Maintaining Hair Color, Baby Skincare, Retinol and more - Episode 411

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 answer your beauty product questions and give you an insider's look at the cosmetic industry. This is episode 411 I'm your host, Valerie George, and with me today is Perry Romanowski, Baby C and Doug. Hi Perry.

Perry Romanowski (0:29)

Hello Valerie. Yeah, you got a whole, whole cadre right there with you.

Valerie George (0:34)

Oh gosh, it's been a lot this morning, but I'm so glad to have some time with you. On today's show, we're gonna cover lots of questions, including why would different be more irritating or different than prescription adapalene? I'm turning into you, oh lord. How do you know which retinol lotion to use? What is your opinion of K18 hair mask? Is Tubby Todd All Over Ointment really effective for baby acne? And finally, what ingredients help hair color last longer? But first, inane chit chat.

Perry Romanowski (1:07)

Valerie, your whole crew is there. We got the baby, we got the cat.

Valerie George (1:11)

Well, Mr. Cosmetic Chemist had to go run to a vendor for our business. Yes, on a Saturday morning, he did. And I'm here maning the fort, although Butch and Frank are at home. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to really contain myself. So, yeah, so it was just us. So if you hear Doug being dug in the background, if you hear baby C cooing or screaming, I'm really sorry about that.

Perry Romanowski (1:38)

Oh, no apology. We just appreciate to get your brain on these fascinating questions. You know, I'm heading to Hong Kong, just tomorrow I'm going, boy. But I just, my wife thinks it's a little odd that I'm flying all the way there and then I'm there for like three days and coming home.

Valerie George (1:58)

No, it's a long trip to go just to come back. So you'll be going alone?

Perry Romanowski (2:02)

I will be going alone. Well, with the rest of the people on the flight.

Valerie George (2:06)

Well, yeah, I guess that's a, if you wanted to be exact, that would be correct. But I guess someone will be home to take care of your cats.

Perry Romanowski (2:15)

Yes, Teddy. You know, I don't know, you've got Doug, he's the new cat, but we've had Teddy and, you know, we were getting ready to go to a friend's house last night. And, you know, Teddy, around four o'clock, Teddy gets kind of crazed because he wants to eat, but we don't like to feed him until, you know, five o'clock.

Valerie George (2:35)

Oh, it's daylight savings time being hard for him. Oh, goodness.

Perry Romanowski (2:39)

He's totally up. Anyway, he's bugging me, and then I put him down in the basement because I can shut the door there. And we were going to go over to a friend's house and we were going to bring a bottle of wine, which happened to be downstairs in the basement on the counter. And while I was getting ready, I just heard a smash. And that's the thing he does. He just knocks things off counters when he wants my attention. And he got it because he broke the wine bottle. And now my whole house smells like wine.

Valerie George (3:05)

What kind of wine was it? White or red?

Perry Romanowski (3:08)

Fortunately, it was white wine.

Valerie George (3:09)

Oh, goodness. Thank gosh.

Perry Romanowski (3:12)

Well, no cats were hurt in it, but I did then go down and feed him after cleaning up the mess, of course.

Valerie George (3:18)

Yeah. The thing about cats is they'll always show you. You know, it's like you think you're in control. You are not in control.

Perry Romanowski (3:27)

Yes. You know, cats can't behave badly.

Valerie George (3:31)

Well they certainly can. I mean, Doug, he's actually pretty good. You know, when we're here, he just wants to be with me. He wants to actually be with baby C and every time baby C gets upset, he goes up to baby C and tries to console him. It's really cute. He rides around with baby C in the stroller. I even just have to tell him to get in and he climbs in.

Perry Romanowski (3:53)

Wow. That is quite funny. Now, he was a feral cat that you just found, right?

Valerie George (3:57)

He lived on the property, I guess you could say. He lived under the shanty next door.

Perry Romanowski (4:03)

Oh, there you go. You're making a better life for him. He's just turning into it just to bring in a house cat.