​Lush Opens Its Largest Store on London’s Oxford Street

LONDON — Lush Cosmetics, the firm known for its handmade products that spotlight natural ingredients, on Thursday opened the doors to a sprawling, 9,500-square-foot space on London’s Oxford Street, its largest store globally. The three-story space is filled with Lush’s colorful product ranges, that span fizzing bath bombs to bar shampoos to Lush’s own fragrance line, called Gorilla perfume. There is also a Lush Spa with four treatment rooms in the store’s basement. Mark Constantine, cofounder and managing director of Lush, said at a launch breakfast for the store Thursday that while he had originally planned to focus on services in the store, such as grooming and hairdressing stations, he came to the conclusion that “people want stuff.” “Stuff is what you’ve got — we did 220 new products that aren’t available anywhere else, just for this store,” Constantine said. They include bath bombs in the shape of purple lotus flowers, a Life’s a Beach shower scrub and an Oxford Street soap. The firm has also introduced a new, three-hour treatment in the store’s spa, called The Planets, which combines massage, palm reading and a facial. A number of the exclusive products and treatments will launch at Lush stores globally over the next 18

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