Lancashire-based high Street beauty chain Bodycare is to close its 56 remaining stores, resulting in 444 redundancies, administrators have confirmed. Last week, the bargain beauty brand announced the closure of 30 shops, having collapsed into administration earlier this month. A shortage of stock and the cost of running stores meant it was no longer viable to keep its 115 stores open, according to administrators at the time. Since the appointment of administrators, roughly 150 shops have been shut, and more than 1,000 people have already lost their jobs so far. Bodycare had been profitable pre-pandemic, but like many retailers lost millions of pounds in the financial years immediately after.