Icebreaker question. And you talk about how French skincare is better than American skincare. Are you French? Or like where does this connection with France.
Charlotte: come? So I wouldn't say that French skincare is better. I think that there are many things in the US that are comparable, if not better, in terms of skincare. Um, what I will say is that sunscreen internationally is, Usually better than in the United States.
I am a non melanated person. I have zero protection from the sun. Skin cancer runs rampant in my family, so I take it pretty seriously. Um, so that's actually where I think that France does a lot better. And I also think that France is more minimalist, um, which we can talk a lot about how doing the most sometimes is actually just giving yourself a face wound.
But, um, says, Born in the US but I spent a lot of time in France as a kid, and my grandmother raised me for a short amount of time. Jess: Yes. Oh, cool. I'm, I'm so excited to talk more about the sunscreen because I actually have listened to a lot of your recommendations. Is it. Charlotte: called Preto? Purto, yeah. They had a huge controversy, which we can talk about. Um, They had a testing issue, um, where their sunscreen actually was at much lower levels than what they claimed.
But the reality is, is that that's actually happened in the US quite a bit as well. Um, it's an issue with sunscreen testing and we can actually talk about how sunscreen testing is pretty problematic because it's talking about erythema redness. Um, some people don't present as red, white people do. Not everybody does. Some people actually just turn darker, right?
