Sleeping Lush Products

Along with using mostly fresh and natural ingredients, Lush is also a rather eco-friendly company regarding packaging and such.  Whatever product does NOT need formal packaging is sold loose and given in yellow bags that will disintegrate and can be used for compost.  Read more about their eco-friendly steps here.

As one can imagine, it becomes a question of how to store Lush unpackaged products while they are not being used for the moment.  The oils from the products will start to leak through the yellow bags.  If one leaves something really natural out, one might find critters around and on one’s products [I’m only saying this part because I found a roach hiding inside a bag of lush products, which the products were protected in their individual Ziploc bags; otherwise, I don’t find ants and things crawling around the products].

So, what to do?

I started with putting loose products into Ziploc baggies.  Even though it kind of defeats the purpose of being eco-friendly, the bags were what I had on hand. 

Recently I started to put as many soap chunks as possible into the containers that the samples had come in once I had used up the samples.  Here is a picture of the Sexy Peel and the Honey I Washed the Kids soaps in the two sample containers that I had.  One can see the bottom label says “Flying Fox”- that was the sample but the picture has Honey I Washed the Kids soap in there.  Some people on YouTube label their containers but I only have a small collection of products and know what they are just by looking.  Still, it could be fun and decorative to make labels for the containers if one would like to.

For the solid products that I use currently, I keep them in the square body butter travel tin.  I carry the smaller chunks of soaps and solid shampoo in the tin to carry back and forth from my room to the shower.  When not in use, I like to keep the tin in my room and opened so that the products dry out and stay better.

Also note: the solid shampoo is rather softer and can break apart easily if left damp.  So I drain excess water from the travel tin before taking it back to my room, and I make sure to stand up the shampoo on its edge instead of flat.  This way, more of it will dry faster and the shampoo stays mostly as one piece; some smaller pieces might get soft and settle on the bottom of the tin anyway but not much. 

Related note: I don’t remember if I’ve said this before but I’ll say it here with photos also.  I use the solid shampoo and the soaps on their thinnest edges and wear them down that way.  I find that if I use them on their flattest, broadest surface, as I normally would if I used other brand soaps like Dove or Irish Spring or Melaleuca, etc., then the Lush soap/solid shampoo tends to break up a lot as it wears thin and I end up with a bunch of little pieces.  So to keep the soap/ solid shampoo in one piece longer, I wear it down on its smallest edge and it starts to become like a ball.

The picture shows an unused Godiva solid shampoo to the upper right- it looks like a hockey puck.  Then on the left is what the Godiva looks like as I wear it down on its narrow edge- the bottom of that piece where it looks flat is the edge that I use to lather it into my hair.  The small ball is a piece of Sexy Peel soap- I put it in the middle of my washcloth, cover it up, and sort of rub it into the washcloth, then I can put it in the tin and continue rubbing the washcloth together to lather up more.

I keep an unused fresh Godiva solid shampoo in its tin.  When you buy 2 solid shampoos or body butters or massage bars, you will get a free tin, a small round one for the shampoos or a medium square tin for the body butters, and some of the massage bars come with an oval tin. 

And as part of Lush’s recycling program, one can “bring back 5 [empty] black pots and get a fresh face mask free.”  Says so on the black pot label.  Nice.  So far, I’ve only gotten the R&B that comes in the black pot, so it’ll be a long while before I get to try a mask.  

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I also have a storage idea coming up.  I will have to burn up a candle first.  Then when that is done, I'm going to clean out the candle jar and turn it into storage for various Lush products.  I'm going to post soon about the candle itself and then also the storage idea.

Thank you for reading.

P.S. When I've been adding on that Lush products make great gifts, I wasn't hinting about me but just to give anyone an idea for week-before-Christmas gifts for your loved one.  To find a Lush store near you or to shop online, visit http://www.lushusa.com/shop.