Amber Glass Bottle with Roll-On, 10 ml

The amber glass medicine bottle with a metal roller ball and a black cap makes a ready-to-use 10 ml roll-on that only needs to be filled and screwed shut. It is suitable for perfume oils, essential oil blends in a carrier oil, oil-based eye serums or lip oil, that is, for liquid preparations applied to the skin in small amounts. The roller ball spreads the contents over the skin without spilling and without you touching them with your fingers.

Amber glass reduces the amount of light that gets in, which matters for essential oils and unsaturated vegetable oils, because light speeds up their oxidation. The whole set – bottle, roller ball and cap – is declared suitable for contact with cosmetics.

What the set consists of

• Glass bottle, medicine bottle – amber glass bottle with an 18/410 neck finish. Medicine bottle refers to the shape of the bottle; it has nothing to do with use for medicines.
• Metal roller ball – steel ball seated in a clear plastic socket. After filling, the socket is pressed onto the neck of the bottle and holds firmly in place. The ball rotates during application and picks up the contents from the bottle in a thin layer.
• Plastic cap – black PP screw cap. It is screwed on over the fitted roller ball and protects it from dirt in a handbag or other bag.

What it is suitable for

A roll-on works best with liquid contents of low viscosity. Oil, perfume oil or an alcohol-based solution is applied smoothly through the roller ball. Thick gels, balms and creams cannot be picked up by the ball, so choose a jar or another type of packaging for them.

• Perfume oils – 10 ml is a common size for perfume applied to the wrists and neck.
• Aromatherapy blends – essential oils diluted in a carrier oil, for example for the temples or wrists.
• Oil serums for the eye area and lips – a small amount, precise application and the cooling touch of the metal ball.
• Cuticle care – the oil is applied with the roller ball directly to the edge of the nail.

For alcohol-based perfumes and more concentrated essential oil blends, we recommend checking how the plastic ball socket and the cap behave with your specific formulation, for example by testing a filled bottle over several weeks.

Filling and volume

The bottle is filled up to the nominal volume of 10 ml, that is, the volume the packaging is designed for under 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 ball socket, which is pressed into the neck when fitted and takes up part of the space, and for the expansion of the contents when the temperature changes. If you fill the bottle to the brim, the contents will overflow when you fit the roller ball.

Good to know

Before the first filling, wash the glass bottle, disinfect it with isopropyl alcohol or ethanol and leave it to dry completely. Residual water in oil-based contents promotes the growth of microorganisms. It is enough to rinse the roller ball with its socket in ethanol and dry it.

Reuse is possible. The ball socket can be carefully prised out of the neck, but after fitting it again, check that it holds firmly and seals.

The food-contact certificate applies to the glass bottle alone. The set as a whole is intended for cosmetics, because the roller ball and the cap have not been assessed in this way.

After use, the glass bottle belongs in glass recycling; the cap with the roller ball should be separated beforehand.

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