Hi, I'm Perry, and you're listening to the Beauty Brains.

Hello and welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real scientists answer your beauty questions and give you an insiders look at the beauty product industry.

I'm your host Perry Romanowski and this is episode 167 and with me today is the

other half of the beauty brains Valerie how's it going Valerie.

Bancjorno Perry I'm in Italy how are you? Oh I thought we were changing the language of the show. I'm good. So Italy that's this big country what part of Italy are you in there?

I'm in northern Italy, just one of the many places I go is a cosmetic chemist.

Who knew that being a cosmetic chemist involves so much travel?

It can, depending on what you do. I happen to have a role where I have to visit different

manufacturing facilities we have periodically, so I come to Italy quite often.

All right on today's episode we got a big one today we're gonna be answering questions

about whether dermatologist recommended products are better,

whether people should wash their hair every day,

how some of these home skin analyzing devices and whether they're worth it,

and the difference between normal hair color and those all natural

hair colors. Plus we've got some beauty science story. So should we get right

into the beauty science? Yeah let's do it.

Valerie, you want to start off with the story that you picked first?

Yeah, so I subscribe to cosmetic business news and one of the

articles they just came out with today I think today in Europe at any rate it's a

European publication. They revealed from Mintel that Mintel thinks

Sub-Zero Waste is set to be the next big global beauty trend in 2019. So for those of you who don't know,

Mintel is an organization that puts together trend analysis in the

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