You're listening to the beauty brains, where real scientists answer your beauty questions.

And now here's Randy and Perry. Hello and welcome to show number 136. I'm your host Perry Romanoski and with me as always is

Randy Schuller. How you're ready? Hello everybody I like to think of myself as the

host but okay. That's right. Well we are professional cosmetic chemists who are going to spend the next 30 minutes or so answering your questions talking about beauty science stories we've read in the news and amusing with you with our regular

hygien. That's awfully optimistic of you. Well on today's show you'll learn

about how robots may be incorporated into your beauty routine, whether body lotion can condition your hair,

if horse oil is good for your skin, and we'll learn whether you should trust some of the advice

that you see on the internet about beauty products.

I can guess that.

But before we get into that, we should start with some of our witty

banter that were so famous for, shouldn't we?

Yeah, sure there would be an outrage if we didn't kick off with one of Perry's personal

parables. Well first I would like to throw it to you. You got any subjects you

want to talk about your life about? No. Yeah I thought so. Well I I want to

tell you about my Planking project. Okay. Yeah I you know, I like to do a challenge every year and this year my

challenge is I'm going to build up to do planks as long as I can. Now a plank

is where essentially you hold like a push-up position and you just stay there for as long as you can.

Right, that's a plank. And you know some people have a hard time it's like a minute or so

I've already had a hard time believing we're even talking about this but

continue I but I built up I'm up to seven minutes, I can hold a plank for seven minutes.

I could try it right now on the show, but this is an audio show.

So I felt pretty good about myself, you know, the seven minutes, minutes you know because everyone I know that

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