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 cosmetic industry. This is episode 397. I'm your host, Valerie George, and with me today is Perry Romanowski.

Hi, Perry. Hello, Valerie. Always great to see you.

Good to see you. On today's show, we're going to cover lots of questions, lots of beauty science news,

including can you re-emulsify a broken and separated product?

How do you treat sunburned skin?

Do you have to use the matching conditioner with the shampoo?

How effective are heat protectants?

And do regular hydrolyzed proteins build up on hair?

But first, inane chit-chat.

Valerie, it's been a couple of weeks. How you've been? I haven't seen you. What you've been up to?

You know, very busy, very busy with work, trying to get some projects wrapped up before the summer.

It'll be good to get some stuff across the finish line. We're doing some home construction.

I found this Dr. Pepper bottle

hidden behind some drywall. The house was built in 1983. Oh, wow. So it was like, do you think

they left it there on purpose so that the next person can find it? A hundred percent. If I did

drywall, I mean, you know, I've done drywall, but if I were a drywaller, you know, and by the way, we're not doing this ourselves. We have help.

Sure. You know, I'm not really able to do a whole lot myself right now. But, you know, if I were a drywaller, I would definitely hide stuff.

Did they have a little note in the bottle? Like you put a little note in there.

No, it wouldn't have been cool, though? That would have been very, very thoughtful that they did.

Hey, you know what I did since I've last talked to you? What'd you do? I got an MRI on my leg.

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