Skincare: Activated Charcoal
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Will activated charcoal, which these days can be found in everything from face creams to smoothies, really purify your pores? Science presenter and YouTuber Greg Foot is on a mission to bust marketing BS, looking for the facts behind the fads and challenging products’ bold claims with scientific evidence.
In the second episode, Greg is joined by actress and beauty blogger Rebecca Humphries, consultant dermatologist Dr Emma Wedgeworth and Cambridge Professor of Chemistry, Melinda Duer to explore the science behind activated charcoal - could it act as a 'magnet' to draw out dirt and pollution from your pores as some products claim?
Presenter: Greg Foot Producer: Graihagh Jackson Studio Manager: John Boland Editor: Rami Tzabar
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread is a BBC Science Radio Unit Production
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder. |
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| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org slash fringe. |
| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:41.5 | Welcome to The Best Things Since Slice Bread, a podcast from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm Greg Foote, and this series is all about separating marketing hype from hard science. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm joined again by my guest and experts from episode one. |
| 0:54.1 | First up, actress, writer and |
| 0:55.5 | co-founder of Beauty Blog The Trowell, Rebecca Humphreys. Hello again. Hello, hello. Thank you for |
| 1:00.0 | joining us, sticking around. In the first step, we looked into anti-aging, anti-wrinkle collagen creams, |
| 1:05.5 | to see whether they could do either of those things, actually. No spoilers, though. Go have a listen |
| 1:10.4 | when you've finished this current |
| 1:12.1 | bunk-busting mission that we're about to depart on. Another beauty craze today then, Rebecca, |
| 1:16.5 | activated charcoal. Is it something you use? It's definitely something that I use. I'm all about |
| 1:23.7 | whatever is the latest natural fads. I'm really interested in it. |
| 1:33.0 | Stuff that can be used in isolation and in other stuff as well. I just, I find I have a faith in it. I wash my hair with it, wash my hands with it, put it on as a mask, draws out all |
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