Skin Anarchy

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat “I am so excited to introduce you guys to someone I truly consider to be a rising star in the skincare realm. She is educated and one of the most NON-MESSY scientists when it comes to her knowledge and dedication. Absolutely obsessed. Also her line is phenomenal which doesn’t hurt !” - Dr Ekta“I'm a cosmetic formulation chemist who, after years of product developme...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Lindsey Smolan launched her strategic communications firm VLIV Communications in 2021 to amplify the stories of the beauty and fashion industry’s most exciting companies after more than a decade as a sought-after NYC PR consultant and publicity powerhouse. Her interest in storytelling started at a young age, with her childhood and teen years spent solving mysteries and...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Monique Meneses and Ray Kim are the founders of iota, a nutritional bodycare company crafted for health. iota, derived from the word microbiota, believes in addressing the root cause before skin concerns arise. iota - defined as "an infinitesimal amount" - is also rooted in the belief that the attainment of one's maximum potential consists of the sum of m...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Phyllis Cohen started her career as a Fashion Illustrator. Whilst attending the prestigious Art Centre College in California, her dramatic style caught the attention of fashion photography students who encouraged her to do makeup for their photo shoots. Upon completion of her illustration course, she graduated with two portfolios: one for makeup and one for illustration...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat ARCONA skincare is known and respected for its high quality, pure formulations and their unparalleled ability to make a positive change to the skin. Under the creative leadership of Chanel Jenae, Owner, Product Formulator and Esthetician in concert with a team of professionals whose expertise and commitment equal her own, ARCONA has expanded from its spa-based origins t...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat A native of the U.K., Fabrigas arrived in the USA in 1980. Since then Fabrigas has risen through the ranks of the beauty industry holding key positions with many well-known Beauty companies. Caroline is the CEO of Scent Marketing Inc. a full service Scent and Sensory Marketing company that has fast become a leading authority in the art and science of Scent Marketing and...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Join us for a very special, and exclusive look behind what makes Rael a leader in all things feminine care and wellness. Ekta chats with the founder of the iconic line, Yanghee Paik about what led to the development of a brand focused holistically on women’s health and overall period care. Yanghee shares the journey behind the magic and also explains the holistic driver...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Join Ekta for a very special episode featuring the phenomenal line, Retrouvé. Ekta chats w/ Jami about the pillars that have inspired the luxurious yet extremely efficacious products in the collection and discusses the need for the novel approach Retrouvé is utilizing to combine products that work with cross generational appeal. Retrouvé was one of ten recipients of our...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Co-Founder + Managing Partner True Beauty Capital, Rich has spent the last 30 years investing and building great consumer brands at top private equity firms including Tengram Capital Partners, L Catterton, and North Castle Partners. Rich spent the last 9 years dedicated specifically to investing in the beauty industry, where he developed an extensive network of relation...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Join Ekta for her commentary on why it is now the best time for brands to reevaluate their claims and how we can rectify the problems around misleading claims in the skincare and beauty industries. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skincareanarchy/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skincareanarchy/supp...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Join us for a conversation with June Risser, the new GM of StriVectin that has big plans for the company and has already started leading her team to make the brand an even more prominent leader in the skincare space than ever before. StriVectin Operating Company is the #1 independent prestige skin care company in the U.S., empowers people to outsmart aging with their di...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Dr. Mark Tager, MD, is CEO of San Diego-based ChangeWell Inc., an organization that trains and coaches certified nutritionists, licensed aestheticians and other healthcare practitioners to enhance their craft. As a physician, he is well grounded in aesthetic, lifestyle, regenerative and integrative medicine. As a medical student at Duke University Medical Center, he cre...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Dr Goldman was recently named Chairman of the CALECIM® Professional Medical Advisory Board. As such he is on a lecture tour of Asia. Mitchel P. Goldman, MD started practicing medicine in 1986. He is a world-renowned, double- board certified dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon, recognized by the American Board of Dermatology and the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery. A g...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Andrea Spellman is VP of Sales and Partnerships at Social Standards, a start-up that uses social data to help brands, investors and banks better understand consumers. Social Standards organizes and structures millions of authentic consumer conversations to enable brands including Estee Lauder, Shiseido and Johnson and Johnson identify trends and fads, determine what pro...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat After more than two decades in Advertising, Grace and Kristy were both looking for more fulfillment and balance in their lives so opted to leave their agency jobs to start Avoila. Both had been experiencing different skin challenges that resulted in their desire to create a product that would benefit their skin types through the use of high-quality, nourishing plant-bas...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Join Veronique Gabai and Ekta for a discussion around the role of culture in fragrance as we know it today. The conversation does a deep dive into not only the popular culture around this niche of the beauty and fashion industries, but also sheds insight into the historical relevance of cultures as they have evolved into the norms present globally around the use of scen...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat As a second career, Kari Gran started her natural beauty company with friend Lisa Strain. Diagnosed at 29, with an autoimmune disease, this self-described former beauty junkie started looking into everything from what she ate to what she put on her face. Having no background in digital or skincare – she learned everything by doing, proving there is no better teacher tha...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat 4.5.6 Skin, founded by Noelly Michoux, was born out of the equity gap in skincare research that values one group’s skin over another. 4.5.6 Skin stands with the undervalued. Noelly's lifetime struggle finding care for her pigment-rich skin isn’t her story alone – nearly 40% of the world gets how she feels. Because equity is so personal for so many, the brand’s rese...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Jan breaks down the role of adding accelerators and resurfacing agents to a skincare routine and what we can expect to see in terms of skin changes over time. The episode focuses on the molecular and macro level science of these types of products (sometimes referred to as “actives”) and when we can tell that it is time to amp things up by adding something that falls int...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat In this episode we sat down with Sarah Brown, founder and CEO of PaiSkincare, and an organic skincare pioneer whose expertise developing all-natural, efficacious products was born from her own experience living with challenging skin. Sarah developed Chronic Urticaria in her mid-twenties and started mixing her own formulations from her garage as a last ditch solution for...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Join us for a phenomenal discussion with the lovely Aila Morin, SVP of MERIT’s Growth, Brand & Innovation. Aila shares the evolution of the minimalism inspired line from being makeup dominant, towards an active presence in the realm of skincare. MERIT has taken the spotlight with their latest launch being their debut skin product , “Great Skin™ Instant Glow Serum.”...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Join us for a long overdue fragrance Friday episode where we interview the founder of the brand new gen z friendly fragrance collection: EMMOTIV. Cristina Bagozzi walks us through her journey with scent and how she brought her desire to express her emotions into her business ideas and create a fragrance collection that embodies many of the emotions we associate with fee...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Tune into the latest episode of the Jan Marini MasterClass series. Join Ekta and Jan in the conversation on countdown to the holidays and must have tips, tricks and products to make the season, and your skin brighter !--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skincareanarchy/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Tina Bou-Saba is Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner at Verity Venture Partners, an early-stage consumer-focused investment firm. Verity Venture Partners invests in purpose-driven entrepreneurs who are building the next generation of great consumer companies, including emerging brands and the technologies that enable them. Tina has been actively investing since 2016 thro...

Send us Fan Mail Let’s Chat Join us for a very special product launch featuring the CEO of Revision Skincare for their brand new product : The D.E.J Daily Boosting Serum. Ekta chats with Maria Carell (CEO) after having tried and tested the serum daily for two weeks to discuss the benefits of the new addition to the Revision family’s, as well as the other hero products in the science forward line....