Lush...urghhh

OnTheUp_2-2

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Firstly, a degree in organic chemistry isn't necessary to read a product listing - ie, it doesn't contain complicated structural formulae, it's plain(ish) English.

However, studying the subject makes it more likely to be aware of the subtle differences between the common usages of the term 'organic'. As you are so well-informed, you know of these differences already, but perhaps someone else reading the posts didn't.

Secondly, if you were already so well informed (and had a darn good reason to be so), why on earth did you -

a. not check online for ingredients listings which are easily available, and decide there and then that the shop was not selling suitable products?

b. take the word of a sales rep, who has to make a living after all?

c. buy the stuff when you were apparently unable to even squeeze in a 'what's in it?'

d. use the stuff without checking the ingredients before they went on your skin?

I cannot understand why you would buy any product without checking the ingredients first if you are keen to avoid certain compounds.

It's like a vegetarian avoiding meat until they order the soup of the day in a restaurant, and being upset when it turns out that it was chicken, saying they had to order it without asking what it was because the chatty waitress said her nan likes it.

Thanks for your thoughts. re the Green people products, they are products that are suitable to myself and my families needs ie their toothpaste which does not give my daughetr a rash around her mouth.

In answer to your points

a.. bit difficult to check online in the middle of the high street

b.. I guess I must be silly to listen to what the mouth piece of a company are saying.. After all it probably is wrong of me to assume that they had been trained very specifically in their products and their suitabilities. i guess what your saying is they lie.. well even MORE reason not to purchase from them!!!

c.. My husband chose his own products, I am not inclined in making his decisions for him and certain products I looked at and gave a try when we got home that evening. I did not want to waste the money spent and didnt want to use the stuff on the children and so used it myself.

d. Some of the stuff purchased was free of SLS and my initial comment was that I didnt actually like it as it made us all spotty because it clogged our pores and was too rich


Of the stuff I picked I did check the ingredients and chose the best i could. Like many other people I like to buy a nice variety and do not want our whole range to be from one company. Therefore I thought Lush was a good shop to walk into. Of the products that were totally unsuitable, I didnt purchase?


Im sorry but clearly were two different people. After a long hard day with two toddlers hanging off you in a busy shop in which they want to shove their fingers in everything and you have an assitant who appears off her head on drugs dancing round you bombarding you with products, while your husband is tapping you on the shoulder repeatedly saying "what about this, what about that" ................ well I guess im just a complete dipstick for not being 100% on th ball!!!!

Being a veggie is pretty simple isnt it really, so to compare that to me choosing suitable cosmetics with many different ingredients under many different names, yup yu guessed it im not a chemist, is slightly more tricky.

My point remains the same. The staff are full of crap and would even other their right arm if you were prepared to buy it. The shop gives you an instant headache and the ethos they portray is not quite as it really is.


Oh and it made me spotty... now thats just me, but I only came on here to have a Vent about how I felt.. I cant and am not trying to speak about other peoples views

voiceofreason

OnTheUp wrote: »

I guess I must be silly to listen to what the mouth piece of a company are saying.. After all it probably is wrong of me to assume that they had been trained very specifically in their products and their suitabilities. i guess what your saying is they lie.. well even MORE reason not to purchase from them!!!

Make your mind up.

Either you know the score about Lush already and are well switched-on, or you're not, and you need their sales advice.

charliee_3

i do like the concept of lush, i used to love it when it was cosmetics to go back in the day, but i find their products quite harsh, their soaps are very 'soapy' (now i know that sounds stupid but i find soap very drying.... and the bath bombs leave your skin greasy but once that wears off, not softer than anything else..
i like the angels on bare skin face scrub though, smells gorgeous and full of lavender..

Gigervamp

You mention the products blocking your pores and making you spotty. Did they by any chance have cocoa butter in them?

Cocoa butter is a known comodogenic. That means that it's known to clog pores. If the products you used had cocoa butter, I highly suspect that's the culprit.

Gigervamp

charliee wrote: »

i do like the concept of lush, i used to love it when it was cosmetics to go back in the day,

Oh, I used to love Cosmetics To Go! A day trip to Poole wasn't complete without a visit to 29 and a half, High Street to stock up on goodies!

My favourites were the perfume Ginger and Smaragadine bubble bath. I was so glad when Lush started selling Smaragadine again, although it's horrendously expensive. I did treat myself to a bottle a couple of years ago and made it last for months! Need to get another one.

OnTheUp_2-2

Gigervamp!! I think you may just be right :-))) thanks for that. We found the worse products for this were Ultrabland=Ultraspotty, and the massage bars and one of the bath bars/bombs,

charliee_3

Gigervamp wrote: »

Oh, I used to love Cosmetics To Go! A day trip to Poole wasn't complete without a visit to 29 and a half, High Street to stock up on goodies!

My favourites were the perfume Ginger and Smaragadine bubble bath. I was so glad when Lush started selling Smaragadine again, although it's horrendously expensive. I did treat myself to a bottle a couple of years ago and made it last for months! Need to get another one.

i used to buy their 'ration books' where you could get loads of products really cheap. i liked the happy hippy shower gel. I loved the way they turned up all wrapped in string and brown paper like a proper parcel..

i do find the shops overpowering though.. everything smells the same.. bloody strong!! i usually end up buying nothing as it gives me a headache...

Gigervamp

OnTheUp wrote: »

Gigervamp!! I think you may just be right :-))) thanks for that. We found the worse products for this were Ultrabland=Ultraspotty, and the massage bars and one of the bath bars/bombs,

You know for future reference now.

To be honest, if it wasn't for all the research that I've done over the last 7 years of making cosmetics, I wouldn't have known about it. It's a lovely butter, but it can be problematic.

Gigervamp

charliee wrote: »

i do find the shops overpowering though.. everything smells the same.. bloody strong!! i usually end up buying nothing as it gives me a headache...

Gives me a headache too. I do go into the shops occasionally, but I'm in and out in a couple of minutes!

charliee_3

Gigervamp wrote: »

Gives me a headache too. I do go into the shops occasionally, but I'm in and out in a couple of minutes!

can be useful though.. i got lost in brighton once and managed to find my way back to the main street by following my nose to the lush shop!! lol