What has happened to Body Shop?

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Yes I know it was sold off a long time ago but it's unrecognisable in terms of products and prices. Half of the stuff I used to buy years ago like their body butter and perfume oil have really gone up in price. The perfume oil must have changed ingredients as the smell is so weak compared to a few years ago. Their makeup is Mac prices.

The sale stuff are rubbish and still expensive.

Does anyone here still shop there?

I used to love the lip balms, bath pearls, clear mascara animal shaped soaps and small £1 bottles of white musk shower gel when I was 13/14. We used to buy the little things for Christmas presents at school.

It's now overpriced. Plus, it's very chemically based stuff and I prefer more natural stuff these days.

mascara, animal shaped

Loved it in the 90's....pile of rubbish now.

I still have not forgiven The Body Shop for discontinuing Ananya perfume! Lush gets my business now, i try to avoid L'oreal.

It reminds me of Avon products

A bit of insight into the comments. Since The Body Shop has gone global within other country's around the world. The Body Shop is recognised as a primiem brand. Their products are on demand and sell for a lot higher prices in other markets than the uk. Simply the company is trying to allign its prices with the rest of the global market. The Body Shop suffers resistance in the UK due to the origon of the founding and the products sold. The body Shop has evolved its products away form the Lush type of products and the development of its skincare and make-up products within the recent years have dramatic improvements such as Drops of Youth which have stem-cell Technology which increases the regeneration of new skin cells for newer younger looking skin. This you would not find in the body shop 20 years ago. The Body Shop has evolved. Its a shame as their younger marked grew up and didn't understand the need for the new developments. Possibly they should have split up the brand continuing to sell the original stuff and opened separate skincare and makeup stores? What do you think?

I have awful memories of being taken in there in the early 90s by my mother so she could buy white musk perfume which I HATED.

Ohh, I used to LOVE Body Shop White Musk! Must be a 90's thing
That and the Dewberry body lotion. The body butters were also great. The cocoa one and the avocado one.
Last time I went in though I almost fainted at the prices.

JimSteward do you work for the body shop perchance? How patronising.

balls

I only go there for the hemp body butter (scratchy winter legs/mild psoriasis)

I knew about loreal but not nestle

I haven't KNOWINGLY bought nestle for years (poor deprived dcs yearn for kitkats)

now BS is going to have to go on my ever expanding shit list

anyone know of any efficle heavy duty body butters, let me know plz

I used to love Dewberry too, stopped going there after they discontinued it. I've started buying the body butters & shower gels again because compared to, say, M&S ones and anything from Poundland, my usual haunt they are thicker & last much longer.

I think BS has done itself a huge disservice with its pricing strategy- all over the place ever changing massive discounts. Gap does it now too. Unless I'm getting at least 40% off I feel like I'm being ripped off so I will never just walk into a bs and buy something.

I love the hemp products. But buy when massively discounted only.

Jim if you are going to bump up a 6 month old thread at least make your post readable

I think they are old fashioned and expensive and prefer Lush

I did love their Berutti Baby range (brilliant on my poor split skin) but they stopped that

the rest is over priced and not nice - sorry Jim

used to love their lavender stuff, what happened to it??

Bath pearl flashback. At one point in my life they were the height of bath time sophistication

I guess they were nuked by the lush bath bomb

I think the Body Shop got it badly wrong, Jim.
Their shops are usually empty and their product range is uninspiring and over priced.

It used to be exciting, innovative and fun - and competitively priced. The shops used to be heaving.

Now the original customers have voted with their feet and gone elsewhere on buy only when there is a discount. And there is little to entice new customers in.

Read this thread and see the products that keep being mentioned but have now disappeared. It reeks of poor decision-making and a vision that is at odds with the target audience.

My favourite shop when I was a teen (now late thirties). I still have an oil burner (nearly divorced DH when he cracked it, lucky he glued it). I wondered in there with my mum, we wondered quickly back out feeling sad.

I made the mistake of wandering in there about a year ago. I took pity on the sales assistant as she looked really lonely.

I did manage to escape eventually but only after she has doused me in fucking glittery body powder

Loved it as a 90s teenager. Me & my mates spent our babysitting money there.
Loved when I lived in London, late 90s. Used to have great bargains in their Sale.
It became a premium brand in Ireland in the Noughties. Seriously overpriced, with a decline in quality? No ta!
You would spend the same now on L'Occitane or Molton Brown & get better products.
Last time I went in, it was a new store in Dublin. A girl followed me around, badgering me with special offers. I left as fast as I could...

If we're doing a free focus group for the Body Shop, I might as well say that I don't like the 'double the price and then have loads of deals and discount codes' model that they and loads of other shops have fallen into.

People are starting to get wise to this. It just makes shopping exhausting to the extent that you don't want to bother anymore and you don't want to pay 'full price' ever because you know it is a made up rip off price.

It's one reason why Aldi and Lidl are gaining on the bigger supermarkets. Instead of having to chase offers and work out whether '4 for 3' of one size is a better deal than 'buy one get one half price' of another brand, you can simply just go in and buy stuff at a fair and consistent price every week - much easier.

People really still shop in this place....?

Why? I mean every product has been done better by someone else from Jo Malone to Baylis and co. I'm amazed it's still going

Hahaha! Bugger off, Jim!

That sort of pricing has put me off Debenhams, Twat. This item was 53.42 (random expensive price) but look... Now reduced to 29.99. Bargain! I only shop in TK Maxx now, where the reductions are genuine.

Cocoa body butter £12 body shop.

Same product in ASDA £4.00

Taking the piss!

www.thebodyshop.co.uk/bath-body-care/haircare/banana-conditioner.aspx
Banana conditioner is still there.