Nivea cream's new ad for Nivea For Men is seriously offending some in the black community. The ad shows a short-haired black man in a gray sweater tossing the head of a black man with an Afro and ...

Companies like to push the envelope with their ads. Sometimes the gamble works, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes, like in the case of a new advertising campaign from Nivea, the whole thing turns ...

After the latest Dove ad debacle, you’d think that all other companies might do things like run their ads past more objective eyes. But, apparently not. Now skincare company Nivea is embroiled in ...

Beatrice Dupuy joined Newsweek in 2017. She has formerly worked at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis where she covered several beats including education, county government and breaking news. During her ...

The billboard and TV spot shows a Nigerian beauty pageant winner using a product called Natural Fairness Body Lotion. Critics are describing the... Dove isn't the only skin-care company caught up in a ...

Nivea has become embroiled in a race row after an “appalling” face cream ad that promises “visibly lighter skin” for black women. The beauty brand is advertising its new Natural Fairness moisturizer ...

Does this woman look 62 years old? Advertising watchdogs in the UK don’t think so. They banned the Nivea ad for having too heavy of a hand in retouching of “lines and wrinkles on her face, ...

Nivea has pulled a deodorant ad that declared “White Is Purity” after people called the slogan racist and after some hijacked the ad’s online campaign with comments about white supremacy. The ad, ...

Nivea has pulled a deodorant ad that declared “White Is Purity” after people protested that the slogan is racist, and after others hijacked the ad’s online campaign with comments about white supremacy ...

Dove isn't the only skin-care company caught up in a controversy about its ads. Nivea, a German company with global reach, has been called out on social media for ads in West Africa that many ...