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.
Here’s an e-mail from Marie: Can I just say that your blog is simply brilliant!! I am from the UK and love crafting my own stuff . May I ask you a question? Why stearic acid in lotions / creams? If reducing water can make a thicker cream, and using a heavier oil can do...
More Cowbell poses this question…What timing! I was just looking at this on another site and wondering what the “hydrogenated vegetable oil” is. Do you know? Are we talking Crisco??? 🙂 It seems to also have sweet almond oil, so what hydrogenated oil is so firm that it can incorporate that and still qualify as...
Caroline wrote to ask about graininess in lip balm. She’s using mango and cocoa butter and wants to know how to get rid of the grains…The first thing I’d try is changing butters – but that isn’t going to make a difference because the inherent problem is with the cooling down of the lip balms,...