Episode 324 - Why aren't deodorants put in cardboard packages?

Valerie George (0:00)

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

Welcome to The Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists give you an inside look at the beauty product industry. This is episode 324 I'm your host, Valerie George, and with me today is Perry Romanowski. Hi Perry.

Perry Romanowski (0:26)

Hello, Valerie. Welcome to the new year.

Valerie George (0:28)

Happy new year. Well, this is our second episode of the year, right?

Perry Romanowski (0:33)

No, the last episode was the New Year's Eve. This is our first episode of the year.

23 is just flying by.

Valerie George (0:41)

Yeah, already. It actually is kind of going very fast.

Perry Romanowski (0:45)

Or mid-January already, geez.

Valerie George (0:48)

Well this episode is going fast too. On today's show, we're going to answer questions about why are there more deodorants sold in cardboard packaging? Are there really any differences between salon and store-banned hair care products? Can cigarette ash remove hair dye stain from hands?

And what, if anything, do microwavable hair caps do? But first, how have you been this year?

Perry Romanowski (1:13)

Oh, not bad. I just had my car got a flat tire, so I had to get that all fixed. And so what a way to kick off the year. But you know.

Valerie George (1:21)

Sounds expensive.

Perry Romanowski (1:23)

You know, those German cars are not cheap to fix, it turns out.

Valerie George (1:27)

Wow, no.

Perry Romanowski (1:28)

You know, in the old days, you would just, you get a flat tire, you just fix it yourself. But nowadays, they make it so complicated and, you know, just easier to have someone else do it.

Valerie George (1:37)

Yeah, well, Mr. Cosmetic Chemist had three flat tires last year, so he is no longer allowed to drive the car.

Perry Romanowski (1:45)

You know, I remember when tires used to cost like 150 bucks.

They're a lot more than that. What happened?

Valerie George (1:52)

Especially on electric vehicles or import vehicles.

Perry Romanowski (1:55)

Sure. I mean, was the price of rubber? Has it gone up that much?

Maybe.

Valerie George (2:01)

I don't know.

Perry Romanowski (2:01)

Yeah.

Valerie George (2:02)

Yeah.

Perry Romanowski (2:02)

Well, anyway, I got my, you know what I do to combine goals, because I love January. There's all these goals, and I made my list of 99 goals. I'm going to try to pare that down a little bit. But anyway, one of my goals is to run every day. And so I just ran to the car mechanic, which was, you know, three and a half miles away.

So it's a perfect run.

Valerie George (2:27)

Yeah. Very cool.

I have gotten a slow start to this year, admittedly, I have.

Perry Romanowski (2:34)

Is it because you're floating away out there in California? I heard the mudslides and flash floods is kind of crazy there right now.

Valerie George (2:41)

I'm in a section of Los Angeles that's nestled upon the mountains in the great San Fernando Valley, and it is pretty gnarly out there. Streets are flooded. I have seen rushing water, which is also known as a flash flood, and it is torrentially downpouring. Now the problem for me is I use rain music at nighttime when I sleep because I love rain pitter patter on the roof, and we just don't usually get rain out here. But for the last few weeks in LA, it has been nothing but downpouring.

The last two weeks are the worst. And during the day when I'm in the lab working, I cannot work with rain pitter patter on the roof because my brain says it's nighttime.

Perry Romanowski (3:25)

Oh, you're starting to fall asleep at work.

Valerie George (3:28)

It's awful. Yeah, I'm very tired, needless to say. But the weather has been responsible for my slow start to this year, but I'm ready to make my goals list, make my to-do lists, and make this an excellent year.

Perry Romanowski (3:41)

Yeah. Well, looking forward to it, and let's make this an excellent show with some beauty science news.

Valerie George (3:53)

So this is actually really funny. I saw a headline, Marc Anthony launches repair bond products.

Perry Romanowski (4:02)

And we're talking about hair, right?

Valerie George (4:04)

Yeah. I was like, oh my God, like the Marc Anthony has launched his own hair bond repair line.

Perry Romanowski (4:12)

So not Cleopatra's Marc Anthony, but some celebrity guy, Marc Anthony.

Valerie George (4:16)

Well, you know, J.Lo's ex-husband, Marc Anthony, wasn't it him?

Perry Romanowski (4:22)

But wait, so this is a celebrity launch, then, Marc Anthony?

Valerie George (4:25)