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Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

What’s Chemistry Got To Do With Haircare? with Ramya Viswanathan

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.921.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Some of us have our best ideas in the shower. Others have the best ideas for how to shampoo and condition while we’re taking those showers. This week, Jonathan sits down (in person!) with Ramya Viswanathan, chemist and principal formulator for JVN Hair, to discuss the science of haircare. You can follow all things JVN Hair on Instagram @jvnhair, and at www.jvnhair.com. For hair tutorials, behind the scenes footage, and other exclusive JVN Hair content, head over to JVN Beauty on YouTube. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Here Yes, I'm Jonathan Biannest and every week

0:03.6

I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious

0:09.5

On today's episode I'm joined by Ramiya Vishwanathan where I ask her what's chemistry got to do with

0:17.1

care

0:20.1

Welcome to getting curious. This is Jonathan Biannest. I'm so excited to welcome

0:23.6

Someone who I have known for a few years now someone I've gotten really close to I just respect so much

0:28.2

We love welcome to the show Ramiya Vishwanathan. How are you?

0:31.2

Romya doing well. Thank you for having me. Okay, so just to say you guys the scenes you can picture it

0:36.8

We are in this like white little office room in San Francisco. We are

0:42.0

having our our first in-person meeting in

0:45.8

What feels like 27 years, but it they think it was more like 18 months or something and

0:50.8

Rami is the chemist and main lead principal formulator of JVN hair and also

0:57.1

Biosense what you're like official gorgeous title for biosense director of product development

1:01.6

You really have been like in the lead of helping us develop everything everything I really I think I've

1:07.8

In my career, I've really loved learning about ingredients. I've loved learning about

1:11.9

Where ingredients come from but really when I've learned about like function of ingredients

1:16.5

I've really learned from you. I feel like I've learned so much. Okay. I have a question

1:20.6

How does skin care and hair care like actually work?

1:25.0

So skin is like living. It's like it is a live organism. Our hair is

1:32.0

Dead

1:33.5

Cells yeah, so your hair is already dead. Your skin is currently alive

1:38.3

So how does our hair and skin take on products differently?

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