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.
Hey, ma! I’m on the TV! How exciting is that? My local TV station came to interview me about my love of cosmetic chemistry and our youth programs, and this is the result! I think this link should work – click on cosmetic chemist when you get there – but let me know if it doesn’t!...
Choosing which recipe to make can often be the hardest part of creating products. I can spend hours in the workshop looking at my ingredients, thinking about what I could make with those lovely new esters or surfactants, doing an inventory of what I need to make for my personal needs or for gift giving,...
I’ve had a few days to lie in bed and think about what I could be doing if I wasn’t ill, and I got to thinking about lotions. I think I can break the lotion making process into six stages – choosing the recipe, assembling and weighing the ingredients, heating and holding the ingredients, combining the...
With the return to school, we get the return of all things contagious, and, as usual, I'm the first to get everything! I'm down for a few days with what I think is the stomach flu. If you donate to our groups, it might take me a bit to email the e-books as I'm stuck...
I haven’t had time to write up posts for this week, so you’re going to get things off the top of my head for the next few days! Sorry! Fellow enjoyers of sewing – When did we stop calling ourselves “sewers” and started using the word “sewist”? According to WordSpy, in 1964. I don’t care...