Fair and unlovely: India confronts dark-skin biasUnilever reportedly made $500 million from Fair & Lovely sales last yearNEW DELHI - When Chandana Hiran was a child, strangers would urge her to lighten her skin. The campaign achieved its first victory when cosmetics giant Unilever dropped the word "fair" from its popular Fair & Lovely skin-lightening cream. "They have been thriving on selling insecurities to women," 22-year-old Hiran, who launched an online petition against Fair & Lovely, told AFP. Unilever made $500 million from Fair & Lovely sales in India last year, according to Bloomberg. Seema, a 29-year-old domestic worker in New Delhi, has used Fair & Lovely since she was 14.

Source: Bangkok Post July 10, 2020 05:26 UTC