Ethical Sourcing

At LUSH we want to know where our ingredients come from and how they're made. Our buyers have been to Ghana, Morocco, Papau New Guinea, Vancouver and the Colorado Rockies in search of the very best ethical ingredients. What we buy should have a positive effect on the communities and the environment it came from. We purchase unrefined shea butter from a women's cooperative in Ghana, and the rhassoul mud powder we buy in Morocco supports a village.

Vanilla works wonders on dry skin and helps banish sadness.

Our organic vanilla beans come from co-op mountain plantations in Papua, New Guinea. These small, remote farms grow their beans in pristine conditions and never use herbicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizers or artificial additives,

Rhassoul mud's absorbency makes it an effective cleanser.

Our rhassoul mud supplier, Societe Du Ghassoul, is a family-run business. It has been operating in Fes, a community located alongside the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, since the king granted it the exclusive rights in 1954.

Purchasing rhassoul mud from this region means Societe Du Ghassoul can continue to provide facilities for workers, including living accommodation, a social room, medical care, an on-site ambulance and a mosque.

Shea butter moisturizes, helps prevent wrinkles and provides natural UV sun protection.

Our fairly traded shea butter is organic and produced by hand using traditional methods in the towns and villages around Tamale in northern Ghana. The production process does not involve chemicals or solvents. We purchase it from the Akoma Women's project, a co-op that offers fair wages and good working conditions to the 130 women who work there and helps support local communities.

Seaweed has a high mineral content and healing qualities.

We use several varieties in our product line. Our seaweed comes from a family-owned business in British Columbia, Canada dedicated to supplying quality kelp products using good ecological practices. All of their seaweed is collected from pristine waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island, an area with the richest kelp flora in the world. All harvesting is government-regulated and no plants are destroyed; they continue to grow and reproduce after harvesting.