At LUSH, we love knowing where our fresh ingredients come from and how they’re made. It’s the responsibility of our Creative Buying team to get out there to show us how this happens. Our buyers have been to Ghana, Morocco, Papau New Guinea, Hawaii, Vancouver, New Caledonia and the Colorado Rockies in search of the very best, ethically and sustainably sourced ingredients they can find.

Organic Shea Butter
Our fairly traded Shea Butter is organic and handmade using age-old traditional methods in the towns and villages around Tamale in northern Ghana. Purchasing Shea Butter from the Akoma Women’s project helps support local communities and provides a fair wage and good working conditions for the 130 women who work there.

Organic Vanilla Beans
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, insecticides, chemical fertilizers or artificial additives.

Rhassoul Clay
The supplier of our Rhassoul Mud, Societe Du Ghassoul, is a family run business that has been operating in Fes, a community located alongside the Atlas Mountains. Workers of the mines are provided living accommodations, medical care and a mosque.

Seaweed
We source our seaweed from a family owned business in British Columbia that is dedicated to the development of quality kelp products and services in the context of good ecological and humanitarian practices.

Sea Salt
Our sea salt is freshly harvested on the Island of Molokai in Hawaii using the cleanest Pacific Ocean waters. This partnership provides a fulfilling business opportunity consistent with Molokai’s environment and culture, which is a community based, micro-economic business.

Sandalwood oil
Traditionally from India, intensive felling and government restrictions mean that we have had to find more sustainable sources of Sandalwood oil. Earlier this year we visited New Caledonia, a set of small islands off the South Pacific, where the indigenous Kanak tribesmen have strict quotas of wood they are permitted to cut down, which allows for natural regeneration in the forest. They also plant three sapling Sandalwood trees for every one they cut down.