First off, I would like to say I have had no problems whatsoever with HC before, I have ordered from them probably a dozen times and they offer great products at unbeatable prices. Living in Japan, If given a choice to order the same product at the same price from a US vendor or HC, I would always choose HC just because the shipping is a lot faster.
With that said, these bottles have been a extremely disappointing to say the least.
Empty Bottle w/ Dropper [BTTL-D] - $0.50 : Healthcabin Electronic Cigarettes - Wholesale and Retail--
I bought about 20 of these bottles to store some Perfumer's Apprentice flavors, and out of the five bottles I've tested so far, 2 of them had defect droppers with clogged holes. I tried piercing them, which left me with a cracked dropper and a bent safety pin...
The worst part is that I had a dropper melt on contact with black cherry flavoring.
I'm not sure if it reacted with the alcohol or something else in the flavoring, but I didn't notice this until I literally felt sick from vaping liquid I made with the cherry flavoring stored in these bottles.
At first I noticed there was a plastic, ammonia like hint to the flavor but I just figured my atty needed cleaning, or it was simply from the flavoring (this was the first time I'd tried it). After getting slightly nauseated I knew something must be wrong and it was then that I noticed the portion of the dropper in contact with the flavoring had turned to a translucent white color, and became soft and sticky! This caused a lot of worries of what I had been inhaling for the past 30 minutes, and of course forced me to throw away over a half bottle of otherwise perfectly good flavoring.
Just to be sure I have been vaping the same flavoring left over in the glass bottle it came in, and there are no problems at all with the flavoring itself (PA black cherry is really good, BTW).
So a word of caution: these droppers are not really chemically resistant, if you plan on storing anything else than say plain VG/PG, I would recommend steering clear of these...
And to HC, could you disclose what material the droppers are made of? The site states the bottles are made of PET, but clearly the droppers are not. Frankly, the mention of PET gives a false impression of safety, but I suppose my judgement was faulty there...
With that said, these bottles have been a extremely disappointing to say the least.
Empty Bottle w/ Dropper [BTTL-D] - $0.50 : Healthcabin Electronic Cigarettes - Wholesale and Retail--
I bought about 20 of these bottles to store some Perfumer's Apprentice flavors, and out of the five bottles I've tested so far, 2 of them had defect droppers with clogged holes. I tried piercing them, which left me with a cracked dropper and a bent safety pin...
The worst part is that I had a dropper melt on contact with black cherry flavoring.
I'm not sure if it reacted with the alcohol or something else in the flavoring, but I didn't notice this until I literally felt sick from vaping liquid I made with the cherry flavoring stored in these bottles.
At first I noticed there was a plastic, ammonia like hint to the flavor but I just figured my atty needed cleaning, or it was simply from the flavoring (this was the first time I'd tried it). After getting slightly nauseated I knew something must be wrong and it was then that I noticed the portion of the dropper in contact with the flavoring had turned to a translucent white color, and became soft and sticky! This caused a lot of worries of what I had been inhaling for the past 30 minutes, and of course forced me to throw away over a half bottle of otherwise perfectly good flavoring.
Just to be sure I have been vaping the same flavoring left over in the glass bottle it came in, and there are no problems at all with the flavoring itself (PA black cherry is really good, BTW).
So a word of caution: these droppers are not really chemically resistant, if you plan on storing anything else than say plain VG/PG, I would recommend steering clear of these...
And to HC, could you disclose what material the droppers are made of? The site states the bottles are made of PET, but clearly the droppers are not. Frankly, the mention of PET gives a false impression of safety, but I suppose my judgement was faulty there...
