The short answer is yes, BB creams are good for all skin types, including oily, dry, acne-prone, and more.
Value for Money: Fair and lovely is good for people who have oily skin fragrance is also good and it helps to light your skin shade. You will notice difference after using it continuously a month.
The Fair and Lovely BB Cream is a glow cream with a make-up finish. This expert product brings together the benefits of foundation and advanced multivitamin glow cream. Its suitable for all Indian skin tones. Use it daily to hide dark spots and blemishes, and achieve a bright and fresh look every day.
This Fair & Lovely BB Cream comes in just one shade same like Garnier and Ponds BB cream. For oily skin types, it is too occlusive and can increase blackheads and pimples for sure. For dry skin type, it doesn't seem to be a good moisturizer as it gives a dry and matte feel.
Fair & Lovely BB Cream is little sticky and gives a white matte look on applying, that hides the dark skin spots instantly. This look blends with the fairer skin but looks rather badly artificial on the darker skins. Also, it is a bit too occlusive for oily type and yet not moisturizing for the dry skin types.
Cons of Fair & Lovely BB Cream:
Comes in just one shade. Rubber-like feel. Difficult to blend in.
Using the creams with steroids may end up with some other side effects like permanent stretch marks , pimples, darkening of the skin, skin-allergy and dis-figuration, etc. The 'strong-version' fairness creams also contain hydroquinone, a chemical which has the bleaching affect.
There are several benefits of using Fair and Lovely Cream, enriched with SPF15 it gives enhances your complexion, protects it from harmful rays of the sun, dust, and pollutants controls un-even skin tone, and several others.
BB creams are definitely the safer bet for acne-prone individuals since CC (aka color correcting) creams tend to offer more coverage and therefore tend to have a heavier feel — not exactly ideal for the oily skinned among us.
The price of Fair & Lovely Ayurvedic Care Cream is Rs. 85 for 50gm. Both isopropyl myristate and wheatgerm oil in it are considered highly comedogenic, meaning this cream is very likely to cause or worsen acne.
Fair and Lovely Face Wash is good for normal and oily skin.
A few other bb cream for oily skin in India are brands like Olay Total Effects 7 In One Touch Of Foundation BB Cream Day SPF 15, BB CREAM - MILD EARTH, MAYBELLINE Clearsmooth All In One Bb Cream Spf21 which is one of the best bb cream for oily skin and large pores, Ponds White Beauty BB+ Cream etc..
CC cream is best for oily skin. Thanks to its matte texture, it's less likely to slip and slide on your skin.
Since its launch in 2005, Fair & Handsome has sold over Rs 200 crore, a fair indication of its popularity. “There are no known and reported long-term side effects of using the cream on regular skin types. Therefore, its prolonged use should not have any side effect on the skin. The cream is effective.
Both creams come in tubes which are travel friendly. However Ponds is more reliable because the list is twist-open instead of Fair & Lovely which is pull open. Both claim to give whitening effect, Ponds says “BB+ fairness cream” and Fair & Lovely says “Foundation + fairness cream”.
“Fair & Lovely only manufactures and clears for sale products that are safe for consumers. We do not use mercury or hydroquinone in any of our beauty and personal care products.
You can also use Fair & Lovely as a base of your makeup. (I always use Fair & Lovely as a base and then I apply the makeup which helps my makeup to stay for longer time.) If you apply Fair & Lovely as a base before makeup then your makeup will last for hours.