Hi, I'm Valerie, and you're listening to the Beauty Brains. Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real scientists answer your beauty questions and give you an insider's look at the beauty product industry.

This is episode number 179.

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

Hi Perry.

Hello Valerie.

I was so happy to be back.

Yes, it's good to hear you. I've done a couple of shows on my own but

and people were asking about you so it's great to have you back. You did a great job

on those shows by the way even though it was so low and Sarah Bellum helped you out a little bit. They were very good and I hope everyone's happy to have me back.

Thank you. Yeah, so what's on the docket today? Well today we're going to answer a couple beauty questions that came in about what are the benefits of broccoli seed oil?

What is the deal with California's banning list of toxic ingredients.

We're trying to ban.

Can you easily remove plutonium 18 from the hair?

And plus, we'll cover a couple more stories

that we found interesting in the cosmetics industry this week. Well, excellent like a fun time and speaking of fun times you're back now you were

gone a couple of weeks traveling out there what in Europe?

Yeah so I was gone a few weeks, three and a half

weeks to be exact it was one of my longest trips yet and I first started out for a

business meeting in Germany and then I spent time with family. I grew up in Germany so it was good to see my cousins and so forth. I headed to a manufacturing facility in Italy and had my usual

large number of espressos and then I had it in Cosmetics Global which was

held in Paris this year. Wow the traveling life of a cosmetic chemist.

So you're in Italy, and then there was a big show in France.

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