|Beauty| #GayIsOk

Can you imagine a world where loving someone could be illegal?  Well this is true in 76 countries, because it’s a crime to be gay, including 10 countries where it’s punishable by death.  And in no country in the world, do lesbian, gay, bi or trans people have full equality.  As a huge supporter of the LGBTQ community and a human being I think this is unacceptable! 

#GayIsOk is the new campaign from LUSH, which launched on June 25th and will run until July 4th.  During this time LUSH will be selling the Love Soap, which is a fun and deliciously scented gold bar soap with all proceeds going to support grassroots LGBTQ equality groups all around the world!  The idea is to share the love by using social media to snap a picture of customers with their Love Soap and to let the world know why they think #GayIsOkay.  The funds raised will be granted to the groups through the All Out website.  

Help spread the word and support those that need our help to have the same basic rights to love that you have.  Everyone should be allowed to love, because no one has the right to take love away from anyone else.  Being gay should not be seen as a crime, and it’s time the world woke up to that fact.  I think #GayIsOk and I hope you will show your support by making the $5.95 donation to All Out and smelling fantastic as a result!  The Love Soap will be available in LUSH stores everywhere and online.   

Everyone deserves love!  

p.s Happy PRIDE Week to everyone in Toronto!

|Beauty| Life's A Beach

Unless you’ve been living in an unfortunate hole in the ground, you would have heard about all the damage that microbeads have been causing.  Microbeads, the teeny tiny bites of plastic that come in common everyday items like scrubs and toothpaste are too small to be filtered out by water filtration systems.  These harmful little things have been collecting up and polluting our waterways, and in turn, poisoning marine life.  

The good news is that LUSH has come up with a wonderfully scented solution.  I was lucky enough to get a first look at Life’s A Beach, the limited edition body scrub, with natural scrubbers - no damaging plastics here!  

Life’s A Beach Body Scrub offers scrubbing sand and fine sea salt, to gently exfoliate the skin.  Both are easy on the skin and perfect for the environment!  Not only does your skin feel silky soft, it smells delicious.  It wouldn’t be an amazing LUSH product without an intoxicating scent, and the sweet vanilla-caramel does not disappoint!  It’s sweet, but not too sweet, and it leaves a delicate lingering on the skin well after use.  

If all that wasn’t amazing enough, 100% of the sale price goes to good use.  The $6.95 from each 3.3oz pot, goes to grassroots organizations working towards putting an end to microplastic pollution.  A luxurious, natural scrub that makes your skin and heart feel good?  100% of the sales going to help the cause?  YAS KWEEN!  

Get your hands on this beautiful new and limited product, Friday June 5th, both online and in store! 

|Beauty| Mother's Day LUSH Treats

As a lover of all things that smell and feel amazing, I was thrilled to get a chance to try out some of the new products from LUSH.  With Mother’s Day just around the corner (May 10th - get on it!), it’s no surprise that this fresh cosmetics brand has some incredible new products to spoil your mums with!  I choose the Rose Bombshell Bath Bomb, Rose Bubble Bar and the Yummy Mummy Body Conditioner to try out.

Nothing says luxury like a hot bath, especially when there are rose petals floating around the tub with you.  LUSH has made bathing with them an even more luscious experience by adding an explosion of rose petals to the Rose Bombshell Bath Bomb.  As the fast fizzing outer layer dissolves a burst of red whirls out.  The bomb leaves the bathwater milky, with the beautiful sent of rose oil, rosewood, orange flower absolute and neroli.    

It wouldn’t be a Lush bath if bubbles weren’t involved!  I love bubble baths, always have and probably always will.  Not only is the Rose Bubble Bar oh-so-cute, but it’s the gift that keeps on giving.  You can break a piece off and crumble it under running water and save the rest for other bath times to come.  While the bar is a precious bathroom accessory, the skin-softening ingredients like cocoa butter and Rosehip need to be experienced!  So if you do get this for your mom, make sure she doesn’t just decorate the bathroom counter with it (like I know my mom would try to do).  

Though I am not a mummy, I see no reason why I can’t be yummy!  As a fan of LUSH’s other Body Conditioners I knew that I would fall in love with Yummy Mummy.  The fresh sent of strawberries, the ultra moisturizing feeling of murumu butter and fair trade cocoa butter have got me hooked!  Not only does it hydrate your skin, but you can use it to shave your legs with!  What mom wouldn’t love a multi-tasker?

You can grab these great gifts alone, or as part of a pre-made Mother’s Day gift, all cute and wrapped up for your moms (or yourself!)  I know if you try these, or the other goodies from the Mother’s Day range you will fall in floral, fresh love with LUSH.  And if you gift them to your mom, she might just love you a little more too!    

All this talk of roses and the smell of spring has got me inspired to go floral!  Check out the blog all this week for Floral Week!  

**All bath time goodies c/o LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, all opinions are my own