No doubt, this product has been a prey of criticism since age old, which is very genuine, and may be for that reason, the Indian Subsidiary of Unilever announced to rename the popular skin-lightening brand "Fair & Lovely" as "Glow & Lovely." But does it change the content of the product? Or does it delete the impression made till now? Alright, forget all those, will it change from "Skin-whitening" to some other product? No, definitely not! Because, the company claims it to be that. I don't know how much skin it really whitens or brightens but yes, you must have to agree that this so called product is a lightening or a whitening or a brightening cream. If anymore synonyms you get in mind, please do comment below. Haha! It was a pun.
Well, I am not here to change your mindset or make you agree my perspective of view but I am going to type here my opinion and say the honest review. Firstly, according to me, this product or you may say, the company is doing nothing but promoting negative stereotypes around dark skin tones. It is purely discriminating people against skin colour into fair and dark or white and black. There purely is seen what we call 'internalised racism, ' which is a so very bad thing, at least I am entirely against it. The country where we do live, and take pledge, an Incredible India; where there are so many religions, so many caste, and so many more, where we learn EQUALITY, FRATERNITY, BROTHERHOOD, if such companies with such products and advertisement will be around us, what more can we expect of!
In one sentence, if anyone asks me about it, then I would say- Renaming the product doesn't mean anything, that's just colourism by another word! Hey, where am I talking about only India, I must say that they are aimed at women in the Black and Asian communities. Truly, I don't have anything to say anymore. And how can anyone forget its various advertisement one after another. All its ads have been associated with either marriages or job. It purely says that if you are fair, you will get to your desire, be it your desirable job or partner or anything. If not, then? Well, what about the sentiments of those millions of people having dark skin colour?
Yes, I do agree, the same product has come up with some career options where one needs to register and follow some steps accordingly but I don't know how far it has helped as I myself tried once to opt for Teaching, it didn't work. If it isn't the case with you, I would be glad to hear from your side.
Oh I am so sorry, I was so much carried away with the controversy and the Externa that I totally forgot the Internal content. Well, who wouldn't have used Fair and Lovely! At least, we all must have used it in the childhood. Even I have. And talking about its performance, it is the worst one. I don't know why it is named as whitening cream, but it does the opposite. Yes, it has a good fragrance and texture, while using it or applying a top layer, there is a good feel. But a little later or one hour later, or after coming back home after some work, I would recommend you to see your face once. Trust me, it would have been better if you would not have applied even a sunscreen and went outside. Yes, its that bad! And I have to say that the chemicals in it are seriously harmful and as a cosmetic with cheap cost, it is not going to do any good but harm your skin. Being in a Medical field, I will never recommend or suggest this Cream to anyone.

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