10 REASONS TO GET TOTALLY ADDICTED TO THE BODY SHOP^®

10 products withstood the test of time and emerged as iconic best-sellers from The Body Shop^®. We explain why everyone loves them.

The Body Shop^® has been synonymous with nature-inspired products since it first opened in 1976. From the initial 25 handmixed products, the range has grown to over 1,200 products, all 100% vegetarian and animal cruelty-free. What’s more, 80% of our products contain Community Fair Trade natural ingredients, all bursting with effectiveness. Community Fair Trade enables us to source ingredients, gifts and accessories in a fair way, creating sustainable trading relationships with marginalised communities around the world.

Winning the hearts of our customers across Asia, 10 special products have stood out. Not only loved for their effectiveness, these products come jam-packed with inspiring stories, charting special moments in the history of The Body Shop^®.

The Body Shop^® will be celebrating these icons in April 2012.

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  OLIVE BODY BUTTER

  200 ml
  Mention the words “Body Butter” and The Body Shop^® immediately springs to mind. We were the first company to launch a Body Butter in the early 1990s and it fast became a cult product all over the world. Our Body Butter is made using a unique process, very similar to chocolatemaking, to create the perfect buttery texture. Most loved in Asia is our Olive Body Butter. Formulated with Community Fair Trade organic olive oil, it is excellent moisturiser that melts at body temperature, leaving the skin soft and smooth for up to 24 hours.
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  WHITE MUSK^® EAU DE TOILETTE

  30 ml
  Launched in 1981, not only was our White Musk^® fragrance an instant best-seller, it also represented a landmark in the fragrance industry since it was one of the first animal cruelty-free musks, made without harming the musk deer. Musk remains one of the most expensive natural products in the world, 3 to 5 times more valuable than gold, which has fuelled an illegal trade worldwide. 160 musk deers have to be killed for 1 kg of musk!
  
  Our synthetic musk is a real hit, with a White Musk^® product sold every 2 seconds in Asia*.
  *Figure based on global sales from January to September 2010
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  TEA TREE OIL

  10 ml
  1 SOLD EVERY 10 SECONDS*
  Our best-selling Tea Tree Oil is a natural solution to help keep skin blemish free without over-drying the skin. The Community Fair Trade oil from Kenya comes in a handy, instantly recognisable bottle that has become a ‘musthave’ in every home. Hand-picked to ensure a purer oil, the benefits of the Tea Tree Oil make it truly multi-functional and beyond clearing blemishes, our customers have found many other uses for it, including dabbing on mosquito bites, applying on cuts and scrapes, cleaning make-up brushes, bathing and foot soaks and even massaging. We like to think of it as a ‘genie in a bottle’.
  *Figure based on 52-week global sales until 28 February 2011
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  SPA WISDOM™ AFRICA XIMENIA & SALT SCRUB

  350 ml
  Inspired by African beauty rituals, traditions and ingredients, the Spa Wisdom™ Africa Ximenia & Salt Scrub has been the number one best-seller in Asia over the past 6 years*. The Ximenia oil used is a traditional hair and skincare conditioner and softener for tribeswomen in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
  
  This luxuriously creamy cleansing exfoliator give results in silky smooth skin and allows our customers to create a pampering spa experience in their own home, when time doesn’t allow an escape to a resort.
  *Based on retails sales in Asia Pacific over past 6 years from 2006 to 2011.
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  VITAMIN E MOISTURE CREAM

  50 ml
  1 SOLD EVERY 18 SECONDS*
  Our Vitamin E range has been a bestseller for 35 years. Our most popular day cream is enriched with vitamin E, one of nature’s most potent emollients and antioxidants. It effectively moisturises and softens skin, protecting it against the effects of harsh environmental elements and the appearance of pre-mature ageing. It’s perfect for normal to dry skin types, easily absorbed and has the lightness of a lotion with the moisturising benefits of a cream.
  
  When women all over the world are totally addicted to a single product, it can only mean one thing – the product really works! Based on a survey of over 2,000 women around the world**, the number 1 thing they liked about this cream is that “it’s effective, it really works”. With one bottle sold every 18 seconds, the numbers say it all.
  *Figure based on 52-week global sales until 28 November 2011
  **Based on a 2011 survey of 2,247 women in the UK, US and Hong Kong.
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  STRAWBERRY SHOWER GEL

  250 ml
  Amongst our highly popular shower gels, Strawberry is one of the favourites of our customers in Asia. It also has one of our most-liked stories behind it.
  
  Whilst walking through the supermarket jam aisle for strawberry seedless jam, one of our employees wondered ‘what happens to the strawberry seeds?’ Further investigation revealed that they were just thrown away.
  
  We found that these seeds can be squeezed to extract the fabulously fruity oil that smells divine and is so good for the skin. We now take the unwanted seeds away from producers of strawberry jam and use them in our Strawberry range. Another great example of recycling from The Body Shop^®.
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  CAMOMILE GENTLE EYE MAKE-UP REMOVER

  250 ml
  Float away the day with refreshing rosewater to gently cleanse and dissolve eye make-up. Containing Community Fair Trade natural camomile extract from Norfolk, the eye make-up remover also conditions lashes so they feel soft and silky, while soothing the skin. Only a small amount is required to correct any eye make-up mistakes!
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  TEA TREE SKIN CLEARING FOAMING CLEANSER

  150 ml
  Our customers can’t get enough of the Tea Tree range. The Tea Tree Skin Clearing Foaming Cleanser is a refreshing instant foaming cleanser with added peppermint essential oil which cools and refreshes the skin, leaving it feeling tingly clean. In addition to Community Fair Trade Tea Tree Oil, it contains Tamanu Oil from Madagascar, while has fantastic skin moisturising properties to help stop skin drying out whilst you cleanse, and lemon tea tree from Kenya, which gives the product a zesty fragrance.
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  Vitamin E Eye Cream

  15 ml
  Another favourite from our Vitamin E family, this moisturising eye cream helps protect the delicate skin around the eye area, reducing the appearance of fine lines and puffiness leaving skin feeling soft and smooth.
  
  The cream contains light-deflecting particles to minimise the appearance of dark circles – think of it as a shield of invisible mirrors on your skin, reflecting the light, making you look radiant.
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  PEPPERMINT COOLING PUMICE FOOT SCRUB

  100 ml
  Did you know that on average your feet walk a total of 8000 to 10000 steps a day? Smooth your feet back into shape with our best-selling Peppermint Cooling Pumice Foot Scrub. A real multi-tasker, Community Fair Trade peppermint oil from Norfolk Essential Oils Co-operative not only stimulates mind and body, it also fights odour-causing bacteria and promotes a cooling sensation on the skin to leave feet feeling refreshed. The exfoliating vocanic rock granules help slough away rough patches of hard skin. Perfectly prepared for those strappy summer sandals too!