Hi, I'm Perry 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 428. I'm your host, Perry Romanoowski, and with me today is

Valerie. Hello, Valerie. Hi, Perry. Valerie, we have a big show today, and we want to get right

to it because I got to hop on a plane very shortly this afternoon.

But before I hop on that plane, we're going to answer your questions, including our benzoyoporoxide products,

Dangerous, is a U-Beauty serum really a holy grail?

What is the new sunscreen active approved by the FDA?

Do you need more than 5% niacinamide? And how do keratin treatments

for the hair, that is? But first, a little chit-chat. As I said, Valerie, I'm getting ready

to hop on a plane to Austria. Whoa, what's in Austria? Well, I'm speaking at a conference out there, a cosmetic science conference.

It's a two-day conference.

I'm going to be giving a talk about AI and cosmetic formulating and how the two can mix, match, and sometimes conflict.

Wow, you're the right guy to do it.

I know you're a big proponent of AI in the

right places, also a proponent of not AI in the right places. Exactly. I realize that AI is going to

be bad for society, but it also can be good for society. And I don't think the correct solution

is to stick our heads in the

sand and be negative because it's not going away. So we've got to learn to adapt to this. Use it when

is good. Don't use it when you shouldn't. And figuring that out is what the talk is all about.

Wow, very cool. Wish I could be there. Yeah, have you been to Austria?

Oh, many times, yes. I lived in Germany until I was almost 10 years old, and so we've popped over a few times. It's very beautiful.

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