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"Real Beauty", Unilever?
Posted  on January 26, 2009 at 6:41 PM
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Hi, Unilever.

It's me, Erica Myers.

I was raised on a plethora of your products: Dove, Lux, Vaseline and Close-up. Those are just a few. There are others. When you launched the Real Beauty campaign for Dove, I was ecstatic! Here was a company that was letting women, no, PEOPLE, of the world know that beauty is skin deep and everyone's to have. You showed white women, brown women, yellow women, red women and the darkest of skin tones of woman. The same 2000 body parts that Lever 2000 covered applied to 2000 tones and types of skin. Everyone was equal in your health, hygiene and beauty products' eyes.

I have been bamboozled! I browse the web often, looking for various things that draw my attention. This time it was controversial magazine covers. What I found wasn't a controversial magazine cover. It was your advertisement for a skin cream sold in India and Thailand. Really, Unilever, Flawless White?

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