Our Global CEO Sophie Gasperment joins dignitaries and leading trafficking experts to announce The Body Shop’s innovative “Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People” campaign at the Human Capital Plenary Session at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on Thursday, September 24th.
Everyday, everywhere, children are bought and sold into sexual slavery. This [...]

Since the day our founder Anita Roddick founded The Body Shop, we have always been committed to using our resources to create change in the world. The issue of human trafficking for sexual purposes is the 3rd largest and fastest growing criminal industry in the world, with around 1.8 million children globally falling victim to [...]

Just two weeks ago The Body Shop launched a brand new campaign with a huge ambition. To stop the trafficking of children for sex. It’s a shocking subject and probably one that many people would respond to with disbelief. Can this really happen in the 21st century? Well, tragically yes. [...]

Coconut oil is a sleeper hit in the world of emollients. The word “oil” tends to scare people, but when I was doing research recently, I stumbled across several mentions of coconut oil and a glowing list of all of its benefits.
According to OrganicFacts.net, Coconut oil has antibacterial, antioxidant, antifungal, and moisturizing properties, which makes [...]

“Inner beauty” is a common phrase that gets tossed around a lot these days. It’s sort of an empowerment marketing buzzword, and one that isn’t easy to define. We take our definition of inner beauty from our founder, Anita Roddick, who was the original bastion of inner beauty at The Body Shop. She believed so [...]

With World Fair Trade Day coming up this weekend (May 9th, to be exact), we thought that it was a good time to go back and highlight some of what we consider to be our most important initiatives. If you’re familiar with The Body Shop at all, then you know about how important our Core [...]

We’ve always had a special relationship with Divine Chocolate. Our Community Trade
partner, Kuapa Kokoo, that provides the moisturizing, melt-on-the-skin cocoa butter used in our Body Butter, is also one of the founders and major stakeholders in Divine Chocolate.
Their inspiring story, from humble beginnings in the cocoa fields of Ghana to the international commercial success we [...]

“Natural skin care” has become something of a buzz phrase these days, with companies using it very loosely to describe all kinds of products. People like the idea of using natural ingredients on their skin; why wouldn’t you choose something from the Earth rather than a chemical? But there are other benefits to committing to [...]

Earth Day, in case you aren’t familiar, is an event that was created in 1970 by the concerned U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. It was meant to be a grassroots demonstration across the entire nation on behalf on the environment and related issues. Over the years, as with all good ideas, Earth Day has [...]

Hemp is not just another ingredient here at The Body Shop. Our line of hemp products is designed to bring out the amazing and helpful qualities of this misunderstood plant. Here are some of the many wondrous properties of hemp.

Hemp has Healing Properties: Hemp seeds are densely rich in nutrients and vitamins. In fact, [...]