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 an insider's look at the cosmetic industry.

This is episode 420. I'm your host, Perry Romanovski, and with me today is Valerie George.

Hello, Valerie. Hi, Perry. Valerie, it's been a little while. I'm glad to be back.

And on today's show, we've got a ton of questions, so let's see what covering today.

On the show today, we're going to cover what is known in all odor and how do you minimize it? Does panthenol

make a shampoo better? What's an alternative to Matrix Step 1 bleach amplifier? How expensive is it to

test a product? How do you become a cosmetic chemist? And Valerie, we've been off a little

while, and that's mainly because I guess I was traveling and you too, I suppose. Well, I would say

the primary offender in this instance, and if you're a beauty brain's listener and you're upset,

please be upset with Perry because, yes, I was traveling a tiny bit,

but I'm talking a couple days here and there, but it turns out the one or two days I was

traveling is the only time that Perry was not traveling. Yeah. Well, you know, I was on some

long trip. I was in India for so that was, that made things a little challenging because I guess we were like

13 hours different. We were 14 and a half hours different. Right. Why the half hour?

It's interesting they do a half because they didn't want to do two time zones for the whole country

so they just and it really should have two, so they split the

difference in one and a half. Yeah, you know, that makes it hard for me. Yeah, for sure. But

India was a fascinating place. It's, it's almost, it's controlled chaos, really,

especially driving. You know, in America, we, everybody drives in the lanes and stuff, and you, it's controlled chaos, really, especially driving.

You know, in America, we, everybody drives in the lanes and stuff and, you know, there's lights and things, but I don't know what their rules were, but, you know, people just drive into each other and somehow they never hit each other. They just all kind of know. Wow. Yeah. That's pretty great. Lots of circles. and there was actually cows and dogs on the side,

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