“Clean Beauty” in the Era of Misinformation With Cosmetic Chemist Jen Novakovich of The Eco Well
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Is “Clean Beauty” a myth? According to a growing social media movement led by the scientific community, a lot of the ingredients on all of those “free-from” lists may not be so dangerous after all. Today we’re chatting with Jen Novakovich, the cosmetic chemist and formulator behind The Eco Well. Jen started her platform to bring more science into the conversation around sustainability in personal care, with a mission to help correct some of the misinformation making headlines today.
Are parabens as awful as we’re made to believe? How much of a topical ingredient is actually absorbed into the bloodstream? What does “medical-grade” skincare really mean? And is anything “chemical-free”? Listen in as Jen answers these questions and more, offering some helpful tools to critically evaluate what you’re hearing – and buying. But first, Carlene and Jill weigh in with their thoughts on why they’re not quite done with the world of Clean Beauty yet!
And, be sure to check out Jen’s podcast The Eco Well - where Jill and Carlene will be featured guests in September, talking about beauty journalism, podcasting and more.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, |
| 0:08.8 | the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and |
| 0:11.9 | Moments in beauty. |
| 0:13.0 | We're your host Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey beauty friends, |
| 0:22.0 | welcome back to our show Breaking Beauty Podcast I'm one of your co-host Jill |
| 0:26.7 | done and right alongside me virtually is Carleen Higgins. Hey Carleen |
| 0:30.9 | Hi guys hey Jill so today we're back with a glow down episode and quite honestly |
| 0:36.7 | it's a topic that we've been wanting to talk about for a long time, a lot to unpack today, |
| 0:42.2 | but you know the timing wasn't right the world turned upside down here we are we're |
| 0:46.5 | excited to dive into clean beauty in the age of misinformation today our guest is cosmetic chemist and |
| 0:54.4 | formulator Jen Novakovich who has a blog YouTube and podcast called The |
| 1:00.1 | EcoWell and actually in September we're going to be on her show so look out for that |
| 1:04.3 | The EcoWell is a science communication platform and their mission is to bring more science into the |
| 1:10.1 | conversation of sustainability and personal care, making accurate |
| 1:14.4 | information more accessible to everyone. And I would say that Jen is just |
| 1:18.9 | really one in a growing movement of scientists who are speaking up a lot on social media against |
| 1:25.2 | what they see as a misinformation epidemic driven by the wellness industry and |
| 1:30.7 | quote-unquote clean beauty industry. Well they're definitely growing louder. industry and |
| 1:32.8 | Well, they're definitely growing louder certainly on social media. You know, you wouldn't have found a cosmetic chemist |
| 1:39.7 | Probably five years ago on Instagram and now we have Dr. |
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