Ask A Clean Cosmetic Chemist with Krupa Koestline

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4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Are clean beauty products better for the environment? Who still tests on animals and why? How do retailers and brands develop their lists of restricted substances (aka, “no no” lists)? In honor of Earth Day, cosmetic biochemist Krupa Koestline—founder of KKT Consultants, a product-development firm—is here to answer all your questions. We’ll discuss the current state of “clean” beauty and dig into some more complicated issues, like the potential dangers of ethoxylated ingredients, how and why fragrances are used in product formulation, which skincare ingredients are overrated, and more.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Fat Mascara, I'm Jess.
0:09.8	I'm Jen, hi.
0:11.3	Okay, Jen, you did this interview this week.
0:14.4	Tell us about who you spoke to.
0:16.6	Yeah, I will.
0:18.3	I'm very excited to welcome Krupa Kessline.
0:21.6	She's the founder and chief formulator at KKT Consultants,
0:25.0	which I'll tell you what they do.
0:26.0	But they basically formulate clean beauty products
0:28.0	for many brands.
0:29.1	And she's worked as a cosmetic chemist and formulator
0:31.2	for various brands over the years,
0:33.1	including traditional brands.
0:34.7	But she made the switch to formulating cleaner and greener,
0:37.5	which she'll tell us about, how that all came about.
0:40.1	And so I know, like, you've heard Jess and I talk about,
0:43.6	I'm not a fan of fear mongering.
0:45.6	Nope.
0:46.4	Yeah, when it comes to clear clean beauty,
0:48.1	I feel like it gets weaponized sometimes,
0:50.6	is like, if we're a clean, you're a toxic.
0:52.9	Shots fired, pew, pew, pew.
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