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

Now, today's episode is all about education.

Yes, I partnered with my friends over at Paula's Choice to do a deep dive on some of the

most common and pressing skincare concerns, but also just to dive a little bit deeper into

the ingredients, what makes certain ingredients good for our skin, what are ingredients that

we should be avoiding, regardless of where you shop.

Like this episode is not about, okay, these are the products to buy from Paula's Choice.

This episode is like, what's this vitamin C actually do for my skin?

When I'm experiencing hyperpigmentation, what is happening to my skin underneath the surface

that I can't see? And I was really, really happy that I could speak to Deb, who is absolutely

incredible. She's an education specialist at Paula's Choice. So that means that she has a lot

of experience taking really complex ideas about skincare and making it easy to digest.

And she's also a woman of color with over 20 years of experience in the space.

So such, such valuable insights. I learned so much from the discussion.

You can hear I have a light bulb moment as we're recording live where I learn that BHAs

and Salicylic Acid are the same thing again.

Now, I'm like deep like I am a skincare consumer. I read a lot. I absorb a lot somehow I

miss that. I learned lots of other things as well. So one of the things that I'm really,

really passionate about is knowledge and skincare knowledge and the more that you learn,

the more informed you are as a customer, the more you can, as you're shopping, slide into the

DMs of a brand and say, hey, what's the percentage of BHA in this? How are you guys using glycolic

acid in this formula? Will this work well for my sensitive skin or my blemished prone skin?

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