Natural Beauty Analysis

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The article “Forget ´Real Beauty´: Ads for Skin-Whitening Beauty Products Just Won’t Die In Asia, Global Skincare Giants Plug Whiter Skin”, written by Doland, describes the controversy of big beauty companies selling skin-whitening products in countries in Asia and Africa whilst selling self-tanning lotions in the Europe and other Western markets. Companies such as Dove and The Body Shop, which advertise themselves as ethical ambassadors of natural beauty in Europe, pro-mote contradicting values in the Asian market by sending an unconcious message to consumers that they are not beautiful in their own skin. These skincare giants seem to think that they are not doing anything wrong, but only answering to different comsumers’ demands. According to the article Unilever said: “We are proud to provide people everywhere with that feel-good experience regard-less of age, race or demographic.” (Doland, 2014)

I chose to do my individual assignment on this topic because I find it very interesting and contro-versial. After reading the article my brand perception, as a consumer, about these skincare giants changed a little bit and therefore I wanted to analyze the consumer issues in more depth.

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Different cultures have different ideals of beauty. Do self-tanning lotions really differ from skin-whitening products? Is skin-whitening any worse? It depends on the consumers’ ideal beauty perception. It might not be ethical promoting skin-whitening products, but are self-tanning products actually any more ethical? Brands have taken different approaches in different cul-tures due to the varying ideals of beauty. Even though Dove has a ”real beauty” campaign going in in the Western markets, their main goal is still to sell thei product and therefore they are actually saying: ”You a natural beauty, yet you need to buy our product to enhace your

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