Formulating Friday cold process emulsifier series: Sepigel™ 305 and Sepiplus 400 – cream becomes body butter with solid oils and butters (part three)

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Welcome to part three of this series/course which we’re creating 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! We met Sepigel 305™ (INCI: Polyacrylamide (and) C13-14 Isoparaffin (and) Laureth-7) – cold process...

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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

Super happy fun member-to-member post for February 2026!

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Welcome to the this month’s member-to-member sharing and caring post, an open post for you to share your thoughts, ask questions, share formulas, and generally connect with other people on this blog. One of the reasons I went with Disqus was to allow posts with pictures or videos or links of all sorts so we...

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