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🗓️ 27 December 2023
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Many people are worried that their favorite deodorant is going to cause them an early death, but when it comes down to it, we’re more worried that we’re going to smell like death. This conundrum perfectly articulates the juggling act between the short term benefit and long term risk with skin care products. In an ideal world, regulators would keep us from harm’s way. In the real world, long-term cancer risk, hormone disruption, and even organ damage are difficult to track and quantify so this is an evolving discussion. On this week’s podcast, you’ll meet the CEO of a testing company focused on safety and efficacy for manufacturers.
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Marcel Voss is the CEO of Dermatest GmbH, a company that specializes in skin testing and analysis.
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0:00.0 | Years ago I had a student in my first yoga studio named Sarah and she became enamored with organic living organic lifestyle. |
0:09.0 | She threw out her grocery store shampoo and decided she would create her own hair care routine. |
0:15.0 | Here's what it looked like. She would rub coconut oil into her hair at night, wrap her hair in a towel so she didn't |
0:20.8 | grease up the entire bed. And then in the morning she would |
0:23.4 | would attempt to use, wait for it, apple cider vinegar to wash out the |
0:27.4 | coconut oil. You can probably guess where this experiment ended. About a |
0:31.5 | week into it her hair was completely knotted and |
0:34.3 | greasy and you could smell her from across the room. So lo and behold she went |
0:38.8 | back to her tropical fruits shampoo from the grocery store in short order. |
0:43.7 | I'm sharing the story because I think a lot of us deal with this conundrum, meaning we would love to |
0:48.6 | get rid of the antipurant deodorant because maybe it'll give us dementia and we don't want to have an early death. |
0:54.8 | At the same time, we don't want to smell like death, early. |
0:58.7 | And this mix of what's good for you and what's actually tolerable or tenable or just practical in a modern life is |
1:05.8 | something we're all trying to figure out. In an ideal world of course, regulators |
1:09.1 | would keep us from harm's way, but I have to, from what I've learned, it seems like they're really trying to figure |
1:14.8 | it out too. A lot of things like cancer risk and endocrine disruption, hormone disruption, |
1:18.9 | and even damage to organs like liver and kidneys from ingredients that get into your body pretty hard to |
1:24.4 | track and some of these things might take decades to actually play out. What that |
1:28.8 | might mean is some ingredient a parabine or a thalator or even something like lugred mercury or lead that might be in |
1:35.4 | your cosmetics. It might take a couple of decades before it really creates problems which |
1:40.0 | means from a regulation perspective it's not the easiest thing to pin down. |
1:45.5 | My guess on this week's podcast is the CEO of a testing company that works specifically |
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