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.
Hey $10 subscribers – The September 2020 e-book is here: Body Cleansing Bars You Will Love! Yep, this is a 69 page, 22,417 word, 14 formula containing e-book for making solid body cleansing bars along with all kinds of ideas on how you can alter the surfactants, conditioners, and emollients to create customized bars you will...
Every month, I start off on the first choosing the e-zine. Sometimes, I start it completely from scratch; other times, I find something I started writing in a previous month and add to it. This month, I chose one of my favourite topics – making body washes/shower gels! – and started writing. I scoured through...
We made these formulas in the Zoom meeting on Sunday, May 16, 2020, on mixers. You can download the PDF with all the information here, or you can read the posts! Thanks for joining me on this short tour of my workshop to take a look at how to use a magnetic stirrer and overhead...
You can see in the photo above, this product eventually becomes really clear. This can change based on the fragrance/essential oil. In this version, I used Honey I washed the kids (Lush duplicate) fragrance oil with a few drops fuchsia LabColours. In part one, we took a look at the surfactants for this body wash....
Before we start, the photo above is day three/four of the body wash, and you can see it’s crystal clear. All the bubbles are gone, even though it was bouncing around in the cargo of a few different planes for quite a while. In part one, we took a look at the surfactants for this...