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.
I’ve started wearing eye shadow more frequently, but I seem to be unable to apply mascara without getting it all over my eyelids! I’ve tried a few different brands – L’Oreal telescoping (lengthening), LashBlast (volumizing), New York Colour City Curls (curling), Big Curls Don’t Cry (waterproof, curling), and Maybelline Great Lash (volumizing), to name a...
We followed up the well attended mineral make-up group last Thursday – 41 kids, which is a record! – with 19 kids at the Yarrow groups happily making bubble bath and fragrance sprays yesterday. (That’s also a record!) I’m preparing for the tween and teen groups tomorrow in which we’ll be enjoying polymer clay! As...
I get a lot of e-mails asking me to natural up my products, and I thought I’d go over how we can figure out what each ingredient brings to the party so you can make substitutions with the ingredients you prefer. Let’s try an easy one first – my favourite emulsified sugar scrub with Ritamulse...
I’m getting a lot of people lately wanting to make products for the first time from a recipe they’ve created. They’re writing to me to help them write it, figure out ratios, and so on. If you’re new to making bath & body products, please choose a recipe from a reputable site and try that...
Since I’m going to be writing a few posts on mineral make-up, I thought it was time to give it its own section on the blog! You can find all the posts on mineral make-up in a section I called…wait for it…mineral make-up! (I know! I’m so creative!) In this section you’ll find recipes for...