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

Hi, 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 number 175. I'm your host Valerie George and on today's

episode it's a mega episode we're going to cover a new story we found interesting in the

cosmetics industry and then we'll answer your beauty questions about

sunscreens. We'll cover our sunscreen sprays even legal. What is the level of SPF we should

use on our face every day? Why hasn't the FDA approved the new sunscreen filters

available in Europe and Asia, like Unival and Tinozorb?

When can we expect those to be available in the US?

And is there a device for athome use that can show you if your

SPF is applied appropriately? First I'd like to say hi to the co-host of the show

Perry Romanozky. Hi Perry. Hello Valerie. Hey you know what I was listening to NPR this morning and I think I found a new name for me to go by on the show.

Instead of calling me Perry you can just start referring to me as chunky pickup.

Chunky pickup, tell me more.

Where is that from?

That sounds awful.

I don't know.

Actually, I made the mistake of making that joke

to my wife this morning and that go over well. It was not a

good name I don't recommend it. It's not you it doesn't look like you. It was from

a story about Tesla and they were talking about their electronic pickup cars and the problem with the pickups was that they were called chunky pickups.

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