Welcome to the home of SwiftCraftyMonkey Formulating Inc.! Join Susan as she obsesses about cosmetic chemistry and other things (some possibly related to monkeys)! Here you’ll find over 5,000 posts and formulas written over the past 16 years for everything from lotions, creams, and body butters to hair care products to fancy facial products filled with actives and cosmeceuticals! Enjoy the site without distractions – no ads, pop ups, sponsored posts, affiliate links, “one weird tricks” – all supported by readers like you.
If you’re looking to gather more information and formulas, I have a few ideas for you! I’ll be adding to this as I find more, then re-posting it to the top of the blog so you’ll see it. If you have ideas, please share those in the comments to make this a better list! Updated...
I’m so excited to see so many people have signed up for the introduction to chemistry course I shared the other day! I thought I’d shared some resources with you for textbooks and such, but I didn’t, so here they are! Please share any resources you have in the comments! TEXTBOOKS I really like this one,...
I wanted to draw your attention to a new section of the blog, the glossary, which you can find up there in the menu under “resources”. You can find all kinds of definitions there, and I’ll be updating it as we add more! And if you’re a beginner, don’t forget about the Beginners start here...
Cordy wrote this comment in this post: Hi Susan, I get what you’re saying (and would tend to agree with you that there’s a lot of “greenwashing” out there, or pseudo-science) but I have a question: The website you linked to is funded by cosmetics companies. Now, that may not mean that there’s a conflict of interest...
p suggested…You know how you posted on how you duplicate a product? I would absolutely love an analogous post on how you research ingredients and formulations. You shed so much light on topics that other sites discuss only casually. Do you do your research mostly through books? Or is the web actually a really good...