Hi, guys. Welcome back to Skincare Anarchy. This is your host, Ecta. And today I have

with me, Dr. Ben Johnson, who is the founder and mind behind the amazing Skincare line Osmosis.

So welcome, Dr. Johnson. I'm so glad that you have the time to call on tour show.

Absolutely. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure.

Pleasure is truly mine. And I would love for you to get started by talking a little bit about

your career background and the journey that led you to create this line. Sure. You know,

it wasn't a typical journey for sure. I was in residency out of medical school. I was planning

to become a sports medicine doc. And I was in training for that and heard about laser hair removal

and basically started a laser aesthetic clinic while I was in residency for sports medicine.

And somewhere a lot of the way that the residency is like, well, you can't do both of the hosts.

And I was like, really? So my heart led me to doing this basically aesthetic medicine. And then

while I was in that, learned the hard way that there's a bunch of BS in this industry, any

aesthetic industry. For example, like I bought a bunch of lasers that were supposedly permanent

for hair removal and they weren't. And then I bought a bunch of skin care that was supposedly

did this or that and it didn't. And then I even learned that even though I was doing Botox and

injections, and this was 20 years ago, roughly, that I wasn't a fan. So I really come full circle

from. And so I ran a bunch of laser clinics. I tried to, you know, start a nationwide chain. I

ended up having about eight in four states before really just not knowing what I was doing and

hiring my high school friends to be the managers of these clinics led me to shut those down.

But with the cool thing that came out of it, and you know, I think everything happens for

reason. And so the real important thing that came out of that is I started formulating my own

line back then. It was called cosmetic still around today. And yeah. And I, and it did well. And

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