Cleaning Glass Dropper Bottles for Reuse
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This really should have been a simple job. I’ve cleaned and reused tincture bottles before.
I’ve gotten those labels off – “Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy”.
But not today! Oh no! Not when I’m demonstrating on YouTube for all the world to see! Those labels were determined! But I was MORE determined.
When cleaning bottles for reuse, the process is fairly simple. Really. But if you come across the “Label that Refuses to Come Off” like I did, take heart! The “DIY Goo Gone” recipe from DIY Natural conquered and I was victorious!
Not only did I have the side venture of making a DIY Goo Gone recipe while filming, but I had other side trips as well including:
I’m testing Colloidal Silver by Nature’s Sunshine to see if it will keep my Mandarin oranges from shriveling up much too quickly.
Several days in and it’s looking pretty good.
In my YouTube video, I also share a cool story about how my daughter found a recipe using baking soda, vinegar, dishwashing liquid, and lemon essential oil to remove stains from our bathtub. Stains I had been trying to remove for YEARS!
But I digress. Let’s get back on subject!
To clean my used tincture bottles, I followed these steps:
1. Peel the labels from the bottles removing as much paper as you possibly can.
2. Fill the bottles with warm water and replace the dropper.
3. Place the closed bottles into a bowl or sink filled with warm sudsy water and allow to sit for five minutes.
4. Peel any remaining paper from the labels using your fingernails to remove any lingering stickiness.
To clean the stickiness from “Labels that Refuse to Come Off”, I used the DIY Goo Gone recipe I found on DIY Natural. You can click the link to find their recipe HERE. The baking soda, vinegar, and essential oil trick has worked for me so many times in the past, but this time, it wasn’t tough enough! But the DIY Goo Gone recipe was amazing! Plus, I didn’t have the awful chemical smell of the original version.
To clean the bottles from the stickiness of “Labels that Refuse to Come Off” use the steps below.
1. Take a small amount of DIY Goo Gone and rub over the sticky parts until it comes off.
2. Wash the residue with warm sudsy water.
To clean the INSIDE of your bottles and droppers:
Fill a bowl with warm sudsy water and allow your bottles to soak.
1. Fill a large bowl or the sink with warm sudsy water.
2. Take the droppers out of the bottles and pour out the water that was in the bottles.
3. Separate the glass tube from the bulb and place it in the warm sudsy water.
4. Place the glass bottles in the warm sudsy water as well.
5. Allow to soak for five to ten minutes.
6. After they have soaked, use small bottle brushes to scrub out the bottles and droppers.
7. If the dropper bulb or glass tube does not come clean or is damaged in any way, replace the droppers with new droppers
8. Allow the bottles, glass tubes, and droppers to air dry thoroughly before reusing.
To sanitize your glass bottles and glass droppers, boil them in distilled or purified water for 15 minutes. Allow them to dry thoroughly before using.
Note: Don’t put rubber bulbs or plastic bottles in the boiling water to sanitize.
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