Podcasts · The Beauty Brains

Beauty Dupes, Shampoo Truths, & becoming a Cosmetic Chemist - episode 420

· 54 min · S2 E420

Episode Beauty Dupes, Shampoo Truths, & becoming a Cosmetic Chemist - episode 420

0:00 53:43

Send us Fan Mail

On today’s show we cover lots of questions including…

• What is nonenal odor and how do you minimize it? • Does panthenol make a shampoo better? • What’s an alternative to Matrix step one bleach amplifier? • How expensive is it to test a product? • How do you become a cosmetic chemist?

Beauty News

Wirecutter hired a chemist to tell if products were real or dupes.

Approximate timestamps

0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Chit chat 7:00 - Who are the Beauty Brains? 19:00 - Real or Dupe products 28:30 - Noneal odor 34:25 - Panthenol in shampoo? 36:45 - Alternative to Matrix step one 42:05 - Testing products expense 48:00 - On becoming a cosmetic chemist 52:25 - Ending

Five Ways to Ask a question - 1. Send us a message through Patreon! 2. You can record your question on your smart phone and email to thebeautybrains@gmail.com 3. Send it to us via social media (see links below) 4. Submit it through the following form - Ask a question 5. Leave a voice mail message: 872-216-1856 Social media accounts on Instagram we’re at thebeautybrains2018 on Twitter, we’re thebeautybrains On Bluesky we’re at thebeautybrains On Youtube we are at thebeautybrains2018 And we have a Facebook page Valerie's ingredient company - Simply Ingredients Perry's other website - Chemists Corner Follow the Porch Kitty Krew instagram account

Support the show

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them. Explicit shows are for adult profiles only, and children’s profiles hear only children’s shows. More about this list.