How can I tell if my product contains natural or synthetic colors? Episode 128

The Beauty Brains

Discover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid

Fashion & Beauty, Science, Cosmetics, Beauty Products, Arts, Cosmetic Science, Natural Sciences

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail Just about everyone has been puzzled about how “natural” certain products are. This is especially true of color cosmetics because not very many of the colorants used in makeup are truly natural. In today’s encore presentation, we discuss a quick history of cosmetic colorants, tell you where colorants come from, and explain the difference between […]Support the show

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Perry, and you're listening to the Beauty Brains, where real scientists answer
0:04.2	your beauty questions for Tuesday, February 11, 2014. Hello and
0:25.0	welcome to the beauty brands.
0:26.0	I'm your host Perry Romanoski and with me as always Randy Hello Randy.
0:28.0	Hello Perry and everybody listening.
0:29.0	Hey you know I was reading Twitter as I am want to do. Actually for the listeners out there feel free to
0:36.1	follow us on Twitter.
0:37.1	Yeah and join the what 12,000 other people who are followers.
0:43.4	There are a lot of followers.
0:44.4	I wonder how many people actually follow.
0:46.3	I mean, there's so many people, you know, that follow thousands of people.
0:50.3	I don't know how they follow any.
0:51.8	We follow what what 150 people. Yeah something
0:55.2	like that yeah. It's pretty hard to keep up with everybody. It is it is. It's like
1:01.0	I'm dipping your toe into the river you know you just can't keep up with everything that flows past you in Twitter.
1:07.0	Indeed, indeed. Did you see the big news though on Twitter?
1:10.0	This came through my Twitter feed, it wasn't about Twitter, but you see big news?
1:15.0	Yeah, what's that?
1:17.0	The J&J finally announced that they reformulated their baby shampoo and removed the objectionable preservative for a whole new formulation.
1:28.0	That was the big headline about no more formaldehyde, although to be technically correct it's a formaldehyde donor.
1:34.0	Well, exactly.
1:36.0	And, but they swapped, they swapped their formula with a new preservative system, and I think when they did that that changed the color so they had to change the color and it changed the thickness so they had to put in a new thickener and so that whenever you're tinker with these formulas.
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