Berkeley’s Body Time Was the Original Body Shop In the past thirty years, three Berkeley-born businesses revolutionized their industries and made their names famous around the world: Chez Panisse, ...

The company has a long history in the Bay Area. Starting out as the original The Body Shop 48 years ago in Berkeley, it opened at a time when artisan soaps and custom skin care products were ...

the company’s founders sold the name The Body Shop to a London skin care company and renamed its Berkeley locations Body Time. Terra De Almeida and Al De Almeida, the current owners of Body Time ...