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 an insider's look at the cosmetics industry. This is episode

421. I'm your host, Valerie George, and with me today is Perry Romanooski. Hi, Perry. Hello, Valerie.

Great to see you. Great to see you. We have a lot of stuff to cover on today's show, including

what's the scoop on rice protein for hair? Can one improve the texture of synthetic hair?

Are azaleic acid and copper peptides compatible?

Well, Alpharet improved 60-year-old hands?

And what are alternatives to Crown Affairs air-dry moose?

But first, that inane chit-chap?

Valerie, you know who's in my house right now? Who? The heat miser. Has he officially moved in all the way? No, no. Because he doesn't like to stay in the house. He'll come in my house, get out of the weather, sleep a while, and then he'll go to the door and he wants out because he wants to hang out with his friends, I guess.

So, I don't know, he's in and out now. Well, he's got stuff going on, but that's really cute. Doug is in the lab today. He comes every day, and then we bring him home at night. But he's just chilling out in a little sun puddle. You know, the cats do really love sun, don't they? I love sun. Have you ever taken a nap with half of your body laying in the sunshine?

It's pretty incredible. It sounds like UV damage to be. Well, I'm talking,

you know, through a window, so some of the UVA is filtered out or UVB, I think, is filtered out

through a window. But, you know, just to be in that

little puddle of warmth is, it's really good. But I also like being in a hot car. It's one of the

best feelings. Well, you know what I used to do. Me and my old partner, Randy, we used to go to

lunch together and we would get in the car car and if I was driving, I wouldn't

roll down any of the windows like in the summer and I just see how long we can go without rolling

down the window or turning on the air conditioner. Did Randy know you did that? Eventually and then he's

like, are you going to roll down the window?

That's so funny.

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