Lush Cosmetics has partnered with Mattel’s Barbie to create ‘naked’ products that don’t require any packaging.
Lush creative concepts director Melody Morton said the partnership with Barbie is “truly a dream come true for Lush.”
The package-free Barbie products include soaps, bath bombs and bubble bars.
Products that do require packaging will be part of the beauty brand’s Bring it Back closed-loop recycling programme which encourages customers to bring back its product plastic packaging to any of its stores for 50p credit. In 2022, Lush estimated that 720,000 packaging items were return to its shops through its circular economy scheme.
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Through its sustainable initiatives the beauty brand states it saves nearly “6 million plastic bottles globally from selling shampoo bars alone.”
“When packaging is unavoidable, we prefer to use recycled materials. 90%, by weight, of our packaging material is recycled and we’re working on the remaining 10%.”
“We like our packaging to be reused, recycled or composted at the end of their lives and aim to have 100% of our packaging recyclable or compostable,” it added.
As part of its mission of ‘leaving the world Lusher than we found it’, the brand also launched a new Green Hub at Fleets Corner Business Park in Poole.
In 2022 alone, the existing Green Hub scheme recycled 12 tonnes of polypropylene (PP) plastic through its Bring it Back scheme.
They also recycled 15 tonnes of PET product moulds in a closed loop, and recycled 998 tonnes of manufacturing waste, 81% of Lush’s total manufacturing waste for the UK.
