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 381. I'm your host, Valerie George, and with me today is Perry Romanovski. Hello, Perry.

Hey, Valerie, this is actually Perry. No, not virtual Perry.

Oh, thank God, because on today's show, the actual Valerie and the actual Perry are going to cover lots of questions, including what can you use to fight static? Is it okay for babies to eat sunscreen? What are the best

ingredients to use for conditioning hair? What is the difference between body wash and hand

soap? And how does the performance of various retinoles compare to retin A? But first, inane chit-chat.

Valerie, you were gone for a little while. I did a solo episode. What are you been up to? We haven't seen you in a while.

Oh, I've been very, very, very busy. We have been planning to go on some end of year trips, me and Mr. Cosmetic Chemist. It's our 10-year

wedding anniversary. And yeah, we were going to go to a very remote Pacific island. We, thank

God, insured it because now we can't. But I was gone preparing for all the leaving, and now I'm

not leaving, so. I'm not leaving.

Oh, well, hopefully you get to that.

Hopefully you get to that island at some other point.

I know.

I was really upset, but life happens, so that's what's happening.

Yeah.

You know a place I want to go, I want to go to Madagascar sometime. Oh, that's like a remote island, right?

One of my customers went there and, I should say client, one of my clients went there and it's an incredible place.

I actually love Africa. I've been to Africa. I've not been to Madagascar and it's really, really quite special.

So I think you should go. Well, it's on, it's on my list.

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