Welcome to November! I know Halloween was yesterday, but I had to share this photo of Sasja’s friends at day care in their costumes. (Sasja is the middle left in her orange pumpkin shirt.) Aren’t they adorable?
Oh my gosh, I think broke an another record for how many words I published last month – 55,259 words on the site here alone. The e-book will be another 30,000 when it’s done. (And I wonder why my arms are sore?) I really have to get that under control because I should be doing these up as parts of posts, not 5,000 word posts.
In September, I shared 77,564 words between the site (46,427 words) and the e-book (31,137). EEK!
I’m not sure what my plans are for this month.
We’re continuing the Chemistry Thursday series and the cold process emulsifier series.
I have two more posts coming for the SEPILIFE™ NUDE and SIMULGEL™️ EG cold process emulsifier series in November because I want to get into making an awesome facial moisturizer with our actives. And I’d love to hear if you’ve been following along. Then we’re on to Sepigel 305 or Sepiplus 400. Sorry we’re running late.
The first part of the series needs to go into more detail as we look at all the other ingredients we use, then I can use those as reference posts.
In the Chemistry Thursday introduction to cosmetic chemistry series, we’ve started looking at triglycerides, those compounds comprising most of our oils. We’ve looked at why knowing about them is more important than knowing the fatty acid profile, and we’ll continue our investigation into them in November, looking at the profiles of more oils and butters. I’m so excited about this bit as our whole series was in aid of looking at these awesome compounds!
If you’re engaged with either series on this site – or anything else around here – I’d love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, ideas, questions, and more in the comments or by emailing me at swiftcraftymonkey@swiftcraftymonkey.blog so we can get some conversations going.
I’ll be sharing some formulas for projects you can make with kids and teens so they can do some gift giving this holiday season. And I’ll share some of the formulas I’m making for Christmas this year.
What are you making in November?
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Thanks for joining us this month! Hope you have a wonderful November!