Ingredient
Charcoal
Benefit:
Natural
Charcoal deeply cleanses the skin and gives a gorgeous glow. Its soft, dry texture means it gently exfoliates, cleanses and polishes teeth, and helps to absorb excess oils. In deodorants, it effectively absorbs sweat and limits the growth of body odour producing bacteria.
Charcoal
Unlike most of the UK's charcoal (which is imported) the charcoal we use is produced close to LushĀ headquarters in Dorset,Ā to encourageĀ local industries and makeĀ sure it has less environmental impact.
Making charcoal is an ancient industry, which is not much practised today. Trees such as oak, ash, hazel and chestnut are grown in coppices managed by the Forestry Commission. These are then piled up and seasoned for some time before being stacked in kilns and burned for up to sixteen hours until the wood is carbonised and ground into a fine black powder.
While the larger pieces are sold as fuel, Lush buy smaller pieces to ensure no charcoal is wasted. They are then ground into a cosmetic grade fine powder. The UK produced charcoal is of the highest quality being of about 90% carbon (thatās the stuff that makes charcoal so effective).
