New update on the outdoor oils. They will be released within a couple days (just finishing up my new webpages on them, and also a couple other webpages for new goodies too 🙂 ). I am so sorry about the delay. There are three formulas (one for children–which is excellent for adults too–and two for adults), and they all smell great! I hope you love the other goodies too! 🙂
They will be packaged in plastic pumps. I really wanted to package them in aluminum but it just didn’t work out. The aluminum pumps I got from the new supplier were in horrible condition (but thankfully they are going to credit back my account for them as soon as I send them back). I am just very disappointed because I was excited about the aluminum pumps: they were the only vendor I found with aluminum bottles with treatment pumps–and not lotion pumps–at a good price. The order also took a while to get here (because of the July 4th holiday and the company is out west too) so those two factors really delayed the release of my outdoor oils 🙁
I contacted my regular supplier and their aluminum misters were not lined (I only like lined aluminum for safety/leaching reasons). I contacted two other suppliers (that I sometimes use) and theirs are lined, but they are west coast companies (so the bottles would have taken 1 1/2 to 2 weeks to get here and the shipping costs are also much higher). I think I will sample the aluminum misters from these companies (to see if the misters are compatible with spraying oils and other liquids for future products) but it is too late to get them for the outdoor oils (at least this year. Hopefully by next year I will find aluminum bottles!)
So I decided to go with PET (#1 recyclable) 2 oz plastic treatment pumps (most companies package their outdoor/bug oils in plastic pumps or misters. I usually don’t like packaging my cosmetics in plastic, but PET doesn’t react really with essential oils, and for short term usage I am okay with plastic). The plastic pumps will arrive sometime this week (I got them from my regular/favorite supplier so it should arrive in only a few days).
There are three formulas, but they are all only available in one size: 2 ounces.
I am offering an optional 2 oz amber glass pump bottle for the outdoor oils too. The amber bottles are the same design as the blue glass bottles I use for Sunset cleansing oil (they are the same ones I used for Sunset before I switched to blue glass). They will cost $0.60 more than the outdoor oils packaged in plastic (since glass is more expensive than plastic bottles). Please email me if you want the amber glass bottles (and I will invoice you through paypal for them). I only have a handful of the amber glass pumps, so if I run out I will package them in blue glass (and adjust the price accordingly since they cost more than the amber).
I can’t wait to release my outdoor oils, and hope that everyone will enjoy them too. They will be available the rest of the summer and throughout the fall (probably until the end of october or so).
