Hey guys welcome back to skin care anarchy. This is your host Echta and I am super

super excited about her guest today because she is truly brilliant in the field of

chemistry and everything that has to do with, you know, cosmetic chemistry, anything we want to learn about as consumers, you know, in the beauty space.

I could not think of a more knowledgeable guest to have on to really educate us on this topic and do a deeper dive, you know, than we're really used to on a day-to-day basis.

So without further ado, I want to introduce you guys to Kelly Dobos.

He is a consultant cosmetic chemist and adjunct professor

of cosmetic science for both the University of Toledo

and the University of Cincinnati.

Kelly also has 25 years of expertise in developing

both skincare and color cosmetic formulations. She's worked with notable

companies like Bonnie Bell, Pyrell, Cow USA, so lots and lots of experience.

So welcome to show Kelly, I'm so honored to host you.

Well, thank you for having me. I'm excited.

Yeah, I'm really thrilled to have this opportunity to kind of, you know, like I said, pick your brain a little bit and learn from you because, you know, as you know, the beauty space is so vast and we see so at that you know

a lot of all a lot of consumers including myself you know we get stuck at that you know part where you're looking at the

inky list and just trying to decipher, you know, what is this and even with me, you know, I went to pre-med

took organic chemistry, but I some of these names still they're just get me, you know, like what am I looking at kind of things so I know a lot of people feel that way, you know a lot of people feel that way you know where there's a lot of confusion so I will I would want to dive into that later but I would love to learn more about you if you could tell us about your your background in your education and just really what got you into chemistry.

Sure, you know as a young adults and even as a child I was fascinated by the kind of the natural world around me and always trying to understand how things worked on a deeper level.

And when I got to college I I really leaned towards studying chemistry because I liked understanding how how things worked on that molecular level and how you can translate into the way things behave around you, like the way that hydrogen bonding is responsible for the many unique properties of water and that how those are also the same property is that are

you know driving the way he meptons work in skin care but you know when I graduated I didn't know there was such a thing as cosmetic chemistry, and I think many of my contemporaries in the field didn't really know either.

I just knew I wanted to keep working in the field and I just applied for a position as a lab assistant to get started working because I really wanted to go back and get a

a master's degree at some point,

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