Directors Interest in Shares

PZ CUSSONS PLC
22 August 2005


22 August 2005

                                  PZ CUSSONS PLC

             PZ Cussons Plc - Notification of Interests of Directors


PZ Cussons Plc (the 'Company') announces that it was notified today by its
Executive Directors that Hill Samuel Offshore Trust Company Limited as Trustee
of the Paterson Zochonis Employee Trust (the 'ESOT'), had transferred 21,861
Ordinary Shares of 10p each in the Company.

The ESOT is a discretionary trust under which the class of beneficiaries who may
benefit comprises all bona fide employees and former employees of the Company
and its subsidiaries including members of such employees' and former employees'
immediate families. Accordingly the Executive Directors of the Company namely,
PZ Cussons Plc are included in the class of beneficiaries. As a result the
Executive Directors are deemed to have an interest in all of such shares.


G Calder
Finance Director


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