Hello and welcome to Forever 35,

a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Kate Spencer and I'm Dory Schaffreier.

And this is product recall.

Our monthly Patreon offering in which we share the story of an iconic

product, the behind the scenes, if you will, the what you didn't know and I am pretty fired up about

what we're going to talk about today. I can't wait. I saw in our... You saw the name? I saw the name.

And I was like, ooh. Oh my gosh, how have we not talked about this brand yet? I don't know.

Friends, I was inspired to go on a freaking deep dive about Clinique.

And I have learned so much about the history of this brand

and like how it basically revolutionized

skincare as we know it.

And not even the products themselves,

but how skincare is marketed to us.

Oh.

The things we say, the things we look for.

It has been a journey.

And it's a journey that starts with this question, Dory.

Okay.

And that question is this.

Can great skin be created? created. I guess it depends on your definition of great.

Well in 1967 a vogue beauty editor Carol Phillips asked this question. This was the title of an interview

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