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This Lush Product is Sprouting Plants in People’s Bathrooms
It’s the first day of spring, so it seems appropriate that Lush is bringing a some unexpected May-flowers to its fans not-quite-April showers.
Lush has been a winner with people looking for more natural beauty products for years, with their ingredient-focused formulas and their cruelty-free promises. Still, we’re betting nobody was planning to incorporate quite as much nature into their beauty regimen as fans of the Lush Wiccy Magic Muscles massage bar who began noticing tiny tendrils creeping up their shower drain.
Turns out the little green visitors are the result of discarded aduki beans from the bar sprouting in the warm, damp environment of shower drains. The beans, which give the muscle-relaxing bar a gentle massaging feel, are common in Asian cooking and are perfectly safe, if slightly freaky when you step into your morning shower to find a miniature forest. As Lush cofounder Helen Ambrosen told Buzzfeed, “In order for the beans to germinate, they must have been left in the shower for a few days. The results you get just go to show how fresh the ingredients really are.”