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Chemistry Thursday: Happily, we will be continuing this series!

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Hi everyone! Woo hoo, I’ve been posting this series for exactly one year today! 🎉 You’ve responded and I will continue this series/course! I’d love to hear what you’d like to see! I’ll probably put together the last year’s worth of posts into an e-book soon. Yay! If you are interested: Click here to see...

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Formulation and Innovation subscribers: Zoom workshop on Sunday, February 8, 2026! Find the link, password, and handout here! 

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Woo hoo! Our first Zoom workshop of the year! We’ll be playing with cold process emulsifiers making lotions, body butters, cream, and moisturizers. A few might do double duty as hair conditioners as they’re cationic! Please RSVP by posting here or by emailing me at swiftcraftymonkey@swiftcraftymonkey.blog. Right now I have plans to make… 🍃 a...

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Welcome to February 2026! We have a Zoom workshop planned! And I really need your feedback for suppliers for the spreadsheets!

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Wow, it’s February 2026? How quickly did January go by? January was a busy month! I shared 35,196 words here on the site and 23,270 words in my latest e-book, Creating anhydrous products with infused oils (plus a bonus cream), for a total of 58,466 words. Holy cow! And I’m able to play video games … Read more

Hey Innovation subscribers! The new e-book for January 2026 is here – Creating anhydrous products with infused oils (*with bonus cream formula)!

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Woo hoo! My latest e-book is here – Creating anhydrous products with infused oils (*with bonus cream formula) – in which you’ll learn how to use infused oils, like arnica oil or calendula oil, to make all kinds of awesome body oils, lotion bars, balms, and a bonus naturally compliant cream! 38 formulas? Wow! That’s...

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Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: Sepigel™ 305 and Sepiplus 400 (part two)

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A beaker sits on a digital scale with a white lotion in it. There's a container with a powder, Penstia powder, and a hand held immersion bender beside it.

Welcome to part two of this new series in which we’ll be making formulas using Sepigel 305 or Sepiplus 400! These awesome, liquid, cold process, non-ionic emulsifiers can make emulsions, gels, and gel-creams in less than 10 minutes using low/no shear mixing! Woo hoo! In this post, we’re comparing and contrasting these emulsifiers, then we’ll...

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