Somewhat inspired by a recent post I just had to ask this one to see how everyone weighs in.
I like to keep some of my mixes available for 'on the go' use for either during or outside work, especially since I don't want to accidentally ruin an entire bottle should I leave them in a rather warm car. While I've have good luck with sprays (and have purchased some extras in the past) I've always had a devil of a time trying to get uniform results using bottles having eurodroppers. Besides, unless you have a mirror around it's difficult to see how many drops you're getting if you're attempting to place them on your neck, if not just difficult in general.
With some casual research I purchased a couple of dozen tinted 10 ml bottles with glass dropper tops off of Amazon. They appear to be quite similar to the ones supplied with oils by PXS, which allowed me to convert some older bottles to glass dropper tops. Any bottle that hadn't had a glass dropper top I converted along with changing my go-kit to keep some of my favorite oils around now with the arrival of warmer weather.
I came across this subject strictly by accident. I had some taller LAL bottles where the dropper for the 10ml bottle was too small. I had some generic eye droppers of a longer length I previously purchased from Walmart and it was a simple task to swap them into the squeeze bulb that fits the bottle top. Problem solved, right? Well, here's the rub (which I may have written about previously).
I noticed that the drooper end opening of the short glass droppers, the longer glass droppers, the eurodropper and a few angled glass droppers all have different orifice sizes. This means (at least to me) that a single dispensed drop would be a certain amount of fluid and mones. The orifice size difference would mean drops by each of them would differ between then correct? My point is that many members here and elsewhere have shared their own magic formulas with doses usually stated in drops. The question is, if a drop is smaller or larger as in not a standard measure how should somebody compensate when trying to duplicate another members success? Just go by total drops? Use more drops when the dropper orifice is smaller and, if so, how do you figure how much more to compensate?
I've pondered this for quite some time and this recent exercise in bottles and droppers got me to revisit this so I'm hoping the collective braintrust might have some interesting answers.
I like to keep some of my mixes available for 'on the go' use for either during or outside work, especially since I don't want to accidentally ruin an entire bottle should I leave them in a rather warm car. While I've have good luck with sprays (and have purchased some extras in the past) I've always had a devil of a time trying to get uniform results using bottles having eurodroppers. Besides, unless you have a mirror around it's difficult to see how many drops you're getting if you're attempting to place them on your neck, if not just difficult in general.
With some casual research I purchased a couple of dozen tinted 10 ml bottles with glass dropper tops off of Amazon. They appear to be quite similar to the ones supplied with oils by PXS, which allowed me to convert some older bottles to glass dropper tops. Any bottle that hadn't had a glass dropper top I converted along with changing my go-kit to keep some of my favorite oils around now with the arrival of warmer weather.
I came across this subject strictly by accident. I had some taller LAL bottles where the dropper for the 10ml bottle was too small. I had some generic eye droppers of a longer length I previously purchased from Walmart and it was a simple task to swap them into the squeeze bulb that fits the bottle top. Problem solved, right? Well, here's the rub (which I may have written about previously).
I noticed that the drooper end opening of the short glass droppers, the longer glass droppers, the eurodropper and a few angled glass droppers all have different orifice sizes. This means (at least to me) that a single dispensed drop would be a certain amount of fluid and mones. The orifice size difference would mean drops by each of them would differ between then correct? My point is that many members here and elsewhere have shared their own magic formulas with doses usually stated in drops. The question is, if a drop is smaller or larger as in not a standard measure how should somebody compensate when trying to duplicate another members success? Just go by total drops? Use more drops when the dropper orifice is smaller and, if so, how do you figure how much more to compensate?
I've pondered this for quite some time and this recent exercise in bottles and droppers got me to revisit this so I'm hoping the collective braintrust might have some interesting answers.
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