Easter is one of the sweetest holidays of the year, but Lush Cosmetics‘ Easter is sweeter. Lush Easter is ethical, as well as colourful and fragrant. Lush Cosmetics’ secret for such goodness is a very rich raw material: fair-trade cocoa butter.
Cocoa butter, the fondant heart in many Lush products, has been carefully sourced by the British brand to support local communities living in poverty or war risk areas.
This ‘good’ raw material comes from the Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó in Colombia, a fierce community of little farmers who chose a non-violence life in the climate of continuous clashes among the country army, the right-wing paramilitary groups and guerrillas, and from the FUNDOPO and CONACADO associations, two foundations gathering small cocoa butter farmers in the Dominican Republic. For many Dominican farmers, selling their products, individually and organically cultivated with simple techniques, at a fair price is a hard task. These two associations allow farmers to reinvest their solidarity awards within the local communities by improving the quality of life and supporting their field activities.
This cocoa butter represents an immense value for the Colombian and Dominican communities and a natural treat for our skin. The butter from cocoa beans has a high moisturising and softening effects, and it’s the secret of the self-preservation power of many Lush products (but this is another story!).
Among the products with a melting cocoa heart and Easter limited editions, these are worth to be tried:
Charity Pot, super-hydrating body cream with vanilla notes, whose proceeds go from time to time to no-profit associations;
Pearl and Peace massage oil bars;
Over and Over bath bomb;
the Easter new release Scrubee, a honey-based moisturising body scrub,
and Golden Idea, half bath melt half bath bomb, a hydrating nugget completely covered in gold dust.
Why is Lush Cosmetics’ choice so important? Cocoa Butter (Theobroma Cacao) is common in the food and cosmetic industries but is very long and expensive to produce, thus it’s a tempting ingredient giving way to land and labour overexploitation.
If you want to taste Lush Cosmetics ‘chocolicious’ products and Easter bath and body limited editions, visit the closest Lush shop or surf your local Lush Cosmetics site. Easter and its delicacies are tastier, guilt-free and more ethical if the cocoa butter comes from a fair production!
Valentina Chirico aka Valens
