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Substitutions: Making changes to the oil phase of a lotion, including a bit on using tallow!

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I’ve had a few people asking me how they can use tallow in lotions, and the answer is super simple – yes! And it’s really simple! Making substitutions for oils in the oil phase!  In any of my lotion formulas, unless I indicate otherwise, you can substitute any oil for any oil, any butter for...

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Chemistry: Atoms! Protons, neutrons, and electrons – oh my! (Part 2) 

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Welcome to part two of this series on learning chemistry! In part one, we looked at the resources and materials we need to study chemistry. Today, in part two, we’ll look at the parts of an atom – protons, neutrons, and electrons! The periodic table! The periodic table! You see it everywhere, but what the heck...

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Basic chemistry: Introduction to the course and suggested supplies & resources (part one)

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Three Ehrlenmeyer flasks sit on a lab bench. The first contains light pink liquid. The second, clear liquid. The third, bright pink liquid. This was a class on titration and the colours indicate how alkaline the liquid is.

Welcome to this introductory course on chemistry that I hope will give you enough information to get to know your ingredients and how to use them! It’ll continue to be a work in progress as we cover the basics, like atoms, the periodic table, ions, and bonding. As time goes on, I’ll be adding modules...

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Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™): Making an oily gel with this ingredient – the process!

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A collage of four photos demonstrating how to make oily gels with Sapogel Q. The upper left shows a beaker with clear brown liquid, the Sapogel. The upper right, a hand using a pipette to add oil to a beaker under an overhead mixer. The lower left the finished thick, yellow, oily gel in a beaker with a spoon. The lower right shows 10 small glass jars with an array of different coloured oily gels, from clear to yellow and opaque.

Welcome back to this series on making oily gels with Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™)! We met this ingredient – Sapogel Q (NatraSap Q™) – in our first post. In today’s post, let’s find out how to work with it! Before we start… If you’d like to see a video of this process, click here to...

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Infographic: Low to no shear mixers!

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An infographic demonstrating four different low/no shear mixers. If you would like a copy of the text, please message me at swiftcraftymonkey@swiftcraftymonkey.blog and I will send it to you

An infographic on low to no shear mixers! These are ones we use to mix things for a longer period of time, like when we’re making oily gels or after an emulsion has formed and we want to hydrate the rheology modifier or add the cool down phase. As you can see in the graphic,...

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