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

Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists, answer your beauty

product questions and give you an insider's look at the cosmetics industry.

This is episode 225. I'm your host Valerie George and with me today is Perry Romanozky.

Hi Perry, I'm back.

Hello Valerie, it's great to have you back.

I'm super excited for today's show we're going to be answering questions about

microplastics and cosmetic products, metallic colorants in hair color,

the best products to use when undergoing chemotherapy, and whether or not you should

use expired sunscreens and more.

We're going to do a rapid answer round to get through some of the questions that we've had

from our consumers.

Yeah, Valerie, I was looking, I was looking at our list of questions that have been submitted

and we have like a backlog of like 900 questions.

Although I have to say we do prioritize people with audio

questions so if you're sending in an audio question it's much more likely you're

going to get on the show.

Yeah, audio and Instagram, although I haven't been on Instagram lately.

We'll talk about that in a second, but in addition to all these questions today,

we are going to cover some beauty science news.

Wow, this is a fully packed show.

Fully fully packed.

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