Lush Avocado Co-Wash Shampoo Bar – a Great Option

This Lush Avocado Co-wash bar is a great option if you’re not ready to try the ‘no poo‘ hair wash method but you want to reduce the plastic that you buy. This conditioning shampoo bar fully cleansed my hair but it was a little irritating on my scalp.

All About Lush

In case you’re aware of Lush but haven’t tried their products – I thought I would share a little bit about Lush and what they do as a company.

Ethics

Lush was founded in 1995 by Mark Constantine and Liz Jenson. The first ever Lush shop was in Poole, Dorset UK where these days the headquarters is. The first shop was making cosmetics from locally sourced fruit and vegetables.

Lush has been committed to being cruelty free ever since they opened and they only buy raw materials from companies that are not involved in animal testing at all.

Environmentally

As a company Lush is really leading the way environmentally. They have operated the return 5 empty pots for a free face mask incentive, ever since I’ve known about them.

They’ve always tried to avoid packaging a lot as well and in recent years produced the ‘Naked’ packaging free range of shower gels, shampoo bars and skincare. When they have used packaging they use black pots which are made from 90% recycled materials.

Lush UK for the last 4 years has operated an air travel and carbon tax policy. This means for all the carbon that they produce they tax themselves per metric tonne and they pay this amount directly to fund climate change organisations and transport campaign groups.

They’ve replaced the palm oil that they were using as a soap base with eco friendly alternatives and they are constantly working on removing palm oil from the rest of their products, as well as encouraging other companies to do the same.

They also use paper bags in store and if you place an order for delivery the packing they use in the cardboard box to protect their products is made from corn starch so can be composted at home.

They are completely transparent about everything they do and all this information can be found on their website.

I’ve also written a post recently about a brand created by Simon Constantine who was a perfumer for Lush for many years. You can read the And Fragrance product review here.

Are Lush Products Vegan

Their products are 100% vegetarian and 85% of their products are vegan. Some of the products that aren’t vegan contain honey, lanolin or beeswax.

It’s quite easy to see in store and online if a product is vegan so they don’t make you work for it like some companies.

If you would like to know which beauty brands are fully cruelty free, click here.

Lush Avocado Co-Wash Shampoo Bar

I’ve been using this Lush Avocado Co-wash bar for about a month and overall I think this would be a very good option for a lot of hair types. It was £13.00 for 100g and although it lathers a little it doesn’t lather as much as the other shampoo bars I’ve tried. I feel like this isn’t a bad thing though and this will mean that it will last a really long time.

What Does Lush Avocado Co-Wash Smell Like?

It has a really nice fruity citrus scent if you like sweet scented products then you’ll love this one.

Ingredients:

Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Stearic Acid, Rosemary; Lavender Flower and Nettle Infusion, Fresh Avocado, Glyceryl Stearate & PEG-100 Stearate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Propylene Glycol, Water (Aqua), Ethyl Macadamiate, Perfume, Behentrimonium chloride, Bergamot Oil, Litsea Cubeba Oil, Olibanum Oil, Organic Avocado Oil, Cupuaçu Butter, Fair Trade Organic Cocoa Butter, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Citric Acid, Gardenia Extract, Cetrimonium Chloride, Amyl Cinnamal, *Benzyl Cinnamate, *Cinnamal, *Cinnamyl Alcohol, *Citral, *Limonene, *Linalool, Chlorophyllin, Colour 19140:1, Colour 42090:2, Colour 19140
Natural Ingredients
Safe Synthetics
*occurs naturally in essential oils.

How Do You Use Lush Avocado Co-Wash

You can either wet the bar and rub it between your hands to create a lather and then apply directly on your hair with your hands or the bar. Or you can break a tiny piece off and using some running water, work that into a paste to work into your scalp.

As it’s a conditioning shampoo bar you don’t necessary need a conditioning bar as well. However for my thick wavy hair I like to use a conditioner on the ends as I haven’t fully grown out previous damage from many years ago.

My thoughts

My final thoughts on this Lush Avocado Co-wash bar is that it’s a lovely product. It’s only slightly more expensive then their other shampoo bars as the others are only 55g and I do feel like it will last ages. If you try it and love it they will also cut you a bigger slice in the store if you didn’t want to run out.

I don’t think it will be the one I’ll use forever though as it does still irritate my scalp. However, it’s worth noting that every shampoo bar that I’ve tried over the years has irritated my scalp a little.

I don’t hate it though and I’m quite happy to continue using it on myself and my son until I find something less irritating for me.

Summary

In summary I think Lush are an amazing company and well worth supporting. I just personally wish that they would produce a fragrance free range. Fragrance for a lot of people isn’t really an issue but I’ve noticed my scalp gets irritated easily and fragrances or essential oils are not good for it.

That-being-said I don’t mind fragrance in body products as I only really avoid it in facial products, deodorant and shampoo.

I intend on trying out their packaging free foundation once I run out of my current one as it’s supposed to be a really great zero waste foundation, I’ll do a review of that one when I do.

I hope you enjoyed my post reviewing the Avocado Co-wash bar, leave me a comment if you do as that would make my day. I recently reviewed Beauty Kubes, if you want a plastic free shampoo and conditioner with fragrance free options.

I’ve also written a zero waste solid conditioner bar review if you’re looking for a plastic free conditioner.

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