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.
Happy April 2025! Welcome to “accidentally all about actives” April! I didn’t plan for this, but this month will be featuring a lot about actives and cosmeceuticals you can add to your formulas to do all kinds of things, like reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, reduce the appearance of dark circles or … Read more
If you don’t see a link, it’s because I’m actively editing this page at 11:15 am PST. The link will be here within the hour. Yay, the March 2025 e-book is done – Formulating fun with hyaluronic acid: Creating lotions & hair conditioners! You’ll learn to create and customize awesome emulsions – lotions, body butters,...
Let’s meet this new-to-me cationic polymer, polyquaternium-11, a clear, viscous, odourless liquid conditioning ingredient that offers anti-static, film forming, skin conditioning, and hair conditioning properties along with improved curl retention that can be used in hair and skin cleaners as well as hair conditioners. Before we start… Check out my enormous hair chemistry & hair...
After all the nonsense over on Facebook – people who thought they were following me weren’t, and weren’t seeing my posts – and Instagram, the short answer about where you can find information about what’s going on here on the site is to come here to the site as I announce all the Zoom workshops … Read more
Chemistry: More on ionic bonding and balancing electrons (part nine) Welcome to part nine of this series on learning chemistry! In part one, we looked at the resources and materials we need to study chemistry. In part two, we learned the parts of an atom – protons, neutrons, and electrons! In part three, we learned...