Nivea is a global skincare brand, owned by german company Beiersdorf. In 1882 phamacist Carl Paul Beiersdorf establishes the company on 28 march. The company began in 1911 when Beiersdorf developed a water in oil as a skin cream with eucerit, the first stable emulsion of its kind.
The company's owner, Oscar Troplowitz named it Nivea from the latin word mean snow white