SwiftCraftyMonkey

SwiftCraftyMonkey

Last minute, easy, and festively impressive Christmas crafting: Creating reed diffusers (plus #alltheingredients: NATRA Reed Diffuser base

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Q&A: Can I make my own glycerite, extract, or infusion? (Updated, December 12, 2021)

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In this month’s Q&A post, MsWabi asked, I’d really like to use turmeric in my face cream and/or face oil and would like to make my own extract. What do you think is the best way to make a turmeric extract for use in an emulsion or facial oil? This is something that’s come up a...

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Updated for December 2021: Where can we find some great chemistry or formulating related media like podcasts, books, videos, Facebook groups, or pages? 

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My trip to teach at Windy Point Soap Supplies in Calgary in November 2018 was so amazing! While there, Jenna asked about podcast ideas, which she also posted in the November Q&A! Does anyone have beauty chemistry podcast suggestions? I like the beauty brains, but I want maor! Can’t read while I’m working so any … Read more

Q&A: Is there a reason you use combination of SCI and SCMI in the powder cleansers?

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I’m sorry I couldn’t answer your question more quickly, as I mentioned in the update from November 30th and the Welcome to December 2021 post, I’m having great difficulty typing and have to rely on dictation for a lot of work right now. Thank you so much for your patience. In our monthly Q&A post, Togzhan asked, Could...

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Creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome autumnal extracts (part four, choosing fragrance/essential oils and the formula!) 

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Welcome back to our short series on creating a foaming hand cleanser with a cornucopia of awesome botanical extracts! In part one, we chose our surfactants and took a look at how we might increase mildness of the formula. In part two, we took look at some botanical extracts we could include in this foamy,...

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