NIVEA is a large global skin- and body-care brand, owned by German company Beiersdorf. The company began in 1911 when Beiersdorf developed a water-in-oil emulsifier as a skin cream with Eucerit, the first stable emulsion of its kind. The company's owner, Oskar Troplowitz, named it NIVEA, from the Latin word nivius (meaning snow-white). Beiersdorf AG (FWB: BEI) is a multinational corporation based in Hamburg, Germany, manufacturing personal care products. ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... An emulsion is a mixture of two immiscible substances. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language. ...

During the 1930s, Beiersdorf began producing products such as suntan lotions, shaving creams, shampoo and facial toners. NIVEA was expropriated in many countries following WWII. Beiersdorf completed buying back the confiscated trademark rights in 1997. A shampoo is a traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs. ... Combatants Allies: Soviet Union United Kingdom United States and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Franklin Roosevelt Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Internationalisation during the 1980s propelled the NIVEA brand to a wider global market. Internationalization and localization[1] are means of adapting products such as publications, hardware or software for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures. ...

Trivia

• After WWI, NIVEA remodelled its cream in a blue tin with a white logo.

• During WWII, then marketing manager Elly Heuss-Knappthe distanced the brand from Nazi ideology. In 1949 she became the First Lady of Germany as spouse to Theodor Heuss.

• In 1956, a customer claimed that using a NIVEA product had dissolved their hair and caused it to fall out. The claims were acquitted within weeks.

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External links

• Official site
• Nivea at Beiersdorf