Heat protection, facial masks and sunscreen - episode 401

Perry Romanowski (0:01)

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 401 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)

Valerie, it's a little warm out here today, isn't it?

Valerie George (0:34)

Well, I think whether you're in Chicago or Dallas, it is blazing.

Perry Romanowski (0:39)

Speaking of blazing, that's what we have on our show, Blazing Questions, and we're going to cover a lot, including how do you know if a product is providing heat protection? What kind of damage can high force air do to wet hair? What makes a facial mask work amazingly? What is really important when using a sunscreen? And do those red light masks really spur collagen growth? But first, some chit chat. Valerie, I was just talking about the heat here, right? And I just before the podcast, I went for a run.

Valerie George (1:12)

I thought you just freshly showered because your hair looks kind of wet.

Perry Romanowski (1:15)

No, I am drenched.

Valerie George (1:17)

And I was like, Perry is so ready this morning. I can't believe he's already run. He showered. And no, he's just a sweaty mess.

Perry Romanowski (1:25)

No, yeah. But I get this way in the winter, too. But in the summer, it's doubly. But this is what happened.

I get done with my run, and Little Dreamsicle sees me. He was on someone else's porch, and he sees me. And he comes prancing up, and he walks alongside me to my house, meowing and rubbing on my legs. And then I walk onto my porch, and I sit down to drip dry, because I didn't want to get all sweaty inside my house. So I drip dry out there. And Little Dreamsicle, he jumps up on the couch, and I'm petting him and such. But then he sheds. And now I got all this cat fur sticking to my sweaty body, and I still feel the cat fur all over me.

Valerie George (2:05)

Oh my goodness. And your poor wife is allergic. Hopefully, that doesn't bother her. Hopefully, she doesn't even come near you.

Perry Romanowski (2:12)

Right. I will have to shower.

You know, when I go for runs and stuff, I get all sweaty. Like, how do you manage sweat? Because I can't even go in my house, because I'm just dripping all over the place.

Valerie George (2:25)

Well, I'm not a big sweater, so I don't have this problem. If I were to go for a run, I mean, yeah, I would perspire a little bit around my hairline. I have a lot of hair, so it gets very hot. But I generally am just not a sweater, except for lately, with all the hot flashes.

Perry Romanowski (2:43)

Oh, that's right. What is that?

Valerie George (2:46)

It's no good. I don't like this foreshadowing of metaphors.

Perry Romanowski (2:50)

Sure. Well, my strategy is I just have to sit outside my house and drip dry until, and it takes like 15 minutes, and then I'm dry enough to go in the house.

Valerie George (3:01)

I probably would take my shirt off and have like a hand towel and dry off before I go in.

Perry Romanowski (3:08)

Yeah, that works, but then it all just comes back. Like sometimes I'll take a shower, I'll towel off, and then I'll just exude water for another five minutes.

Valerie George (3:17)

Oh, wow.

Perry Romanowski (3:18)

I know, I'm weird. I have this whole weird system here.

Valerie George (3:23)

Very interesting.

Perry Romanowski (3:24)

All right. Well, you have anything else going on there? I mean, we're just a little over a week out, huh?

Valerie George (3:31)

Yeah, nope, just hanging out. Families coming into town, getting ready for them, getting the room ready. We're not prepared. So just getting the final touches in place, but more importantly, getting work in a good space. So I'm not worried about that.

Perry Romanowski (3:48)

That's good. That's good. All right. Well, why don't we head on over to Beauty News? There really isn't much going on in the summertime, is there?

Valerie George (4:02)

No, it's always kind of quiet articles. You know, even LinkedIn I've been pinking in on and not much.

Perry Romanowski (4:09)

Yeah. Well, I saw this one in Nuvo magazine. You know, it's probably clickbaity stuff, but it's the next wave in buzzy skincare ingredients. So I thought we'd go through those and see what do you think of these buzzy ingredients?