The Body Shop Reviews

3.6 Rating 194 Reviews
66 %
of reviewers recommend The Body Shop
3.6
Based on 194 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Postal Service, Courier
Average Delivery Time
Over 7 Days
On-time Delivery
Greater than 39%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Email, Live Chat, Telephone
Queries Resolved In
Over A Week
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268 Oxford Street,
London
W1C 1DS

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The Body Shop 5 star review on 31st December 2023
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The Body Shop 1 star review on 30th September 2022
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The Body Shop 1 star review on 30th September 2022
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The Body Shop 1 star review on 30th September 2022
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The Body Shop 1 star review on 8th February 2022
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The Body Shop 1 star review on 20th November 2021
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
The body shop will not accept my recently bought gift card. How is that not theft!?! I'm VERY UPSET! They need to honor their gift cards. Especially after having been a loyal customer for over 20 years
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Posted 1 day ago
Another company now tanked and left customers hanging with unused loyalty points. The program is scrapped and all those points and coupons down the toilet. Company wants you to be loyal to them but does not reciprocate.
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Posted 3 weeks ago
I bought a lipstick from Body Shop 2 months ago. It has active fungus growing on it. This is the first time I have seen something like this. And they refuse to compensate me. I am very disappointed
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Posted 1 month ago
I can’t believe how this company has changed from what it was in the 80s & 90s. The biggest mistake you ever made was changing the White Musk Perfume Oil, your BIGGEST seller. When I try and contact customer service about it, they are rude, uninformed and dismissive. You claim you changed it because people complained about Parabens, well so? I don’t go to a steak house if I’m a vegetarian and complain about them serving meat. If you don’t want parabens, DONT BUY THE PERFUME. but you took it from all the rest of us and replaced it with some bug spray acidic product that is DISGUSTING. no wonder you’ré going out of business.
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Posted 1 month ago
ABSOLUTELY the WORST website EVER. customer service is equally as bad. Try to 'login' is like trying to get into heaven.....a NIGHTMARE. The freebies have not been available for ever. I buy (bought) often on the outlet page, bc I pass out at homeless shelters for women. Once again the webpage is 'down' again. Ill have to look at bath and body and do my own bags, or molton brown. I've been a body shop customer since 1998....but time to move on.
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Posted 1 month ago
Worst packaging of most of their products. Paper thin aluminium tube torn in my bag, left my expensive items ruined!!
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Posted 2 months ago
So I have been buying the Hemp heavy duty moisturizer for years. Not only is it no longer available on their website but they sell something that looks just like it purposely to trick customers. I used to buy a 6.7 oz tub for about $20. Now they have a small tub that looks exactly the same in their advertising as the large tub for about $20. You think you are buying the product you always purchased but when it shows up its ONLY 1.7 0z! SO THEY F**K YOU OUT OF 5 oz of PRODUCT!!!!! Total scumbag move!!
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Posted 3 months ago
Body shop buy 1 get 1 one offer for members inn selective products only and those are expiring May 24 to aug 24. They are not doing any favour to members. Becoming member is sin.
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Posted 3 months ago
The Body Shop online website took my order, took my money, then failed to deliver after they had emailed me to say the item had been shipped. No communication, failed to respond to emails (the only way I could contact them as Chat was not working), eventually was able to contact them via Chat to find out where my order was. 'It's not in stock' was their response. 'But it was in stock when I ordered it, you took my money, and then told me it had been shipped', I said. 'Ah, sorry for any convenience, do you want your money back - that will take up to 5 days' was all I got back. Basically left me 2 days to get some kind of replacement gift, so no chance of ordering anything online, cost me a few hours in trying to get something from the shops. If I hadn't made the effort to contact them (which they did not make easy), I would probably still be waiting for some communication from them. Shocking customer experience - be warned about ordering anything for Christmas from them. Not only is there a good chance that they'll fail to deliver. They'll also not communicate this to you and leave you to do all the chasing. If you really want to order anything from The Body Shop you need to physically visit the store. If you can't do this, then I would suggest ordering from somewhere else to avoid a lot of wasted time and money.
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Posted 5 months ago
I just wanted to say after using white musk oil for over 40 years l am very disappointed in what u sell now. Doesn't smell for long at all, the applicator is a ridiculous design and cost more. I will not be buying this rubbish ever again. Plus sales person had no idea.
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Posted 11 months ago
I have been buying Body Shop soap bars for the last 25 years. I mostly buy the grapefruit, strawberry and mango bars. The last few times I have bought the bars, I have been extremely disappointed with the new shape, smell and consistency of the soap bars. They are now square bars versus the rounded shape. They also do not smell the same nor do they feel the same. I have decided against buying these soap bars any more. This is very disappointing as I had become very comfortable with the soap products over the past 25 years. It is very sad that the Body Shop felt they had to change this product so drastically.
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Posted 11 months ago
I placed this order on Early morning Thursday around 3 am I was supposed to receive this order on Friday but I never did. I had a chat with one of your colleagues who assured me that I will receive this package before the end of the day Friday. I never received it. I had a flight early morning today and this was supposed to be a gift for my mother. I have left the country now so there’s no need to send this order anymore. I promise you I will never look in your direction anymore as you guys have lied to me twice. I m embarrassed that I didn’t get my mother her gift and it’s all because I believed in you. It really is a shame that business like yours exist. I will make sure that neither me or anyone I know does any business with you guys as you are very unreliable and are bunch of liars. Please give me my money back and expect this message to land on your Google reviews or any place where people rate you. Really shame on you guys
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Posted 1 year ago
Horrible experience ordering some stuff online. Five days after I ordered, no evidence of anything being shipped, no notification. Then I insisted on canceling the order via their chat. That person promised to do that and email me. Nothing. Today (day 6) I see online that finally "a label has been created", obviously because I asked to cancel. No update on delivery. No email. I don't want their stuff any more but I seem not to be able to cancel. NEVER AGAIN.
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Posted 1 year ago
My friend visited the Exeter branch of The Bodyshop and left in tears due to how they were treated by staff and their manager. There was no compassion shown to try and help with my friends autism. Due to the staff interactions my friend became non-verbal. No effort was made to address my friends needs and they were made to feel so uncomfortable that they had to leave in tears. I never normally leave reviews but their conduct has moved me to do so. And want to raise this feedback so that others don't have to go through the same treatment. Bad customer service by any measure, but it is even more important that they should have the training to be able to provide appropriate service to those with conditions such as autism.
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Posted 1 year ago
Body shop is the worst place I have shopped from. I placed and ordered and it was shipped on time but somehow fedex didnit deliver to my address and the package went back to the sender. I contacted the customer service to ask for a replacement, but they are worst sort of people. Half the time goes in trying to explain the issue to them and the rest of the time they don't really have any proper solution. I am feeling frustrated with this company. Wont ever be buying anything from them.
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Posted 1 year ago
My experience was horrific . Body shop charged me even for the item which was supposed to be free . Their customer service team made false promises to waive off the charges on the free gift but they didn't do it. They just stopped responding to emails
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Posted 1 year ago
This fraudulent company sent me several emails telling me of an ongoing online sales. Their products are ridiculously expensive, so buying them on sale looked like a logical thing to do. I took the time to pick out items and pay for them online using my credit card. 3 weeks later, i hear nothing, the products are not delivered and when I call their customer service, I was told there was a system error and my order ($150 worth) could not be processed. If this was true, why didn't anyone reach out to me to give me this information 3 weeks ago when I placed this order? Why was my money not refunded as soon as the system error was identified. Why do i see reviews from several years ago with dissatisfied customers complaining about the exact same thing? If this this company (The Body Shop) really intended to sell those products at the discounted price, they should reprocess my order and have it delivered to me, but alas, their real intention was to use other people's money to do their business by advertising false sales on their website with no intention to deliver. They wait until you call several weeks or months later when you realize your order is not coming and they offer to refund you with no compensation whatsoever. Why is my money not being refunded with interest? If you had borrowed this money from the bank, you would have had to repay with interest. This company steals money from their customers to run their business. This is terribly wrong and a clear case of fraud. I will NEVER order anything from the body shop again, not online, not at any of their store locations because the company is clearly a scam! Stay clear buying anything from them.
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Posted 1 year ago
No point in paying next day delivery.Not impressed .two days still waiting .So don't pay next day delivery
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Posted 1 year ago
CS Is totally terrible can't cancel the order even they ship to wrong address before the package delivery and even the package is lost there is customer responsibility what kind of company doing online business like this they should stop doing online business it's totally wrong
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Posted 1 year ago
Every time I go into the website it doesn't accept my password. I have innumerable passwords written in my password book as I keep having to change. It is one of the most difficult sites to manage. While I love their products and find the staff in their nearest branch super helpful I live in the sticks and the nearest shop is twenty odd miles plus away on a limited bus route.
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Posted 1 year ago
The Body Shop is rated 3.6 based on 194 reviews