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 insider's look at the cosmetics industry.

This is episode 253. I'm your host Valerie George and with me today is Perry Romanozky.

Hi Perry.

Hello Valerie, so good to see you.

Good to see you. On today's show, we are going to answer questions about should I stop using Henna?

What's the deal with products sold through doctor's offices?

Can you improve the quality of hair extensions yourself?

Does cocoa powder benefit hair?

And what should you use for dry itchy scalp?

Wow, sounds like we are covering hair today. You know whenever people talk about itchy

scelves and I start scratching my head. I literally just scratched my head too. I don't know if you saw that.

I do. I don't know why that is.

Yeah, it's almost like talking about dry scratchy heads is like yawning.

So if you see someone yawn, you get there, you just made you yawn.

Yeah, I know, I know know I'm horrible with that. Oh man well yesterday

Perry I posted something on Instagram and I thought it was interesting because you thought it was interesting.

Well, everything you post on Instagram is interesting.

But what was this one that was particularly interesting?

Well, I had received a complimentary tooth whitening kit from a company and they that because you're like a

skin influencer on Instagram like kind of I guess yeah they just said hey give this a try. And I was looking at it and I noticed

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