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 345. I'm your host Valerie George and with me today is Perry Romanozky. Hi Perry. Hello hello hello Valerie. How are you? Oh, I'm doing okay. On today's show we're going to answer questions about how does

Karista's therapist hair serum make your hair feel so good? Is there still

formaldehyde in Brazilian blowout?

Formaldehyde? Do self-tanters rust your skin?

And how is it possible to reverse two years of hair damage in just one treatment?

But first, that chit-chat.

Yeah, it sounds like both of us have our voice is altered a little bit and

it's not just the audio quality. I'm recovering from a bit of a cold so my voice

sounds a little off and you're just getting one

uh well I'm also recovering from one I've had one for about a week with this

annoying cough where all I do is hack to get everything out of my throat and it's been

extra inconvenient because I've honestly had a couple terrible weeks I was in a

car accident two weeks ago.

Yeah, I hit my head really hard.

I was taken to the hospital.

They thought I had a brain bleed.

Thank goodness I didn't.

I just had a nasty concussion, a lump on my melon, and then I get this cough, where every time I cough I just get this stabbing pain in my head.

Yeah. That sounds like no fun. Yeah my car is totaled. It does make me wonder

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