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 419. I'm your

host, Valerie George, and with me today is Perry Romanovski. Hi, Perry. Hello, Valerie. Great to

see you. Good to see you. We have a lot of stuff to cover on today's show, including are there

hydrogen peroxide free glosses for hair? Is retinaldehyde better than adepylene for treating wrinkles?

What are our thoughts on cosmetics in terracotta containers?

Are oils or water better for locking in moisture to hair?

And finally, how do you start your own skin care line?

But first, that chit-chat.

Valerie, I just got back from a vacation in Mexico, which you know what always happens to me when I go near the equator. You get bitten

by sand mites. Oh no, wait, that's the beach. I did. Well, no, I was on the beach and such. We were in

near Puerto Vallartaarta so a place called

san pancho which is very cool but yeah I got bit of up and now I'm just looking at my face on this

video here and I get this big red mark because some bug bit me on my chin I thought you were picking

as it no that's not acne acne. That's a bug bite.

Oh, no.

Those bugs love you.

They do.

And of course, my legs are all bitten up.

And you know what else happened to me?

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