Further details about Lush co-founder Mark Constantine’s life and time as a beauty business owner have been revealed in an updated edition of his biography Dear John.
The 336-page book, written by author, filmmaker and close friend Jeff Osment, details how Constantine went from creating homemade remedies and becoming the biggest product supplier to British beauty brand The Body Shop, to eventually founding successful retail chain Lush.
The second edition includes three new chapters which cover the disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brexit and the impact of the Ukraine war on Lush’s global shops.
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It also maintains the story of Constantine’s childhood and his father’s abandonment of him as a baby, with this loss leading to the creation of the Dear John perfume in 2004, which embodied the feelings this gap left him.
Constantine told Cosmetics Business at the book’s London press launch on 29 May that
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