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I've decided that I kind of want to take a more investigative turn with my podcasts. And as you guys know probably I always speak about wanting to do documentary and that's what my end goal is with all of this. I really want to create documentaries. So I was like what steps I am I taking right now to do that in the future which by the way is actually a really good question to ask yourself because it's one that between doing all your bits and your real job and you're of job or whatever you do. Sometimes you forget to ask yourself that question. You're like, well, I actually I'm kind of doing nothing. So next season. I'm thinking that all the podcast will be like this. They might not necessarily just be with me but they might be an hour long piece knitted together with loads of different interviews on one topic. So today it is just me and obviously I don't have an expert with me on this but this is more of an opinion piece and just more of a question. I want to put out there and I spoke. This a little bit on my Instagram Stories the other day more on that later, but let's talk about anti-pollution makeup anti-pollution skincare anti-pollution beauty products. So obviously we all know the skin is the largest organ in the body. It is porous and is extremely absorbent. Basically, we are all huge sponges and this is something that we all know but also so the skin is something that a lot of us probably a lot of people listening to this podcast. Anyway spend an absolute fortune on I'm very worried about my skin because I had very very bad cystic acne when I was younger. I went on roaccutane that roaccutane triggered a lot of mental unrest for me. So having clear skin. It was always kind of like well, at least I had clear skin in the end even if I have to go through the all those things so when I get breakouts and when I get Dry patches and when I feel my skin isn't looking its best I do it's something that affects me more than I wish it did. so Yeah, I don't know that was a complete round. But obviously the skin is something we care about so much. We spend a lot of money on preserving it covering it and caring for us. Sorry guys, you obviously just heard the doorbell rang every time I do a podcast the doorbell rings and so yeah and caring for a skin. Yes until recently. I feel like we all haven't stopped to think about what it's absorbing the most of and that isn't our Lush moisturizer and that isn't our Garnier grapefruit juice wash its the air around us and that's quite mad because we are constantly on the streets right now protesting about what is being put into the air around us. What is being put into the water what is being leached into our systems and into our natural resources anti-pollution like skincare and beauty products has kind of come from Asia. That's where most of The product started especially the high-end retailers selling anti-pollution makeup, and obviously there is a reason for that and as we know in a lot of Asian cities people wear masks to suffer and pollution, but that doesn't mean we should be doing the same. I think there's a mad statistic. I have it here. There's 1180 premature deaths in Ireland each year according to a report from the Environmental Protection Agency. In Ireland are air pollution is responsible for that. I said that fact so wrong way Roger. But anyway, but yeah, I saw an anti-pollution makeup in a drugstore or Pharmacy or whatever. It was boots for the first time about a month ago and I saw the word anti-pollution on us and it wasn't a brand I usually use as well and I was like, oh my God, I have to get that. It was my heart actually sank, and it was honestly one of the fastest unplanned purchases. Says I have ever made and that was probably because it was born out of my own insecurities and Eco anxiety. And I just wanted to note in here that like what pollution can do to the skin but it's all stuff. We know anyway, it's completely logical but I just looked it up and checked and researched or whatever but obviously anti-pollution is found to speed up aging and a lot of this is because it depletes the antioxidants in the skin as well as just like filling the in with like chemicals and dersh, etc. Etc. Like that's never going to do good things for your skin. It depletes vitamin E levels and skin obviously vitamin E is used in a lot of anti-aging beauty products anyway, and that's because vitamin E levels help with healing of skin. So it in essence it interferes with the healing of skin. You secrete a higher level of sebum, so Basically, just when you're like greasy or oily and obviously that can be because your pores are blocked and from what is in the air it can decrease squalene, which I think is an antioxidant as well and which causes dry skin and it can decrease cholesterol and elasticity. So it's kind of like the Aging thing again. So basically it can make your skin oily greasy dry aged and weathered which Is like the only things that we talked about affecting our skin, you know, that is like every parallel of skin issues problems and uncomfort that I can think of right now and I like that doesn't surprise me. I feel like that won't surprise you guys either and these aren't like hard and fast facts. These are things we already know but we don't really think about and and as well myself. I live in Dublin. I live in a city and I can only imagine that this More and more prevalent in cities. And as I said air pollution is responsible for what I'm going to say this again. I just think it's smart for an estimated 1180 premature deaths in Ireland each year, which is crazy. Why isn't that fact thrown around at us more? I mean that did take one little Google but I feel like that should be at something that is talked about very very prevalent lie, surely that is huge. And in the same in the same token that I feel like to get us through the day today. We have to kind of pretend and I do this myself that pollution is this far distant thing whether that mean timing like, okay, maybe one day we'll be smog ridden and but not today. Or geographically like oh that's only countries in Asia or that's only countries far away or that only the massive cities in the u.s. That have those pollution problems and it's not and again as someone who struggles with Eco anxiety with worrying about the planet with whirring what's in the air and I completely understand why you don't want to get up on a Monday morning before work and think about these things. I mean, I actually wish and I I said this on my podcast with tires. I said this on my podcast with Lucy sometimes I wish that my brain doesn't work in the panicked paranoid way it does and I didn't think of these things and I didn't ask myself these questions, but I can't help it and I couldn't help doing this podcast because I want to know what other think people think about this too and the other day. I actually did a little bit of a rant about this on my Instagram. And just like anything else when I'm trying to put forward questions about the environment or sustainability not like I'm some Beacon of knowledge on those areas, but just general questions. I did say when I was talking about this. I was like, I mean, I know it's not that deep and what I meant by that really was that I meant I know it's not at the front of everyone's minds but luckily for me. I have an amazing friend Lucinda Graham who messaged me and was like no money this it is that Eep like you need to talk about this because if we're not asking these questions and companies are profiting from pollution. What does that mean? A where does this continue? Where is the aniline and I actually would like to take back the way I said, it's not that deep it is that deep and I feel like we really do have to put forward questions about the ethics of selling anti-pollution products by Massive Beauty corporations. When does profiting from pollution causing harm and death to others around the world while not surprised iding Solutions are AIDS to those worst affected by it? Like when when does that when does that come into play? When do we start to ask if that's okay if that's ethical if it's not do weak hair are these huge Beauty Brands profiting off our insecurities about the global pollution and destruction of our planet Earth. What is the carbon footprint of these companies? And again, does it matter do we care? I don't know. I own one of these foundations as I said again, like I use an anti-pollution Foundation. Regularly, I use it nearly every day. And I don't know if it works or I don't know really how it's supposed to work. And but I'm the perfect person to Market these sorts of products to unless the mud thing. I literally have my hands and my head because I'm like, does that make me dumb or does that make me smart? I don't even know and if you think about it generation said Generation Z, whatever you call this gen Z millennials. The people who are out on the streets week on week protesting outside governments globally about the environment. Like the most socially conscious generations of the moment taking time off school to protest against climate and Justice who are loaded with information about statistics about the Doom of our planet. We seem to realize across the board more than other Generations that the planet is in Dire Straits and that this isn't just affecting people in a far far far away place where we can access and where we don't have to think about every day when we seem to realize now, I feel more than ever that this is affecting us right now and that we need to realize the personal aspect of this if that's what's gonna get us to the next stage and UND if there's makeup popping up on shelves. That's a anti-pollution on them. Surely. We are the target Marcus. So I just think we should talk about this for a minute and I was actually reading a guardian article and I just think it's important to say because I thought this was like a really fascinating thing a representative from a company said it's kind of like the new song cream Which I thought was very very interesting. So I just wanted to say now and if you are looking into anti-pollution makeup if I freaked you out or if you are going to get one. Anyway, I'm with you I'm using one. I can't afford a high-end brand. But if you're looking for for products that are anti-pollution, even if they don't say anti-pollution, you're looking for features such as adding a on antioxidants correcting pH. And moisturizing balancing natural oil levels. And yeah anything that like basically sounds like it's enriching your skin. Obviously, I'm no dermatologist, but that's just what my research today has told me and all of that makes sense to the causes of like pollution affected skin that I listed earlier. So even if your skincare or your foundation or concealer or whatever seems to have all that or some of And it doesn't have the new beauty buzzword that is anti-pollution and it probably is a good anti-pollution products. So don't worry. You don't have to Splash out loads of cash. I just wanted to put some sort of solution in here because I didn't want it to be completely a complete freak out which I know I sound like right now, but I'm just very fascinated with this topic. So as I said before researching this podcast, I read an article by the guardian that I will link in the description and I really hope highly recommend you guys listen to it because it has comments from a lot of reps from a lot of different countries, which I think is very good and a lot of different businesses as well. So one of the most popular new drug store called products and that is listed in this Guardian article, which I'm not going to name, but it's an anti-pollution face mask and apparently everyone is raving about it even reading about it. In this article, I was like, maybe I should get it have I seen this in Boots before and and it's right a very popular skin brand that we all know I guarantee you that you listening to this know and you know what I bet you would be able to guess if you just go to the article that I've Linked In the description know this brand we've all known for years is owned by a family Holdings company and of which the main member of the family is worth an estimated. covid 5.2 billion and dollars by Forbes So all those connections between from the sheet mask to the person who basically owns this company was about for Google links, and I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing. But I just wanted to pose the question of do we care that? This has been marketed towards us? From a person like that now I don't know his personal and ethics to do with environment. But I do know that this is a corporation and and corporations are largely responsible for the Dire Straits that we are in right now. Now the guardian article also reminded me of something that I actually noticed myself. I think it was last year or the year before that this line came out but Just had to laugh and I'm just going to Stage the fact and then I'm just going to leave a little silence and have a drink of water. But the guardian article also reminded me that recently Alessandra Steiner who is a really amazing Beauty writer and included a 3-pound. So I was probably like for 55 Euro anti-pollution mask in the Cosmetics line. She did with pennies or Primark. So I'm just going to take a little sip. whoop That's me opening my bottle. Yep. Anyway, there's a few things and I just want to put forward here. This is gonna be a short podcast, but obviously it's a complete front and I thank you for sticking with me. I'm trying not to say sorry anymore. I'm trying to say thank you because about five people this week. I've told me I take say sorry too much. So this could be a sign that you do to say. Thank you instead. So there's a few things. I want to put forward here. After my podcast about cultural branding would see roshani Scanlon definitely check that out. If you haven't already guys, she's absolutely brilliant and I had no idea what cultured branding was and I don't want to try some of it up here, but Daphne go back to the podcast if you're interested and it's completely changed the way in which I see or see through certain advertising whether that be greenwashing whether that be you know to do with race. Under Identity or whatever to try and get customers. My question in this whole podcast, which is genuinely around to know is do we or should we expect certain or specific climate conscious an anti-pollution measures AIDS and Promises to be made by Brahms and corporations if they should be able to profit from pollution itself. I'm going to say that again because I had to write that all down and I just want to read it again and it's just it's the question. I'm asking for this whole podcast. So do we or should we expect certain and specific climate conscious and anti-pollution measures AIDS and Promises to be made by Brands and corporations if they should be able to profit from pollution itself. So by this I mean do we expect eco-friendly packaging as we know we have an insane plastic pollution problem. It's one of the main pollution probable pollution problems that we can see and the engine beauty industry is one of the most monstrous contributors to that plastic pollution problem. So if an anti-pollution Foundation comes in a plastic bottle How do we feel about that? first of all Kind of be recycled. Is it recycled do the companies have plans to make it out of a different material in the future and like is that plastic leaching into the product itself? Like we know some plastic bottles do and plastic is also obviously a material derived from oil and how do we feel like that? if your auntie pollution makeup or your anti-pollution beauty or skincare comes from what is contained in is made from oil and there are probably thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands made of that product. And obviously you are just one single consumer vote, but you have bought that how does that make you feel? Do we have confidence in these corporations and these business this is that the chemicals and materials used to create these anti-pollution beauty products are 100% non-polluting to any communities across the world in any way. I think that is a very good question to ask if I do say so myself is the brand doing any research. Taking measure them measures themselves or helping those who suffer suffer in the areas of pollution globally. I'm going to say that again is the brand doing any research taking measures themselves or helping those who suffer in the worst-affected areas of pollution globally and showed they have to if they're profiting off pollution. I'm the last question, which I think is actually probably the most important question. Can the term anti-pollution be defined or policed in any way or is it just a buzzword? Does it mean anything can we guarantee if something says anti-pollution honest that it is, in fact anti-pollution, what does anti-pollution even mean? Does that mean a protects us from pollution outside? I don't even know. So I completely understand that this podcast is just one big mind fuck but I had to record us it's something that's been weighing on my mind. I've been talking to everyone I know about it in my last podcast I brought up as well. And and as I said I myself I'm using one of these foundations and it was cheap. It did come in a plastic bottle. It did make me extremely aware of my skin absorbing pollute pollutants and actually afterwards I went on a mad Google Rampage when I was supposed to be doing my college work. And about any other products and things I could buy to do the same to rid myself of pollution from my skin the biggest organ in my body. It rattled me. It really really really scared me because I was like, oh surely everything I'm using should be anti-pollution and this is the thing about marketing and consumerism this this is how they want to make us feel. So I'm just asking is that okay or do we expect a certain amount from them in return? And yeah, I just wanted to put a Like this conversation. I'm sure there's lots of conversations going around about this. Anyway, I'll link that Garden I got article in the description and please please please let me know what you guys think about this by mastering me on Instagram, which is moldy parsnips, or you can email me if you like on Molly Parsons podcast at gmail.com, but mostly I would love if you guys could subscribe to this podcast and leave a review because it really really helps me out and let me know if you like this new format as well. And topics that you would like to see in the future and thank you so much for staying with me on that wild rant and I really hope you enjoyed it. Okay, thank you. Oh, I forgot to say thank you to deep up for letting me rant like this on their social media. I'm be for being a platform which is inherently sustainable selling second-hand clothes. I'm providing young people with a chance to make an income and so go too deep after calm or download the depop app on iOS or Android today. I will have my Deepak. Of the week in the description. Thank you. Bye.
The skin is the largest organ in the body, it is extremely porous and absorbent- these are things we all know. Some of us spend fortunes on preserving, covering and caring for our skin- yet until recently haven’t really stopped to think what our skin is absorbing the most of.. the air around us. I recently purchased an “anti-pollution” foundation. I saw the bottle with “Anti-Pollution” in great big red writing my heart sank. It was one of the fastest unplanned purchases I have ever made, and that’s probably because it was born out of my eco anxiety. So basically pollution can make your skin oily, greasy, dry, aged and weathered. Again.. this isn’t surprising… surely we all knew there is dirt and toxins in the air especially in cities. Air pollution is responsible for an estimated 1,180 premature deaths in Ireland each year, according to a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency. There’s just a few things I want to put forward here. After my podcast about cultured branding with Saoirse, the way in which I see/ or see through certain advertising has changed. My question is in this whole podcast (which is genuinely just a rant) do we or should we expect certain and specific climate conscious and anti pollution measures, aids, and promises to be made by brands and corporations if they should be able to profit from pollution itself in any way. This Podcast is sponsored by Depop. My Depop shop of the week is @remass for Y2K staples. 