Lush Ipswich celebrates its 10th anniversary with a new look

Cosmetics retailer Lush is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in Ipswich with a new design.

Customers were invited to the store for the first time in a month and treated to its new look at 10am today.

The shop closed on July 31 to undergo a retrofit as part of a £7.6m drive by the company to become more eco-friendly.

This funding will allow it build new shops, relocate others and perform retrofits across the UK and Ireland.

Makeovers like this are designed to repurpose furniture, giving it a new lease of life, or replace it with greener alternatives.

All this is part of its pledge to ‘leave the world lusher than we found it’.

Sarah Hiorna, the shop manager at Lush Ipswich, said: "We’re very excited to be cementing ourselves as a figurehead of the Ipswich high street.

"Our new look shop comes just ahead of our store’s 10th birthday in November – a perfect time to help make lots of Christmas (and Halloween) wishes come true for 2022.

"Our whole team look forward to throwing open the doors very soon."

The Ipswich chain first opened its doors in November 2012 and has been a staple of the high street ever since.

In addition to the retrofits, it is also urging customers to bring in any plastic packaging previously obtained from the store so it can be recycled.

They can then trade it in for a 50p deposit on their Lush basket for that day.

The plastic will then be sent to Lush's 'greenhub' to be recycled.

This scheme was implemented company-wide back in March.

Eva Aldous, Lush Shop and Space Planning, said: "Here at Lush Ipswich, we celebrate 10 years of stories and memories that have shaped us and our products.

"With this new store refit, we celebrate the community we have been part of for a decade, as well as bringing people together through a flexible and inviting space and meeting our fantastic in-store team."