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

Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show. 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 277.

I'm your host Valerie George and with me today is my good cosmetic chemist friend Perry Romanowski.

Hi Perry.

Hello Valerie, so good to see you as always.

Great to see you. I'm glad to finally have some repetition in our routine and get to some really good questions for this show including...

We've got a number of them, yeah. Oh yeah, what

ingredients are suitable for sensitive skin? What makes Peter Thomas Roth

Fermex eye-titener work? Peptides and cosmetics? Hmm. Do ingredients accumulate in your body? Are there ingredients in makeup one should avoid? And can estheticians get more powerful ingredients than us lowly consumers.

Well, we're not lowly consumers, we're chemists.

We can get anything.

Well, or we could make it, right?

We don't have to buy it.

That's right. If you can't buy it, make it. That's right. If you can't buy it, make it. That's right. Yeah, yeah. But first,

sunscreen symposium. What is it, Perry, and are you going? I am going to the sunscreen supposition this week in Florida and Orlando.

I have to admit to a certain level of trepidation about going to a conference in Florida during a

pandemic I must say. Well you know you're going to be fine Perry you know I just went to cosmopolitan Las Vegas

yes Las Vegas and I also had some you know uncertainty because even you know

pre-pandemic Vegas is a little

The Vegas a little you know germy anyway. Yeah and you know what's

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