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• B Never to Busy to be beautiful to close at year end

  

  by Danielle Cooper, 16 October 2009 Industry News

  Ethical cosmetics company Be never too busy to be beautiful has announced it will be closing its doors at the end of 2009. The kitsch firm, a project begun by the founders of Lush, will remain open long enough to beautify its fans for Christmas. In an open letter to customers it was carefully explained that the company had not gone bust and neither were administrators involved. The full letter has been printed here for your perusal. ...

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• Study Notes: Back to school

  

  by Pia Long, 26 June 2009 Columnists

  In this new column Pia Long will be telling you about what it’s like to be a trainee perfumer with the maverick Constantines and an adult distance learner of perfumery.

  When I threw my maths book into a Finnish lake one summer camp, little did I suspect I’d willingly study the subject as an adult, decades later in another country. Chemistry and physics were never really a problem at school; in fact, I rather liked knowing how things worked. During my first trip to the zoo, I spent most of the time with my nappy-padded bottom up in the air, head deep in the plumbing and other interesting paraphernalia of the cages. Animals? What animals? How do they get the water in? 

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• The guerrilla perfumers: An interview with Mark and Simon Constantine (Lush & B Perfumery)

  by Pia Long, 19 December 2008 Interviews

  Mark Constantine is the head and co-founder of the cosmetics retail chain Lush, and also the co-founder of possibly the most awkwardly named perfumery in the word, B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful. He likes to call his business “guerrilla cosmetics” and has hit the headlines in UK this week for openly supporting a group of environmental activists, Plane Stupid.
  
  Mark trained as a trichologist and when working at a salon in the 1970s, he met Elizabeth Weir (now Bennett), with whom he started Constantine and Weir and subsequently opened a small herbal hair and beauty clinic in Poole. They made henna hair colours and beauty products based on natural raw materials. Mark's wife Mo was involved in the business from its earliest days and several other people soon joined the team, which over the years grew to be one of The Body Shop's main suppliers. Anita and Gordon Roddick were a huge inspiration to Mark, but he was arguably an even bigger influence on their business, as the person who introduced the anti-animal testing policy to the brand....

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