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.
Duplicating Herbivore’s Phoenix Facial Oil $1+ patrons Oct 28, 2016 at 7:42am In the August duplicating post, Magdalena asked if we could take a look at this product, Herbivore’s Phoenix Facial oil ($88 for 50 ml) Let’s look at what’s in it and whether we can make something similar at home. Click here to see all the...
Duplicating DHC Velvet Skin Coat (part two) $1+ patrons Sep 29, 2016 at 8:40am Yesterday we took a look at how to start a duplication of the Velvet Skin Coatby getting the ingredient list, looking at each ingredient, and figuring out what was really important. Today, we’ll take a look at the next two steps...
Duplicating DHC Velvet Skin Coat (part one) $1+ patrons Sep 28, 2016 at 12:13pm Mollie suggested we take a look at this product and see if we could duplicate it. It’s a skin primer that can be worn alone or underneath make-up. It minimizes the look of fine lines and wrinkles, and helps make-up glide...
Duplicating Tata Harper’s Concentrated Brightening Serum: Evaluating the base recipe $1+ patrons Aug 10, 2016 at 12:31pm The other day we took a look at the ingredient list, then we created a prototype recipe , so all that’s left to do is look at how the first try worked out! TATA HARPER BRIGHTENING SERUM DUPLICATION...
Reviewing the first attempt at Noxzema Classic Clean $1+ patrons Aug 9, 2016 at 11:32am In step five of our duplicating products posts, I came up with a prototype recipe for Noxzema Classic Clean. It was a failure. I hate this recipe. I couldn’t even give this away as people would not accept it as...