Winter Fairness Cream

Made by Vaseline. One of dozens of skin bleaching products filling many shelves in the supermarket. The commercial for Winter Fairness Cream on t.v. wasn’t in English, not exactly, but is fully understandable: pretty young woman looking dejected in her family home, where mom and dad are smiling about her “model contract”, but she got the contract with pictures when her skin was lighter (dark shadow passes over her face) and the happy solution is “Winter Fairness Cream” (shadow diminishes stage by stage) leaving her practically as pale as me, except of course no disfiguring freckles.
Oddly, after a long search of those same supermarket shelves, I find there is only one choice of sun screen, “Lakme Ultra Matte, super light sunscreen, insta [sic] oil absorb complex” [huh?] SPF 30. Further reading of the package turns up several typos, and the explanation that unlike most sunscreens, this one absorbs excess oil from the skin surface, “leaving your face matte and shine-free” and “…not feeling oily and sticky”. Hmmm, never believe anything until it’s officially denied: I’ve just opened the tube, put it on my arm, and it’s the stickiest stuff! Ick! At least it only cost $2, for 50 grams. And smells vaguely like something I’ve eaten recently. Made by Hindustan Unilever. Gotta go wash my hands before I gum up the keyboard.