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.
Wow, that was a fun Zoom workshop on Sunday, January 17, 2021 on mixers! Thanks to those of you who attended! I had a blast! I thought I’d go through some of the questions you posed yesterday with some more information and links. I have to say how much I love the chat, I see...
Join me on Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 11 am PDT (Vancouver, Canada time) for our meeting about overhead mixers and magnetic stirrers! We’ll be creating a body wash using xanthan gum and a face serum using Sepinov EMT 10 as I demonstrate how to use these devices. As a note, as of Saturday, I...
Mixers! Join me on a short tour of my workshop to take a look at how to use a magnetic stirrer and overhead mixer. We’ll wet, disperse, and hydrate some natural gums, starches, and gels, then use them in a product or two. If my ingredients arrive in time, I’m thinking I can show you...
We had great fun in the workshop making a bunch of little videos about pH, pH indicators, adjusting, testing, and everything else to do with this topic. Here’s a little 2 minute video we made showing how phenolphthalein behaves when we add an acid and reduce the pH. We took a look at pH indicators...
I went into quite a bit of detail in this post – Acids, bases, and pH – oh my! Part four: Testing our products with pH meters – but thought I’d write up a quick reference post on how to adjust the pH of our products. If you want to reduce the pH or make...