Do silicones really melt on your hair? Episode 131

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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

Randy Schuller (0:17)

Hello, everyone, Randy Schuller here, introducing another repeat performance of one of our earlier episodes.

No, I'm just kidding. This is all new stuff because I'm back in the studio with fellow Beauty Brain, Perry Romanowski.

Perry Romanowski (0:30)

Hey, Randy, it's good to be back.

Randy Schuller (0:32)

Absolutely.

Perry Romanowski (0:34)

Yeah, well, I got to use the time off to do a lot of, I don't know what I did. Well, we've had a lot of big stuff on The Beauty Brains, or no, actually on Chemist Corner, we did a whole reboot of the Chemist Corner website.

Randy Schuller (0:52)

We're starting off the show with a promotional piece for Chemist Corner. How about we start off the show by teasing what we're going to talk about today?

Perry Romanowski (1:00)

That's a good idea, yeah.

Randy Schuller (1:01)

Well, stay tuned because in today's all new show, you'll learn if silicones really can melt onto your hair, whether or not you should hack your foundation with food colouring and how rinse-off skincare products work.

But before we get to all that, do we have any Where in the World is Perry Romanowski? I know it's been a while since we've chatted. Anything going on there?

Perry Romanowski (1:24)

Well, you know, I was just in South Carolina. There was a thing called Naturally Kiowa Cosmetic Conference, and so it was a conference just dedicated to the formulation of natural cosmetic products.

Randy Schuller (1:40)

Which gave you a chance to hawk the course that you sell on natural cosmetic formulating.

Perry Romanowski (1:47)

Well, you know, I just went there to learn. There was actually some fascinating topics on natural preservatives, natural surfactants, which all seem kind of the same stuff. They're just a twist to get the natural story. But one of the most interesting topics that they talked about was they had a guy do a talk on non-wovens.

And I guess the non-woven market is just really growing.

Randy Schuller (2:18)

But those are like some kind of thermoplastic materials. Are they talking about natural non-wovens? Was that the bit?

Perry Romanowski (2:24)

Right. So like facial wipes and baby wipes and those sorts of things. But yeah, it was sort of the natural version of those things.

It just struck me as kind of strange because non-wovens seems like a very wasteful to me. That's it. I mean, you're just taking this tissue or whatever, you wipe it on your face and then you throw it in the garbage.

Randy Schuller (2:50)

It does seem to generate more waste than a bottle of a conventional product, and maybe you bring your own washcloth that gets washed and reused. So yeah, I guess in that sense, it's not very environment. It's natural, but it's just not very environmentally friendly.

Perry Romanowski (3:04)

I just thought I just, it seemed kind of funny, and it seemed kind of funny to me that these kind of products are just growing. It seems, you know, we hear all of this information or these claims that the natural market is growing and that people want more natural products, and then, oh yeah, the non-wovens are just kicking ass, you know.

It's just very strange consumers out there. I'm not really sure how much people really want natural products. They just want to feel like they're getting them, but then they really want products that work, right?

Randy Schuller (3:37)

Yeah, well, I think everybody wants products that work.

Perry Romanowski (3:40)

Yeah, exactly. So, Randy, we're changing up the format of the show a little bit, huh?

Randy Schuller (3:45)

I thought we'd try something a little bit different. So what we'll do is we'll do, instead of doing a show that's entirely beauty science news, and then the following week doing a show that's entirely questions and answers, we're going to mix it together a little bit. So we'll start off, we'll do a short little segment with a couple of beauty science news stories, and then we'll go into cosmetic questions.

Perry Romanowski (4:03)

Right. This is kind of like how we did it in the old days.

Randy Schuller (4:05)

It is. We're reverting back a little bit, but we'll see.

Perry Romanowski (4:09)

That's The Beauty Brains. We're always experimenting, right?

Randy Schuller (4:12)

Always going backwards. That's our motto.

Perry Romanowski (4:14)

All right. So should we kick it off with some beauty science news?

Randy Schuller (4:17)

Yeah. Go ahead. You can take the first one.

Perry Romanowski (4:19)

Yeah. I'm just waiting for you to play that intro music.