Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: Lush Diwali collection
This isn’t the first year that Lush have offered a Diwali collection – but it’s our favourite yet. To mark the five day festival – which celebrates the victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and starts this year next Monday, 20th October – it’s traditional to light lamps, decorate your house, wear your best new togs, set off fireworks and exchange sweeties. (Our kind of festival, too!)
We appreciate very much that LUSH’s Diwali range is developed via their Co-Create programme, which involves employees who traditionally celebrate Diwali, ensuring that everything is culturally representative and sensitive. (They even get a name check from Lush – Himani Sethi (Lush Liverpool), Shruti Vasista (Lush Oxford Street), Koyel Bhowmik (Lush Swindon), Devansh Jaswal (Lush Canada) and Sarah Deb (Lush Rome) all worked on the range.
We also appreciate very much that it’s affordable. And even if Diwali isn’t something that is celebrated in your house… well, why not? Is any excuse too slim for lighting lamps and tucking into sweets, in the world we live in? And have a scented wallow, in the bathroom…?
Inspired by the festival’s scents, traditions and colours, then, here’s what’s on the cards from Lush for Diwali 2025…
• Prakash Bath Bomb – its co-creator Himani Sethi explains, the bath bomb unlocked childhood memories, for her, because ‘this scent (ylang ylang, citrus, rose absolute) has the same fragrance as a hair oil my nana (maternal grandfather) always wore…’ (It’s the same scent as Lush’s Softy Bath Bomb and New Rose soap.) The rangoli design was chosen to welcome positive energy into the bath, and as it fizzes, infuses the water with a deep shimmering mauve and aqua.
• Delight & Decadence Massage Bar – with golden particles to veil skin in radiance, this blends organic Fairtrade cocoa butter – which melts so beautifully at skin temperature – with shea butter sourced from the Ojoba Women's Shea Cooperative in Bolgatanga, Ghana, infusing it with sustainable sandalwood and sweet, woody amyris. Honestly a heavenly scent.
• Mango Lassi Shower Gel – coconut is often broken open and placed at altars during Diwali, to invite good fortune and honour the deities. Gently lathering, this is the work of three Co-creators; as Sarah Deb (based at a Rome Lush store) says: ‘Traditionally this drink is made with yogurt, coconut milk, and mango – and for me, it brings back memories of big family meals and the joy of sharing that Diwali is all about. In our home, it just wouldn’t be Diwali without a big glass of mango lassi.’
• Mango Kulfi Body Conditioner – our fave in the collection, lush (hah – in every way!), this is a great, sweet-citrus-scented in-shower moisturiser; simply massage into skin in the bath or shower, then rinse off to leave skin with a gorgeous, shimmery golden finish, using organic Peruvian jojoba oil and organic, Fair For Life mango butter from women’s cooperatives in India.
• For any friend who needs a little light in his/her life, the Sparks of Joy duo brings together Mango Lassi Shower Gel and Mango Kulfi Body Conditioner (above), in one brightly-coloured, spirit-lifting bundle.
And it only remains for us to say… happy Diwali!
• Prakash Bath Bomb/£6 – buy here
• Delight & Decadence Massage Bar/£12 for 75g – buy here
• Mango Lassi Shower Gel/from £9 for 120g – buy here
• Mango Kulfi Body Conditioner/from £12 for 100g – buy here
• Sparks of Joy Gift/£18.50 – buy here
