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For decades, the cosmetics industry in India has made millions selling skin-whitening products to women. Now, it's making more money by convincing Indian men that they should be lighter. Industry ...

The Economic Times of India ran a piece over the weekend about the inroads Amway is making in India and the global lessons it learned there as it adapted its business model to local cultural ...

When Nina Davuluri was crowned Miss America, becoming the first Indian Miss America, not everyone was celebrating her barrier-breaking win. In India, where Davuluri's family emigrated from, her ...

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 ...

The Indian arm of consumer giant Unilever said Thursday it will rename its locally marketed "Fair & Lovely" skin-lightening cream in the face of global anti-racism protests. Indian actor Priyanka ...

People around the world are spending over $10 billion to lighten their skin color. India happens to be one of the several countries where fairer skin has become the new obsession. In fact, the skin ...

MUMBAI, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mirror, mirror on the wall - who is the fairest of them all? Sign up here. The one with the palest skin, of course. Or that's the idea behind India's ...

The ridicule started at age 6. Classmates would bully Fatima Lodhi, taunting her and other darker students with derogatory names. It got worse as she got older. In high school, she was nominated for ...

Unilever (UL), L’Oreal (LRLCF) 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. Hindustan ...