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

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

This is episode number 183.

I'm your host Valerie George and with me today is my favorite co-host, Perry Romanozky.

Hey Perry.

Hey, Valerie, oh, that was so nice.

Wait, you have other co-hosts?

On today's episode, we're going to be answering your beauty questions about should one be worried about

tree nuts and cosmetic products?

What's the difference between a toner and astringent?

How does one spot a bad dupe versus an affordable product that works? Why do

some nail polishes last longer on some people than others?

Notice I didn't answer your question, Perry, but no, I don't have any co-host other than you.

Nice.

Well how was Supplier's Day in New York?

New York was fun.

The Suppliers Day is a huge show. There was not, I didn't, I wasn't there long enough to see everything, but what I did notice is that natural seems to be out and clean beauty is in like all the suppliers of new raw materials are talking about how clean everything was.

Yeah I've even I've seen that a lot myself and it's all language it's a subtle distinction.

Absolutely.

The other thing that people talked a lot about

was sustainability.

But the worst thing that I saw there, I mean there were some interesting things of course, but the technology doesn't change that much, but the worst thing that I did see there was there was a company that was

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