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 a unique look at the cosmetics industry.

This is episode 250. I'm your host Valerie George and with me today is Perry Romanozky. Hi Perry.

Hello Valerie, so good to be here.

I'm so happy to be back on today's show. We're going to answer questions about can a product with just three ingredients work?

Do you have to give your nails a break from nail polish so they can breathe?

Do you have to shampoo out hair color? Do you really need to

double cleanse and are toners really necessary? Sounds like a fully packed show.

Yeah lots of exciting questions and what I like about this is that, well, aside from the first question,

it really speaks to routine.

Are these things necessary in your routine? That's kind of fun.

Yeah, you hear a lot about these kinds of things and there's a lot of advice on the internet.

You know that there's not a lot of advice about? What?

Surviving having the snow right after you've been in Florida for a

month. I mean this is like eight inches here in Chicago. It's crazy. We are having a cold

spell as well.

It's like 35 to 40 degrees here.

It's freezing.

That is cold.

Yeah, it's always cold in the lab though, year round.

We always have to wear our puffer jackets because they keep that

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