A Body Shop store in London. Photograph: Ben Stanstall/AFP
The Body Shop, with its distinctive green façade, started as a small shop in one of those small lanes in Brighton that thronged with shoppers on a Saturday afternoon.
Dame Anita Roddick and her husband started their enterprise in 1976, apparently to help support their two daughters.
The Body Shop not only became a pioneer of ethical consumption - it promotes natural products and opposes animal testing - but also provided a platform for Dame Anita's various causes, from the Ogoni people in Nigeria to the make poverty history campaign. Not many commercial companies carry a link to the declaration of human rights on their websites.
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