Cleaning old Juice bottles?

[Canadian_Vaper]

I have piles of old juice bottles not really sure why I kept them all (since I started vaping) but I did lol, anyways I think I am going to start mixing my own juices I'd love to reuse them as I am a recycler, whats the best way to clean these things? maybe toss them in some boiling water? I don't really want to use any chemicals for obvious reasons :S...

How do you guys do it?

 

[AbigGRNboot]

Soap and water plus time to dry. It's called vape dishes.

 

[Canadian_Vaper]

Soap and water plus time to dry. It's called vape dishes.

Guess I gotta go do the dishes then. Thank you!

 

[sparkky1]

Dawn and HOT water .......

 

[DoctorJ]

It's called vape dishes.

Good one. Never thought of it that way. Now I can tell the wife I'm doing my "dishes"

Personally I use rubbing alcohol/hot water soak and rinse well.

I have quite a few boxes of empty bottles as well. I use some for my own DIY but I don't make enough juice to keep up with all my empties . I should probably sell 'em on the classies.

 

[WonderDude32]

I bought a baby bottle brush to clean them a little bit better than just swishing the water and soap mix in them. This is mainly for bigger bottles.

 

[Kodak]

I bought a baby bottle brush to clean them a little bit better than just swishing the water and soap mix in them. This is mainly for bigger bottles.

Same here...also got some of the baby bottle nipple brushes for the little bottles...they are great to clean drip tips with too as I found out this past weekend.

 

[dc99]

Soaking in dawn and warm water. The ones that have had cinnamon, citrus or menthol are harder to get rid of the smell.

 

[Kodak]

Soaking in dawn and warm water. The ones that have had cinnamon, citrus or menthol are harder to get rid of the smell.

I put about a cup of vinegar in the water for those and let them soak for 15 minutes...seems to get rid of the smell the easiest....

 

[93gc40]

Dawn and HOT water .......

I repeat HOT water. Can't touch it hot water. Boiling is overkill. Got real stubburn and stinkies stuff add some vinegar to the Dawn.

 

[ringling]

I put about a cup of vinegar in the water for those and let them soak for 15 minutes...seems to get rid of the smell the easiest....

Yes, with plastic bottles this is pretty much a must if you want to get rid of the smell..........

 

[ringling]

Boiling is overkill

This is very true! I tried it and warped either the caps, or the bottles themselves (larger bottles) and the caps never screwed on easily ever after. Semi ruined them......

 

[dc99]

Never thought of the vinegar. I will now though. Thanks

 

[WharfRat1976]

Just hot water for me. Rinse repeat...and lighter fluid for the labels with glue from Mars on them.

 

[jcglz26]

I'll go again with dawn+hot water and let them dry. If some glass bottles have stickers and leave the glue on them I use a little bit of nail polish remover and then wash them.

 

[Kodak]

I'll go again with dawn+hot water and let them dry. If some glass bottles have stickers and leave the glue on them I use a little bit of nail polish remover and then wash them.

I use nail polish remover or wd-40 to get the glue off of my "recycled" bottles. When I label mine I use red masking tape so there is not any glue residue again.

 

[suburbiansam]

i put the glass dropper and the glass bottle in some hot water for about 15 mins, then use the warm faucet water plus dish soap to clean the rubber and plastic. Its a pretty good combo, but as mentioned before, it won't get the cinnamon/citrus smells out.

 

[mcclintock]

I rinse them out with cold Brita filtered water and a final rinse with a bit of distilled water. Let dry and air out any tastes for several days if possible. I'm more worried about adding foriegn materials such as soap and the water here than what was in them before.

 

[AndriaD]

Soaking in dawn and warm water. The ones that have had cinnamon, citrus or menthol are harder to get rid of the smell.

Or tobacco flavors... cleaning bottles that have had that in them is a great deal like washing dirty ashtrays -- very similar smell.

Andria

 

[coilburner]

if your putting new juice in them why even bother cleaning? your not going to notice the residue from them old juice after you fill them up.