Welcome to the home of SwiftCraftyMonkey Formulating Inc.! Join Susan as she obsesses about cosmetic chemistry and other things (some possibly related to monkeys)! Here you’ll find over 5,000 posts and formulas written over the past 16 years for everything from lotions, creams, and body butters to hair care products to fancy facial products filled with actives and cosmeceuticals! Enjoy the site without distractions – no ads, pop ups, sponsored posts, affiliate links, “one weird tricks” – all supported by readers like you.
SwiftCraftyMonkey 
This coupon is only for September 2022 subscribers. You can still buy the e-book from the shop if you weren’t a subscriber in this month by clicking this link! Hey everyone! Thanks for your patience in waiting for the e-book until the very last day of the month. We thought it was ready, then there...
Welcome back to this series in which we’re analyzing what I’m calling a “terrible recipe” for a lotion to learn more about formulating lotions from scratch. In part one, we took a look at the original recipe in volume and by weight, then we considered a few things, like temperatures, what went into which phase,...
Welcome back to this series in which we’re analyzing what I’m calling a “terrible recipe” for a lotion to learn more about formulating lotions from scratch. In yesterday’s post, we took a look at the original recipe in volume and by weight, then we considered a few things, like temperatures, what went into which phase,...
As we get into the busiest time of the year for making products, and as we seem to have a lot of beginners joining us – Hello! Welcome! Warning, this is very addictive stuff! – I thought we could take a few posts to analyze a recipe I found in the wild we can use...
Welcome back to this short series where we bust this myth – does you hair need time to adjust when you start using a shampoo bar? As we noted in the first post – no, it doesn’t. A shampoo bar is a pH balanced hair cleansing product that is just like a liquid shampoo and...