The Body Shop

The Body Shop International Limited, trading as The Body Shop, is a British cosmetics, skin care and perfume company that was founded in 1976 in Brighton, UK by Dame Anita Roddick. It currently has a range of 1,000 products which it sells in about 3,000 owned and franchised stores internationally in more than 65 countries. The company is based in East Croydon and Littlehampton, West Sussex. The company is owned by a Brazilian cosmetics company Natura and part of the Natura & Co group. The company had been owned by the French cosmetics company L'Oréal between 2006 and 2017. In June 2017, L'Oréal agreed to sell the company to Natura for £880 million. The deal was approved in September 2017.