Are shampoo and laundry detergent the same - Episode 289

Perry Romanowski (0:00)

Hi, I'm Perry, and you're listening to The Beauty Brains.

Hello, and 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 289 I'm your host, Perry Romanowski, and with me today is Valerie George. Hello, Valerie.

Valerie George (0:30)

Hi, Perry.

Perry Romanowski (0:31)

Hey, Valerie, on today's show, we got a number of questions, back to answering questions, and we're gonna cover questions about whether a shower head filter can help you with hair color retention, whether polyethylene in cleansing balms is an environmental hazard, whether hair shampoo and laundry detergent are the same, whether Jamaican black castor oil can really make your hair grow, and how well does the Goldwell Elumen hair color technology work? I know, Valerie, you are one of the industry's foremost experts on hair color, so.

Valerie George (1:08)

I am called the hair color queen.

Perry Romanowski (1:11)

I hope you got that on Instagram or something. Gotta snag that one.

All right, before we get to the questions and to the beauty science news, Valerie, let's do some of our highly anticipated chit chat. You know, Valerie, my left arm is in pain right now.

Valerie George (1:30)

What happened?

Perry Romanowski (1:32)

I donated blood.

Valerie George (1:33)

Wow, how many times does that, this is a list you keep, right? Sounding familiar.

Perry Romanowski (1:38)

Well, I make it a point to donate blood three times a year. It's one of my goals. So I like to knock one out in January and then another one in the early spring or the late spring and then in the fall after I do a marathon.

Valerie George (1:54)

Nice.

How many times total have you donated blood? Have you counted that?

Perry Romanowski (1:58)

I have donated blood 60 times. So I've been doing it for a while.

Valerie George (2:04)

Wow, pretty good.

Perry Romanowski (2:05)

Yeah. But you know what? It was very crowded today at the blood bank.

I had an 11 o'clock appointment and I didn't start, they didn't start taking my blood until noon.

Valerie George (2:16)

Oh, wow. That's a good sign.

Perry Romanowski (2:18)

It is. It is.

Or a bad sign because the other employees had COVID and couldn't come into work.

Valerie George (2:27)

Or I think they're doing a great job getting people to come in because I was at the hospital and they have a little sign saying at least in Los Angeles, there's a critical blood shortage of certain blood types.

And it's like literally on the computer monitors for them to ask patients to donate. And maybe that's it. It's probably the COVID thing.

Perry Romanowski (2:49)

Well, I think they've gotten better at the online marketing too. I mean, they sent me an email and that's why I went.

Valerie George (2:57)

Yeah, my goal. Thank you.

Perry Romanowski (2:58)

Exactly.

And I wanted to check my cholesterol. And you know what? You donate blood. You get a free cholesterol check.

Valerie George (3:04)

Oh, I didn't know that.

Perry Romanowski (3:05)

Yeah, indeed. Indeed.

So if you can go donate blood and please people also consider getting COVID vaccinated. Yep. All right, Valerie, you got anything you want to you want to chat about?

Valerie George (3:19)

Well, it really falls in the line of beauty science news. Should we head there?

Perry Romanowski (3:23)

Oh, yeah. Let's head right on over there.

All right, Beauty Science News, or more chit chat, what do you got, Valerie?

Valerie George (3:36)

Oh my gosh, I've been waiting to tell you all week. There's another celebrity who's just announced the launching of her line.

Perry Romanowski (3:44)

Wait, already? Didn't we predict, this is like one of our predictions already.

Valerie George (3:48)

I know, and it's already came true, and there was actually one last week, but I was on a bunch of medicine last week, so I can't remember who I saw. But I do remember the one that I read about yesterday, Martha Stewart.

Perry Romanowski (4:02)

Oh, wow.

Valerie George (4:03)

Yeah, I feel like you so predicted this. And Martha Stewart has just announced the launch of her CBD topical line.

Perry Romanowski (4:11)

Wow, a CBD topical line.

Valerie George (4:14)

And she's wearing this like ridiculous puffer vest in the photograph of her lunch.

Perry Romanowski (4:20)

Is she doing it in conjunction with Snoop Dogg?

Valerie George (4:24)

Wouldn't that be cool? I probably wouldn't have CBD in there, probably have THC in there.

No, yeah, I was just browsing cosmetic news, and I saw it, and I was like, oh my god, I have to tell Perry. And there was one last week too I read, but I really am trying to figure out where I saw it, and I just can't. I just know that there was another celebrity launch. So we're on track to hit all of our predictions.