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 ...

Consumer giant Unilever says it will rebrand its bestselling skin lightening cream Fair and Lovely and drop the word "fair" from its name. While the news has been welcomed, ...

Does marketing "Fair and Lovely" skin cream in India empower the poor? By Andrew Leonard. Published February 14, 2007 1:12AM (EST) --Shares. Facebook. Twitter. Reddit. Email.

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 ...

I have been remiss in noting that there has been some further comment on the Fair & Lovely skin whitener debate over at NextBillion.net. A quick recap: C.K. Prahalad, an economist at the Ross ...

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.

A sales assistant wipes Unilever product, Fair and Lovely skin fairness cream at a shop in New Delhi ...More on April 30, 2013. Food giant Unilever on Tuesday announced a 5.4-billion dollar offer ...

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 ...

It was as a teenager attending boarding school in India that I first heard of a product called “Fair and Lovely.” Fair and Lovely is a cream made by Unilever to lighten dark skin. Our working-class, ...

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.