Come to the Dark side - enabling others to lush...

I tried to enable my sister with Ocean Salt, and she liked it...but she's not a lushie by any stretch (she didn't inherit the "shopaholic gene" like I did :o). I enabled two friends from college, though. One was in London with me when I discovered Lush, and the other one I enabled after we both graduated.

I've enabled a lot of people with the solid shampoo bars, and the bubble bars. Also, when I was working there over xmas one year, I had a piece of HIWTK in my purse when I went out to a pub with friends, so I used it to wash my hands in the bathroom (I don't always carry my own soap around with me, just had a sample that day). Well, I ended up enabling several complete strangers, who were just so tempted they had to ask where I got my delicious honey smelling soap from! They came into the shop the next day to buy some!

Usually bath bombs and shower gels, as they're the easiest and most "normal". I worry with skincare because I don't want to buy them something that's wrong for their skintype. My mom, I got her hooked with some buttercream, but that's because she makes her own shower gel and would be more intrigued by something a little different.

I've used the massage bars and the bath bombs to get people hooked. I usually have to be careful about the bath bombs though because I don't want people to be turned off by the ring around the tub. Also, bubble bars are a great one too. A fresh Pop in the Bath and for a lot of people there is no turning back.

I got my dad hooked on Happy Hippy, Ice Blue soap, and Razorantium. I bought my sister Lemony Flutter but she just didn't seem to appreciate it. Back in 1998, for a Secret Santa gift I bought a co-worker (a girl) a bottle of Ibiza Party Shampoo, some pineapple grunt soap and a couple of bath bombs. I thought that was a really nice gift since you could only get the stuff through mailorder in Canada at the time. When she opened her gift she couldn't have been less enthused. She actually said "What the hell is Lush?". That stopped my enabling for a long time. (The funny thing was a week later she was asking me to bring in my catalog so she could order more shampoo..)

I've so far managed to enable my mum to use Lush bubble bars, as she loves her bubble baths, but other than that she doesn't use much else from Lush other than the occassional Happy Pill ballistic. I've enabled my partner to like Wiccy and Blue Skies, but since he know i have these products in anyway he just pinches mine, rather than buys his own, so i'm not sure if you could count that as enabling?

My fiance found my Snow Fairy in the Shower and was using it all up. I bought him a bottle. And then I bought him Coal Face and Hybrid. He loves them. I had also given him Ambrosia but now he prefers Razorantium. He loves Wiccy Magick, creamy Candy BBS, and Karma Komba. I took my brother to Lush Orlando Mall so he could get some stuff for his girlfriend - during the free for all. I picked out creamy candies (melts and BBS), think pinks, I should Coco, Mange Too, and about $85 worth of other stuff... he picked out ROmance in the stone and a bunch of the lip balms. He got two small Xmas wrapped gifts in the free for all. She is a total addict now.

I let my mother smell Karma and she fell straight for it. I also gave an Amandopondo to a friend of mine and she adored it.

i have used soaps and bath bombs and bubble bars to enable others. I have given soap to friends and family. I haven't enabled any friends though.

My enabling products have been any of the bath bombs and the massage bars. I gave some massage bars to my dad for his very dry skin. Result- enabled. I gave out Jingle Spells ballistics one year to my friends. Result- 2 enabled. I gave my sister and her husband a bath tube of ballistics (and a sample of the pink shampoo truckle - i can't remember if it was "Hard" or "Soft.") Result - enabled. I think the ballistics are unique, easy to use, and not as personal as the facial care. The next step from the ballistics and bubble bars was the haircare line.

For my little sister I used Fresh Farmacy, she has always had really teenage skin and to her surprise and mine, it cleared it up in little under a month. For my Mum, Snow Fairy made her try a lot of the girlie pink things from Lush. Most of my friends are converted through bath bombs and massage bars! I myself was converted by my friend Phae, and I bought Tea Tree Toner and a Godiva. Never looked back.