Ep. 355: Oils, Extracts, and More with Beauty Botanist Jennifer Hirsch
Fat Mascara
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4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
What makes aloe soothing? How does kigelia extract firm skin? Jennifer Hirsch, a botanist who trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has studied ethnobotany and worked with NGOs to research botanical business diversification for communities around the world. Now, she helps beauty brands bring the power of plants to their products. In this episode, she shares stories from her travels and explains how botanicals like ashwagandha, argan, and cucumber can improve skin and hair—and which herbal supplements have side effects to watch out for.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hi, everyone. Hi there. Welcome to Fat Mascara. I'm Jen. I'm Jess. You were pointing at me, |
| 0:11.4 | and I was like, yeah, what? Oh, yeah, we're doing a podcast. Listen, I have got to hear the scoop |
| 0:21.2 | with this botanist. I know. I like that. I like that. I mean, I don't like that you're so busy, |
| 0:26.8 | and I'm so busy that we're having trouble with the scheduling, but it's not just the scheduling. |
| 0:30.3 | We're delvin into some of our worlds with these these interviews. We do a hog heaven. I just got |
| 0:34.7 | to know we do in hog heaven. I mean, truly, you'll hear from the interview, like I wanted to be |
| 0:39.3 | on a trip with her out in the gardens to be truly in hog heaven, because we're going deep on |
| 0:45.6 | like Jen's loves. And this one, we have a beauty botanist named Jennifer Hirsch. I just realized |
| 0:50.2 | we had the same name. That's weird. Anyway, I don't know why I didn't realize that before. |
| 0:54.8 | I hope you like it, Jess. I hope you I hope you learned something to you know, she actually studied |
| 0:59.2 | at the Royal Botanic Gardens. And I know you. Oh, cool. Yeah, a queue in just outside |
| 1:04.8 | London. So I just whenever I think of, you know, England and flowers, you know, I get a |
| 1:10.3 | just mountain vibe. So anyway, she's a consultant who works with food beverage and beauty companies |
| 1:14.6 | to help them use botanical ingredients more effectively. Oh, that's really cool. Yeah, she has |
| 1:19.0 | a diploma of horticulture from the Royal Botanic Gardens. Like I just said, she's also been a |
| 1:22.6 | garden designer. And then she began studying ethno botany. And she's worked with governmental bodies |
| 1:27.6 | and international NGOs to research botanical business diversification and economic benefits. |
| 1:32.4 | So like she might go to a community that, for example, we're Jess and I met that that harvest |
| 1:37.4 | Shay, but maybe they don't have a great company to sell it to or they're not getting as much |
| 1:41.4 | money as they should be. She helps connect communities to companies that want their products. So |
| 1:46.7 | they're getting paid a fair trade for them. And I thought that was just a really cool job. |
| 1:50.9 | That'd go between, but like a little bit like, you know, a botanist broker botanist botanist. |
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