Lush Bath Products Are Turning People Some Crazy Colors, So You Should Stop Bathing Immediately

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Forget everything you’ve heard about cleanliness being next to godliness. The new motto is that “cleanliness might turn you a hideous shade of pink if you use Lush products, so just stop washing yourself and never leave your house.” That’s because a bath product made by Lush is allegedly so unintuitive (is that Lush’s fault or is it a user error?) that people all over the world are dyeing themselves pink on accident. Wait, you didn’t want to look like a giant piece of bubblegum? Too late, please join Violet Beauregarde in the “I never meant for this to happen” support group.

Here’s the scoop: On Saturday, a woman named Abi Shenton posted that she had turned an unsightly shade of pink after she mistook a bath oil for a bath soap. Based on the direct skin-to-oil contact, she turned into something resembling a somewhat chewed piece of bubble gum (you really need to see it to believe it). Fortunately for her, three baths, and a concoction of lemon juice and olive oil got her back to normal. Unfortunately, she’s not the only one afflicted with a case of the killer pinks (which is what I’d love for this incident to be called).

According to Refinery 29, Shenton isn’t alone. Whether that thought will comfort of dismay her is unknown, but at least it’s nice to know that there are other people wandering around the world–going to work and on dates, washing the dishes, sleeping fitfully after studying for a test–in gloriously artificial shades of bright yellow and magenta.

Check out some more beauty disasters:

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According to one woman, you might also want to avoid using Lush bath bombs if you have bleached hair as it might dye that, too.

To be fair to Lush (and so everyone knows exactly what type of bath products I buy), I have used approximately 27 of these bombs in the past week and my skin is still the same color as it ever was. That’s because, as Lush points out, everyone’s skin is different and you definitely want to let all of the bomb dissolve in the water before you dive in. And never, ever scrub at yourself with something that’s been colored a fluorescent orange. That should be taught in kindergarten.

From Refinery 29:

“Our products are trying to achieve a lovely colour in the bathwater without colouring the person soaking in that bathwater,” a representative told Metro. “It is a calculation that has to take into account different hair and skin types, different types of bath equipment, and the different ways that people might choose to use any product.”

The brand went on to add, in a quippy manner, that this absolutely isn’t the intended result of the products. “We are as red in the face as Abi at the idea that one of our bath melts has been mistaken for a soap. We love having colourful products, colourful staff, and colourful baths — but we do try to draw the line at colourful customers.”

For what it’s worth, no one has been physically harmed by being turned pink and Shenton, who was the first to come out about her experience with The Killer Pinks (still trying to make it happen) says she’ll continue to use the products. Can’t blame her, they smell really, really good.

(Via Refinery 29)