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.
One of the things I see constantly about honey is that it is an anti-microbial, so let’s take a look at the evidence for this concept. There are three features of honey that have been studied extensively for anti-bacterial properties – high osmolarity, acidity, and hydrogen peroxide production. This study found there were two phenolic...
I am asked all the time what I think about using honey as a humectant in our products, so I thought I should do a little research into this ingredient. So what’s the deal with honey? If you want to know about how bees process it and stuff, I really recommend reading the Wikipedia entry...
I originally thought I’d missed this very interesting question from Always.Looking.4.1.More in this post, but it turns out that I’ve already written about it. But it’s such a neat idea, I thought I’d use it as a starting point to get you interested in coming up with your own basic recipes! I wonder how you...
Let’s take a look at what we’ve learned about dry skin and about formulating products for dry skin! There are links o’ plenty and I really recommend that you click on them to find out more about each topic. This is intended as a quick summary of the last month, and if you want to...
Every day I get questions about hair care products and I notice that the top pages viewed are mostly relating to that topic…so allow me to pose this question – do you want more posts on hair care? Do you feel there’s enough in the hair care section about formulating for your hair type? Or...