Skincare: Collagen
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Can collagen face cream reduce wrinkles and make your skin more youthful? 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 first 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 collagen face creams – can they really ‘boost’ and ‘support’ collagen production 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.orgive, forward slash fringe. |
| 0:34.2 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:41.5 | Welcome to The Best Thing Since Slice Bread, a new podcast from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm Greg Foote and I am on a bunk-busting mission to uncover the facts behind the fads. |
| 0:51.1 | This series is all about investigating if the latest wonder product or social media craze |
| 0:55.4 | will revolutionise your life, or is it all marketing BS? Will that gel that you slather over your |
| 1:01.6 | hands really kill 99.9% of bacteria and protect you from the winter bugs? Should you order |
| 1:07.7 | the golden milk turmeric latte in that hipster cafe round the corner because you saw on Twitter it prevents memory loss? |
| 1:14.4 | And if your rare trip to the gym leads to the inevitable soreback, will that pain relief spray actually do anything? |
| 1:22.0 | These questions and more, but first, we're going to be looking at beauty products that promise to do wonderful things to your face. |
| 1:29.3 | And joining me to run these products through the evidence mill is actress, writer and co-founder of beauty blog The Trowell, Rebecca Humphreys. |
| 1:36.3 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:37.0 | Hello. |
| 1:37.6 | Hi, thank you very much. Can you tell us a little bit about your blog? |
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