How to Read a Skincare Ingredient List? You Were WRONG!

Wanna know how to REALLY read a skincare ingredient list? Turns out what you thought an ingredient list will tell you, IT DOESN'T. Cosmetic chemist and formulator Esther Olu (@themelaninchemist) joins us to give us the TEA on what you actually can decipher from a skincare ingredient list.

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RESOURCES:
Inci Decoder: https://tsabd.com/3Anz0Q5
Cosmetic Ingredient Review: https://tsabd.com/3BuiWO2
SCCS: https://tsabd.com/2Yv7SS6

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 What a Skincare Ingredient List Actually Tells You
2:08 Can a Skincare Ingredient List Tell You How Well a Product Works?
3:08 Are Brands Watering Down Products?
4:04 Why Are the Actives at the BOTTOM of the Ingredient List?
5:11 What are REPUTABLE places to find skincare ingredient info?
6:03 The EWG and "Clean" Beauty
8:09 How to Identify Other Names for "Fragrance"
9:28 Are Certain Preservatives Better Than Others?
10:54 PARABENS
11:43 How to Tell the Potency of a Serum?
12:54 Why All the Extra Filler Ingredients in Skincare Products?

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