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

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

product questions and give you a science-based inside look at the cosmetic industry. This is episode 215. I'm your

host Perry Romanowski and with me today all the way from sunny California is

Valerie George. Hello, Valerie.

Hello, hello, hello.

Well, we've got a few interesting questions

to cover today, and actually, we're

going to do a practically all-hare broadcast. What do you think of that, Valerie? All hair.

Well, I love hair, so I'm incredibly excited to answer all of the questions we have going on today.

And we've got a question topically related to the pandemic. Can the coronavirus survive on your hair?

What does it mean when a permanent color says that it's not for gray

hair? Can ingredient technology really justify an extra price point? A higher price point? Is Carnobow Wax bad for hair and does Argon oil penetrate the

hair shaft or do anything useful on the hair?

And we do have one beauty science news to cover too. But first, Valerie, it's a pandemic. How are you? I haven't talked to you in like a week.

Yeah, doing good, survived the first full week of being home alone locked up with Mr. Cosmetic

Chemist.

And I tell you what, in talking to some of the chemists at work, you know, we're all working from home.

Our lab is closed. I feel like this should be a really good deterrent for crime because people are feeling so trapped and a you

know just even spending one week like in their own apartment or their own home

and they have lots of like stuff to entertain them and

they're bored and kind of just over it. Imagine what it would be like to be in

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