L’Oreal to drop words such as ‘whitening’ from skin products

LONDON (Reuters) – L’Oreal, the world’s biggest cosmetics company, has decided to remove words referring to “white”, “fair” and “light” from its skin-evening products, a spokeswoman said on Friday.

The move follows a similar decision by Unilever on Thursday, in the face of growing social media criticism.

(Reporting by Martinne Geller, editing by Louise Heavens)