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.
To all my lovely Patreon subscribers: To make finding things easier, for the duplicating posts, I’ve put together a permanent page that’ll be linked to the right hand side of the blog. Click here to see it! It’s ever so exciting! I honestly didn’t realize how many duplications I’ve done so far! Please note, everyone...
DOES BEHENTRIMONIUM DESTROY PROTEINS?In this post, Workshop!, Irina asks: I have read that BTMS cannot be used with proteins as it destroys proteins. What are you thoughts about this, is this true? Also, have you ever worked with peptides? Peptides said to be very fragile and do not like oils, how do you handle them? It...
Two of the more popular posts on the blog are the Duplicating Products: Lush’s After Life moisturizer (part one) and (part two) posts, and one of the more popular topics is how to duplicate products. I’m not planning on getting into duplicating products for the blog again – although I’ll always post those I’m working on to give...
In this post, Keisha asks: I’ve fallen in love with Laura Mercier’s Ambre Vanilla Souffle and was trying to replicate it. Looking at the ingredients, it seems like they might have used two different emulsifiers (glyceryl stearate & peg-100; cetearyl alcohol & polysorbate 60.) I’m curious, why would someone use two different complete emulsifiers? I was able to...
So we’ve taken a look at what makes a cleansing conditioner cleansing, the ingredient list for the Curl Junkie product, and a possible duplicate. Now let’s take a look at some other ways we could duplicate this product! I suggested this recipe as a possible duplication yesterday… POSSIBLE DUPLICATION OF THE CURL JUNKIE DAILY FIX...