The home of SwiftCraftyMonkey Formulating Inc.! Join Susan as she obsesses about cosmetic chemistry and other things (some possibly related to monkeys). Often strange, occasionally useful, and always worth a stop as a point of interest on your journey through the Intertron.
I have a whole series of ingredients planned out for the next few weeks…but then I realized that I’d left out two important things…how our skin works and what it needs! So please join me for the next four days as I take a closer look at your skin, and the three things it needs...
I know, you’re itching to tweak some of the products you’ve tried already, so let’s take a closer look at some of the products available to home crafters. I’ve offered you an overview of various ingredients – surfactants, oils, butters, exotic oils, humectants, preservatives, and anti-oxidants – but I’d like to take a closer look...
So I return from my craft group tonight to see someone has decided to use my blog as an advertising venue. Yeah, I’m not a fan of that idea. I’ve made a conscious decision not to have any advertising on my site – how can you trust me when I’m promoting a certain company or...
What’s the difference between an intense conditioner and a regular conditioner? An intense conditioner should have more conditioning agents, more oils, and less water. Click here for the regular conditioner recipe… So how will we change our recipe? We’re going to add Incroquat CR, which is a great softening and detangler, upping the the oils...
I am going to be honest…I’m not a fan of blue. When someone mentions blue, I think of the girls in my high school who wore tons of blue eye shadow right up to their eye brows, and it makes me cringe. I think there are far too many matte blues out there and too...