Re: Tinctures...and jars, on the cheap

Here is some advice for sourcing jars that includes my own take on " go green " (tongue in cheek). This may not work for people who routinely go through the frig / pantry and automatically throw out everything that has an expired date for " best used by ".

I re-use " recycle " ball jars that originally came with some sort of store bought item, like jam, beets, pickles and the like. I tend to buy these kinds of things at a local farmer family retail store that features a lot of country-folk kinds of persishable goods. They use real canning jars, and they sell goods in various sizes of these jars..... I particularly like to save the cute 4 oz cannin jars, they are perfect for pouring ointments and or tinctures for which a little will last a long time.

Anyway, this is a way to go ultra cheap on sourcing bottles. It might require you to adjust your routine a bit so that you save these kinds of jars and bottles rather than throwing them out in the garbage. Whenever I finish a jar, jug or bottle of whatever, I clean the jar and lid and put on a shelf until I need it. I find that re-using gallon jugs (like the kind that come when you buy organic apple juice ) is really sturdy glass good for making large volume tinctures ( like Cayenne). If its glass, I try to hang on to it, for one reason because you pay a premium at checkout for items in glass bottles and jars. If its plastic or aluminum, when I finish the stuff ( juice, food, etc) that kinda stuff gets smashed and sent to the corporate recylcing center as I generally do not reuse that kinda material.

PS - glass baby food jars are also really good to hang on to for storing small amounts of ointments and tinctures.