🇨🇦The #DamnGood Canadian Brands We Personally Love (and Think You Will Too!)
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
By popular demand, it’s time to introduce you to the #DamnGood Canadian beauty products worth hoarding – no matter which side of the border you're on! From the best, built-for-the-north barrier creams to killer foundation formulas and farm-fresh body care unlike any on the market, tune in to hear all about our favourite homegrown hits.
You’ll hear about:
- A barrier-boosting moisturizer so good that people swear it’s a dupe for twice-the-price Skinceuticals
- The sunless tanning innovation that we predict is the future of faux tan – just in time for summer
- The pioneering, under $30 skincare brand that keeps delivering hit after hit
- The one body care product that Carlene wants to gate-keep
- Plus! A sneak peek of the beauty brand Carlene plans to launch this year 👀 To learn more sign up for Carlene’s substack
- To shop more Canadian beauty, visit ShopCanadianBeauty.ca and NorthFinder.ca
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Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast, all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:14.0 | We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:24.2 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everyone. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm Jill Dunn. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm here with Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:27.2 | Hi. |
| 0:28.0 | Hi, Jill. |
| 0:28.9 | How are you? |
| 0:29.5 | I'm good. |
| 0:30.1 | How are you? |
| 0:30.7 | Good. |
| 0:33.6 | We are here in the Dear Media Studio in L.A. |
| 0:38.1 | And we are going to be recording our hashtag damn good episode. |
| 0:41.4 | One of the first that we've done in studio, I believe. |
| 0:42.4 | Yeah, that's right. |
| 0:43.6 | That's why I was a little lost. |
| 0:46.9 | That's why you heard me laughing because I was like, wait, where's my camera? |
| 0:54.4 | I'm so excited that we're doing a damn good in studio because we always say these are our top performing episodes, and yet we record them in our basement. |
| 0:59.6 | So they're now being given like the love and the worthiness that they deserve. |
| 1:00.5 | And the lighting. |
| 1:02.5 | They, you know, they deserve it. |
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