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.
Please buy your supplies from reputable suppliers. I’m not saying people on eBay aren’t reputable, but you can’t be sure exactly what you are getting or the shelf life of the product when you’re buying a product from an intermediary. Things might be mislabelled – are you sure this is e-wax NF or cetearyl alcohol?...
I have to confess I’m surprised at the lack of curiosity from some of the readers of this site. I link constantly in the posts I write, and I can’t believe how many comments or e-mail messages I see asking me questions that could have been answered by clicking on one of those links. (I’m...
Quite a few times in the last week I’ve seen cetyl alcohol referenced as an emulsifier, something that will bring oil and water together. It is not. It’s an oil soluble fatty alcohol that should be treated like you would an oil or anything oil soluble, which is to say you can use it in...
I know everyone seems to love coconut oil these days – not sure why from a nutritional perspective as it’s a saturated fat, but I know all about the awesomeness it offers your hair – but remember that it has a low melting point of 24˚C or 76˚F, which means it’ll turn from a brittle...
In this post, Angela asks: I wanted to ask you about this testing kit from Saffire Blue, and if you thought that buying and using this type of kit was beneficial for a soap/lotion/shampoo/conditioner test rather than send the product to a lab to be tested. I think that it could save me some money as I...