Moisturize Your Lush Life

Although summer's just about officially here, don't tuck all your winter beauty essentials away at the bottom of your bathroom drawer just yet. Like, for example, that super-rich moisturizer you swore by all winter. For the next few months, while you're hanging out in the sunshine, or on an airplane, or driving around in a top-down convertible, your skin can get as dry and chafed as it does when it's cold … and only lubing up with a thick cream will bring it back to its normal, smooth self.

If you're looking for an effective moisturizer with a philanthropic element, an ideal choice is Lush's Charity Pot, a super-rich lotion for hands and body. All proceeds (100 percent) go to one of a handful of charities benefiting environmental, humanitarian and animal rights causes, like The Ocean Conservancy, The International Fund for Animal Welfare and Ecova Mali. The lid of each flower-planter-like container tells you which charity your purchase money is going to, and there's contact information on the label if you have additional charities you'd like to suggest to Lush for future donations from the lotions' sales.

Charity Pot feels (and smells!) wonderfully luxurious, with ingredients like almond oil, ylang ylang oil, cocoa butter and geranium oil there for moisture and scent. Like all of Lush's products, the packaging is made of 100 percent post-consumer recycled materials and nothing's ever tested on animals. The pot is sturdy and cute enough to reuse as, say, a pencil cup … or you can recycle it the usual way too.  Plus this stuff's not insanely expensive — $20.95 for 8.4 ounces — so you can slather it on all summer and pick up a new tub (and help another charity) in a few months' time.