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.
It’s been weirdly arid where I live, but getting adequate moisturizing is a nearly impossible task! Sasja’s developed a taste for oils, butters, and lotions, and if I apply it before I go to sleep, she licks my hands all night. So I have to make a choice – a good night’s sleep or moisturizing...
It’s not a good idea to mix emulsified products like lotions or conditioners by hand. A lot of emulsifiers require high shear mixing or mixing with something like a stick or immersion blender. Mixing by hand won’t get the same results, and you may see a decrease or increase in viscosity or a lotion fail....
We’re trying to get some essential things over from Patreon to this blog, so yesterday Raymond worked incredibly hard to get a whack of posts that relate to duplicating products here in anticipation of a duplicated product I have planned for a few days starting tomorrow. Thank you, Raymond, you awesome husband! You may also...
Hi everyone! I’m sorry for not posting the last few days, but I’m in a lot of pain with the muscle spasms and even holding my iPad up to type is too much for a post that requires links and such. I am doing everything I’m supposed to do, and it is getting better, but...
It’s the 9 year anniversary for the blog today. Hooray! I know I started the blog earlier than that, but today was the first day of its life as a bath & body blog instead of something I created for the kids in my youth program. If you had told me I’d be doing this...