Dripper Bottles

[CtryBoy]

Why are all the e liq drip bottles I see clear?

If nicotine is light sensitive shouldnt the standard bottles be colored like tincture or medicine bottles usually are?

Maybe it's not an issue because direct sunlight would heat the bottle quick enough to negate any degradation prevented by colored bottle. Assuming the fridge light isnt strong enough to do damage, but I have seen sights recommending transferring liquid received in clear bottles to tinted ones, so why dont they all come in colored bottles?

What about disinfecting the dripper bottles?

Small carry along bottles must get exposed to quite a bit of junk, and even larger mixing bottles could get contaminated after several mixes. Should they be disinfected similar to baby bottles or just discarded after a few months of service? Thought about x amount of time in boiling water, but they might not survive such treatment.

 

[doots]

I think a wash in hot, soapy water would be enough to clean them.

I think they use clear bottles to make it easier to see how much liquid is left in them and most juice is used so fast by the user (usually) that any degradation is kept to a minimum.

 

[CtryBoy]

Granted the stuff can disappear quickly.

Are you sure a little soapy water is gonna get us through in the long haul. Should be enough to remove the last flavor, but I'm mixing my own so that 30 ml bottle may be around a long time possibly year or two. I'm currently using straight VG so a little concerned that it might provide a good growing media for that cold I had when mixing the previous batch.

How .... do we have to be on keeping things clean vs sterile?

Anyone had problems with something strange growing in their fridge other than the leftover meatloaf?

 

[Sentinal]

Hmmmm.. Im curious to that as well because I have over 200ML of nicjuice in my fridge...cut about 50/50 PG/VG. This should last me several months..lol. As long as it stays good.

 

[Hoosier]

I'm rather particular about cleaning my bottles.

Hot water rinse. Hot soapy water and a series of different sized bottle brushes. Air dry. Then a soak in Everclear and air dry again.

Even with that, there are flavors that never come out of plastic so I use a number of glass bottles for those flavors and to mix test samples in.

Some where I have a dropper bulb that I cannot get TPA's Kona smell out of even though it never contacted the juice.

My mixing tools go through the same process, so empty bottles are set aside for the end of mixing cleanup.

My juice does not see the sun unless I'm topping off outside. My fridge light does not produce much in the way of UV, nor do my room lights. So I'm not too concerned with light affecting my mixes.

 

[ddavelarsen]

Actually I do store base nic and larger batches (30ml or so) of mixed flavoring in amber glass bottles. I don't like the thought of chemical leaching from plastic, if nothing else.

As for 3 ml carry bottles, I only refill with the same flavor and discard after two or three uses. They're so cheap that I don't think it's worth getting too complicated about cleaning them indefinitely. I bought like 50 3 ml and 50 6 ml bottles a while back and they're lasting a long time even using them for experiemental recipe mixing where I throw them away entirely when the mix doesn't work out well.

 

[CtryBoy]

Maybe I am just penny pinching wanted to recycle my bottles, so may have to look into getting a supply of them. But if it was rather easy and cheap say on the same level as sanitizing baby bottles for reuse it might be easier than having a gross of empty bottles in the storage closet waiting for the next mixing session.

And didnt want to find out the hard way that if your not careful a little crud can mess up a full bottle of my latest masterpiece.

 

[Ast_Isis]

Since I hate to waste anything, I use 1/2 oz amber glass bottles for my test mixes even though I only make 1 ml. For larger batches, I use 2 or 4 oz amber glass bottles. These are easily placed in the dishwasher for reuse.

The only plastic bottles I use are 10ml and for portability of my current liquid. I wash them out with plain dish soap. To sanitize and deodorize them I use 1 tsp bleach plus 1 tsp baking soda in 1 quart of water and let it sit inside overnight. (I tend to sanitize a lot of bottles at once...scale for your use.) Rinse and reuse.

Forgot to say that with some particularly smelly liquids, I have to mix 1 tsp baking soda with 1 cup water and let that sit overnight in the plastic bottles.

 

[Nikhil]

Put the clear bottles in a paper bag. Problem solved.

 

[CtryBoy]

Put the clear bottles in a paper bag. Problem solved.

Now that you mention it, I've got several vitamin/fish oil/etc bottles that some of my 15-30ml bottles would fit in perfectly. Even discounting the light issue, the bigger bottles would give more room for detailed labels and keeping all the little the little tribbles from getting mixed together and multiplying. Plus some are childproof.

 

[Jynn]

Vials - Specialty Bottle

sells amber and cobolt dropper bottles from 3ml and up (and non dropper bottles in even smaller!) you could always pick up some of those. Anyways, when I re-use my little bottles I wash em in hot soapy water with a bottle brush and fill em with rubbing alcohol for a while, then rinse with clean water and let em dry. Larger bottles I just stick through the "sterilize" cycle of my dishwasher after pre-washing in soapy water.

I use all clear glass bottles for my personal DIY stuff (because I expect to mess up a lot and dont want the bottles holding on to my mistake flavors) but I keep a supply of small plastic dropper bottles (new) on hand for giving samples to other people and for shipping out my PIFs. I never see those bottles again so I don't have to worry about how to get em clean.