Anita Roddick: Classic or DUD?

my boss read out that they caused a "chimney effect" in yr head, but i think this can only work on new age hippies w.nothing IN their heads (so not ktee obv) (in case of rage open brackets)

also the Body Shop's stuff isn't v vegan, which annoys me!

sarah you need OTEX!!!

I think you've nailed her. Yay that she gives time, money, and attention to worthy issues; boo that she reinforces the stereotype of the baby boomer woman as bonkers crone.

Also, she wraps Body Shop products in a Save the Rainforests ethic when (according to what I've read) the products contain little or none of the ethnobotanical stuff she's pushing.

RIP.

Blimey

Complications from Hepatitis C, apparently.

She was blogging on her site only last week.

i hope she's disposed of organically

Brain hemorrhage, nothing to do with the Hep C. ::shivers::

I'm saddened and surprised - I worked in the first Body Shops in NYC as a student, when the company was still small enough that her daughters worked alongside us, and when she visited there and met us, she found out I was planning to work in London for the summer. Offering me a job transfer on the spot - 'just walk into any shop and tell them who sent you!' - set me on the road to moving to London for good.

Thanks again, Anita.

omt

Today's Metro says "she revealed she had Hepatitis C, which she claimed she caught from a blood transfusion more than 20 years earlier."

Is it me or is the use of "claimed" a bit of an insinuation?

Anita Roddick: Classic or DEAD?

Oh Tom! That's cruel!

You can't say for sure if it's that long ago, hence claim, no?

Yes, but if it wasn't that long ago it wouldn't have happened because we screen blood for it now. I just strikes me as being a bit "well she would say that" or something.

Anyway, she sold caring sharing bunny hugging Body Shop to cruel heartless bunny boiling L'Oreal so meh.

This thread needed C*lum's insights into cosmetic testing and vivisection.

It always struck me that the "sharing bunny hugging" was more a cost saving thing (in the beginning at least) which she spun into a "let's save nature" slogan. Were the refill bottles not used because she didn't have enough money to get "proper" packaging? A way to save money? So it didn't really surprise me she was willing to sell the BS to L'Oreal (or whatever company it is that owns it now).

And haven't sales been dropping for a time now?

Put it this way: She could have sold it to someone at a lower price who could have been bound to keep the 'ethical' style, and watch *them* sell it to Lorry Al. So, to sell it and walk away, might as well do it fully.

I've never forgiven them for their Grapefruit shampoo.

First time was great.

Second time was 'blimey, what's all that white stuff crusted on my head oh it's my SCALP' style severe!

they said as much on radio4 this morning, that *part of* the 'please bring the bottles back to the shop' was because they didn't have enough.

caught myself lumping her in with the recent wave of green bandwagoneers this morning until i realised that she was doing this 20 years ago, pretty much before everyone else.

(xpost nath)

I know my post must seem a bit too harsh. Even if it was a clever ploy (to save money), it did help reduce waste.

Dud, she was the cow

RIP big man, heaven needed a place to buy gifts when you'd forgotten it was Mother's Day tomorrow.

She got Hep C from a blood transfusion administered during childbirth FFS. People sound like they're talking about 'good AIDS' and 'bad AIDS' here!

I worked in the shops at the late-'80s high point of saving rainforests petitions and NO DON'T CROSS THE TUBE STRIKE PICKET LINES; an afternoon on petition rota on the King's Road was not a bad gig. A few people I know who worked with her more closely than I did moan about her NOT EXACTLY ROUGHING IT on third-world visits but seriously, that's the worst I ever heard.