Lush Cosmetics UK needs to shut all stores effective immediately for the safety of its staff. Lush brands itself an ethical company, for the most part something can all agree with. However their treatment of the COVID-19 outbreak has been lacklustre at best. Advice shown on BBC news, as well as hundreds of other reputable sources, suggests we treat the pandemic as though we are all infected and are preventing the spread, not trying to prevent contracting it.





Lush are an ethical company and claim to care deeply about staff, which for the most part is true. Not closing Lush stores puts workers and customers alike at risk, especially those who are high risk and can not afford to take time to self isolate as we’re also told no extra sick pay unless you have symptoms.

we’ve been told the company is following governmental guidelines. The government has suggested herd immunity which only works if 80% of the population is immune. For that roughly 50 million people need to contract the virus. With a mortality rate of up to 2%, 1 Million people could die. This is not the sign of a government with anything under control, for Lush to commit to agreeing with this and not sending staff home with full pay, as Lush America have done, is only going to negatively impact workers and customers alike.



With various staff sick it’s only a matter of time before this goes too far. We can’t do our jobs to the best of our ability and there’s no customers to do so anyway.

Lush, as it has previously, needs to lead the way, close its stores with full pay for staff to combat statutory sick pay being a tiny amount and rents/bills not being frozen