How to Shop for Skincare with Cosmetic Chemist Victoria Fu

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4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Learn how to decode a cosmetic ingredient list, which skincare ingredients actually work, and how not to waste money on ineffective products in this interview with Victoria Fu, the co-founder of Chemist Confessions. Plus, she tells us about an AI-discovered molecule that improves skin elasticity and explains how social media causes skincare misinformation to proliferate online. This interview originally aired in 2023, but we’ll be back with all new episodes next week!

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0:00.0	Happy 2025, everyone.
0:10.0	Hi, it's Jen Sullivan.
0:11.4	This is Fat Mascara, a podcast about beauty culture.
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0:28.6	stars you want, even more helpful is like constructive criticism. What guests do you want to see in
0:33.2	2025? What have you been liking? What haven't you been liking? We want to hear it all. So I also like to
0:39.4	read comments and reviews at the beginning of some episodes when I remember. So I want to do one.
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0:53.0	Garrett. Please don't censor the real talk.
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1:07.2	which are these procedures that we've just both been reporting on.
1:11.8	Carl's Farr goes on.
1:16.5	I'm also really interested in plastic surgery discussions lately. Super insightful feels very relevant. Carl Farr, us too. There's going to be more of that. There's going to be more of
1:20.8	Garrett in 2025. We'll try not to censor. That's not who we are. So stay tuned for that.
1:27.3	Okay, right now, today's episode,
1:30.0	you know, my New Year's resolution, it's going to be to not say I'm excited about every guest
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