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.
Wow, that was a fun Zoom workshop on Sunday, January 17, 2021 on mixers! Thanks to those of you who attended! I had a blast! I thought I’d go through some of the questions you posed yesterday with some more information and links. I have to say how much I love the chat, I see...
Woo hoo! It’s the first Zoom workshop of the September, and our topic is making a hand & body lotion using Polawax, part one of my Newbie Tuesday beginners’ lotion making series! We’ll be making this lotion and talking about the different ways we could combine emollients to create different sensory experiences. Check out the...
Woo hoo! We have another Zoom workshop this Sunday. The topic? Facial products! Join me as we take a look at formulating facial products by reviewing ingredients we might like to include, like actives, cosmeceuticals, botanical extracts, oils and other emollients, silicones, acids, vitamins, and so much more. We’ll create a few base formulas and...
Join me tomorrow for a live Zoom workshop in which we’ll be taking a look some of my favourite powdered, water soluble, and oil soluble extracts, like white willow bark, grapeseed, green tea, carob seed, bamboo, and so many more, then we’ll create a conditioner and a foaming facial product that we can customize to...
Join me for an all-new Zoom workshop this Sunday, July 19th at 11 am (PDT, Vancouver time) on solubility! Understanding what mixes with what is so vital to understanding how to create your own products and identify terrible recipes in the wild. We’ll investigate how our ingredients dissolve in water or oil as we make...