UPDATE: Leaked email from The Ordinary founder gives details of the brand’s closure

It's all a bit mental.

Late last night, the owner of The Ordinary and it's big sister brand Deciem took to Instagram to say there was "major criminal activity" going on within the company. Many fans of the brands were shocked by the cryptic video he posted, however, Cosmopolitan obtained an email from the owner, Brandon Truxe, which states he told employees to close all stores (except one) today. The email read:

"Please close all UK stores except the one near Spit-a-Field Mark iT [sic] as of immediately and until February 2019."

It also said that any employees that did not follow his instruction, or as he put it "disrespects the guidance", "will be terminated tomorrow." It was also instructed that the Deciem homepage be turned into a HTML page, which has already been done. In the video posted last night, Brandon said: "This is the final post of Deciem, which we will shut down all operations until further notice, which will be about two months. "Almost everyone at Deciem has been involved in a major criminal activity which includes financial crimes and much other. You have no idea what a soldier I've been for more than thirteen years." He ended with: "It's all ending now." In the caption of the video, he also wrote a lot of incomprehensible sentences, and called out some major Hollywood stars - although it's not known what he's calling them out for.