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Gregg Wallace visits the colourful and fragrant Lush factory in Dorset to learn how an astonishing 14 million bath bombs are produced every year.

Gregg Wallace visits the colourful and fragrant Lush factory in Dorset to learn how an astonishing 14 million bath bombs are produced every year.

Cherry Healey visits Loughborough University to learn how taking a hot bath can provide some of the benefits of exercise, and she visits a cutting-edge lab which grows human skin for cosmetic testing.

Historian Ruth Goodman explores a time when complex perfumes were thought to ward off the plague and learns how the living conditions of coal miners and their families were transformed by the introduction of communal showers.

58 minutes

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterGregg Wallace
PresenterCherry Healey
PresenterRuth Goodman
Line ProducerLena Piper
Series ProducerMichael Rees
Executive ProducerLucy Carter
Executive ProducerSanjay Singhal
DirectorDuncan Thompson
Production CompanyVoltage TV

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