I later read on Lush’s website that each shampoo bar can give 80-100 washes, so I resolve to try using less in future. The conditioner is a little harder to master.

Since 2005, Lush Shampoo Bars have saved the use of nearly 180 million plastic bottles from landfill, which is estimated to be roughly 4,500 tonnes of plastic avoided.

Enter bar shampoo. I first discovered this style of shampoo at Lush Cosmetics. Their bar shampoo is roughly the shape of a small hockey puck. At 18 cents per gram it wasn’t cheap!

Since 2005, Lush Shampoo Bars have saved the use of nearly 180m plastic bottles from landfill, which is estimated to be roughly 4500 tonnes of plastic avoided.

According to Lush, shampoo bars were invented in 1987 by the brand’s co-founder Mo Constantine and cosmetic chemist Stan Krysztal for Cosmetics to Go (the former mail order company owned by the ...

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Since 2005, Lush Shampoo Bars have saved the use of nearly 180 million plastic bottles from landfill, which is estimated to be roughly 4,500 tonnes of plastic avoided.