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Posted: 11th Sep 2007
Yes i was shocked too when i heard the news this morning..

thoughts with her family and close loved ones.

Rainbow smiles & Faery kisses

Posted: 11th Sep 2007
Yeah, but she did sell out a highly "green, earthly and natural make up" company to l'Oreal of all people.







Wikipedia:

Anita Roddick

The Body Shop (the company she founded)

l'Oreal - the company that bought the Body Shop





RIP still though.

Posted: 11th Sep 2007
i was wondering how long it would take for that subject to come up

Posted: 11th Sep 2007
R.I.P.

I thought about mentioning that, but don't think this is the right place for discussions about it. Let's just keep it for remembering all the good work she did throughout her life.

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Posted: 12th Sep 2007
all depends on how much you know i guess, wouldn't personaly class it as selling out, she did alot of fantastic work and alot of fantastic work is still being done through what she started, there is more to her than just the body shop,

Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows

Posted: 12th Sep 2007
Yeah I understand that, but in my opinion it goes totally against the whole ethos of the body shop.
That "fantastic work" (any examples btw?) is directly profiting a company that most certainly does not do "fantastic work".

She was a great woman though, im not disputing that.

Posted: 12th Sep 2007
L'Oreal would not mess around with the concept of the body shop for starts, its just bad for business, and although there is a bit of double standards i am pretty sure she knew this. Nothing like trying to change things form the inside. she had a really strong dislike of the cosmetic industry and this way all of the other 'main stream' compainies would of has to take notice now, and indeed most of them have. L'Oreal are a huge brand and in the nature of cometiviness the other compaines have to step up.Plus she didn't keep all the money from the sale and used alot of it for the rest of the campainging which is what she was about.
as for the fantastic work done on behalf of the body shop, they have launched another part of the Stop Violence In the Home campaign focusing on the children who have gone through far much more than they needed to. so in my opinion its worth it.

Life's too short to worry about where you put your marshmallows