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

Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists like us, answer your beauty

product questions, and give you an insider's look at the cosmetics industry.

This is episode 270. I'm your host Valerie George and with me today is Perry

Bromanowski. Hi Perry. Hello Valerie, good to see you. It's been a little while.

It's so good to see you and catch up and on today's show we're not only going to have that in a

chit chat we always do but we're going to cover some mega beauty science news

since it's been a couple weeks since we've been together and

talked about everything that's going on.

That's right last episode I answered 20 questions Valerie and one of the questions was, where was Valerie?

Yeah, well, as you guys know, I work a lot.

So first I had a work trip, I had to travel back to the East Coast to one of our

facilities and then my mom came to visit with my 11 year old niece and we kind of just hung out for two weeks and I spent some time in the Sierra

Nevada's and Yosemite. Well that sounds fun and sounds like you got a lot of outdoor time.

Yeah, it was really nice to be in fresh air and smell all the plant molecules and

have this bit of restorative period. I did miss you guys. You know, I came back and then from taking the time off I was so busy catching up that I did not get to record last week, so I'm happy to be back today.

That's okay. I ran through a series of questions that people had sent in that had been sitting

for a little while, but we got all caught up on that and we still but we still have a lot of

questions a lot of audio questions that were sent in so next episode we'll cover some of those.

We're just gonna have to work a little harder. We will. You know what I did when, well, you were on vacation?

I finally finished the book Ulysses. Oh, good. Yay! I mean, I don't know what I read but it was it was interesting. Yeah sometimes

it's just like you got to get through it. You got it and I successfully have so

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