After using the soap, the black child looks delighted to see that his skin has turned white. Dove declined to say how the ad was produced and approved. It said it was “re-evaluating our internal ...

The company posted an image that appears to show a black woman turning ... appearing to become a white woman in a white shirt. Next to the women is a bottle of Dove soap. The post, which has ...

Many who criticized the imagery said it suggests that black skin is dirty and white skin is clean, and noted there is a historical legacy of racism in soap ads. “Dove’s marketing team is ...

with the ladies again subjected to the “before and after” archetype Dove seems to be enamored with. And yet again: the “before” is a black woman and the “after” a white woman. Soap ...

Many who criticized the imagery said it suggests black skin is dirty and white skin is clean, and noted there is a historical legacy of racism in soap ads. "Dove's marketing team is fundamentally ...

Was Dove saying that inside every black woman is a smiling redheaded white woman? Was Dove invoking ... to historical examples of racist ads about soap so good that it apparently washes the ...

Soap company Dove has apologized for a ... but which has since been deleted, showed a black woman wearing a brown shirt removing her top to reveal a white woman in a lighter top.

Screen shots of a deleted Dove ad on Facebook were ... historical images in which other soap companies over time played on the idea that white was clean and black was unclean.

However, people pointed out that numerous racist adverts in the past have sold soap by saying it can turn black skin white, and that Dove should have realised people would call it out. It is not ...

One user said it conveyed a message “that the Black Woman is dirty and once you use Dove soap, you'll be clean and White." Dove, which is owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever removed the ad by ...