L'Oreal removes words like 'whitening' from its products

French cosmetics giant L'Oreal removes words like "whitening" from its products, as global anti-racism protests wake big businesses up to the issue. Photo: visual hunt.com

French cosmetics giant L'Oreal announced on Saturday that it was removing words like "whitening" from its products, in the midst of global anti-racism protests waking big businesses up to the issue.

L'Oreal is the latest multinational after the likes of Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and Mars to respond to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, prompted by the police killing of African-American George Floyd last month in the USA.