Ozempic skin care, serums and more - episode 405

Perry Romanoski (0:00)

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 405 I'm your host, Perry Romanoski, and with me today is Valerie George. Hello, Valerie.

Valerie George (0:29)

Hi, Perry.

Perry Romanoski (0:30)

Good to see you, Valerie. Thanks for making time today, because on today's show, we got lots to cover. We got questions including do non-UV wavelengths of light also damage the skin?

Are Dr. Emi Arpa products truly innovative or is this just a trendy marketing? Does using an ultra-plush water-only makeup remover cloth cause significant mechanical exfoliation? Are there baby products that people should use and avoid? And do facial serums work? Look at that, Valerie, not nary a hair care question in there. So the first, before we get to answering those, we've got chit chat, we've got beauty news and chit chat. How's it going, Valerie?

Valerie George (1:11)

You know, I'm pretty tired. Underneath this shirt you see, which I have Oreos on it, I'm very sorry about that. I'm wearing my pajamas. And yes, it is the afternoon, but, you know, newborn life is hard and I just didn't get dressed today.

Perry Romanoski (1:29)

Well, there you go. Well, you know, it is an effort, I imagine. I can only imagine because I have no kids of my own, but I've heard the stories of newborn life and that lasts what, six months or something.

Valerie George (1:43)

I don't know. Hopefully not, you know, because it feels like a long time because we're only six weeks in.

Perry Romanoski (1:50)

Or you could say that's a month and a half.

Valerie George (1:53)

Yeah, that's true. Well, you know, I did something. I went and took a look at our reviews. Oh, and of course, I don't look at anything nice that people have to say. I'm like, what are the nasty things people are saying?

Perry Romanoski (2:06)

I mean, but overall, the reviews are positive. We're like, oh, four and a half or 4.6 out of five. That's like a lot of stars.

Valerie George (2:14)

Well, on Spotify, we're 4.8 stars out of five.

Perry Romanoski (2:17)

Well, there you go. Even better. That's better than my Uber rating.

Valerie George (2:22)

That's true. Well, it just got me upset. You know, we tell people to leave reviews. I never read the positive ones.

Perry Romanoski (2:30)

It's funny how, like, you can get hundreds of positive statements about you, but then we always focus on those negative ones. I tend to be more Pollyanna-ish, and the negative ones I find kind of funny, but I focus mostly on the positive stuff.

Valerie George (2:44)

Well, a couple of people, this is what bothered me. Because some of the comments, they're just off base, right? They don't know us. They haven't listened to enough episodes to really understand where we're coming from, I feel, on a couple of the comments. But a couple of people don't like our name Chit Chat. They said they didn't come here for that. They came here for beauty stuff.

Perry Romanoski (3:03)

Sure, sure.

Valerie George (3:04)

I actually think this is a nice part, because our listeners get to know us, they get to know what we're up to, and kind of what makes us us.

Perry Romanoski (3:12)

Right, and it helps you and I connect better, you know, we get to catch up on each other's lives.

Hillary (3:17)

We warm up, yep.

Perry Romanoski (3:18)

I know, this is our little warm up. And you know what, I've heard this before, and it's just like, well, I like doing it, so there you go. But one of the things that I have added to the podcast are timestamps. And so, if you find the Inane Chit Chat too inane and too chit chatty, you can go to your podcast player right now and typically on those, you just click on the next timestamp, it'll jump you right there.

Valerie George (3:49)

Oh good, so people don't have to listen to our Inane Chit Chat if they don't want to.

Perry Romanoski (3:53)

I know, but mostly they want to, right?

Valerie George (3:55)

I know, if they want to know what we're up to, speaking of up to, I am so jealous you're going to Con France in a couple weeks. I was supposed to be there, but baby C kind of ruined it. Now Mr. Cosmetic Chemist did say I could go, because this is a scientific conference. It's called IFSCC Congress, or Congress, yeah?