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.
I have a whole series of ingredients planned out for the next few weeks…but then I realized that I’d left out two important things…how our skin works and what it needs! So please join me for the next four days as I take a closer look at your skin, and the three things it needs...
I know, you’re itching to tweak some of the products you’ve tried already, so let’s take a closer look at some of the products available to home crafters. I’ve offered you an overview of various ingredients – surfactants, oils, butters, exotic oils, humectants, preservatives, and anti-oxidants – but I’d like to take a closer look...
EXPLODING BATH BOMBS (click here to read more at the CBC)? Apparently a company from China sold a kit over the Christmas holidays that allowed you to make your very own bath bombs at home! But they failed to allow for ventilation of the citric acid/baking soda mixture, and the tops flew off, injuring quite...