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.
In this post on bubble bath, Frankie asks: Hi Susan! I was very excited to try this recipe to make my own bubble bath so I whipped some up last night. It was so simple and it smells great… but it’s so thick that it took about 30 minutes to bottle it! And I didn’t...
As we saw last week (and in August!), we can alter the ingredients in our products when we’re designing a line of things to be used together. If we’re using a conditioner after shampoo, we could make something very basic that contains only surfactants, water, and preservatives that would cleanse our hair, but it wouldn’t...
In this Weekend Wonderings post, Brandi and anonymous make this plea: I also would like to know how to make the bubble baths with dls mild or bioterge if you have time. Can you specify which Bioterge you mean? Is it my old favourite, Bioterge 804? To be honest, I really hope that I offer enough...
If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one, part two, part three, and part four. I think we’ve come up with a few ideas for surfactant bases that will work for various skin types. As with any product you want to make, learning about...
If you feel lost reading this post, please check out the previous posts on working on our surfactant base recipe part one and part two and part three. One of the other things to consider for this facial scrub is thickening as it is going to be quite watery with 40% surfactants! We took a look at using glycol distearate...