Body Shop products that are better than anything else you've tried

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A neighbour's daughter has started doing Body Shop at home and I would like to support her.
I've always enjoyed Body Shop products when I've been given them as gifts but it's not somewhere I've ever bought my cosmetics & toiletries from.

Please let me know what products you only ever buy from the BS and think are better than other brands.

If you are a BS consultant, please be honest and say so, and let me me know what products are most popular with your customers for repeat purchase.

Oh and I've only ever used their toiletries, am not familiar with their makeup at all.
I am on the continued search for a concealer that actually works on my dark under eye shadows, are their concealers - are theirs any good? And I don't have a preferred foundation, is theirs worth trying?

Thank you

Oh bless, all the anti trans people trying to defend Rowling's transphobia. Conflating trans people with sex offenders is transphobic. If you don't see the problem with such a statement, then you're very much a part of the problem.

What did she say?

@leafcuttingwhale

Their stuff is not that great and after they publicly accused, and in a mocking way, JK Rowling for talking about male violence, her personal experiences of male violence, and the need for basic safeguarding to protect women from it, I'll never touch their stuff again.

I used to like some of their stuff... but don't feel the same about the shops and their staff after this treatment of another woman.

I haven't been back.

It turns out that other brands do the same things.

@EmmaH2022

I re looked at this and am still thinking that was an awful thing to say.

I agree

@Willowwarble

I don't buy Body Shop stuff apart from one product - Vitamin C Glow Boosting micro dermabrasion. I cannot find any scrub that is as good.

I was coming onto say the same! It's an incredible scrub/glow product.

@EmmaH2022

I re looked at this and am still thinking that was an awful thing to say.

But what was? What was an awful thing to say? Why won't anyone say what she said that was awful?

@RitaConners and @EmmaH2022

Looking back it seems that 'she' didn't say anything dreadful 'they' did. (The Body Shop's response was awful.)

But what was? What was an awful thing to say?

I think this poster was saying the body shop tweet was awful.

The JKR essay is online. There’s nothing transphobic in it.

People who say this about JK Rowling never go on to say exactly when/how she was transphobic. Her words just don't show this.

(From what we can see she is happy to have trans friends and they are happy to have her... so the phobia isn't very obvious in deeds either.)

@CorrBlimeyGG

Oh bless, all the anti trans people trying to defend Rowling's transphobia. Conflating trans people with sex offenders is transphobic. If you don't see the problem with such a statement, then you're very much a part of the problem.

OP, can I recommend the shea hand cream? It smells beautiful and is that right balance of moisturising without being sticky.

I'm sorry to hear you're going through a difficult time. When my loved one was very unwell, he really appreciated light hand massage. Might be something that helps your relative also?

Most of the posters on this thread are not anti trans or transphobic we are pro women, a term which used to define an adult female until being a biological, xx chromosome bearing female became an anathema to some. I stand firm in my view of who women are won't be bullied into silence or submission by a tiny minority who monopolise social media.

I used to buy from our local Body Shop but haven't done since their treatment of JKRowling.

The shop has changed in many ways and not all for the better. They used to make me feel I was getting my five a day in exciting and original ways.

Hemp hand cream and hemp shower oil are my staples.

@CorrBlimeyGG

Oh bless, all the anti trans people trying to defend Rowling's transphobia. Conflating trans people with sex offenders is transphobic. If you don't see the problem with such a statement, then you're very much a part of the problem.

OP, can I recommend the shea hand cream? It smells beautiful and is that right balance of moisturising without being sticky.

I'm sorry to hear you're going through a difficult time. When my loved one was very unwell, he really appreciated light hand massage. Might be something that helps your relative also?

@CorrBlimeyGG you pop up time and time again on threads spouting this JK Rowling is transphobic rhetoric, and I, and many others have repeatedly asked you to state exactly what she has said that is transphobic - and you haven't answered once.

Just ignore CorrBlimey - I wouldn't want my views to align with theirs anyway as I've seen them post some of the most hateful discriminatory things imaginable on here.

I like their body butters (doubles as hand cream), their vit E face cream, their shampoos and conditioners (l have lank hair, so tea tree ones are best for me, banana is great on my husband’s dry, curly hair). The lemon hair and body wash is a great shampoo too. Their shower gels are good too.

Their black mascara is good. Not as keen on the rest of the make up.

I agree about camomile cleansing balm, it's brilliant. I have really sensitive eyes and it doesn't irritate at all, removes all trace of makeup easily and leaves my skin really soft. And I love that it comes in a tin, not plastic

It could be made of unicorn tears and come in a container whittled from mermaid scales and I still would not shop at The Body Shop.

Women’s rights > Camomile balm

Don't know much about the JKR situation but why on EARTH would anyone support an MLM?
They are exploitive, and prey on vulnerable people. If you want to support her tell her to get a proper job. You buy from her once and risk getting bugged time and time again

in terms of the question actually asked, I think TBS is crap. Synthetic smelling, cheaply coloured, cheap feeling toiletries with very inflated price tags, and skincare i've tried or been gifted is also on the par with whatever you can get from a supermarket or superdrug own brand these days for 1/3 or less of the price.

I know everyone raves about the hand cream but the fragranced ones all sting me and fee greasy and the revered hemp isn't a patch on the likes of eucerin aquaphor or La Roche Posay etc, which are similar price points. I do remember the quality being so much better years ago but I'd not shop there now and am surprised they still have high street stores.

I like the almond milk and honey range best, especially the hand cream

If it weren't for their hemp hand cream and olive soap, both of which DH uses, I wouldn't shop there.

Everything smells too fruity and flowery and, to be honest, overpriced. There's been some stuff I liked and they've discontinued it, several times, and that is irritating. The gift sets wouldn't be too bad, but every single one of them has that damned body butter in it, the consistency of which I find repellent.

I was buying to support a friend too, and mostly I bought their hand san. The coconut one smells like Malibu. I liked the smell of their pink grapefruit soap, too.

However, my friend has become disillusioned. I don't know if she lost money, but I'm sure she didn't make much.

Now that she's no longer selling, I won't be buying from them.

@Phrenologistsfinger

I boycott them now myself, as well as Lush, because they are anti-feminist.

I miss the old bodyshop that actually had ethics re zero waste, ingredients too.

Yes, this, I can't imagine there would be any reasons to use either of these two shops - there's so many other places to buy cosmetics/toiletries

BS at home is an MLM - I would advise her not to put any money in and run away while she still can, it’s unlikely to make her any money.

I love their pink grapefruit hand and shower gels and the olive body butter.
And the mens and womens musk deodorants.