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.
Our family has been testing all kinds of sunscreens for the summer, trying to find the perfect one that won’t make us look deathly white, greasy as heck, weirdly powdery, or pimply after a few days, so we’ve been wearing it even when we’re around the house to see what they’re like on application on...
Welcome back to this series, Let’s make and modify products for summer! In the first part of this modification of the 10 minute strawberry & honey parfait with ViscOptima SE, we added some humectants, allantoin as an occlusive, and altered the oils a little bit. I shared our base formula with some modifications, which we’ll build...
There are all kinds of botanical waters we can use in our products, and these fruit essences (aka distillate water) are a lovely way to get all the awesome goodness and fragrances of fruit without the bright or dark colours. A fruit essence is a “highly aromatic water recovered at the pre-heater stage of the...
We found we had a lower-than-expected pH with our burst of citrus clarifying shampoo yesterday, and I attribute that to the pH of the two hydrosols I used. Yep, these are just a few of ingredients that might affect the pH of your products! I have so many hydrosols in my workshop, but I thought...
I’ve never really thought of myself as a floral kind of person, but it turns out I really love rose, rose geranium, and gardenias far more than I thought. This is what inspired this “It’s too hot to craft” summery floral gel using lovely hydrosols and waters gelled with Sepimax ZEN. I’ve been using this...