Lush Kitchen / Kitchen Item
Up until October 2017, every Friday (formally Sunday) the Lush Kitchen team uploaded a menu of exclusive Lush items on to Instagram. They would bring back old products, much loved out of season products and sometimes they even introduced new products through it.
The products were made in small batches meaning they had a limited amount to sell – this is what made the Lush Kitchen items so very exclusive. The Lush Kitchen was often described as the ‘Lush Hunger Games’, to avoid disappointment you’d have to be online and ready to order by 8AM (GMT).
Being super-quick online gave you an advantage as products were known to sell out within minutes. Sadly Lush closed their ‘Lush Kitchen’ in October 2017, much to the disappointment of the Lush Community.
Lush Kitchen Subscription Box
As of May 2020 the much missed Lush Kitchen made a return in a brand new format. The Lush Kitchen subscription box offers a selection of exclusive, vegan Lush products every month.
Each month the selection of products you receive are personalised by the subscribers vote, also included are a few surprises thrown in from Lush. Every month you receive 4-5 bath, shower and skincare products that you can’t get anywhere else.
As of January 2024 the Lush Kitchen stopped letting subscribers of the box vote for the products that would feature switching to curated ahead-of-time boxes instead.
Lush Flagship Store
In 2015 Lush Cosmetics opened their flagship store in Oxford Street, London.
Up until March 2019, Lush Oxford Street was the worlds biggest Lush store, now Lush’s official flagship store is in Church Street, Liverpool.
This Liverpool store is currently the largest Lush store in the world and boasts a Lush Spa, Lush hair salon and a Lush Florist. I have used all 3 of those services since the store opened and cannot recommend them enough!
In December 2023 Lush opened another flagship store, in Glasgow, Scotland. I have visited once and was very impressed with the size and how they’ve filled the space.
Lushie
Have you been to a Lush store more than once? visited the Lush website ooo’d at their products? had a Lush bath/Shower? Then you’re a Lushie!
Lush Scent Family
Lush Cosmetics do so much more than mix random essential oils together. They master scents. Once a scent is mastered over a very long period of time (sometimes years) they create an abundance of products that share that mastered scent.
This is where the Lush term ‘scent family’ comes from, if a product shares the same scent as another new or old one, it’s a part of that scent family.
Lush Co-Create Programme
The Lush Co-Create Programme is a product creation internship for Lush staff aiming to promote diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging.
The program allows employees from various backgrounds to collaborate on product concepts, drawing from their personal experiences and cultural heritage.
This approach helps create products that resonate with customers on a deeper level as they reflect the values and stories of the communities they represent.
I will add any Co-Created products that I review to their own category on here.
Lush Upon A Time 