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.
As I’m taking a walk down memory lane, reviewing all the formula packages I created for my classes, I found so many formulas I haven’t shared with you, so let’s take a look at one I created specifically for my luxe facial class at Voyageur Soap & Candle for 2019 – the biphasic makeup remover! ...
Welcome to part two of this five part series on making a lovely facial moisturizer for the winter months using Olivem 1000! In part one, we reviewed the original formula we made in the Newbie Tuesday series in 2021. Today, let’s look at how we’ll modify the formula by altering the thickeners, butters, and oils!...
On October 22nd, we met this gorgeous, decadent tropical fruit blend OS, an oil soluble blend of five tropical fruits, including coconut, kakadu plum, passionfruit, blueberry, and banana used at 1% to 10% in anhydrous products – those without water, like whipped shea butter or lip balms – or in the oil phase of an...
Welcome back to this short series on creating a foaming facial cleanser with foaming amaranth surfactant and a bunch of lovely ingredients, like humectants, botanical extracts, and more. If you’d like to see part one of this series in which we review our ingredients, look at the preservative chart, and learn more about what we...
I admit it – I love a good foaming facial cleanser. I find that cleansing my face with a foamy, bubbly, lathery™ cleanser that doesn’t feel like it’s stripping my skin, that rinses off easily so I can avoid that horrible, dry, tight feeling, and leaves my skin feeling super dewy but not greasy or...