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The Beauty Brains

Beauty Question Extravaganza - AMA - episode 242

The Beauty Brains

Discover the beauty and cosmetic products you should use and avoid

Beauty Products, Cosmetics, Arts, Natural Sciences, Fashion & Beauty, Science, Cosmetic Science

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Beauty Brains. It's a solo episode and it's all about answering questions. Nearly 25!

On today’s show we answer questions about…

  • 1. Can you trust skinfluencers?
  • 2. Is isotretinoin an effective anti-aging ingredient?
  • 3. Does urine have beneficial ingredients for skin?
  • 4. Can Wake Up Call shampoo remove silicones?
  • 5. Are high frequency treatments a gimmick?
  • 6. Are there non-pore-clogging hair products?
  • 7. Do we accept guest posts?
  • 8. What’s an Olaplex conditioner alternative?
  • 9. What do you thing of prescription skin services?
  • 10. Does smoking weed affect hair growth?
  • 11. Is Beverly Hills MD cruelty free?
  • 12. What did Valerie think of L’Oreal Wonder Water?
  • 13. Should you use a scalp exfoliator?
  • 14. Do tan accelerators work?
  • 15. Does Pantene Micellar shampoo work better?
  • 16. What skin advice really works?
  • 17. How do you become a cosmetic chemist?
  • 18. Is coconut oil working in hair?
  • 19. Will layering reduce the SPF of my sunscreen?
  • 20. Are AHAs good skin care products?
  • 21. Is the new Avon serum & cream a miracle?
  • 22. How do you avoid split ends?
  • 23. Why do you get lumps of rubber after using foundation?
  • 24. What makes a lip gloss work?
  • 25. How can you tell whether a product is effectively preserved?
  • 26. Do micro darts actually work?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Perry, and you're listening to the Beauty Brains a show where real cosmetic

0:18.2

chemists answer your beauty product questions and give you an

0:21.3

insiders look at the cosmetic industry. This is

0:24.6

episode 242. I'm your host Perry Romanowski and today is going to be a solo

0:31.6

show.

0:33.0

Yeah, Valerie was swamped with work,

0:35.7

and I want to make sure that we got a show out for you today,

0:40.3

even though she can't make it.

0:41.7

So she'll be back next show, but today is just a solo.

0:44.7

And since it is a solo show, I like to experiment a little bit here. And I should say that we've gotten in a number of questions that well just I we haven't got to because

0:56.7

we tend to prioritize questions if they're an audio question they get pretty high priority as we like to hear other people on the show.

1:06.0

If it's to our Patreon accounts, we answer the Patreon questions prior to give them the top status so if you

1:15.9

wanted to become a Patreon subscriber go to patreon dot com slash the beauty brains

1:21.2

and you can ask your question there and we'll get that one on as soon as we can.

1:26.4

But we also have the opportunity. We send in the show notes there is a link to to click on where you can ask questions.

1:35.0

And this is a spreadsheet that I have, and we have a number of questions that were sent in.

1:39.8

And so I figured I would just do a rapid question and answer session where I just go through and I

1:46.8

answer as many questions as I can within the allotted time for the show, which, I don't know, I guess we don't have a lot of times for the show, but I'm going to see how many I can get done in say 30 minutes. So without further ado, let's get on to the beauty questions.

2:08.4

Now this is just a huge hodgepodge of questions as they come in. I haven't edited anything. I'll just read the question and give you my two cents.

2:17.6

There was a podcast that I listen to called Mindscape, the Sean Carroll Mindscape.

2:23.4

Good show.

2:24.0

But every month he does an Ask Me Anything,

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