You're listening to the beauty brains, where real scientists answer your beauty questions.

And now here's Randy and Perry. Hello and welcome to episode 134 of the Beauty Brains.

We are two guys and when we're not talking about superhero movies,

we're enlightening people about cosmetic products.

I am cosmetic chemist Perry Romanowski and with me as always. cosmetic that shows the overlap between comic book fans and beauty science fans

because that's the niche we're appealing to. I still tell you the Joker is a cosmetic

chemist for Christ's sake. Hey Randy, before we get into this show, which we have this amazing show, we're going to talk

about some beauty science news, some hair repair technology, we're going to answer your beauty questions about you know the

cosmetic industry and whether aluminum is really bad for you and the odors.

Before I get to that I want to ask you a question about the

on the odor. I want to ask you a question about something that happened to me on the way to a restaurant last night.

Oh, a personal anecdote regarding you.

That's unusual, but let's try it out. I know we haven't

had one in a while, but so I was walking to this restaurant. I live in the city of

Chicago and going to this fine establishment with my wife and I saw these two cute

little animals that were right next to the fence someone was this little tiny

guy and was this little

little slightly bigger. It was like the mom and the little kid. And I stop and I point these out to my wife and I go,

hey, look at that cute little kitty's there. I should say as an aside I call all animals kitties. It could be a

pigeon a squirrel or a raccoon. I just say hey look at that kitty.

And you have a biochemistry degree, okay.

I did, I did.

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