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 inside look at the cosmetic industry.

This is episode 425. I'm your host,

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

as always. Great to see you. On today's show, we're going to cover a lot of questions, including,

is it a good idea to put pure glycerin on skin? Can a salon professional attend a cosmetic chemist's course?

Why don't all am lactin lotion smell bad?

Is there a good two-and-one shampoo on the market?

And finally, are there differences in ingredient quality between brands?

But first, that chit-chat.

Valerie, guess what I did?

Um, you didn't complete your juggling streak. It's broken.

No, no. I still have the juggling streak going day 6,382 today. But no, no, here's what I did.

Micro-needling. Can you believe it? You went micronealing?

Well, no, no. Actually, I'm taking care of these kittens, and the kittens, when I'm feeding them,

they just will run up my pants.

Oh, gosh.

And they just get their nails in my pants and just, so if you look at my legs, they look like they have all these little puncture wounds in it.

And it looks like I've been doing microneedling.

I've got so excited for a second.

And now I'm deflated.

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