We're Launching A Beauty Podcast! Here's Why We Decided To Make The Move

Ready for some big news? We're launching a beauty podcast, hosted by mbg's own beauty director, Alexandra Engler.

When we first chatted about the inception of a new beauty podcast, one question kept coming up: Why? Why a beauty podcast from mindbodygreen? Why is this our next move as a brand? Understandably, the same thoughts may be swirling through your brain at this very moment, some iteration of Why beauty? 

Taking care of yourself is the core of beauty—it's something we so often forget, as beauty is tied to many aesthetic endeavors. Traditionally, discussions around beauty focus on what we can do to change ourselves—it's easy to become caught up with those aesthetic endeavors (and it's OK to rely on aesthetic motivators from time to time!).

But we want to flip the script and focus on beauty as taking care of your skin, your body, and how you're taking care of yourself internally. Because when you look at beauty through a lens of well-being (which is how we cover beauty here at mbg), you see that the two are deeply intertwined.

The thing is, there's no centralized definition of "clean" beauty. But we don't think that's a bad thing! In fact, that's what makes the beauty industry so dynamic: "We're having so many players come to the table with their own biases, incentives, reasonings as to what their [clean beauty] definitions should be," Engler explains. 

And those definitions? They're changing fast. "[We're] actively trying to define these words in real time because we are finding out so much more about these ingredients as we go," says Engler. It's a continuous conversation, and it can change course at a moment's notice—so we want to have our discussions in real time as well. That way, we can continue to update you on what we truly mean when we say "clean." 

Finally, we want to explore the ever-changing beauty landscape. Again, changes happen in real time, and we're learning about ingredients right along with the research. 

Take the skin barrier and microbiome, for example: "It's an area of beauty that is going to see tremendous growth happen in the next 10, 20, 50 years," Engler explains. "Even the things that we know now about the microbiome are blowing my mind; they are blowing researchers' minds; they're blowing dermatologists' minds." When new information drops, we want to create a space to talk about it—with the help of our trusted experts, of course. 

Beauty is physical, yes, but it's also very much internal; beauty can be emotional, mental, and spiritual. In other words, everything is connected, which just so happens to be the very ethos of mindbodygreen.