Amber Glass Bottle, Type B, Slim, White Safety Cap & Dropper, 10 ml

This amber glass medicine bottle, type B, with a volume of 10 ml, fitted with a plastic dropper insert and a white cap, is used for filling small volumes of cosmetics that are dispensed drop by drop. Amber glass reduces exposure to light, so the bottle is suited to essential oil blends, oil-based facial serums, concentrated active ingredients or samples of your own formulations. The short dropper insert pushed into the neck works as a safeguard: it releases the contents drop by drop and prevents spilling when the bottle is turned upside down. The smooth white threaded cap closes the bottle.

The set is declared suitable for contact with cosmetics. The glass bottle itself also has a certificate for direct contact with food, but the dropper insert and the cap do not, so the set as a whole is intended for cosmetic products.

What it is suitable for

• Essential oil blends – the small volume and drop-by-drop dispensing match the usual use of essential oils in an aroma lamp, a diffuser or the oil phase of a formulation.
• Oil serums and facial oils – liquid oils and their blends pass through the dropper insert without problems, and the amber glass limits the light reaching the contents.
• Concentrated active ingredients – liquid active ingredients that are added to a formulation in small amounts can be measured out from the dropper insert more precisely than from a wide-neck bottle.
• Samples and test batches – ten millilitres is enough to try out a formulation, to prepare a sample for a customer or to make a travel-size pack.

How to work with the set

The bottle is filled without the dropper insert. After filling, the dropper insert is pressed into the neck and the cap is tightened onto the thread. For dispensing, the medicine bottle is turned upside down and the contents flow out through the opening of the dropper insert drop by drop. The drip rate depends on the consistency of the contents: thin oils and alcohol solutions flow readily, while thick serums or emulsions pass through the narrow opening slowly or not at all.

The nominal volume of 10 ml is the amount the medicine bottle is designed to hold when filled normally. The brimful capacity, given in the parameters, is the physical volume up to the top of the neck. The difference leaves room for the dropper insert pushed into the neck and for the expansion of the contents when the temperature changes. The bottle should therefore be filled to the nominal volume, not to the brim, otherwise the dropper insert will push the contents out when it is pressed in.

Good to know

• Preparation before first filling – we recommend washing the medicine bottle, disinfecting it with isopropyl alcohol or ethanol and letting it dry completely.
• Glass and heat – do not fill the glass medicine bottle with hot contents and do not expose it to sudden changes in temperature.
• Plastic dropper insert and cap – with concentrated essential oils and solvents, we recommend checking in the finished formulation that the dropper insert does not soften over time and that the cap still seals.
• Reuse – after washing and disinfection, the bottle can be filled again. The dropper insert is harder to clean, as residues of the previous contents remain in the inner channel, so when changing the contents it is better to replace it with a new one.
• Other closures – you will find closures with the same neck type, given in the parameters, and ready-made combinations in the Handymade range. With your own combination, we recommend checking the tightness, the dispensing and the behaviour of the packaging with your specific formulation.
• Recycling – the glass belongs in glass waste, while the dropper insert and the cap are sorted as plastic.

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