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 ...

Update: On July 2, Unilever announced that it had officially changed the name of the popular skin-lightening brand Fair & Lovely to Glow & Lovely. Though the original rebranding announcement was a ...

A customer picks up a "Fair and Lovely" skin lightening product in a shop in Ahmedabad, India, on June 25, 2020. Amit Dave / Reuters June 25, 2020, 12:42 PM EDT ...

A sales assistant wipes Unilever product, Fair and Lovely skin fairness cream at a shop in New Delhi on April 30, 2013. SAJJAD HUSSAIN—AFP/ Getty Images. By Mahita Gajanan.

Unilever, L’Oreal and Johnson & Johnson plan to rename or discontinue some of their skincare brands in India as controversy grows over the use of skin-lightening products.

“Fair & Lovely” skin-care creams have been a mainstay of beauty aisles in stores across India and elsewhere in Asia for years. Not anymore. On Thursday, the company Unilever said it would stop ...

Fair & Lovely, Unilever’s largest personal-care brand in India, has long been a target for critics who say it promotes the suggestion that light skin is more attractive than dark.

Priyanka Chopra and Disha Patani were called out on Twitter for posting in support of George Floyd while simultaneously promoting whitening products like Fair and Lovely.