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Niacinamide - Can You Have Too Much?
Niacinamide is EVERYWHERE in the skincare world, and in some ways for good reasons. It’s a little jack-of-all-trades type of molecule that has actu...
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Urea - Can it Replace Your AHAs?
Urea has surprisingly been creeping up the ranks in skincare ingredient awareness. This oldie but a goodie has actually been looked at for some tim...
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Glycerin - Is it the BEST humectant?
Glycerin is probably one of the first ingredients that chemists learn to work with in formulation. In fact, we happen to call this the Frank’s Red ...
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Ceramides - Are They Only For Compromised Skin Barriers?
It’s great to see awareness grow around maintaining skin barrier health. In caring for your skin barrier, ceramides would probably be the first ing...
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Hyaluronic Acid - Is It a Must In Your Routine?
Hyaluronic Acid has consistently been a trendy ingredient in skincare for better or worse. There’s so much confusion with this ingredient because i...
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Bakuchiol - Is It Better Than Retinol? | CC Podcast
Bakuchiol was put on the map as soon as results came out that bakuchiol seemingly performed on par with retinol in treating anti-aging concerns. Bu...
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Retinal - Is it Better Than Retinol? | CC Podcast #83
Retinal (aka retinaldehyde) is definitely a hot ingredient in skincare right now! You might have heard that retinal is more potent than retinol bec...
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Retinol - Can You Use it During the Daytime? | CC Podcast #82
We talk about retinol a lot. That’s because it’s the most popular retinoid that can be used in cosmetics. Most are well aware of the anti-aging and...
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Adapalene - Can It be Used for Anti-Aging? | CC Podcast #81
Adapalene is the one retinoid that’s available to us as an over the counter topical for acne. This third generation retinoid has become a popular a...
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Tretinoin - Is it bad to use it long term? | CC Podcast #80
A New Year! A New Theme! 2024 is all about skincare ingredients and in this episode, we’re focusing on the OG of retinoids, tretinoin. We review wh...
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Wrapping Up 2023 | CC Podcast S4E36
It’s the last episode of the 2023! It’s time to lookback on all the skincare science we discussed, all the animals we shared, all the skincare good...
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Skincare Gifting | CC Podcast S4E35
How is it already end of year?! Well it’s gifting season again, so let’s go through skincare gifting! We decode gift sets, what might be worth it a...
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Decode that Trendy Acne Product | CC Podcast S4E33
With acne breakouts being the stubborn, complicated creature that it is, it’s no wonder the world of acne treatment options is a billion-dollar ind...
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