Unilever says it is dropping terms like “whitening,” “lightening” and “fair” from its marketing language to better promote racial inclusivity in the beauty industry. As part of the push, the consumer ...

These days, the brand’s message is empowerment, selling the product as one that enables women to do achieve they want – including lightening their skin. “Fair & Lovely's brand promise is of enabling ...

The Indian subsidiary of the consumer products conglomerate Unilever is changing the name of its skin lightening cream Fair & Lovely following years of criticism. Fair & Lovely cream package and tube ...

Unilever announced that it is evolving its products and marketing to represent a more evolved vision of beauty, and the first steps are removing the words fair/fairness, white/whitening, and ...

There were muted cheers among feminists and women’s rights campaigners in South Asia at the news at the end of June that the Indian arm of global consumer goods giant Unilever would rebrand its ...

After years of criticism, the Indian subsidiary of Unilever announced Thursday that it is renaming popular skin-lightening brand “Fair & Lovely” as “Glow and Lovely,” a move met with backlash on ...

As worldwide protests against the police killing of George Floyd have sparked a reexamination and rejection of the ways racism touches all aspects of life, Unilever and its Indian subsidiary, ...

MUMBAI/ISLAMABAD - Unilever (ULVR.L) will drop the word “fair” from its “Fair & Lovely” skin lightening products, it said on Thursday, in the latest makeover of a brand in response to a global ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It was as a teenager attending boarding school in India that I first heard of a product called ...

Generations of South Asians have grown up with grocery aisles full of Fair & Lovely skin-lightening products. The brand's TV commercials feature Bollywood stars and equate pale, fair skin with beauty ...