The Body Shop Updates Makeup Offerings, Rings In Holiday 2006
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The Body Shop has reformulated and repackaged its entire makeup collection and launched new items to give the line a prestige, contemporary feel, according to the L'Oréal division
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