Why aren't copper peptides blue? episode 272

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 like us answer your beauty product questions and give you an insider's look at the cosmetics industry. This is episode 272 I'm your host, Valerie George, and with me today is the most famous juggler, Perry Romanowski. Hi, Perry.

Perry Romanowski (0:30)

Hello, Valerie. So good to be here. Good to see you. It's been a little while.

Valerie George (0:35)

I'm so glad to be back and take a break from work to spend time with our listeners. On today's show, we're going to cover, why isn't a product with GHK Popper Pept, Popper?

Perry Romanowski (0:47)

Popper?

Valerie George (0:49)

GHK Copper Peptide Blue. How can a product have HA as the first ingredient?

Perry Romanowski (0:55)

Whoa.

Valerie George (0:56)

HA is hyaluronic acid. And what do we think of the IGK Hi-Shine Gloss? Lots of acronyms on the show today.

What do we think about skin laundry and are there other products like it? And finally, what is the deal with anti-graying solutions for hair?

Perry Romanowski (1:12)

I'm assuming that's anti-graying hair?

Valerie George (1:16)

Ingredients that make hair anti-gray, they're against gray, they don't like it.

Perry Romanowski (1:20)

You know, I recently went home and saw my brother.

And the first thing my brother says to me is like, hey, what's with all the gray hair? Now, if you've seen my hair, I got like a couple of gray ones coming off on the-

Valerie George (1:36)

Like you hardly have any.

Perry Romanowski (1:38)

I know, my older brother loves to hassle me about everything.

Valerie George (1:43)

Oh man, how much gray does he have?

Perry Romanowski (1:45)

He doesn't have really any, except he has a facial beard and his beard is full of gray hair.

Which is why, incidentally, why I don't wear a beard, besides the fact that it's itchy and I don't like that. But when it grows in, I have a lot of gray hairs. And I'm like, it just makes me look old.

Valerie George (2:03)

You know, I'd love to have a gray haired beard. Right now, I just have little black hairs and it's such a hassle to shave or get waxed.

Perry Romanowski (2:11)

I do this every day.

Well, Valerie, we kicked off the inane chit chat before the segment started. So how else are you doing? Now, I saw you had an event with your ingredient company last weekend. How'd that go?

Valerie George (2:27)

I did. I did. There is a woman who has been on the DIY community circuit for quite a long time. I actually consider her one of the OG formulators, Susan Barclay Nichols. She runs her blog, Swift Crafty Monkey.

And you know, it's really just incredible the amount of knowledge she has surmassed as a, I'll call it an independent formulator, somebody who's self-taught in how to work with ingredients, how to use them. And it was really cool to see the things that she's into. I talked about some of the stuff I'm into recently, and it was just really a nice break from the ordinary type stuff and just to hear what other people are interested in.

Collaboration is so huge in the industry, just to connect with other people and see what they're into and going through and challenges they're having. I love it.

Perry Romanowski (3:18)

Yeah, you know, when I started doing an online course teaching people how to formulate, my mentality was always to like people who are in college with chemistry degrees, how do you get in the cosmetic industry? And then I kind of learned that there's a huge number of people online who just want to make cosmetics in their home, which I don't, you know, as being an industry person, I am left with thinking I always have the thought like, it's just going to cost you so much more to make your own product because, you know, the stuff you can buy is just going to be cheaper.

But, you know, there are a lot of people who love that hobby of making their own products.

Valerie George (3:57)

Well, it's like people who make their own beer, right, or their own meat. The setup is quite extensive. I think it's therapeutic. I think it's fun. I think it is really just self-fulfilling in a way to say, I've created this for my body and I got to choose what was in it. It's pretty cool. Sometimes it's not about the efficacy, it's the holistic process.

Perry Romanowski (4:18)

There's also a self-satisfaction of, I created this thing and I'm using it. Now, just to wrap that up, remind us, what is your website again? Is it simplyingredients.com?