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Does Lush support Israel?
Lush Cosmetics
We have not yet found publicly recorded donations from Lush. Absence of records does not confirm absence of support.
Filed under: Beauty & cosmetics brands · Companies that support Israel
Background
No support for Israel by Lush is documented, and the company's public record points the other way. Lush is a privately held British cosmetics maker based in Poole, Dorset, with roughly 850–900 shops worldwide. It has no shops in Israel and no Israeli franchise or distributor: Israeli shoppers buy Lush products through parallel importers and resellers, not through a Lush-operated market. On 3 September 2025 Lush closed all of its UK shops, its factories and its website for a day, and its shops in the Republic of Ireland the following day, with window posters reading 'Stop starving Gaza — we are closed in solidarity'; the company said shutting shops 'is not an easy decision' and used the closure to press the UK government to end arms sales to Israel and act to stop the war. Lush also relaunched its Watermelon Slice soap — which it describes as its most successful single-issue fundraising product — with proceeds going to medical and mental-health services for children and adults in Gaza and the West Bank, including prosthetic care for those wounded in the war. We record this plainly and without editorialising: this site documents corporate support for Israel, and where a company's documented record is the opposite, the honest answer is to say so and cite it. No donation, in-kind aid, investment, contract, sponsorship, political spending or foundation grant by Lush benefiting Israeli or Israel-linked recipients was found in any source checked below.
What we checked
- News & official statements — 2026-07-30
- Independent fact-checkers — 2026-07-30
- SEC filings — 2026-07-30Lush is privately held in the United Kingdom, is not an SEC registrant and has no CIK; there are no EDGAR filings and therefore no Israel-related disclosures to review.
- Federal election records (FEC) — 2026-07-30FEC committee search returned no Lush committees; the company has no US corporate PAC and no disbursements to any political committee.
- Nonprofit tax filings (Form 990) — 2026-07-30ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer shows no Lush corporate foundation filing Form 990 in the United States; the company's charitable giving runs through its own Charity Pot and Lush Fund programmes, whose published grantees include no Israeli or Israel-linked organisation.
- usaspending — 2026-09-25Queried the USAspending.gov award API on 2026-09-25 for US federal contracts, grants and other awards to this company whose award text mentions Israel. It returned no awards.
- lobbying — 2026-09-25Searched the US Lobbying Disclosure Act database at lda.gov on 2026-09-25 for filings naming this company as the client whose reported lobbying issues mention Israel. No filings matched.
- ohchr — 2026-09-25Checked the UN OHCHR database of business enterprises involved in activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, report A/HRC/60/19, on 2026-09-25. This company is not listed in it.
- whoprofits — 2026-09-25Searched the Who Profits company index on 2026-09-25 — the research centre that documents corporate involvement in the Israeli occupation. This company has no profile there.
Frequently asked questions
Did Lush donate money to Israel or Israeli causes?
No records found. We searched 9 public source types — news and official statements, nonprofit tax filings, SEC filings, and federal election records — and found no donations from Lush. The dated search log on this page shows exactly where we looked.
Where does this information come from?
Every record on this page links to its source — news reports, official company statements, tax filings, or government records. 2 distinct sources are cited for Lush. Our methodology page explains the full verification process.
Sources & citations
Record last updated: 2026-09-25
- BBC News bbc.co.uk
- Retail Gazette retailgazette.co.uk