Can hair really be sensitive to protein? Episode 139

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

You're listening to The Beauty Brains, where real scientists answer your beauty questions. And now, here's Perry and Randy.

Randy Schuller (0:19)

Hello, everyone, and welcome to episode 139 of The Beauty Brains podcast. I'm cosmetic chemist Randy Schuller, and I'm here as always with my beauty blogging buddy, Perry Romanowski. That's harder to say than I thought.

Perry Romanowski (0:33)

Yeah, it is. Hey, Randy, it's good to be back to the show.

Randy Schuller (0:37)

Very certainly it is. And speaking of today's program, today we're gonna learn if skin care can really be ultra-scientific, whether or not your hair can be sensitive to protein, and if the makeup eraser cloth really works.

Before we get to all that useful information, let's see what Perry's been up to.

Perry Romanowski (0:58)

Hey, you know, Randy, in Chicago we have all of these street summer fests. You love to go to summer fests.

Randy Schuller (1:07)

Love the street fests. Sometimes I go into the street even when there is no festival.

Perry Romanowski (1:12)

You know that, so you go to these fests, they have food booths and they're just crowded as all hell, and there's people everywhere. And you just love it, especially as you get older and you get crowded like that. That's no sense, but okay.

So last week I went to a fest, and my wife noticed something, some behavior that I do at these fests, which it just occurs to me.

Randy Schuller (1:36)

The ever observant Mrs. Romanaski. Okay, let's hear it.

Perry Romanowski (1:39)

Exactly. So I go to a fest. You know at these fests, you spend your money, but instead of working with money, they like to work with tickets. So you have to go buy a ticket. And there's something about tickets where people don't think of them as money. You know, like if you had $60, you wouldn't just be flapping $60 in your hand in a big crowd, right? But I see all these people with all these books of tickets just flapping around, you know, being very careless about them. But what I noticed about that is that people are so careless about them, is that if they drop a ticket, they don't even notice. And so I'm at these fests constantly scanning the ground for all these books of tickets.

At this fest I was just at, I found over 30 tickets, which was like 30 bucks just laying on the ground.

My wife thinks it's a little odd that I do this because it's not like I don't have 30 bucks and I could just go buy tickets, but I mean, it's just stuff on the ground.

Randy Schuller (2:37)

I'm sorry, I was just pausing to allow you time to explain how this ties in to The Beauty Brains podcast, which...

Perry Romanowski (2:44)

It's just what I do with my summer. Hey, you know what does have to do with The Beauty Brains podcast is our beauty science news.

Randy Schuller (2:53)

Beauty science news with our brand new lightning round.

All right, I'll take the first one. A recent scientific study has concluded that, get this, there are too many scientific studies. This was conducted by professors, I guess both in Finland and California, which is a strange pairing. But they published a paper entitled, Attention Decay in Science, where basically the researcher said there's just so much noise out there because of all the papers being published, that people aren't paying attention anymore. So it's rather disheartening, but I thought that was an interesting study about studies.

Perry Romanowski (3:33)

Yeah, and speaking of Finland, that ties in with the story that I've got here. You know, you remember how Burger King made a fragrance last year called the flame grilled fragrance?

Randy Schuller (3:43)

I'm still trying to use it up, yeah.

Perry Romanowski (3:45)

Apparently it smelled like tacos.

Anyway, in case you thought this was only a one-off thing that Burger King was doing, you'd be wrong. In Finland, a Burger King opened a sauna inside one of their restaurants. So while you're chomping away at your Whopper with cheese, you're able to just lounge around in a sauna, sweating your ass off with all the other people in Burger King. And it comes with your own custom Burger King robe.

Randy Schuller (4:16)

That's very disturbing.

Perry Romanowski (4:17)

Yeah. Fast food sauna.

Randy Schuller (4:19)

There you go. Here's a story about stress causing skin problems. A study from Temple University. I think we blogged years ago about stress being linked to skin problems, but I had never seen which specific skin conditions that were related. So apparently, according to this study, they did show that things like itchy skin, hair loss, oily, waxy, or flaky patches on the skin.