Bath bomb supports Bali terror suspect
April 6, 2008
Money raised from Lush’s new fizzy bath bombs would be dona
ted to Guantanamo Bay inmates, the Daily Mail reported.
The Lush "ballistic", called the Guantanamo Garden, is orange to represent the prison camp’s jumpsuits and when it dissolves in the bath a waterproof photo of a prisoner is found inside.
British Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood, whose brother was killed in the Bali bombings, was angry over what he called a "tacky" gimmick.
Mr Ellwood called the bath bomb a "disgusting publicity stunt".
Mr Ellwood’s brother Jonathan was one of 202 people killed when terrorists detonated bombs in the Kuta nightclub district. Eighty-eight Australians died.
Prime suspect Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, was captured a year later and has been held at Guantanamo Bay since.
Mr Ellwood has spent years campaigning for the closure of the controversial Cuban camp and wants Hambali to stand trial and face justice.
"Why are Lush doing this? Is it because they want to promote themselves by using a controversial subject or is it because they have a genuine concern for the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay?," he told the Daily Mail.
"I suggest it is the former rather than the latter. I think the whole idea is tasteless. I imagine the target audience who buys Lush products are relatively young.
"There must be better ways of educating younger generations on international terrorism rather than Lush making a tacky bath bomb."
Lush launched the bath bomb campaign after being approached by human rights’ group Reprieve, which came up with the idea.
Defended
Lush today defended the campaign - which has not been executed in Australia - saying it communicated two simple messages: that everyone is entitled to a fair trial, and; no-one should be tortured.
“By standing up for the rights of prisoners in Guantanamo, we are standing up for the rights of everyone," said Lush Campaigns Manager, Andrew Butler.
"Snatching people from the streets, torturing them and holding them without trial makes the world a more dangerous and less just place.
"The UK Team are proud of our support of Reprieve and endorse the work they are doing to uphold international laws and human rights conventions.”
Reprieve’s Legal Director Clive Stafford Smith, said: “The most effective counter-terrorism strategy any Government can employ is the universal enforcement of human rights, and Reprieve is delighted that the staff at Lush UK have taken up the fight for justice for the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay”.
Demi sucked in by radical treatment
The 46-year-old has revealed she is a fan of a detox treatment that involves being covering in blood-sucking leeches, reports The Daily Mail.
The star, who is married to actor Ashton Kutcher, 30, recently visited Austria to receive the "leech therapy".
While on a visit to New York to promote her new movie Flawless, the star told U.S. talk show host David Letterman: "I feel like I’ve always been someone looking for the cutting edge of things that optimize your health and healing.
"I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy.
"These aren’t just swamp leeches though - we are talking about highly trained medical leeches. These are not some low level scavengers - we’re talking high level blood suckers."
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Leech therapy has a long history - ancient Egyptian doctors once considered them a cure-all.
She continued: "They have a little enzyme that when they are biting down in you it gets released in your blood and generally you bleed for quite a bit - and your health is optimized.
"It detoxifies your blood - I’m feeling very detoxified right now. I did it in some woman’s house laying on her bed. We did a little sampler first, which is in the belly button.
"It crawls in and you feel it bite down on you and you want to go, ‘You bastard.’ Then you relax and work on your Lemaze breathing just to kind of relax.
"You watch it swell up on your blood, watching it get fatter and fatter - then when its super drunk on your blood it just kind of rolls over like it is stumbling out of the bar."
Demi said had to prepare for the leeches by shaving and taking a bath in turpentine.
She is convinced the therapy is effective and plans to return to Austria for more sessions.
She said: "You first feel worse then you feel better. But I’m going back - I only got 4 leeches and I feel a bit cheated."
Quipped Letterman: "Are you sure this isn’t just menopause?"
