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.
Just a few thoughts that didn’t seem to fit into any other posts… How to formula with urea? Please please please do not use urea in your products if you’re not creating a pH buffer – using something like sodium citrate and citric acid or sodium lactate and lactic acid – because it can cause...
I’m doing my best to respond to your comments, but considering the other day I made it through three comments before spending a morning researching and writing yesterday’s post on cetrimonium chloride, it’s not as simple as writing a few lines and being done if I want to offer you the most information I can....
As I mentioned, I’m doing my best to respond to many of your comments, so I’ve gone back three weeks to see what interests you! I’m responding to the questions you’ve posted in the Let’s formulate: Chamomile & aloe botanical summer time body butter posts at the moment. We looked at the reasons for making whipped...
I used to do a thing on the old blog I called Weekend Wonderings where I’d find comments you’d made over the previous week and share them in a post. I stopped doing it as there were so few comments on the old blog and a lot of them were things that had been said...
I haven’t been answering many comments you’ve been leaving on this new blog because I feel that when I enter a conversation, it stops, and that’s no fun. But I wanted to return to the idea of doing the Weekend Wonderings based on your questions and comments, as well as highlight some of the cool...