Episode description

In Episode 87, Quinn & Brian ask: What, exactly, are we putting on our bodies (and why aren’t more people asking questions about it)?

Our guest is: Gregg Renfrew. Gregg is a serial entrepreneur who most recently founded Beautycounter to increase transparency and safety in the personal care industry. She also actively lobbies for regulation in the cosmetics industry to limit the number of harmful chemicals included in products sold in America because, you know, less poison in and on our bodies is a good thing — a good thing that many other companies in the beauty industry fight vehemently against.

There are complicated ingredients in our cosmetics, moisturizers… well, pretty much everything we’re sold to put on our body to make it look or feel better. And these ingredients are increasingly obscured by labeling trickery, like the deceptive word “fragrance” that can hide dozens of potentially dangerous chemicals — and, holy hell, after what we learned in this episode, we are so on board with getting to the bottom of all of it.

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INI Book Club:

• “Start with Why” by Simon Sinek

Links:

• Instagram: www.instagram.com/greggrenfrew
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/gregg.renfrew
• www.beautycounter.com
• The Never List: www.beautycounter.com/the-never-list
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• Intro/outro by Tim Blane: timblane.com
• Artwork by Amrit Pal

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