Charity Pot Body Lotion
Lush invented the hand and body lotion called Charity Pot in 2007. 100% of the purchase price from this product goes towards supporting humanitarian, environmental and animal rights causes locally and around the world. Some of the organizations in Australia, supported by the Charity Pot are:
Lock the Gate:
Lock The Gate is an alliance of people from across Australia uniting to protect their common heritage- land, water and communities - from unsafe mining.
Edgars Mission:
Edgar’s Mission is a not for profit sanctuary for rescued farmed animals that seeks to create a humane and just world for humans and non-humans.
Since the launch of Charity Pot, it has donated more than $10,000,000 to 850+ grassroots charities in 42 countries. It also contains seven ingredients including fair trade Shea butter sourced from their sustainable SLush Fund projects around the world
SLush Fund & Permaculture
The motivation behind SLush fund was to move beyond simply buying fairly traded ingredients and, instead, developing compassionate and supportive partnerships with the communities that produce them.
The way it works is: 2% of the amount Lush spends on raw materials and packaging is donated to the Slush fund. This money is then used to start sustainable farming and community projects from scratch, some of which produce and process the ingredients used in Lush products.
The SLush Fund is based on the main principles of the -Permaculture movement. The permaculture practice operates around three main ethical principles – care of the earth, care of people, fair share.
Lush is committed to investing in the practice of permaculture in order to help regenerate everything that has been demolished by the use of chemicals in farming so far. This has depleted of the world soils, destructed habitats and also caused health problems and financial issues for farmers.
Permaculture is based on working with nature, rather than against it. A balanced ecosystem will ensure long term, regenerative system, which is also beneficial for humans needs.
So far, £1.2million has been spent to date in order to support the ongoing development of 32 projects in 19 different countries, seven of which produce materials that find their way into the Charity Pot.