Hello, hello, it's Brooke DeVard and you're listening to the Naked Beauty podcast.

Welcome back for another episode.

How is everyone feeling?

I hope you guys are able to take moments for self-care, for joy.

So many of you have written to me and shared that listening to this podcast has

provided you peace and calm in the past few weeks. And I so appreciate that. And it keeps me

motivated to keep going. Now, I think one thing that unites a lot of naked beauty listeners is

we love skincare, right? We love skin care, but we want to get beyond

surface level recommendations and, oh, this product is popular because it's in a magazine or some

influencer told us to buy it. We love research. We love knowledge. And I had a chance to interview for this podcast,

Desiree Stordaul. She's an author, but she's the senior research and education manager at Paula's

choice. I'm sure we all know Paula's choice. I've used their products for years and I have loved

Paula's choice products. But Desiree just

brought so many gems to the table. If you are tempted to take out your notebook, open your

notes up on your phone and start taking notes as you listen to this episode, please do so.

But also know that at the end of the episode, I have takeaways because there's a lot of

information to be absorbed in this conversation. I'm also going to be posting clips, video clips

from my chat with Desiree on the Instagram account for this podcast. That's at Naked Beauty Planet.

I always love talking to you guys over there.

But yeah, just I love talking to someone about skincare that knows the science behind that

that can break down different ingredients and what they do.

So I know you guys, especially the skincare junkies, are going to love this episode.

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