Anita Roddick

“Why waste a container when you can refill it? And why buy more of something than you can use?” - Anita Roddick, 1942-2007 If you haven’t heard of Anita Roddick, listen up. Anita founded popular green beauty store The Body Shop and campaigned for eco-friendly practices in the cosmetics industry and beyond. The Body Shop was one of the first cosmetics companies ever to prohibit the use of ingredients tested on animals and to promote fair trade with third world countries. Anita received the greatest honor a British gal can hope for in 2003 when Queen Elizabeth II appointed her a Dame Commander of ... Read Full Story

Oscar winner Emma Thompson will play the role of a prostitute in a shocking viral video on sex trafficking. The actress portrays a prostitute who is trafficked into the country and forced to sleep with around 40 men per day, in a bid to underline the plight of thousands of women. The video depicts the unfortunate fate of an estimated 4,000 women and girls trafficked into the UK each year and forced into prostitution. The video is an honest endeavor to pressure the Government into approving the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in human beings, which would protect victims. The campaign ... Read Full Story

For the next couple of months, or some undetermined period, we will have, as you can see at the top of the right column on this screen-page, a small memorial to Anita Roddick. She challenged all of us is to consider our business, of 1 or 1,0001 employees, a force for positive, broad-based social change, while also contributing to traditional capitalist growth through investable profits and job creation. The right thing is also the profitable thing—a message and method to which I, as well, have devoted my career. (The memorial also links to this excellent article in the Telegraph , which reports on an ... Read Full Story

  Anita Roddick with Princess Diana, England, 1986 It is with profound sadness that the EA reports the passing this past week of a notable and distinguished woman and wonderfully dynamic aesthete. Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop and Britain’s leading female entrepreneur, whose cruelty-free cosmetics and environmentally sensitive packaging helped change the worldwide skin-care industry, died of a brain hemorrhage Monday at St. Richard’s Hospital in Chichester, England. She was 64. Roddick announced in February that she had cirrhosis of the liver, caused by hepatitis C she acquired during a blood transfusion 36 years ago when she was giving birth to her ... Read Full Story

This past Monday the world lost a great entrepreneur and an even more incredible human being. Dame Anita Roddick founder of the Body Shop was a shining example of not only what makes an incredible entrepreneur and sales person, but also a tremendous humanitarian. She was Social Entrepreneur before the concept was even in vogue. Dame Anita was a crusader who understood that the combination of passion, persuasion, and persistance created an incredible force for change. Anita remained forever the outspoken activist, and a really smart one at that. She created incredible products and sold the world on "Human Rights", "Fair Trade", "All Natural", and "Cruelty Free". ... Read Full Story