Episode 397 - Heat protectants, protein and sunburns

Valerie George (0:00)

Hi, I'm Valerie, and you're listening to The Beauty Brains. In this show, we're real cosmetic chemists, answering your beauty product questions, and give you an insider's look at the cosmetic industry. This is episode 397 I'm your host, Valerie George, and with me today is Perry Romanowski. Hi Perry.

Perry Romanowski (0:27)

Hello Valerie, always great to see ya.

Valerie George (0:29)

Good to see you. On today's show, we're gonna cover lots of questions, lots of beauty science news, including can you reemulsify a broken and separated product? How do you treat sunburned skin? Do you have to use the matching conditioner with a shampoo? How effective are heat protectants? And do regular hydrolyzed proteins build up on hair? But first, inane chit chat.

Perry Romanowski (0:54)

Valerie, it's been a couple of weeks. How you been? I haven't seen you. What you been up to?

Valerie George (0:59)

You know, very busy, very busy with work, trying to get some projects wrapped up before the summer. It'll be good to get some stuff across the finish line. We're doing some home construction. I found this Dr. Pepper bottle hidden behind some drywall. The house was built in 1983

Perry Romanowski (1:17)

Oh, wow. So it was like, you think they left it there on purpose so that the next person could find it?

Valerie George (1:23)

A hundred percent. If I did drywall, I mean, you know, I've done drywall, but if I were a drywaller, you know, and by the way, we're not doing this ourselves. We have help. You know, I'm not really able to do a whole lot myself right now, but you know, if I were a drywaller, I would definitely hide stuff.

Perry Romanowski (1:40)

Did they have a little note in the bottle? Like you put a little note in there.

Valerie George (1:44)

No, wouldn't have been cool though.

Perry Romanowski (1:46)

That would have been very, very thoughtful that they did. Hey, you know what I did since I've last talked to you?

Valerie George (1:51)

What did you do?

Perry Romanowski (1:52)

I got an MRI on my leg.

Valerie George (1:55)

OK, do you need surgery, a knee replacement? Like what's happening?

Perry Romanowski (1:59)

I don't know. These things are so slow, you know? You're like, you go to the doctor, they go, OK, you got to go to the MRI, and then you go to the MRI, and then they're like, oh, we'll send it to your doctor. And then so that's where I am. So I don't know.

Valerie George (2:12)

Oh, do you have a PPO?

Perry Romanowski (2:14)

Yeah, probably.

Valerie George (2:15)

I don't think so. My MRIs always got results back so fast, but maybe that was the UCLA network.

Perry Romanowski (2:22)

Yeah, it could have been. I don't know. Our health care.

Valerie George (2:23)

And also related to my brain, a knee seems like less important than a brain.

Perry Romanowski (2:27)

Probably. I mean, I'm also not the best follow up-er. Like, they were said, oh, it'll be ready in two business days, but then that was over the weekend, and then last week I was busy. So, you know, I just need a health care system where they follow up with me, not where I follow up with them. But I guess that doesn't exist, right? Oh, gosh.

Valerie George (2:48)

No, you got to be your own advocate, that's for sure.

Perry Romanowski (2:51)

Oh my goodness.

Valerie George (2:52)

Well, I hope everything's okay. I mean, obviously you're still juggling.

Perry Romanowski (2:56)

I am, but the streak is in jeopardy, I think. But I haven't missed, but it really does hurt to run, so maybe I shouldn't be doing it, but.

Valerie George (3:06)

Even with a knee brace, it hurts?

Perry Romanowski (3:08)

Yeah, yeah. It actually doesn't hurt to run as much. It hurts more to walk than to run, so it's some weird thing.

Valerie George (3:15)

Very interesting. We'll just keep running everywhere.

Perry Romanowski (3:19)

That's what I've been doing, running and sitting, like standing hurts.

Valerie George (3:23)

Oh my goodness. I know your pain.

Perry Romanowski (3:25)

You know what else is coming up? The big New York Suppliers Day. I will be there. So all I want to say is if there's anybody out in the Beauty Brains world who's going to the New York Suppliers Day for the Society of Cosmetic Chemists, I will be there both days. So feel free to say hello.

Valerie George (3:43)

I'm just bummed it's so late this year. I won't be able to go, unfortunately. It's like, why does it got to be like a month later than usual?