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Speckled Podcast is a beauty podcast that explores the science behind the beauty industry by looking at what's actually inside popular beauty products. Each episode explores a different trending ingredient by talking to industry professionals and getting their expert advice. What are these ingredients? What's the history behind them? And, ultimately, are these ingredients good or bad? Check out Speckled on Facebook and Instagram @speckledblog or on our website at www.speckled.blog Produced b ...
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Snake Venom with Ed Myers of AMNH & Simply Venom
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Welcome back to Speckled! This week we're exploring the exciting world of snake venom. To help us learn a little more about this mysterious ingredient and the logistics of venom, we first chat with Ed Myers, a postdoc in the Department of Herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History. We then discuss snake venom in beauty with Simply Venom …
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Superfoods with Graydon Moffat of Graydon Skincare
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On this episode of Speckled, we’re chatting Superfoods. With the rise of athleisure, fitness blogs and health foods, superfoods are trending in and out of the beauty industry. But what are superfoods, and what makes them inherently super? We dive head first into the world of plant-based skincare with Graydon Moffat, the founder of Canadian beauty b…
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On this episode, we dive into the world of activated charcoal. This very trendy skincare ingredient is used to detoxify the skin and rid it of everyday pollution, sweat and toxins. Unlike other ingredients, the story of activated charcoal can be traced back thousands of years, but recent advancements in science and technology have made skincare pro…
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Sulfates with Lorean Cairns of Fox & Jane
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This episode looks at sulfates and their role in haircare, specifically shampoos. Sulfates act as a foaming agent that cleanses away impurities on our hair shaft and scalp, but in the past few years, they have gained a bad rap in the beauty industry for their habit to strip away good oils and color. We sat down with Lorean Cairns, Co-founder and Cr…
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