Almonds
Sourced from hundreds of local almond growers in Majorca in Spain who have acquired their knowledge and expertise from previous generations. Working with local growers helps preserve the traditional Majorcan heritage, while providing them with jobs and good income.
Rosewood Oil
Lush purchased a section of the Amazon rain forest along with the logging rights in order to stop the deforestation of the area. The Rosewood oil is sourced form trees that have fallen down naturally or through pruning. They do not cut any trees manually to source the ingredient.
Rose Absolute
Vanilla Absolute
Lush is the 2nd biggest Rose buyer in the world. It is used in almost all their products. It is sourced from Turkey from a small family owned business. They choose to pay their suppliers extra money for the product, as children are unable to afford an education. The premium they pay on every kilogram of oil goes towards the building and subsequent running of a local primary school.
Lush is the first and only company in the world to use fair trade vanilla absolute. It is sourced from Western Uganda from Ndali estate and employs up to 1200 fair trade farmers. These fair trade farmers work hard to develop new techniques to encourage growth and are paid fairly for their efforts.
Cocoa Beans
These are souced from Western Columbia in San Jose De Apatado. Lush has helped this community by providing employment by purchasing their cacao. Lush also accepted the communities fair trade application which ensured they were gettng paid fairly for their efforts. Lush named this community the peace community due to the farmers pledging themselves to non violence due to the on going conflict in this area. The cocoa beans are used in a variety of their products including the charity pot lotion.