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 insiders look at the cosmetic industry.

This is episode 291. I'm your host

Perry Romanowski and with me today is raw material ingredient entrepreneur

Valerie George. Hello Valerie.

Hi Perry.

Valerie so good that you're here love getting a show together right before I leave off on

vacation and you know what we're going to cover today on the show

we're going to cover the following questions why do companies use retinal palmitate

instead of retinol do a thickening shampoos work for people with hair

loss concerns how fast fast does vitamin C oxidize?

What are your thoughts on mineral oil?

And do hair minimizing products have an ingredient that actually slows hair growth.

Fascinating stuff. What a great show. But before we get to that, yeah yeah

before we get to that our general chit chat. Nobody wants to hear about your vacation Perry so we'll skip that but

Valerie it looks like you have a new ingredient you're excited about oh my gosh yeah so I'm actually

here at our warehouse slash lab slash everywhere that you know I work on you know my exciting

ingredients and I'm waiting for the delivery driver to drop off our new It was actually supposed to be here last week and I'm just so excited. It's like a little kid on Christmas.

I can't reveal what it is because that'll spoil the entire launch that I have planned.

Actually it's here, it's here, oh my gosh Perry it's here, yeah

should I leave it recording?

Yeah, all right I'll be right back. Hang on.

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