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.
May 18, 2023: With summer coming, I know we’re all thinking about exfoliating and scrubbing and doing all kinds of moisturizing, so here’s my long post on emulsified scrubs! You can make with all sorts of exfoliants – sugar, salt, pumice, jojoba beads, walnut shells, and anything else you like! It’s super simple – melt,...
In this month’s Q&A, Sehrish asked, I want to know that as it is said in sugar body scrub we should not add water based ingredient. So how tree hut’s body scrub is made i am just curious that how it is made in the ingredients list there are sugar, glycerine, poly 20, aqua, oil based ingredients...
In this month’s Q&A, Eliza asked, I’ve just prescribed with your blog😊. I am working on emulsified body sugar scrubs. I have tried your recipe emulsified scrub with BTMS. I love the feeling of the skin after this scrub, it’s moisturised and supple. I love this emulsifier on a skin. But the shower floor is quite...
I realized I was burning through a lot of these terms over the last two weeks, so I wanted to stop and take a look at what all this stuff we’ve been talking about means in terms of our products and our experiences as I think the best way to learn is to read something,...
Last week, we took a look at making this luscious emulsified scrub with tucuma butter & babassu oil. Today, let’s look at a few ways we could modify it! Let’s take some of the concepts we discussed in today’s other post – Defining some cosmetic chemistry terms: Spreadability, play time, cushion, drag, and melt point –...