Hello, my name is Anthony Vincent, I am a journalist for Madmoizelle, and welcome to Matières Premieres, the podcast that deciphers labels!
Depending on your age, you may have already thought about having surgery or aesthetic medicine. It even seems that the filters of certain social networks such as Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok are increasingly making young people want to use them. In some countries where advertising for acts or operations of medicine or cosmetic surgery is less legislated than in France, studies even tend to prove that clinics voluntarily target young people who are much more prone to bodily dissatisfaction. The photo retouching of their favorite influencers would also have something to do with it, as evidenced by other studies. In 2019, we even reached a tipping point, according to a major European medical congress: 18-34 year olds now have more recourse to cosmetic surgery than 50-60 year olds. (But it is still the 30-50 year olds who use it the most).
Is this a sign that having recourse to cosmetic surgery is less and less stigmatized in France? Well what is even more uninhibited today is the use of aesthetic medicine! That is to say non-surgical acts, without a scalpel, which can be done between noon and 2 during your lunch break in a specialized clinic, and which is much cheaper. And what is particularly popular in aesthetic medicine today, especially among young people, are injections. But what do these needles actually contain? What can we do with hyaluronic acid fillers? And what are the dangers? We talk about it with the doctor Frédéric Lange.
Raw materials, season 2, it’s 30 minutes a week of debunking, always with pedagogy and humor. Each episode is dedicated to a family of controversial ingredients (silicones, sulphates, petrochemicals, aluminum salts, sunscreens, preservatives…): how they are produced, what they are really used for, what are the controversies, are they justified, and what alternatives exist?
Raw materials is a Madmoizelle podcast written and presented by Anthony Vincent.
Production and editing: Mathis Grosos.
Writing and presentation of the Pierre Fabre capsules “The underside of the index”: Sophie Castelain-Youssouf.
Production of capsules: Baptiste Bertrand.
Graphics: Audrey Godefroy.
Promoted by Hannah Monange.
Editor-in-chief: Marie-Stéphanie Servos.