The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Dr. Dendy Engleman & Justin Seidenfeld On Healthy Skin Habits, Tips, Obstacles, & New Developments

Episode Date: December 22, 2022

#528: On today's episode we are joined by Dr. Dendy Engleman & Justin Seidenfeld. Dr. Dendy is a board certified dermatologic surgeon at Shafer Clinic Fifth Avenue and Justin is the founder of Canopy, a revolutionary brand that is changing the way we uitlize humidifiers in our every day lives. Today the duo join the show to discuss what habits we can implement for healthy skin, new tips for better skin, & obstacles that hold us back with our skin. We also discuss new and emerging products that can enhance our welness and skin.    To connect with Dr. Dendy Engleman click HERE To connect with Justin Seidenfeld click HERE   To connect with Canopy click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential This episode is brought to you by Thrive Market With Thrive Market, you can shop everything from healthy pantry essentials and sustainable meat and seafood to nontoxic cleaning and beauty products- all delivered right to your door. Go to thrivemarket.com/skinny  to get 30% off your order + a free $60 gift! This episode is brought to you by AG1 You take one scoop of AG1 and you're absorbing 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole food supported superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to help start your day right. This is the best option for easy, optimal nutrition out there. Go to athleticgreens.com/SKINNY and get a free 1 year supply of Vitamin D + 5 travel packs with your first purchase. This episode is brought to you by Route App If you shop online, Route is a must-have free app that tracks everything you order online in one place. Visit www.route.com/skinny to download Route and for more information. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp BetterHelp is online therapy that offers video, phone, and even live chat-only therapy sessions. So you don’t have to see anyone on camera if you don’t want to. It's much more affordable than in-person therapy & you can be matched with a therapist in under 48 hours. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/skinny . This episode is brought to you by Perfect Snacks Don't go nuts this holiday season, Fuel yourself with Perfect Bar: The original refrigerated protein bar. Go to perfectsnacks.com/skinny to find out how you can try their Refrigerated Protein Bars for free. This episode is brought to you by Cymbiotika Cymbiotika is a health supplement company, designing sophisticated organic formulations that are scientifically proven to increase vitality and longevity by filling nutritional gaps that result from our modern day diet. Use code SKINNY at checkout to receive 15% off your first purchase at cymbiotika.com Produced by Dear Media  

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Ah ha! So we think we're doing all these great things. We're using all these actives. We're using all these fancy products. But we're actually breaking down the skin barrier. And we're not actually boosting what the skin does best for us, which is keep bad things out and good things in. A lot of the issues that kind of we solved for is around user experience. You know, there's been an awful user experience with humidifiers to date, predominantly because they all get moldy. As we went deeper down the rabbit hole of the development process,

we realized there was a lot of things we could solve for. All right, all right, all right. We are mixing it up for the holidays. Today, we have Dr. Dendi. She is back on the podcast. You guys loved her so much. She is absolutely incredible, a board-certified, award-winning New York dermatologist. And then we decided to bring on the founder of Canopy, Justin. And Dr. Dendy is on the board of Canopy. So in this episode, Dr. Dendy gives all her secrets, her tips, her tricks when it comes to fillers, skincare, how she glows, and even humidifiers. She's obsessed. And then we get the whole spiel from Justin, who's a serial entrepreneur. I actually launched a humidifier

with Canopy a while ago, a pink one, probably like a year ago and had such a good experience that I ended up launching a diffuser with them. So I wanted him to come on the podcast, give context of who he is, why he started, why I decided to partner with him. But also like I wanted to make sure that you guys got skin tips and tricks from Dr. Dundee. So in this episode, it's kind of like a roundtable, which I think you will love. We ask all different kinds of questions about protecting your skin from bad air quality, your home environment, seasons affecting your skin, how you should be taking care of your skin during the winter, all things humidifiers. And then we talk about how Justin

has built this incredible brand. I am personally such a fan of Canopy. That is why I did the Skinny Confidential Humidifier and Diffuser with them. So this was like a no-brainer for him to come on. And then to have Dr. Dendy back is so major. I hope you love this episode and you are having the best holiday season. On that note, let's welcome Dr. Dendy, the star New York dermatologist, and Justin Sidenfield to the show. He's a serial entrepreneur that's launched multiple consumer products, and he is the co-founder and co-CEO of Canopy. This is a beauty product company that's introduced the game of changing the humidifier and waterless aroma diffuser market. On that note, let's welcome

Justin and Dr. Dendy to the Skinny Confidential Him and Her Show. This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her Show. This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her. Let's get some context here. Dr. Dendy has been on the podcast. Give us a quick intro of who you are again, and we'll leave the episode number in the beginning of this, but give us another little intro. I'm Dr. Dendy Engelman. I work in New York City at Schaefer Clinic on Fifth Avenue, and I'm a board-certified dermatologist who works in the Taj Mahal of beauty. We have seven floors on Fifth Avenue. We have five ORs and a whole two floors of lasers and a spa. It's just a fantastic place to be, and I love what I do, and I love working with different companies

to help make the world of skincare and beauty even better. How fitting is it that I'm wearing a chin strap with a dermatologist? I thought you just put it on for me. I did not. I mean, this is great for lifting the face, I feel like. Yeah. But it's perfect for the episode with you. You look snatched. Oh, thanks. And Justin, let's get some context on you. You have not been on the podcast before, but we've done a lot behind the scenes. Tell us who you are, where you're from, all the things. Yeah. I am Justin Seidenfeld. I am an entrepreneur with a background in product development, consumer products. I founded Canopy, which is a beauty and wellness company with its hero product being a bedside humidifier that we launched two years ago. That came out of another

company that I started called Doris Dev, which is a product development service business that helps all different types of consumer product brands bring new products to market and then manage their supply chains on an ongoing basis. Last 10 years plus working in consumer products across all the landscape. I don't think I've asked you this, or maybe I did ask you in the early days of when we first partnered together, but out of all the products that you saw running through DorisDev, and I'm sure you saw a lot with companies that you were involved in and companies that you weren't involved in, you're just providing services for like, what was it about creating a humidifier or this space that kind of caught your eye and said, okay, like we got to double down and actually do our own thing here.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the original genesis was we kind of saw a ton of pain points with humidifiers and it was an overlooked category. And me being from the Northeast, I grew up with humidifiers as a kid from when I was sick and everybody that you would talk about humidifiers with had a really weird or bad or awful experience with mold or having to clean it out or whatever. And that was interesting in and of itself when we started kind of digging into it. But what was really interesting was as we put the idea, the concept in front of people, what resonated with folks was that people were using humidifiers as this beauty hack for healthy skin. And nobody had really leaned in to kind of create a product focused on that area. And what we realized was part of the problem was the awful experiences that everyone's

had with them. And they get moldy and gross and everything like that. Well, also, they're so ugly. I had like 65 humidifiers by my bed because I knew about the beauty benefits before Canopy had launched. And they're such an eyesore. They're so ugly. You didn't want them out.

It was impossible to find a cute one. So how do you involve Dr. Dendi, the beauty expert, in what you're doing? Why did you want to get involved in this? When I'm seeing patients, not just from a beauty perspective, but from a skin health perspective, whether they have psoriasis or eczema or just winter itch from the terrible tundra in which we live in New York City, you know, that's uncomfortable skin. And we want to make sure that they are feeling better in the skin in which they live. And so my questions always were, do you have a humidifier? Yes. Do you use it? No. And so Justin and his team really solve for the reasons why. They're gross. They make everything wet around you. They're a pain to use.

You have to get those Q-tips out, this growing weird colored mold. And we're also, when we have our babies, what do you put on the registry? A humidifier. Because it's good for your baby's skin. It's good for your adult skin. But the reality is,

my husband and I used to fight over who was going to clean the humidifier because it was like a chore and a task and gross. And then what are you spewing all over your baby's nursery? I love the overlap of skin health and wellness and beauty because they all kind of work in tandem and the healthiest skin happens to be the best looking. And so if you can use these subtle little tools that aren't chores, they aren't having to come in and get your face fraxeled off by me, but just, you know, fill up your humidifier at night and have a great night's sleep and wake up looking and feeling better.

That's a win-win. Oh, you're somewhere that has so much pollution. When I go to New York City, my skin is a wreck. I told you off air, I look like a pig. It's like that skin. You know what I mean? That thick. Ratty.

Yeah, red. Skin. Ratty skin. Probably in a lot of major cities. What are some tips that you have when it comes to pollution for the skin? Because a lot of people do live in cities. Yeah. So in more urban settings where it's highly trafficked, you're exactly right. And we see that. I mean, there's like air quality indexes all over the world for all of the major metropolitan cities. And they have real numbers as far as like the degree of pollution and what that looks like in skin health and honestly in

pulmonary health, like what we're breathing into our body. I mean, we have these initial layers of defense, whether it's through your lungs or through your skin and pollution particles are small. They're about 20 times smaller than the size of our pores. And if you want to think about that as a metric and analogy, it's like throwing a nickel through a basketball hoop. So it's very easy that these pollution particles settle in the skin. They cause inflammation. And in reality, what that translates into is risk of hyperpigmentation.

People will have about 20% higher pigment in their skin if they live in highly trafficked areas that are riddled with pollution. And so we want to do things to help protect that. There are daily sunscreens that you can use that also are formulated with a pollution guard. And that really helps to kind of shield you from the settling of those microparticles into the skin that can then wreak havoc and cause all kinds of free radical damage and upregulate pigment and skin cancers and all kinds of things. So we do want to be mindful of the environment in

which we're putting our skin, whether that's in our bedroom or outdoors. My son has a cold right now and I just took my humidifier out of our room and I put it in his room. What are some things that you're seeing that they help with during flu and cold season? There's a study through the CDC about having increased humidity in your environment indoors because we know that the relative humidity drops during winter months and the air gets drier. And we are truly more susceptible to viruses because when you're aerosolized from breathing out, and that's how we get infected from these colds, if there's not a lot of humidity in the air, it's easier to transmit through the air to the next person. So if there's more humidity, more water droplets in the air actually binds some of these viral particles and makes them heavier and drops

them out of circulation. So we're less prone to breathe them in and less prone to get infected by them. What are some problems that you're seeing people come to you with lately? A lot of the youth, like what are you seeing? I feel like the youth are fantastic at jumping on bandwagons of trends, but that isn't necessarily always the best thing to do for our skin. More is not always more. And all the actives that are out there that are in isolation, good for the skin, may not be great altogether. You know, if we're doing AHAs and retinol and doing all the exfoliating, that can increase redness in the skin. It can destroy our natural skin barrier and it can actually increase inflammation. And there's a whole concept in dermatology about chronic

inflammation actually accelerating signs of aging and it's called skinflammaging. Who was talking? Somebody was just talking. Anyways, go on. It'll come to my mind as you're talking. Somebody was just talking about that. Yeah. So we think we're doing all these great things. We're using all these actives. We're using all these fancy products, but we're actually breaking down the skin barrier and we're not actually boosting what the skin does best for us, which is keep bad things out and good things in. And the skin is amazing at really keeping us as healthy as we are. I mean, think about the fact that we come into contact with so many infectious organisms every day,

but yet we walk around for the majority of the year pretty healthy. And if you take that example to an extreme, babies who are born without an intact epidermis, that epidermal layer that protects you, they typically die within weeks of overwhelming sepsis. And that is so scary, but it just shows you how important that layer is in defense. And so we also want to be in this nice homeostasis where we have like a healthy barrier that's keeping the bad things in, but it's also keeping the water, I mean, the bad things out and also keeping the water in. And we have, as we sleep and throughout the day, something called trans-epidermal water loss, water loss through the skin. It's inherently

dehydrating when we sleep. If we get out of the shower and we don't have emollients on our skin, we're losing water through the skin that way. Evaporation is dehydrating. And we have all these water losses that occur throughout the day. So we really want to support the skin barrier in order to help it to work as well as it does. Because a lot of the things we do actually break that down and render the skin more susceptible versus making it fortified. When people add a humidifier to their house, what are some things that you're hearing from them, like actually from the clients? Firstly, hearing Dendi talk about it is actually incredible because she's so knowledgeable and well-versed. I came into the problem thinking about the user experience,

all these people complaining about issues with mold, safety concerns, the decor aesthetics to it, but hearing the technical foundation for the benefits of trans-epidermal water loss is really awesome to hear Dendi speak to. But to your question, a lot of the issues that kind of we solved for is around user experience. There's been an awful user experience with humidifiers to date, predominantly because they all get moldy. Everybody has a story about how mildew grew inside of their humidifier that they put into the closet during the off season. And

that was really the nugget that we kind of initially started to solve for. And as we went deeper down the rabbit hole of the development process, we realized there was a lot of things we could solve for around safety concerns, incorporating features around aroma diffusion and making it just a holistically better experience,

making it design-led so that it was something you were proud of to be on your nightstand and not something that you were hiding under your bed. So there were a ton of problems that we addressed with the design and development of Canopy, all of which were really around user experience. And then the added benefit is there is this scientific basis for healthy skin that it's providing, that it's enabling. And so having something that is utilitarian from the user experience perspective, but then also providing these

benefits for skin health is kind of the best of both worlds. I have a random question maybe for both of you, but maybe mostly for you, Dr. Jenny. If you are using a product like this in your bedroom and you're creating that ideal environment, are there products that you could potentially either eliminate or use less of that you're using to fix a problem that occurs from not having basically hydrated skin or the proper hydration environment? Yeah, that's a great point that I hadn't actually thought of until... Meaning, you know what I mean?

Like people are trying to correct a lot of the things from, you know, skin corrosion or whatever because they are not in these environments. And I wonder if you were to swap these out, you could eliminate some of those. For sure. I mean, I'll give you a personal anecdote that for years, only during wintertime, I would get kind of dry scalp and you'll see the head and shoulders add or all these dandruff adds for like winter itch and all this like flakiness that only occurred in the winter months, whereas that dry building heat that you could not control for, and then the drop in the outside humidity. And so it's allowed me to eliminate very strong topical steroids that

I used to use in order to eradicate that and medicated shampoos. And that is the case also with my patients, you know, as you're just bringing this in. And, you know, we often don't think about scalp as an extension of skin, but it really absolutely is. And so not only from a hair perspective, you know, your hair isn't as dry and it's healthier, but the skin of the scalp is also affected. So it's very good at allowing to eliminate things that, you know, chronic use of strong steroids over time can have side effects. And so that personally has allowed for me to eliminate that. And then, you know, I've had patients who were really dry and always woke up and felt like their skin was red and chapped and kind of cracked or uncomfortable. And in using canopy at night, they feel like their skin is more hydrated. They don't have to use as much of their thick emollient night creams, which we all

know can be quite pricey over time. It's nice to be able to eliminate like that chore of waking up in the morning and being like, now I'm all dry and have to start all over trying to add in. I've been looking into Aquaphor lately because we were putting it on towns for diaper rash. And I just like had this feeling that I needed to look into it. And I started researching. And what I found is that the more you put that on, the more dry you get and it actually can cause eczema. So I switched his Aquaphor. That's what you're talking about an emollient, right? An Aquaphor is like an emollient. I switched his Aquaphor to like an all natural like non-GMO brand. I think it's called like Maddy's, M-A-D-D-Y off Amazon. But I switched it and it's, I can already tell

his skin is not dry anymore. So I think you're right about looking into the products that you're putting on your skin and maybe they're supposed to be solving a problem, but they're actually making it worse. Yeah, we solved two things there. We solved that for our son and then we eliminated a potential sponsor for forever. I'm just kidding. Maybe Maddie's. Maddie's, shout out. No, I think it is important.

You make a great point that in this world, and we do it in medicine all the time. Someone comes with a problem, you add a medicine. Someone comes with a, you add, and instead of sometimes editing and stepping back and being like, what can we eliminate in this process? Yeah, I think what we're probably big on, maybe on the show and just in our personal lives,

is like prevention and what you can do ahead of having to fix something later on. And whether that's in the health and fitness realm, taking care of yourself or whatever it is, or the way you diet or something like this. I always feel like people have the hardest time because they're trying to figure out how to solve something after it's occurred. And I'm like, well, if you could just eliminate or delay what will happen ahead of time, then you could probably... I mean, even if it's occurred. I'm like, well, if you could just eliminate or delay what will happen ahead of time, then you could probably... I mean, even if it's an upfront investment, you save a lot down the line, right? I agree. It's pay now or pay later, I find. And whether that's food, wellness, exercise,

Justin's... Both of his parents are physicians. My dad's a doctor. We come from this world of the traditional American approach of wait till it's broken to fix it. And that is tragic. If we think of all the healthcare dollars and painstaking efforts at the end of life that we could avoid if we had prevented the problem in the first place. And not to mention all of the interactions of all these drugs once we have all these disease states. So I agree, like in the concept of wellness, like do the investment on the forefront and you'll prevent a lot of pain. Yeah. We all just always think it's never going to be us or that we have a lot more time. Three things that have changed my bedroom are my humidifier, getting a TV out of the room and five to eight frequencies

that has changed the bedroom. And the TV, by the way, is like such a game changer. I think the bedrooms for sleep and sex, I hate having a TV in the room. I think it's so unsexy and having that TV in our room is amazing. I got my humidifier going. I have my five to eight Hertz and it's like, it's amazing. I would like to know if someone's listening and they have, they see a product and they see a product as being an eyesore. There's a lot of eyesore products. I could name some. I'll give you an example. I was looking at my son's funnel the other day. He has a funnel for his bottle. I'm like, this funnel is so ugly. Why don't they have a cute funnel? You did that with the humidifier. If someone sees a white space with a product

and they want to act on it, what are the steps to take? What steps did you take to act to get this out to the world? Yeah. I think the first part is really validating that there's a problem or there's demand for something if you're going to create something from scratch. And the reason for that is because there's so much energy and time and money that goes into creating anything from scratch. So I always say the first step to any great idea is just making sure that there's demand for it. But assuming that you've found a ton of folks that are dealing with this ugly funnel problem, then the first step...

That might be a little niche of a problem. Well, maybe, but if we go out... It's a big product. I don't understand what the funnel looks like. I hate how the funnel looks. I can't with the funnel. Yeah, Well, I mean, the first thing with products is they're originally created to serve a purpose. And usually that purpose is utilitarian. It's not aesthetics. So there's a ton of white space around focusing and aesthetics if that's

something that's really important for you. But with that in mind, if you want to create something from scratch, the first thing to realize is that creating something from scratch takes a ton of time and energy and money. And so you're jumping into a very deep pool. And it's not always obvious how deep the pool is upfront, which is why it's important to make sure that you validate the idea first. Once you validate the idea though, the first thing that you're going to want to do with a custom product is design it. So you're going to identify your problem and you're going to then create a solution

that addresses the problem with all of the features and factors and benefits that you want to design into that product. From there, you would essentially then engineer the product so that you can manufacture it at scale and you're going to want to go find a manufacturing partner that can go produce the product. All of that takes time and energy. And if you're producing something totally custom, then you're going to be investing into custom molds and tools to get something made at scale. Yeah, I keep falling back on just making

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you need to have on your checklist to validate? Is it just a size thing or is it... It's not necessarily a one-size-fits-all solution for that question. There's a lot of different ways you can validate it. The most common though is just making sure that there's kind of demand out there across a wide range of people or a big enough group that there's kind of demand out there across a wide range of people or a big enough group that there's authentic demand that people will actually pay for the product. So that can be anything from like surveying focus groups, asking friends and family for feedback, but go beyond just the friends and family so you're getting real answers. We've worked on product concepts where we actually put up like a landing page on a website

and we measure not only like the traffic we can generate coming to that landing page, but actually how many people will open their wallets to enter credit card information to prove that there's real demand before we invested any dollars into the design and tooling of a new product. You and I have a very similar story. I wanted to shake up the ice roller space and it took four years it takes a long time to actually when you said create something from scratch and disrupt the category well people that maybe have never done this maybe also like

understanding distinguishing between like white labeling something that already exists compared to like creating something from scratch and white labeling i feel like if anyone doesn't know what that is it's just buying a product that's already made and putting your label on it. And a lot of people do that. And that's fine. That is a lot of people's business plans. But I think you and I are so aligned with... It's hard to innovate there, right? A hundred percent. Well, then it's not yours, right? You've created a solution that is uniquely yours, right? And it speaks to you and it speaks to the audience that you're building the product for, which I think is, it's a worthwhile endeavor. I mean, I've made, I guess, my lifeblood on it,

but it's a worthwhile endeavor as long as you're kind of going after a true problem solution. Let me ask you another, I'm going to geek out here for a second, but out of all of these different humidifiers that existed before, why did nobody in these big companies, and many of them are owned by conglomerates, why did they not solve for the mold issue? Yeah, I think that they've tried. What's really interesting is, this is going to be very specific for Canopy, but the architecture for Canopy is it's an evaporative humidifier,

which means that the way it's been built is there's a paper wick inside the product that gets replaced every six weeks. That absorbs water. We run a fan across it. And then the humidity is actually evaporating off of that paper wick. That architecture was very specific and very specifically different from most humidifiers in the market, which are ultrasonic humidifiers. And those are the ones where you see that kind of chimney of mist coming up. Because people maybe think that it doesn't work if they don't

see that chimney of mist, right? Right. And so we've leaned really heavily into telling that story of why there's no mist and why it's actually better for you, right? It's removing impurities, metals, minerals from the water, but you're not seeing it. So it's not as visceral. And actually the irony of that is that was one of the reasons why we started exploring aromas in the first place to incorporate into the humidifier because it was this sensory or visceral kind of reaction or a cue to tell our users that the product is on. I did it the first time they sent it to me. I was like, it's not working. They're like, oh, it is, but you don't see it.

And we were so trained to see that plume of steam coming out. And that was like getting everything around on your bedside wet. Now that you don't have it, you're like, oh, why did we ever think that was okay? I love when people really solve for something that is novel. Or it may be something that existed, but you make it better. I think that's where the magic is. You certainly aren't having just white label people here come talk about innovation. Innovation, like if you can take something that is not attractive, if you can take something

then you can do it better. I mean, that's really to me where the magic is, where someone already uses something on a daily basis. That's my brain's always thinking like, okay, what are people using in my category that they're using every day and how can we make it prettier? So what's next besides the funnel? The funnel has got to go. Can someone make – I would like the funnel in like a pale gray.

We're going to stop working on everything and just focus on funnels. Honestly, though, the funnel, I ordered six different ones off Amazon. I returned five of them. They're so ugly. One's plastic. One's tin. The tin one's loud. The plastic one's BPA. That's why you don't like it. It's because it's loud because tin one's loud the plastic one's bpa like we gotta

like that's why you don't like it it's because it's loud because i get up in the morning and i'm the worst thing i've ever heard what are you talking about how do you not notice that there we go every single morning you need like just a little rubber thing to make it quieter i got a rubber thing and it's ugly it's not big enough i'm just saying if someone's out there and they're listening we would love like a pale nude, different kind of funnel. If we don't stop talking about funnels, I'm going to quit the show for now. We'll get the team to work. I mean, yeah.

But it takes a while. So give us a couple of weeks to months. Okay. How did you guys start working together? And why did you feel like you needed a beauty expert to come on board with Canopy? I would love to know the behind the scenes about where the synergy was with that. For sure. I'll dive into this. So we started working on Canopy, my co-founder business partner back in 2019. And we spent about a year kind of doing the R&D for the product. And through that process, we realized what was resonating with people was actually, and this is one setback, is the genesis of the idea came from his girlfriend who was using a humidifier

as this weekly ritual for her skin. And every Sunday would break out Q-tips and vinegar to clean it out. So as a doted, devoted boyfriend, he started working on a humidifier that was easier to maintain. So she didn't have to spend her Sunday afternoons cleaning out the humidifier. And through that process, we ended up designing and developing what ultimately became Canopy. But he and I are two guys in New York City, not big in the beauty world. As we were putting the idea in front of people and telling about how Izzy was using this as a beauty hack for her skin, that was like the biggest kind of factor that resonated with people. And it was this aha moment to take the humidifier that we kind of re-engineered to be better and position it as a

beauty wellness tool for skin. But in order to do that, Lucas and I had no idea where to begin within the beauty world. And so we kind of went down our Rolodex, reaching out to folks that we knew were experts in the field. We ultimately met our co-founder, Eric, who came from the beauty world. He was an early employee of Birchbox and knew the ins and outs of everything within beauty from working in that field for over 12 years. Through the course of that, we met also somebody who ended up becoming our publicist in the beauty world. And she connected us with Dendi. And I think what was really exciting was when we pitched Dendi about the product concept, obviously Dendi's

intimately familiar with like the science of a humidifier, but I think she recognized that there was nobody who was leaning in to solve the problems, the pain points that we were solving. And so got really excited about the opportunity to come help us figure this out and validate a lot of the claims that we were leaning into. And also Allie Webb is on board. She's been on the podcast twice and she loves Canopy. She's on board with you guys too, which is so smart because she has Drybar. Yeah. She's amazing. She also, another one, really excited about the product and the opportunity because she knows beauty and saw that there was nobody thinking about it, solving this problem the

way that Canopy was. That was actually a really fortuitous intro where we met to talk about product. She was interested in working on a new product concept after she sold Drybar. And all of the things that she wanted to solve for around launching a new product concept after she sold Drybar. And all of the things that she wanted to solve for around launching a new product concept, I was like, this is interesting. Like everything you're pointing at, we were doing with Canopy.

Like, have you heard of Canopy? And she was like, no, what's that? And then we went down this rabbit hole of, you know, telling her about everything we were working on, where we were going, how great everything was going. And that conversation evolved into her getting involved and then us making a role for her to come on full time. For our listeners, Dr. Dendy, where are the areas in the United States specifically where people absolutely need a humidifier? You cannot fuck around. What are the top three areas? Well, I mean, regionally, I would say anywhere cold and dry.

So that kind of is a lot of the U.S., whether we're talking about up north or certainly out west. I mean, L.A., even though it's warm, it's often dry. And then I would definitely say in Arizona and that area. And then I would say the northeast. So it's more regional than just state specific. That said, my son has eczema, which is so ironic that the dermatologist's son has eczema. But I run it for him year round. And it has been remarkable, the change in his skin and how I've had to pull back on

topical treatments, prescription treatments in order to help him. But even, you know, we spend our summers out in Long Island and it's more humid there and, you know, warm and I still run it all year round. So it doesn't have to be a seasonal thing that you just lean into, but certainly it can be if, you know, some people are snowbirds and they go down to Florida and it's humid, you know, there are different environments where it maybe isn't as necessary as in many parts of the US. What are you seeing working for eczema? So many people have messaged me about eczema. I don't have any advice other than the Aquaphor tip. But what are you seeing as a dermatologist that works for eczema? I'm loving this cleanser. It's an oil cleanser

by Bioderma. Okay. I've heard of that. It's ATO Derm, like a topic, but ATO Derm. And it's really emollient and it's great. I think that we have historically over-cleansed the skin, especially in those who have eczema. And if you think about the extremities, they have a lower density of sebaceous glands. So we don't need harsh detergents. You don't need bar soap on your arms and legs. Certainly as an adult, you don't. But in children, you don't need a bar soap anywhere because they don't even have developed apocrine glands that give you body odor on your arms and things like that. So just be very gentle with your cleanser. I think we are all overly cleansed in the US,

and that's destroying the microbiome or the good bacteria on the skin. And then the trick that I love is the second that they come out of the bath, I've got an oil on them before they're even dry. And then I towel them off and then I put on a cream. And that really helps to lock in the moisture that has been absorbed through the skin because drying is inherently dehydrating. If we're pulling off moisture from the surface of the skin, it's also coming from the upper layers of the skin. You put on when they're all wet. All wet. And you seal that in. And I tell even adults, like within 30 seconds of turning off the water, if you are in the shower, like do some bio oil, do some, you know, in shower oily and then towel

off. And that really helps to lock that in. And I've found patients just doing that change. And, you know, cause a lot of people get totally dry and then they step out and then it's like five minutes of drying and that is dehydrating to the skin and can exacerbate itchy conditions. Guess what was making my legs itchy for two years? Sorry, Michael, this is going to ruin another sponsor. It rhymes with schmied. Laundry detergent was giving, like actually giving me small patches of eczema on my legs. And I stopped using it. Would you switch to branch basics? Okay. And I just use all natural detergent and it's gone. And the craziest thing when I go to a hotel or when I put the other day,

I put on new pants, like someone sent me pants in the mail and I put them on and my legs had the rash right back. So I don't know if anyone's listening. If you get a rash on your legs, switch your detergent. Yeah. I think, you know, oftentimes the harsh detergents can cause skin reactions and you are a sensitive little flower. Even like with my face, I was thinking, oh my God, we're sitting here breathing this in for nine hours. Like we have our humidifier going, we have all these healthy things, we're sitting here breathing this in for nine hours. We have our humidifier going, we have all these healthy things that we're doing in the room, and then you're putting your head on your silk pillowcase that you just washed with Tide. It just doesn't make any sense.

Yeah. I do think that we don't think about all of the things our skin comes into contact with throughout the day and really what we're putting it through. So it is good to be mindful and really back it down. What have we washed with? What is it made of? I love the silk pillowcase. That's my favorite. I put them even on my children's pillows because my daughter's hair is really fine and it's a rat's nest in the morning. You put them on everybody's pillows but mine. I don't know. I know I just put them on mine. I don't put them on anyone else's pillows. Yeah, what the fuck Lauren? Yeah, who cares about his hair?

I put him on like the like... That's all right. You know what? The humidifier is on my side of the bed. So I'm getting... I'm glowing over here. What are some beauty tips that you do? Because you have beautiful glowing skin.

And obviously, you're a dermatologist. What are your three products that you cannot live without that you use all the time? So I would say my non-negotiables as far as anti-aging for me are in the morning, it's going to be a topical antioxidant. I like vitamin C. I like vitamin E. I like ferulic acid. I think that that's really important to provide a safety net under the skin for any of the free radical damage that maybe isn't filtered out. You use that? SkinCeuticals? Oh, I do. Yeah.

Yeah. Look at that. Go ahead. Wow. Well, you're using all the technical terms. So I just look at the label. I'm like, I follow the routine. I have a one, two, three.

You know, like I don't, you know, I didn't know all the terms, but yeah. So topical antioxidant. And I also like one from a company called Skin Better that has a good mix of them. I use SPF. Obviously, any dermatologist worth his or her salt would not be a good one if we didn't say daily protection, day or night, rain or shine, January or July, it needs to be on the skin because all kinds, and I prefer physical blockers like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide because even if you're prone to melasma and all kinds of things can drive it, heat, infrared, blue light, even ambient lighting from indoors.

And only the physical blockers of SPF, not the chemical ones, will protect you from that. So that's another way to be preventative. Speaking of preventing it before it occurs, it's always easier to not get it before you have to correct it later. And then at night, I use a retinol or a retinoid, depending on, you know, what I'm testing at the time. But prescription retinoids, obviously vitamin A derivatives, although tough to integrate into your routine, really are the

workhorse of anti-aging, where they help to build collagen, elastin, help with fine lines, wrinkles, help with dyschromia, which is discoloration, even out skin tone, reverse sun damage. I mean, I grew up down South where I used to be a sun goddess. And so I'm always mindful of the fact that we got to make sure we're reversing some of the damage from years ago. A hundred percent agree. You know that. And I was even like this chin strap helps me stay out of the sun. I'm reading Joan Collins book right now. And she said that people don't realize that women that wear makeup are actually, they're going to age a lot slower than women that don't. Because when you're,

when you're not wearing makeup, your skin is exposed to the sun every day. So she was like saying, she's like, be as glam as possible, put as much makeup on as possible. So I'm all about staying out of the sun. You know that.

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home, that was a lot. And so it's evolved to more of an aesthetic practice, but I kind of always bonus in the general derm that is going to come along with that. I don't really charge my patients for that, but just kind of give them that as a benefit. Like if you're in for Botox and filler, when's the last time you got your skin checked? Let's do that again today too.

And so- When should you get your skin checked? Like what, or is it just always? You know, it's a great question. And I would say that before puberty, maybe you want to go see, have your child see a dermatologist once just to make sure if there were, or if there's something specific to a new mole that you're concerned about. I mean, my daughter has a birthmark that I, I tested cause I wanted to make sure she was okay. Or to have one child with eczema, I can't have the other one with melanoma. You know, that would be terrible. So I often see children and the children of my patients who just want peace of mind that their

children are fine. And then after puberty, we want to start doing it once a year, unless you have a first degree relative or have had any personal history with skin cancer. And so then the general idea is once a year to get your skin checked. And most people come in, you know, for a vast majority of things. It could be acne. It could be acne scarring. It could be filler, Botox, lasers, talking about like, what should I do? I'm turning 30 and this is the year of me. I'm hearing that a lot.

Like this is the year of me. I'm turning in, I'm leaning into my self-care and I don't know where to start. Every year is the year of me, Michael. Every year is the year of me. It's a life of us. Our four husbands. But yeah, I think that I love helping my patients love themselves better. And there's a major transformation in that. And it's really a beautiful thing to watch when you do it in the right way and not overdone, but just helping them to light themselves better, whether that's having clearer skin, having more glowing skin, having less wrinkles. And so anything head to toe that is medical or non, it falls under my purview. So it's really fun.

How can we check ourself at home? So, you know, just like we recommend doing self breast exams for women, we need to do self skin care, self breast exams for women, we need to do self skin exams. And so once a month, you should obviously look at your skin. And it's best when you're unclothed. And then we need a mirror for certain parts or a partner to check out your back or your scalp. I mean, there are areas that we cannot really look at by ourselves unless you're a contortionist. And what exactly are you looking for?

Because as you age, obviously the skin changes a bit, but what things are, okay, that's a cause for concern. Yes. So we always fall back to the ABCDEs of melanoma, which are A stands for asymmetry. So a skin lesion that isn't perfectly symmetric, can't fold it on itself and it match up. B is sharp borders. So if it's kind of jagged in the edges, that may be a reason for concern. C is color, something that's multicolored, not uniform in color. D is diameter, which doesn't always follow suit. We've certainly seen small skin cancers, but it's usually about six millimeters, which is the eraser end of a pencil. And then E is the most important that's evolving or changing so anything new changing growing

rapidly it does not I don't want to scare people that it's definitely skin cancer but it should be checked oftentimes a lot of the younger patients won't have melanoma but they'll have basal cell carcinomas which are skin sun related skin cancer is the most common and preventable and curable type of skin cancer but they think it's an acne lesion that just doesn't heal and they've had it for months and sometimes it bleeds. Those are things that you need to get checked. And it's always just good to have a relationship with your dermatologist where you're like, hey, this is new. I get pictures all day long on my phone, like, sorry for the side boob pic this morning, but this is new. Are you worried? And then we talk about that. And

oftentimes, new lesions aren't skin cancer. Most commonly commonly they're not, but they do need to be checked in order to make sure because we know that early detection leads to better prognosis. I love you talking about this. I think it's so important and I think there's so many people out there that are curious to check and they don't kind of know what to do. So that's very helpful. Why did you guys decide, and this is like a plot twist question, to do a diffuser after a humidifier? What was that transition like and how were you involved, Dr. Dendy, in the diffuser?

Yeah, I think that the diffuser came about because it really was a natural extension from feedback we were getting with the humidifier. I mentioned we incorporated the aroma diffusion feature into the humidifier because there was no mist. And so it was this cue that the humidifier was on through smell. And then in the first like six months of Canopy being in market, we were getting all of this amazing feedback about how people loved the aromas

and they wanted to put the humidifier all over their home, but it didn't make sense to necessarily put the humidifier in the entryway hallway. And so we kind of dug into that further and we realized that with most traditional kind of stone diffusers, the aroma diffusers also with the chimney of mist that have water inside and you drip some oil in, they have the same problems as humidifiers. They get moldy, they're spewing out gross stuff. And so we dug into that and decided to design something that would not mold over so easily. So we removed water completely from the diffuser and focused on just providing this amazing

aroma diffusion experience. I am a practitioner of diffusers. I've tried every single one and they do mold. They're gross. Yes. And so when you guys came to me and you wanted to launch a diffuser, we had already had the humidifier. That was a home run. I was like, we need to launch this matching diffuser with it because I don't want mold. No one wants mold in their house. That's gross. And why do you not need the water for this one? It uses the same evaporative technology. So there's a fan and it's essentially blowing scent. And these are so cute.

They look just like the humidifier. You guys have them in white too. The one that I designed with you guys is in pink. I'm so passionate about this project because with the Skin confidential i'm always about all five senses like i want someone to walk in the room and just i want the lights to be the right dimmed michael never had had a dimmer growing up he just learned about it when he was 21 and moved in with me it was very high cortisol yeah like it was just like these lights

interrogation like in this kitchen with these lights like the brightest of lights so we introduced a dimmer to him I got him on diffusing I got him on you know music like I like the whole

five senses of the experience TV out of the bedroom sometimes I wonder if like all the stuff I learned on the show has been good or bad because before I would just sleep, wake up

no thought into anything just like go last night I came into the room when you were with Saza and I was like, oh my god, I have destroyed my husband. He has his red light going, he has the music on, there's chimes,

the humidifier, the diffuser, he has all these things going on. It's cute. I've trained you, I feel like, really well. I mean, it's like one of those, ignorance is bliss in some ways before I just didn't I mean when I was a kid

I'm not joking my dad would walk in swing the door wide open slam the lights on brightens it get out of bed

I'm like oh okay now it's like a whole thing right yeah now he has he has I mean the dimmer thing was out of

control you really didn't know I get the humidifier going yeah ambiance is important

it's so important. And it's important in an office space. It's important in a bathroom. It's important in a house. It's an energy that you're walking into. And I think that the diffuser really represents that. And that's why I wanted to launch it with you guys. I would just love to know if there's a certain way that you guys pick your scents for your

diffuser. And I would love to tell the audience about how we picked mine too. Yeah. I'm excited to hear you talk about the three scents. But for us, when we launched Canopy, we didn't think of Canopy initially as developing our own scents. So we were partnering with brands and we partnered with all different types of brands. In the first year, we partnered with Open Spaces, which is a home organization brand, to develop a scent with them. We did the same thing with Vasil and Prose and a couple other brands. And so we were really, in the first year, kind of trying to figure it out and leaning on other folks that were experts or had existing

kind of scent-based product and audiences that liked what they were making. But we learned a ton from that. And so now what we're doing is really pulling from feedback that we're seeing from our customers as to what they like, what is effective for different times of the day and things like that, and then leaning in into creating specific scent profiles that kind of meet those needs. When I created my scents with you guys for the humidifier, you sent me so many different ones to try. And we finally settled on pink taffy, palm berry, and grapefruit spritz. And you guys all love those if you're listening and you have one. And then for the diffuser, I was even more annoying.

I had you guys send me tons because I wanted to make sure the scent was human safe, pet safe, all the things. And so what we did is we decided to take you throughout your day. So we were envisioning when you woke up, when you were working and when you were going to sleep. And so I wanted you to wake up with something that sort of gave your senses a little tickle. And that was hot girl morning and it's juicy spritz. So it's like it's like kind of like tangerine grapefruit smells delicious. So that's going to wake you up. And then when you

are working or you're doing your thing, maybe you're taking care of the kids, whatever you're doing, it's mommy needs a minute. And this is vanilla honeysuckle. This is one of my favorites. It smells so good. It's so good. And everyone loves vanilla. Vanilla is just like a scent that everyone loves. And then I wanted to wind you down too. And that's what Michael was putting on in the room last night when you went to bed and that's called get the fuck to bed. And it's an incense smell. It's going to be subtle. It's going to give you the chill, calm vibes. And that was really important to me to have it take you through your routine throughout your day. I am obsessed with my diffuser.

It's pink. It looks just like the humidifier. If pink is not your aesthetic at your house, no worries. You guys have a white one. I would definitely check out Canopy. We wanted to have both of you guys on because we wanted to have the creator and tell the behind the scenes story

and then hear about the beauty benefits. That was important to me to get two opinions. Can we do a giveaway? Let's do it. Okay. Can they win a humidifier and a diffuser? So we actually I don't know if you got wind of this yesterday, but we sold out. You helped sell

out the humidifier over the Black Friday, Cyber Monday period. I sold out of ours or out of the canopy one? No, no, no. Your humidifier. We're sold out, you guys. But do we have one in the office?

We have one in the office. Yeah, but we can always do a non-TSC humidifier. Okay, let's do a non-TSC humidifier, but a TSC diffuser. Yes. Okay. All you have to do to win is follow at Get Canopy on Instagram. And then you have to tell us your takeaway from this episode. We would love to know. I feel like this episode was like a business side and a beauty side.

So I don't pick your poison on what you want to say. But tell me on my latest Instagram at Lauren Bostic. And then we have to follow you, Dr. Dendy. What's your Instagram? It's at Dr. Dendy, which is D-R-D-E-N-D-Y. And if someone wants to come book with you and get their skin checked, how can they do that? You can message me on Instagram or you can call the office. Okay.

Or just go to my Instagram and there's a little call button. And that's probably easiest. But I wanted to just say, I think it's so fun because when we first met, it was November of 2020. Crazy. Mid-pandemic. Flew to LA. And you were talking to them about making this and here is your baby. It was November of 2020. Crazy. Like mid-pandemic. Flew to LA. Yep.

And you were talking to them about making this. And here is your baby. And I'm seeing it, you know, in person. And it's so fun. And we have never met in person until today. Oh, wow. I mean, I forgot that we had met. I've seen him so much on Zoom.

And he was like, nice to meet you in person. And I was like, oh my gosh, you're right. Like we had never even physically seen each other. Isn't that funny? That is wild. If you didn't have a humidifier in your house during that pandemic you were really missing out your skin was really struggling then no i mean it was when they approached me to do this it was like i wanted every step of the way the audience to love it from the packaging to like the letter that comes from me i designed everything everything with the Canopy team.

I was so hands-on and they were so great. And this experience has been unbelievable. And this is a product that I a hundred percent believe in. It's in my home. It's in my daughter's room. It's in my bathroom. It's in my office. It's in the studio. Like I just love it so much. I can't shut the fuck up about it. Well, I'm the same. I mean, we were talking about beauty tools either earlier and I was like, here's the thing with beauty tools and I have all of them. It's whether or not you use them. Do you have an ice roller? A skinny confidential ice roller? I don't have one of yours. I'm getting you one. But that's maybe why I don't use it.

Yeah, I'm going to get you the skinny confidential ice roller. But this is what I use. And I always think, you know, when patients come to me, I'm like, talk to me about what I do and what I use because that's the key. That's what you want. Just like when I talk to beauty editors, I'm like, what's in your medicine cabinet? I want to know what you would buy if you had to spend money on these products because that really tells you what works. When you talk to the experts about what they actually do, there's the key. Well, we did that today. Where can everyone find both of you and can we do a code for the audience?

Yeah, for me, probably through Canopy at Get Canopy on Instagram. And I'm at dr dindy and use code skinny to shop get canopy.co go stock the pink humidifier and pink diffuser and if you're not into pink they have other colors thank you guys for coming on thank you both thank you both so much wait don't go make sure you check out getopy.co and use code skinny. If you grab the diffuser, it's pink, it's cute, and it's going to make your house and your office smell so good. I am obsessed. The three scents I took so long to pick like the aromas. It was so important for me for you guys to love them. On that note, if you want to win a diffuser,

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