Clear Glass Bottle, White Lotion Pump, 10 ml

The glass bottle with a 10 ml volume and a white lotion pump is intended for filling with small quantities of creams, emulsions and gels that are meant to be dispensed by pressing, without opening the packaging. It is suitable for eye creams, samples of your own formulations, travel packs, or for testing a new emulsion before producing a larger batch. The clear glass lets you see both the colour and the consistency of the contents. The set is declared suitable for contact with cosmetic products; it is not intended for food.

How the set is used

The pump screws onto the bottle neck with an 18 mm thread and draws the contents up through a tube from the bottom. One press releases approximately 0.14 ml, which for an eye cream or a concentrated emulsion corresponds to roughly one application. The contents do not come into contact with your fingers during use, which reduces the risk of dirt from the hands getting into emulsions with a water phase. This does not replace preserving the formulation; the pump only limits contact between the contents and the surroundings.

The tube is supplied longer than the height of the bottle. Before the first assembly, cut it with a straight cut so that it ends just above the bottom. A tube that is too long bends when the pump is screwed on, and the pump then does not work reliably. A tube that is too short leaves part of the contents at the bottom, which cannot be drawn out.

Nominal and total volume

The nominal volume of 10 ml is the quantity the bottle is intended for during normal filling. The brimful volume, given in the parameters, is the physical volume up to the neck. The difference between them is a reserve for the tube and the lower part of the pump, and for the expansion of the contents with changes in temperature. Fill up to the nominal volume. If the bottle is filled to the brim, the tube displaces the contents out through the neck when the pump is screwed on.

What it is suitable for

• Eye creams and contour creams – small doses and contents that do not come into contact with your fingers during application.
• Samples – a volume of 10 ml is enough for customers to try a formulation or to compare two variants of an emulsion.
• Light to medium-thick emulsions and gels – they pass through the tube and the mechanism without jamming.
• Travel pack – a glass bottle with a screwed-on pump does not open in a bag as easily as a jar.

Very thick balms, anhydrous butters and products with solid particles (scrubs, preparations with powder ingredients) are dispensed poorly through a lotion pump or clog the mechanism. For thicker formulations, we recommend checking how the pump behaves with the specific formulation before filling a whole series.

Good to know

• Light – clear glass does not protect the contents from light. Formulations with sensitive ingredients, for example with vitamin C, retinol or a higher proportion of vegetable oils prone to oxidation, belong in amber glass or should be stored away from light.
• Preparation before the first filling – wash the bottle, disinfect it and let it dry completely. Pump a disinfecting solution and then clean water through the tube and the pump. Water residues inside would dilute the first doses.
• Reuse – the glass can be washed and used again. The pump is harder to clean, especially after creams with a higher oil content. Pumping warm water with a cleaning product through it, followed by clean water, is usually enough; otherwise it is better to replace the pump.
• Other closures – the bottle has the standard neck type given in the parameters; other closures with the same neck and ready-made combinations can be found in the Handymade range. For your own combination, we recommend checking the tightness and dispensing with the specific formulation.
• Recycling – the glass bottle and the polypropylene pump are sorted separately; before disposal, simply unscrew the pump.

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