Hi, I'm Perry, and you're listening to the beauty brains a show where real cosmetic chemists

answer your beauty product questions and give you an insiders look at

the cosmetic industry.

This is episode 340.

I'm your host Perry Romanowski and with me today is Valerie George.

Hello Valerie.

Hi Perry.

It's been a little while since we've connected but travel will do that.

And summer break.

Oh yes, summer break.

Well on today's show, with all new content, we're going to be answering questions about

whether biotechnology is going to revolutionize the beauty industry.

Do products designed for tattoos actually work?

Is it okay to mix retinol with regular skin care products, and does

poly Lleactic acid work as a topical ingredient?

But first, Valerie, what's going on with you?

Just been very busy with the summer, with projects, with travel. You've been traveling.

See the world. I just got back from a show in Las Vegas for work called

Cosmos Proff Las Vegas it's a professional beauty show meaning for nail technicians for

products sold in spas products sold in slons that kind of stuff it's turning into a bit more of a consumer beauty show, not just the

professional world, but when I was there, I saw Jenny McCarthy.

Oh, you did. Jenny McCarthy, now she's some sort of actress. You know what I remember about Jenny McC. What I remember about her most?

...