428: The Ingredients, Myths + Marketing Tactics of the Beauty Industry with Charlotte Palermino
Well with Arielle Lorre
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4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Charlotte Palermino is a licensed esthetician, co-founder of Dieux Skin, writer and self proclaimed skincare freak. She joins the show for an honest, no-nonsense conversation around beauty standards, treatments, what actually matters in skincare and what absolutely doesn’t. We get into the first skincare brand she ever fell in love with, the beauty products she thinks are totally overrated and the weirdest treatment she’s ever tried. Charlotte shares her go-to approach for treating hyperpigmentation, her laser recommendations, the number one thing everyone should be doing for better skin and why so many of us still get duped by clever marketing. We also unpack the realities of perioral dermatitis, why lawsuits ironically protect the beauty industry, how U.S. and EU regulations really differ and why Europe is often idealized for all the wrong reasons. Plus: the percentages that actually matter when reading ingredient lists, the future of skincare through her skeptical lens and the affordable brands she genuinely recommends.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.8 | This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Ariel Laurie, and each week I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with people shaping how we feel, live, and look. |
| 0:17.2 | Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out. |
| 0:25.3 | I loved today's episode so much, and I know that you are going to as well. So before you think that |
| 0:32.8 | this is just another skincare beauty focused episode, it's actually so much more than that because my guest, Charlotte Parley, has a really interesting take and approach to beauty. She is what I would consider a beauty skeptic. And she's almost like an anthropologist in that she really kind of studies beauty and skincare and how it affects and has been affected by |
| 0:57.1 | cultures and societies and even politics across time and space. So we get into all of that. |
| 1:05.8 | It's really a no-nonsense conversation about beauty standards, treatments, what actually matters in skincare and what |
| 1:12.5 | really doesn't. We talk about beauty products that she thinks are totally overrated. We talk |
| 1:17.8 | weirdest treatments she's ever tried. She also shares her go-to approach for hyperpigmentation. |
| 1:23.6 | She has great specific laser recommendations, the things that everybody should be doing for our skin, and how to not get duped by clever marketing. |
| 1:33.1 | We also talk about misconceptions about the U.S. and European regulations and how they differ and why Europe is often idealized for the wrong reasons. |
| 1:42.1 | We also talk percentages that matter when reading ingredient |
| 1:45.0 | lists, the future of skincare through her skeptic lens, and affordable drugstore brands that |
| 1:51.8 | she recommends. There are so many amazing recommendations and also thought provoking perspectives, |
| 1:58.6 | in my opinion, in this episode that I think are going to help the way that you |
| 2:03.0 | view both beauty and skincare. So a little bit of background on Charlotte. She is a licensed |
| 2:09.2 | esthetician. She is the co-founder of Dove Skin, an amazing skincare brand all about transparency |
| 2:15.0 | and efficacy. She is also a writer and a self-proclaimed skincare |
| 2:20.3 | skincare freak. I know you're going to love this one. So please enjoy. I feel like this is a long |
| 2:25.9 | time coming. I know. It's been a long time coming for me. We've been following each other for a while. |
| 2:29.8 | For quite a while. Yeah. I love your content so much. And I love your transparency as a brand founder. |
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