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.
As much as I love hearing from you, writing to the wrong person to get help will only result in frustration and a lack of help. We aren’t trying to make your life more difficult; we’re trying to get you to the right person for the job so you can have more fun formulating. On...
I’m so excited you want to make shampoo bars and that you’re buying the new e-book – Shampoo Bars You Will Love: Creating pH balanced bars – and my first ever single issue formula e-zine – One Shampoo Bar, Four Ways – but I am being bombarded in every possible way by questions on my personal...
As I mentioned in this post on murumuru butter, I’ve gone on a bit of a spending spree over the last 18 months for all kinds of ingredients, including some new and interesting butters. I’ve fallen in love with cupuacu butter, as well as murumuru butter and tucuma butter. I’ve also been having some fun...
Last week, I introduced you to one of my favourite new butters – tucuma butter – so I thought today I’d share with you the awesome new emulsified scrub bar I created with it. When I make scrub bars, I tend to make the base, then add the scrubby stuff outside of the main formula...
This is the first single formula issue of Adventures in Cosmetic Chemistry – One shampoo bar, four ways. In this edition, we’re using sodium cocoyl isethionate (SCI) and SLSa along with a few different liquid surfactants, proteins, conditioning ingredients, and humectants to create pH balanced shampoo bars, then modify them to become clarifying, moisturizing, conditioning, and...