Only the other day I was raving about B’s scent sampler… and now it seems I may have to find a replacement for my new favourites.

In a memo circulating Lush today, B Never Too Busy to be Beautiful is announced to be closing. Staff at the Covent Garden store, where it’s very much business as usual, couldn’t shed any light on the situation, but stocking up on your B favourites is probably a very good idea.

The recession may be apparently drawing to a close, but it seems the knock-on effects are still ravaging the boutique beauty sector.

Jelly Pong Pong has closed its Shorts Gardens store in Central London, while news is all over the blogs about Prescriptives’ demise.

As I wistfully sniff my vial of “Dear John” and flip through the B Never catalogue, I wish the industry a speedy recovery and hope this rumour proves to be untrue.

EDIT - it seems that Boots have seen the error of their ways and are now offering collect in store free whatever size your order! Go to the Boots main page to see the new details.

Here’s a thing - spend £25 on Boots.com and you can have your bits and bobs delivered to your local store. Free of charge.

This is a definite improvement on their old system, where you had to pay the regular delivery charge for this service, however much you spent.

This is a good way of getting your Urban Decay, Clarins, Clinique, Too Faced etc. delivered to you locally for free if you don’t have a counter nearby.

They could have lowered the minimum charge, but let’s be honest, it’s not difficult to think up ways to spend £25 in Boots now, is it?