The Body Shop is going for insolvency

[Gymnopedie]

Only recently bought, the new owners either weren't told or didn't absorb the information about the amount of debt compared to assets.

It could mean anything from total closure to restructuring the finances or any point in between. If there's a particular TBS product you like, stock up.

Body Shop prepares for insolvency process

(Link from This Is Money and elsewhere via MSN)

Body shop did used to have a nails range but not any more! Not surprised this has happened really, very competitive market many brands are cheaper for better quality.

Way too expensive
Lost its fun
Became mlm
Aggressive sellers in shops
The jkr thing

Liked it in the 90’s when I was a teenager but haven’t been in one of their shops for years
I they sold their products through boots / Superdrug they may have done better,

Not surprised at all by this, can’t see how they would have been making a profit

Have you tried

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try this first because it’s cheap and wonderful but if you’re feeling a bit minted this is great too.

https://www.windlelondon.com/products/treatments/shampoos/healthy-head-and-hair-treatment-shampoo/

The Body Shop isn’t really the shop we all knew though so I have already mourned it’s passing.
I was a massive Lush fan and spent so much money in there. I tried to boycott them but I’ve never found anything that suits my face as well as the Celestial face cream.

I was quite surprised to see a branch had opened at Battersea Power Station, which is quite an aspirational shopping destination.

It’s just been completely eaten up by a whole range of eco-conscious lines and brands, has no USP. It’s perhaps no more expensive than many other brands but it offers no excitement or cachet so you feel the prices are out of whack.

Places like The Ordinary, Aldi even, and brands like Cerave have disrupted things to an extent you know you don’t have to spend a lot to get good skin products. Lush - not my sort of thing but much more excitingly presented for soaps and body stuff.

It was one of my favourite shops as a 90s teen, but it started going down the pan when Anita Roddick sold it.

I haven't bought anything from there in years except for the Grapeseed hair serum. I might have to stock up on it, because it's perfect for my hair.

In my mind TBS was a natural/eco friendly/not tested on animals skincare trailblazer (though a) I might have been wrong and b) things might have changed over the years). Therefore well placed to succeed in today’s market - teens might want the crap they see on social media but parents pay, and professionals with clinical credentials are speaking out about how bad they are for young skin. Seems like a missed opportunity

Their stuff has always been overpriced. I feel for the staff who may be losing their jobs, but The Body Shop doesn’t work in today’s retail world, so all in all I won’t be sad if it goes under. Them trying to shame J.K Rowling a few years ago also sticks in my throat a little.

Totally agree. When Anita Roddick left and they discontinued Ananya that was it for me. Prices are ludicrous as well.

My friend has been one of those who sell Body Shop from home (so an MLM). She's been doing it for a long time and has just sold off all her stock and joined another MLM as the body shop is ending all the home sellers.

Good. Any business that branches out in the MLM model deserves to fail.

Thanks for the tips, will give them a try.

Surprise the same thing hasn’t happened to lush….. every time I walk past one of their shops I can feel a headache coming on

Thanks, I've stocked up on Ginger shampoo. Unfortunately it's the only shampoo in existence that treats my seborrheic dermatitis, I am also loathe to shop there after their tweets to JKRowling.

Social Media regularly shows nostalgia posts for 90's Body Shop. Why on earth they didn't rebrand to old products and packaging and rake it in selling bath pearls, animal soaps, gift baskets and modern reusables I'll never understand, it seems obvious.

I don't think anyone wants bath pearls, animal soaps etc now though, I might have loved them as a teen but not now and today's teens are far more sophisticated than I was.

I would buy Japanese washing grains, grapefruit shower gel, camomile eye gel and a few other bits from back then. White Musk is one of the one of the worst fragrances ever IMO, my flatmate used to drown herself in it and it made me heave.

Not surprised. They messed up with their Body butter,that was lovely,then it went vegan and it was revolting. Loads of people stop using their popular products because they changed recipes.

The only Body Shop product I buy is their hemp hand cream. It's by far the best hand cream I've tried. I would say I'd stock up on it, but I think it's £18 a tube now, which is very expensive to me. Hope I'll still be able to get it online.

I've never been as disappointed in a businesswoman as I was when Anita sold TBS to L'Oréal.

The Body Shop had so much going for it but completely lost it's way.

There aren't many women in their 30/40s who didn't have a white musk/dewberry phase or st least shopped there in their teenage years.

They had a customer base of teenagers, many of whom would have stuck with in our 20s, 30s, 40s if they evolved with us.

They didn't seem to adapt to their aging customer base to retain it nor did they pivot to attract newer customers either.

It stagnated completely.

Such ridiculous prices, only a small amount of people could afford that

I agree there are a few selected products and scents from their back catalogue that would potentially sell well today. A PP just reminded me about the camomile eye gel which was lovely.
I think a few years back they brought out a few well rated skin products such as the camomile cleansing oil. But then they changed the formula, made the size smaller, put up the price and wondered why there was a backlash! They don’t even sell it anymore so seems they shoot themselves in the foot with greed.
I also think they have tried to become like Lush with the vegan market and mouthy messaging but we don’t need another shop like that 🙄 I don’t think they know who they are aiming for.

They're so expensive.

I don't think I can function without ginger shampoo.

For the last few years their products have been like overpriced, poor-quality, inauthentic copies made by a rival company trying to compete with the Body Shop. It’s no wonder they’ve failed.

Haven't shopped there since! Couldn't happen to a nicer brand.

Feel for the staff though. Hope they find new work asap.