Hi, I'm Perry, and you're listening to the Beauty Brains.

Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real scientists answer your beauty questions

and give you an insider's look at the Beauty Product Industry. This is episode 203. I'm your host Perry

Romanowski and joining me today is the better-looking co-host of the beauty brains

Valerie George. Hello Valerie. Hi Perry.

Hey, you know Valerie on today's episode, we're going to be answering some beauty questions about the quality of ingredients

versus the price of the product. Whether the Curly Girl method

really requires you to avoid parabins and why it does. What it's like to work in

the cosmetic industry and how you get started and whether you have to

wait to apply Vitamin C in your skin care products. But first Valerie was so good to

see you last week. We were both in New York. It was great to see you too. We

only get to see each other a couple times a year and I always look forward to

those occasions. Yeah, it was a good time. It was some nice weather there. It was a

good show.

Actually, my favorite part was getting to do the Insta Story.

I don't know how many people saw that Insta Story.

Really, if you did, it's a treat because no one else is going to see it.

Oh, come on now. So for those of you guys who missed out, Perry and I were in together

in New York City last week for this National Society of Cosmetic

Chemist annual scientific meeting.

So this meeting has dozens of speakers coming from all over the world to speak about the latest research in

cosmetic science and thousands of cosmetic chemists, well maybe like thousand plus, descend upon

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