sweet and fresh thanks to bergamot oil, pink pepper and clove bud oil, along with the scents of warm amber and vanilla.
We are always thinking about animal testing, which is another outdated piece of violence from the past. We think it needs banning. Turn to page 6 to find out what we’re doing about that.
Since the refresh of our Bring it Back program in 2021, we’ve collected more than 5 million pieces of packaging globally, all of which are recycled to create fresh Lush pots. By bringing back your black and clear pots to us, not only do you help us to close the loop on plastic, but you also get money off your next purchase, or a free fresh face mask once you save up five items. It’s the Lush way to recycle.
BERGAMOT OIL
Rewilding in Peru Over 10 years ago, we acquired two Peruvian forest concessions. But instead of cutting trees, we worked with local people to preserve biodiversity. In one of the concessions we are hand-harvesting Brazil nuts to produce nutrient-rich oil, used in products like Candy Rain Conditioner and Ro’s Argan Body Conditioner. In a recent study, it was found that one of the concessions supports over 300% more primate life than outside the land boundaries, as well as some species that were only spotted in this area. Lush products can, quite literally, leave the world lusher. Scan the code to see some of the beautiful wildlife images from the camera trap.
It came from reading “The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity”.
MIDDLE NOTES The heart of it
The book explains how our lives will be affected by living longer and how the old system with three stages of life (education, work and retirement) will no longer suit our needs. We will need to reinvent ourselves, and this will lead us to natural interaction between all ages. I created three distinct fragrances, each one representing a different generation born in the last 100 years. I then blended these together to create one perfume, representing how the generations will mix together again, all thanks to longer life.
Happy reading. Mark”
Then comes a more floral and aldehydic center with jasmine and orris butter–a sweet, powdery oil, reminiscent of the scent of violets.
ORRIS BUTTER
BASE NOTES The lasting impact Finally, there’s a woody
and deep undercurrent of frankincense, patchouli, vetiver and sandalwood oils.
FRANKINCENSE
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