My mother used to buy this cream. It has a reasonable price. One day I thought to use it on my normal skin but when I first put the cream on my face, I had patches of white all over and the cream flaked right off without rubbing in and got pimples sometimes. I can’t rate it worst but it didn’t worked on my skin. It has strong smell, have a slight cosmetic scent and I like that smell.This product does not address hyperpigmentation. Discontinue use of this product can causes dullness. Many user claim that they didn’t get back their original complexion.Fair & Lovely is one of the popular skin lightening product, but results are temporary. You have to use it regularly for lighter complexion. When you use it, you can see results immediately but your skin goes back to normal but its mentioned on its packet that user will have continuous lightning on their skin tone. and I never found lightning in my mother’s skin tone who used it regularly.