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Best of FM: The Truth About “Active” Skincare with Cosmetic Chemist Victoria Fu

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Arts, Makeup, Beauty News, Fashion & Beauty, Fragrance, Dermatology, Perfume, Skincare

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

What makes a skincare ingredient “active”? How do you decode a cosmetic ingredient list? How are researchers using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve our complexions? Which beauty ingredients are completely pointless? In this interview (our second most popular episode of 2023) Victoria Fu, the co-founder of Chemist Confessions, is here to answer all those questions and more. Plus, she tells us about an AI-discovered molecule that improves skin elasticity and explains how the digital era has made it harder to separate fact from fiction in the beauty world. We’ll be back with all new episodes next week!


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0:00.0

Hello and happy

0:07.0

happy Friday it's Fat Mascara. I'm Jen Sullivan. She's Jess Matlin.

0:11.0

She's just Matlin. She's actually not just Matlin because we're taking a break this week for the new year

0:16.0

But happy new year to everyone when we're back are we gonna talk about new year's resolutions like I don't know are we doing that I'm not sure but before we get back to our regularly

0:25.7

Scheduled programming we do have another amazing interview for you are almost as popular as Lord Gavin up so this is the number two most popular episode of

0:35.6

2023. Congratulations to Victoria Fu one half of chemist confessions. So

0:42.3

she's here this was an interview I did with her, she's a former

0:44.9

formulation scientist from L'Oreal, but then she started her own thing and she's a science educator as well and she

0:50.6

sort of peeled back the curtain on how products get made, which is something you guys love to hear about.

0:56.0

I've noticed the skincare interviews that we do are always the most popular.

1:00.0

So I'm playing this for you now, but Jess and I will be back on Wednesday January 10th with all new episodes, but for now

1:05.8

Let's listen to Victoria Foo of chemist confessions Victoria, welcome to Fat Mascara. Thanks for having me Jen. So excited. I'm ready to get into it.

1:22.2

She's so excited that she set up a sign behind her on video that says fat

1:27.9

mascara plus chemist confession. How cute I did I did I love it. Our marketing assistant Ava will murder me if I do not. This was a request.

1:38.0

I love that. I love that. I feel like our audiences really do overlap, but we'll get into that of course like

1:44.4

tell me all about you you're the co-founder of chemist confessions which is so many

1:49.1

things like how would you describe what you? I think the best way we've described it thus far is a multiverse.

1:58.0

So you've got, yeah, you've got your skin care science education. We've got our chemist quirky formulas. We also have and sometimes in weird occasions will team up with other companies.

2:16.0

So it's a whole world of we just think nerdy skincare science general fun that's why we have in our education

2:26.0

side we've not only have social media but we randomly ended up with a book we did the

2:31.8

whole pot oh I read your book. Honored. Yeah that

2:37.9

I sure did. Writing a book? Anybody ever done it before that this never was planned. I am not a writer.

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