Our Principles & Policies

Read our Community Trade Principles and Policies


Our Values Report

Our latest online CSR report


The Body Shop Foundation

Our charitable trust's website

support community trade

Support Community Trade

We believe in buying the highest quality natural ingredients and handcrafted products, from the best people, for a fair price. In a nutshell that's Community Trade.


Working with marginalised communities the world over, Community Trade provides a fair, reliable wage to our suppliers, business advice should they want it, and the respect they deserve. It's about forming long-term trading relationships, so families can build futures, plus sustainable benefits to their communities as a whole, so they can build wells, schools, or whatever they decide they need the most.


What's more, we know exactly where each nut, fruit, or oil comes from, how they were harvested and, probably, by whom. So we always know it's the best we can buy.


Community Trade means our money is spread more fairly across more people, from more communities, in more countries. As a pioneer of fair trade we know the difference it can make - we've been doing it for 20 years. Today over 15,000 people in 24 countries around the world benefit.


CLICK HERE to find out more about our community trade suppliers.