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.
Today, on the new blog I’m sharing my formula for making a solid bubble bath bar suitable for more humid climates using less glycerin and more glycol distearate!...
Click here to download this formula as a PDF! Super bubbly bubble bath formula from SwiftCraftyMonkey I’ve written quite a bit about bubble bath on the blog as it was one of my mum’s favourite products, I love to give it as presents, and it’s a great project to make with our youth programs as...
I’ve had a lot of people asking about liquid bubble bath lately, and I thought I’d write up a quick post about this topic. To start, the ingredients I’m using can be found at Voyageur Soap & Candle in Surrey, B.C., and all but one (LSB) at Windy Point Soap Making Supplies in Calgary, Alberta....
This article has been making the rounds recently and I wanted to analyze it because it is so absolutely magnificently wrong in so many ways, I thought it could be an interesting exercise in analyzing an article and having loads of chemistry fun while doing it! Article: HOW DOES GLYCERINE REACT WITH WATER? Related posts...
Welcome to this short series I’m calling Make today, gift tomorrow! I’m sharing with you a number of formulas that you can actually make today and share tomorrow without fears about stability, preservation, scent or colour morphing, loss of viscosity, and all those other things that might happen to products over time. I’m promising you...