Hi, I'm Perry, and you're listening to the Beauty Brains.

Hello and welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real scientists answer your beauty

questions and give you an insider's look at the Beauty Product Industry. This is episode 196. I am your host Perry

Romanowski and with me today is Valerie George. Hello Valerie. Hi Perry,

high brains fans. On today's episode we're going to Hi Perry, Hi Brains Fans.

On today's episode, we're going to be answering your questions about whether there are any benefits to having vitamins in your hair products. We're going to talk about whether anything works better

than hydroquinone for age spots, whether shave minimizing products work, and whether

film-forming ingredients are easy to wash off.

Plus, we've got a couple of cosmetic industry news stories to talk about.

But before we do that, let's say hello to Valerie.

How is it going, Valerie? Things are okay in case anyone was

wondering I am safe from the fires that are ravishing Los Angeles. There's

fires out there in California? Yeah it started Thursday night and it closed several major highways.

It was right at this point where you passed from one valley to another.

So my roadway to work was blocked, so Friday was a work from home day and for much of the lab I just went ahead and gave him the day off since nobody could drive through. I did what have one employee that had to evacuate from her home but she is

fine and hopefully this weekend she got to go back so that kind of thing makes you

want to come back to the Midwest right right? A little bit.

We do have great weather every day,

but sometimes when these fires happen,

the air basically smells like campfire

and it starts to dust everything with ash particles.

So, but you don't have to put up with it too often but the air quality

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