Chris Jackson cleans his teeth, but not his fingernails, with tablets – but do they actually work?
I like Lush. Lush are a nice company. If you’re not aware of them, Lush are a chain of shops that specialise in fresh and organic handmade cosmetic products, promoting the use of vegetarian ingredients, and only sticking things that are actually needed into their goods. You won’t find preservatives in seventy percent of their products and their packaging is always recyclable, whilst often being made from recycled material itself.
I remember when I was younger I hated even walking past their shops because the smell of all the soap made my nose block up, but my sense of smell must have adapted because I can now walk into their stores and spend at least five minutes in there. Five whole minutes.
Recently, I’ve noticed a growing trend among their products – more and more items are appearing in solid form. A block of shampoo. Solid deodorant. Hard hand cream. Apparently, it’s to save on packaging and to squash more product into less space, but it’s almost as though the shop-owners have an obsessive compulsive disorder, insistent that everything they stock is a solid block. Don’t get me wrong, though. I don’t think this is a bad thing. I like Lush, remember?
On my last visit, I stumbled upon ‘Toothy Tabs‘ – toothpaste in tablet form.
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