Stef's rants: 2

[firecat]

In this entry I invited people to suggest topics for me to rant or blather about. Here is number 2, suggested by snippy.

How do you feel about Lush? If you use it, what are your favorites?

You sent me three Lush products, for which I am very grateful! I've used two of them: the "Butterball bath bomb" and the "Floating Island" (I broke it in half, and I just used the second half yesterday). I loved the way the bath bomb made my skin feel, which surprised me because I don't think of myself as having dry skin. But it made the tub really slippery and it took quite a long time to clean the tub. I liked the floating island, although the experience wasn't as impressive as the bath bomb. Both of them smelled nice and didn't have an overwhelming scent.

I'm glad that Lush labels their products and has vegan products and uses only natural ingredients and doesn't test on animals.

I haven't purchased any Lush products for myself so far because they cost more than I want to spend on a bath product, and I don't use cosmetics, and I have an everyday soap I'm happy with (Dr Bronner's Peppermint), and I have an industrial-sized bottle of cheap shampoo. But I might just need to buy more Butterballs for special occasions, and I might try out their hair products at some point. (Although putting fancy natural hair products on hair that is frequently tortured with peroxide and other harsh chemicals related to the dying process seems...odd.)

Comments

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Yes, but there's something not-right about getting stuff shipped that you can get locally. Aside from having to pay shipping, there's the wasted packaging, etc. I'd sit there the whole delivery time thinking, "Damn, am I ever lazy. I could have just hopped the subway downtown."

[firecat]

If you have good public transit, yeah. If you are making a special trip to the store by car, then having it delivered probably saves gas, since the delivery van is probably in your area anyway. Fortunately, we can recycle all our packing materials in one way or another.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Recycling stuff is good, but it's better to not have them have been used in the first place. :) But yeah, we do have good public transit that will take me more or less directly to Lush. I'm just lazy. ;)

I ordered something from Mountain Equipment Co-op once, which is local, albeit slightly harder to get to, simply because I kept not getting there. I felt bad about it the whole time. Really, I could have ridden my bike down -- it would have made a really nice ride.