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

393. I'm your host, Valerie George, and with me today is Perry Romanosky. Hi, Perry. Hello, Valerie.

Great to see you as always. Welcome back. On today's show, we're going to cover lots of questions

and beauty news, including are cosmetic products filled with microplastics?

What do you do about facial hair?

Is hobo oil good to use with retinol?

How can a formula with hypochloric acid and azaleic acid be stable?

And finally, how do you handle acne at the hairline but first inane chit-chat?

Yes, Valerie, I'm just back from china you know that's a long flight it is pretty far away that's for sure so i'm in coach and i'm next to some

a guy and his wife and uh you know it gets the middle of night and i'm i don't really sleep

on planes i watched like 15 movies there and back.

Yeah.

But so then the guy goes to sleep and he leans on my shoulder.

Okay.

For how long?

Well, I started doing it, so I sort of moved my arm, and he kind of moved a little.

But then he went back, and then eventually I was just like, oh, I'm just watching the movie. So I just let him stay there. Oh, that's very kind of you.

You know, would you just, would you just push him off? Or what do you do? Well, I don't know.

I am, I can sleep on planes for sure. Now, if I were doing an international flight,

you know, I would hate to fly and coach i mean i do it but i'll tell you what when i was an executive at a leading salon brand i was

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