The advert is targeted at women in Africa, where skin lightening and bleaching ... In the advert a black woman is seen applying Nivea's Natural Fairness cream to her body. A voiceover says that ...

Heather Nelson, from the Leeds-based Black Health Initiative community ... where she was able to buy a strong skin-lightening cream. Yet after using it for two years, she started to experience ...

No company has had greater success peddling this message across Asia, Africa and the Middle East than Unilever’s Fair & Lovely brand, which sells millions of tubes of skin-lightening cream ...

The toxic trade of often illegal mercury-added skin-lightening products is a global crisis expected to only worsen with skyrocketing demand, especially in Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Consistent ...