Overview
The Berkeley, Calif. The Body Shop that inspired Dame Anita Roddick’s UK The Body Shop was formerly C.J.’s Old Garage, an auto body shop. Re-purposing the old garage was important not only in providing a clever pun for a name, but in serving as a metaphor for the earth-friendly ideals of its hippie creators, Peggy Short and Jane Saunders, who sold a line of naturally scented hand cut soaps and lotions in reusable plastic bottles. Six years after visiting The Body Shop in Berkeley...
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