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.
Yay, it’s here, the new e-book for January 2021 – Oh the weather outside is frightful! Winter hair & skin products! We started revising one of my first and favourite e-books I shared way back in January 2017 to include links to the blog and such, and I decided to more than double the size...
Hey $10 subscribers – The September 2020 e-book is here: Body Cleansing Bars You Will Love! Yep, this is a 69 page, 22,417 word, 14 formula containing e-book for making solid body cleansing bars along with all kinds of ideas on how you can alter the surfactants, conditioners, and emollients to create customized bars you will...
Wow, it’s been a whirlwind month, and I appreciate your patience so much. As you may have seen, we left for England March 5 and had planned go to In Cosmetics in Barcelona for March 31 to April 2, but then the apocalypse happened, and I spent much of my so-called holiday trying to get...
Thanks so much for your patience as I finished up this super lengthy e-zine this month. I’ve been working on this e-zine series since last year, and there was just so much I wanted to share with you! Yeah, I said that last month, but it’s true! I’ve been working on this series forever! Wow,...
It’s been a wonderful year of adding new ingredients to my workshop, and in this e-zine, I’m sharing my process and base formulas for trying new ingredients in warm and cold lotions, hair conditioners, moisturizers, and more, and playing with five new ingredients – tamanu oil, cloudberry seed oil, Iselux Ultra mild surfactant blend, a...