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

Hi, and welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real scientists answer your

beauty questions and give you an insider's look at the beauty product industry.

This is episode number 173. I'm your host Valerie George and on today's episode we're going to cover a couple news stories we found interesting in the cosmetics industry and then we'll answer a couple of your beauty questions about.

Do silicones dry out your skin? Why do white

hairs on my head turn reddish at the ends? And what ingredients should I look for in a

sunscreen while I'm exercising? But first, I want to say hi to the co-host of the show

Perry. Hi Perry. Hello Valerie how's it going? Oh it's been raining in

California I know I know we talk about the weather a lot and I told myself we wouldn't talk about that today, but it's so unusual to have a rainy weather here.

I saw this movie yesterday, which was about California. It was some old rock movie where it was just

quite ridiculous. Like rocks like V rock or rocks like mudslides? Yeah

Dwayne Johnson the rock. Oh there was this earthquake and I think

it was called San Andreas or something it was just ridiculous that sounds a

lot of bad there's there's a lot of breaking the laws of physics in there.

That usually happens.

Indeed, actually it's a little snowy here in Chicago, but I'm looking forward to going to Florida tomorrow.

Ooh, what's in Florida?

Well, I'm actually going out there to give a talk to a company out there about the topic of clean beauty products.

Very interesting.

Yeah, I will actually be giving that talk or a version of that talk out in California in September. So maybe we'll get to record a live show.

Very cool. The talk in September I do know is for the Society of Cosmetic Chemists,

California chapter one of our dinner meetings so if you live in

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