I'm looking to switch from plastic to glass eliquid bottles since cleaning them has become a pain. The first places I looked were Amazon and Ebay and a lot of the items say things along the lines of "OUR GLASS PIPPETTES ARE NOT SUITABLE FOR E-LIQUIDS"
Is there any reason why this would be? is there a certain type of glass I need for a eliquid container?
Thanks.
So this made me curious, i went to amazon and searched for glass 30ml bottles with droppers. I checked at least a dozen listings and saw this on none of the them. Can you please provide a link to a post on Amazon with this warning? Id like to ask them why they include this specific warning.
They included it because they want nothing to do with e-liquid
I understand that, in no way does it need to be included and as i said i saw it on none of the listings. Ive gone through another dozen or more on amazon and still no such warning.
I just decided to make the same Move, either reuse glass bottles or make my plastic bottles into single-use containers.
I've went back and forth. Now I'm doing all my flavor testing and first version recipes in glass. Cleaning all the plastic test bottles are a pain in the ass and I'm too cheap to throw them out. Once I've got a recipe I like, they go in plastic bottles for daily use.
Some of the pipettes have very small eyes, which makes sucking up high VG juices a pain in the buttocks.
Another issue could be that the manufacturer has made the bottles/pipettes for another industry (aromatherapy etc) which will not require as high a level of sanitation/sterility as liquids for inhalation may require.
That's funny, because I switched from glass droppers to plastic bottles. Steeping in glass bottles take ages, and the flavour generally sucked from my experience. The droppers themselves were glass too, and it couldn't squeeze any juice from the bottle. Hated them, so moved to plastic bottles and I found them heaps easier.
There shouldn't be any reason for dropper bottles to not be suitable for juice though. Make sure you get droppers that can actually suck up juice.
What do you mean steeping in glass takes longer? You were probably just using shitty glass bottles especially if they couldn't draw up the liquid. Never had that problem
I used amber glass bottles, which were recommended by everyone I spoke to. Steeping just took a lot longer with the bottles and the juice was always way too thick.
I'm quite paranoid about things being sterile even though it is only for personal use, I don't like to use chemicals to sterilize the plastic bottles as you really don't know what residue they leave and I've yet to find a bottle that hasn't distorted somewhat in ~90°C water, which further worries me about possible leaching from the plastic once damaged by the heat.
I fully appreciate that glass will not be as convenient, but I feel it'll put my mind at rest at least on the sterility front.
Why are you putting your bottles in hot water, attempting to steep juice like that will kill the flavor much faster.
Yes it's possible, and they probably mean the pipette isn't shaped in a way that works well with thick liquids (like ejuice).
My current glass bottles are like that, it's extremely hard to suck up liquid with them (it takes 5-10 seconds to fill the pipette where I've noticed with other people it fills instantly). It makes it a pain to refill.