Paula's Choice Founder Paula Begoun aka "The Cosmetics Cop"
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Paula Begoun is the 67-year-old founder of Paula’s Choice skincare and the author of over 20 books, including Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me. Today, the industry veteran is here to retrace the origin story behind the iconic range, dubbed as “The Original Internet Beauty Brand” and one of the first to go “fragrance-free” long before “free from” lists were even a thing. Today, the 26-year-old company is gaining more popularity than ever before, ranking as one of the Top 5 most-talked about beauty brands on Reddit.
Find out why Gen-Z influencer Skincare By Hyram has touted the best-selling Paula’s Choice 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant as “Sorcery in a Bottle.” Then, stay tuned as Paula goes off on the biggest cosmetics myths she’s busting these days, as she sets the record straight on the number one threat your skin: ”Inflammaging.” Plus, find out why she thinks antioxidants are the unsung heroes of skincare, along with her predictions on which ingredients are going to peak next (Hint: turns out CBD may have actual scientific legs, guys.) And oh, yes we definitely ask her thoughts on cosmetic surgery.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | When I first formulated it, nobody liked it. |
| 0:05.5 | Nobody in my team wanted me to launch it. |
| 0:08.3 | It has a slick texture. |
| 0:10.2 | It's not a typical texture. But from the first time I put it on my face, my pores look different. |
| 0:18.0 | Redness was diminished. The acne breakouts didn't last as long, on and said you know it's Paula's choice the buck stops |
| 0:27.3 | here we're launching it. Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the |
| 0:35.0 | Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and |
| 0:39.0 | Moments in Beauty. |
| 0:40.0 | We're your host Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:42.8 | Hey Breaking Beauty, fam, |
| 0:49.4 | hey, Carleen, how are you? |
| 0:50.6 | I'm good, Jill, how are you? Good. I'm pumped because today we are taking off an interview from our beauty founder |
| 0:58.1 | Bucketless. Yes, absolutely. We have a doozy for you today and I just want to remind you about our back catalog of episodes because we've been collecting almost like an encyclopedia here of beauty brands and the origin story behind them. |
| 1:13.6 | So if you haven't listened to the story behind Mac |
| 1:16.8 | with Frank Tuskin, how Glossier got started |
| 1:19.7 | with Emily Weiss, Oma Beauty, Anastasia, Beverly Hills, I mean, get in there. |
| 1:24.8 | We have so many to enjoy. |
| 1:26.8 | So many words of wisdom over the last almost four years of doing our show. |
| 1:30.9 | So today we bring you the one, the only. Paula Be Gone, the founder of |
| 1:36.1 | Paula's Choice Skincare. As some of you may know her, she's also known as the |
| 1:40.2 | Cosmetics Koth. That's right. And business of fashion has called Paula's Choice the original. the years ago I mean nobody was doing that back then nobody. |
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