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 212.

I'm your host Valerie George and with me today is the most bug-written broadcaster in beauty Perry

Perry

Hey Valerie I'm still itching these I was in the in the Caribbean and I got bit by a bunch of

sand flies and there's like a hundred bites but oh you're you doing you had the week off

last week because of an illness yeah I didn't have a vacation necessarily like you did but I had the

flu and bronchitis not fun at all. Now are you sure it was the flu or was this new famous virus?

Well, they didn't test for that because I hadn't been traveling,

but I did let them know my boss had been traveling.

He got the flu, allegedly, and I got it from him and they just

don't have enough testing kits and they actually said I would have to go leave the

hospital and go to LA County to get that testing done and I was like I think it's the flu so anyway I'm doing

much better. Well that's good good to hear I hope you can't spread anything

through the microphones here.

Good thing, sometimes there's location between us.

That's right.

Yeah.

Well, speaking of that famous virus, we are going to talk about it a little bit on the show in our beauty science news and then we'll answer a lot of beauty questions today including what are the best facial moisturizers for sensitive skin?

Is there a big difference between facial cleansers and shampoo?

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