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

chemists answer your beauty product questions and give you an

insider's look at the beauty product industry. This is episode 226. I'm your

host Perry Romanowski and with me today is Valerie George. Hello Valerie

Hi Perry. Well Valerie on today's show we're going to be answering questions about

whether glycerin is bad for curly hair, whether encapsulated ingredients make the products work better, if scalp exfoliators work,

whether beauty companies can hide allergens in their products, and what is the difference between organic DHA and non-organic

DHA products? Oh some great questions. Yeah yeah lots of questions. Plus we're

going to cover some beauty science news. But first, as always, I like to chat with Valerie. How's it going to Valerie?

It's going good. Everything's great. Well, that's good because last time you were a little off and you were working a lot.

You're still working a lot, I guess.

Oh, still working a lot.

In LA we have this weather system called June Gloom and it basically

means that in the morning the sky will be cloudy and overcast, maybe a little precipitation being a loose term is kind of like just

damp air basically but that's considered rain in California and in the

afternoon by 1 PM it burns off to reveal a sunny sky and I always get like

headaches during June gloom so it's kind of like the but tomorrow's July 1st so hopefully

it's gone you know it's almost halfway through today I did 181 push-ups.

I'm on this I don't know if I tell you about this goal I start at the beginning of the year I do one push up every single day one extra a day so

January 1st you do one then you do two the next day and today I did 181.

Right because today's the hundred and eighty first day of the year.

It is. Although we don't like to date our podcast like that because not people know.

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