The home of SwiftCraftyMonkey Formulating Inc.! Join Susan as she obsesses about cosmetic chemistry and other things (some possibly related to monkeys). Often strange, occasionally useful, and always worth a stop as a point of interest on your journey through the Intertron.
Yep, it took some time, but we’re finally over in our own space! Bookmark this new address for future reference! We aren’t ready to welcome you here just yet as I’m just learning how to use WordPress at the moment, but we’ll be sure to make announcements all over the place when we are! Rejoice!...
In the September duplicating post, Kathy suggested we try making our version of the Josie Maran Whipped Body Butter. This is a lovely looking, oil in water lotion filled with all kinds of oils and other emollients for dry skin.The first step is to get a complete ingredient list. INGREDIENTS FOR SWEET CITRUS: Aqua...
Is it? It’s not even Hallowe’en yet! But for us crafty types, we need to start planning early! If you’re a soaper, your busy season started in August to allow for cure times. For the rest of us, if we’re ordering ingredients on-line, we should be awaiting our packages as I write. If you don’t...
We’ve had some fun with coffee butter over the last month. We made a whipped vanilla latte coffee butter for National Coffee Day in September, and made a pumpkin spice latte with Aristoflex AVC last Thursday. I thought I’d alter Thursday’s formula to include one of my new favourite ingredients, Penstia powder (INCI Name: Adipic...
Check out this quick, cold emulsifier lotion using coffee butter! (I’m not able to type much due to my arm injury, so please do a search for the ingredients that you see underlined in these handwritten notes.) A massive thank you to Lisa for taking the time to type all of this out for us...