Meder Beauty
by Dr. Tiina Meder
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Botanical, Chemical, or Biotech? The False Choices of Modern Skincare
Botanical, Chemical, or Biotech? The False Choices of Modern Skincare
About this podcast
You want healthy, glowing skin—but with all the products, trends, and conflicting advice, it’s hard to know what actually works. Welcome to the Meder Beauty Podcast, hosted by Dr. Tiina Meder, a former cardiologist and board-certified dermatologist. In each episode, we uncover what really matters, break down the science, and give you real, expert-backed skincare advice. Whether you’re looking to achieve radiant healthy skin, curious about anti-aging, or want to understand what’s really in your products, you’re in the right place. Rooted in science and the truth about what your skin actually needs, we’ll have in-depth conversations with leading dermatologists, medical experts, and skincare brand founders to bring you the latest innovations, evidence-based insights, and industry secrets that truly make a difference.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 88 episodes
- Botanical, Chemical, or Biotech? The False Choices of Modern Skincare · 49 min · Episode 87Send us Fan Mail Botanical, chemical, or biotech? The beauty industry loves to sell these as three opposing worlds: natural is pure and gentle, chemical is harsh and suspicious…
- INCI Lists and Ingredient-Checking Websites: Why They Can Mislead You · 43 min · Episode 86Send us Fan Mail You’ve done it, and I’ve done it too. You photograph an ingredient list, paste it into a checker app, and seconds later you get a verdict in red, yellow and…
- Why “Preservative-Free” Skincare Is a Red Flag · 41 min · Episode 85Send us Fan Mail Few words frighten people in skincare like “preservatives.” We’ve been taught that preservative-free sounds clean, paraben-free sounds safer, and natural sounds…
- Smoother Skin in Minutes: The Science of Film Formers · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 84Send us Fan Mail Some skincare feels like magic: a serum that smooths your skin in three minutes, an eye product that makes bags vanish on camera, a primer that turns pores into…
- Emulsifiers, Stabilisers and Thickeners: The Invisible Architecture · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 83Send us Fan Mail A few days ago, a lovely, thoughtful client asked to return an unopened product. She'd spotted a "cross polymer" on the ingredient list, read that it might be a…
- Inside a Cream: The Science of Emulsions (Pt. 2) · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 82Send us Fan Mail In Part 1, I told you the story of the cream, 2,000 years of history from Galen's rose water and beeswax to the jars on our shelves today. Now let's open the jar…
- Creams and Emulsions (Pt.1): From Galen to Nivea and The Surprising History of Cream · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 81Send us Fan Mail A cream looks like the most ordinary thing in your bathroom: white, soft, familiar, a little boring. But I'm here to tell you it's the single most sophisticated…
- The Most Misunderstood Ingredient in Skincare: Water · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 80Send us Fan Mail "It's mostly water, I'm not paying for that." If you've ever thought about a skincare product, this episode is for you, because water might be the most…
- Oil-Free, Silicones, and the Myths in Between · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 79Send us Fan Mail Oil-free might be the most misunderstood claim in all of skincare. For years, if you had oily, acne-prone, or teenage skin, you were told to look for it, as if…
- Oils in Skincare: Why the Same Oil Can Help or Harm · 1 h 5 min · Season 2 Episode 78Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a new season. This time, I'm taking you inside the science of skincare ingredients, and I'm starting with one of the oldest, richest, and most…
- Beyond Dry, Oily, Normal: How to Really Diagnose Skin · 46 min · Episode 77Send us Fan Mail The old "dry, oily, or normal" skin classification is over 100 years old. Even astrology is more complicated. In this episode, I share the full professional skin…
- What GLP-1 Drugs Really Do to Your Skin · 57 min · Episode 76Send us Fan Mail GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are transforming medicine, and increasingly, aesthetics. But behind the "magic pill" headlines is a powerful…
- I'm Launching a Free Skincare Education Program · 47 min · Episode 75Send us Fan Mail This one is personal. I'm launching something I've wanted to do for a long time: a free monthly webinar series called Active Skin Longevity with Meder, and in…
- The Truth About Injectables and Skincare w/ Dr. Anna Kantser · 53 min · Episode 74Send us Fan Mail We're living in the golden age of injectables. Patients spend thousands on Botox, fillers, and skin boosters, and many start to ask: do I still need skincare, or…
- Inside the Lab: A Cosmetic Chemist's Longevity Rules · 52 min · Episode 73Send us Fan Mail For the last eight years, Jean-Daniel Bartl has been the chemist behind many of our Meder formulas. He has created over 2,000 cosmetic products and trained more…
- What Models Really Know About Skincare w/ Tatiana Goller · 51 min · Episode 72Send us Fan Mail Women idolize models. Most of us assume they know every secret there is about skincare, makeup, and staying flawless. But the reality behind the runway is far…
- What You Really Need Every Day: A Longevity Skincare Routine · 45 min · Episode 71Send us Fan Mail I want to strip skincare right down to what you actually need every day, not for anti-aging, but for active longevity. Not a routine built around trends or…
- Biohacking Your Skin: Working With Your Biology, Not Against It · 53 min · Episode 70Send us Fan Mail Biohacking usually makes people think of gadgets, cold plunges, and infrared saunas. But that is not what I mean. In this episode, I want to talk about…
- Building a Skincare Routine That Actually Works · 37 min · Episode 69Send us Fan Mail Three steps or nine? Scandi minimalism or full K-beauty? It is one of the most common questions in skincare, and the honest answer is more interesting than…
- Why Your Skin Cells Stop Listening, And How to Fix It · 56 min · Episode 68Send us Fan Mail Your skin cells talk to each other constantly. To the nervous system, the immune system, the microbiome. And when those conversations start to go wrong (delayed…
