How does Tresemme Beauty-Full Volume Reverse Wash haircare system work? Episode 151

Perry Romanowski (0:00)

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

Randy Schuller (0:18)

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the show. I am the reticent Randy Schuller, and I'm here with my partner, the palaverous Perry Romanowski. By the way, that will all make sense when we get to iTunes reviews, so.

Perry Romanowski (0:29)

Ha ha, well, excellent. I can't wait for that. Hey, Randy, how's it going?

Randy Schuller (0:33)

Good, actually, I think that's the first time we have teased an iTunes review on the show. Normally, we tease the actual content.

Perry Romanowski (0:40)

We do. Hey, this is show, what, 151?

Randy Schuller (0:43)

151, yeah.

Perry Romanowski (0:45)

We are the hardest working podcasters in the Beauty Brains business, right?

Randy Schuller (0:49)

Are you reading last week's script because you said the exact same thing?

Perry Romanowski (0:52)

Sorry, I just wanted to stress how hard we work.

Randy Schuller (0:57)

Apparently, we don't work hard enough if we repeat ourselves. All right, are we going right into beauty science news now, or do you have something that you'd like to share? What are we doing?

Perry Romanowski (1:07)

Well, I have to say, my wife was mad at me the other day. Well, because I lost my keys.

I have this weird penchant for losing keys. Now, I've been able to find them. But does this ever happen to you where your wife will ask you to get something out of the pantry, and you'll look, and you swear that you looked everywhere and you can't find it, and then she'll walk up to the pantry and move something and it's right there?

Randy Schuller (1:34)

Well, I can't really answer because the butler does most of that, so it's hard for me to say.

Perry Romanowski (1:39)

Well, there's something in my brain where I have this, maybe it's not an attention to detail, but I swear, I looked through my golf bag, the entire thing, and I couldn't find it, and then I went back and my keys are right there. So I stressed about it for days, but it's just a quirk of mine is that I can lose things and I can't find them even though they're right there.

Randy Schuller (2:01)

I'm wondering if we should lose this segment.

Perry Romanowski (2:05)

Well, you wanted the banal chitchat that everybody loves so much.

Randy Schuller (2:07)

I'm always afraid of that.

Perry Romanowski (2:09)

Hey, what do we got on the show today?

Randy Schuller (2:10)

All right, we've got, we're going to start off with some beauty science news.

Perry Romanowski (2:17)

All right, Randy, let me take the first one, huh? Here's a story that shows you the directions that the cosmetic market may be taking in the future.

Beneficial microbes in your skincare products. Now we all know that bacteria is typically not a good thing.

You've just kind of raised that, right? And in fact, we'll talk about some antibacterial soaps in the next story. Those are all designed to kill bacteria on your body. Well, scientists have recently been studying the surface of the skin and the microbial ecosystem. And they found that while there are some harmful disease causing bacteria, of course, there's also good bacteria on your skin that can protect you from viruses, other bacterias and other harmful microbes. Now, some marketers are getting ahead of the science here in my estimation, and they're taking advantage of this new science news and creating helpful bacteria and probiotic cosmetics. So probiotics are kind of common in the food industry, and like most things that are popular in the food industry, the cosmetic industry is like...

Randy Schuller (3:26)

They make its way over, yeah.

Perry Romanowski (3:28)

Hey, if it's good enough to eat, it's good enough to put on yourself, right?

There are a couple of challenges to this technology, the least of which is how to talk about it, right? So do consumers really want to put live bacteria on your skin?

And who wants to put bacteria on your body? So the experts in this field have suggested talking about the microbiome and then giving it kind of a positive spin. And I know I stumbled on this brand called Mother Dirt. Yeah, it's called motherdirt.com, and that it's all about probiotic for the skin. The brand was started by these university researchers, but it actually is a way to clean your skin with microbes. And then the products expire and they don't have preservatives. And yeah, we'll see how they do. But they do claim that the products are preservatives-free, which is one of the other problems with these products, because if you're trying to deliver live bacteria to people, you can't put a preservative in there, because preservatives...