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

Hello and 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 418. I'm your host Perry Romanosky and with me

today is Valerie George. Hello Valerie. Hi Perry. Hey Valerie we got a lot of

questions today and on the show today we're going to cover questions including

how much does it really cost to make products

does goat milk have benefit on skin is paula's choice new serum really amazing is glycerin bad for

hair and what ingredients should you look for in a makeup primer but before that let's do some of that

chit-chat Valerie i want to thank you for squeezing

me in here between baby duty here. Oh, yeah, baby sees napping, so we basically don't have a lot of time.

Right. Yeah, Mr. Cosmetic Chemist is gone. Ordinarily, he would be helping. He is attending the

AFC championship.

Oh, American football, that's right.

Yep, a little guy trip that he's taking.

And so I'm alone.

And of course, it's the weekend that a giant snowstorm hits Texas,

and I am essentially trapped at my house because they don't do anything to the roads here.

And all I want are some donuts that are around the corner from, you know, so I'm just.

And you know, you're, you're an Ohio girl. You're like, you're used to snow.

I can drive on it, but it's not really snow. It's ice.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's like, it's like an ice sheet on the ground. So they also don't clear the roads very well. They're in Texas, right? They actually do not clear the roads at all. So it's not well, it's at all. So basically, yeah, I'm trapped at the house. And when Mr. Cosmetic Chemist takes care of Baby C when I have a work trip, like we board the dogs. You know, we make it as like stress-free as possible. But we didn't do that this time. And I'm dealing with Butch and Frank. I'm dealing with Baby C. I'm dealing with Doug. You know, it's just a lot. Doug the cat. Yeah. You got cats and dogs. Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, it's just a lot. Doug the cat, right? Yeah. You got cats and dogs. Yeah.

Yeah, well, you know, I've got one of the porch kitties trying to move in now. Wow, which one?

The heat miser. Oh. He's come in the house, yeah. I mean, before, um, he would come in a little bit, but he didn't get along with Teddy very well.

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