How to Find Containers for Your Homemade Beauty Products

Do a quick search on the internet and you can find hundreds of recipes for homemade beauty products. It's a great gift idea, but what to do about packaging? Ideally, something simple, air-tight and inexpensive....please read on if you need to find containers for your homemade beauty products.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Decide what homemade beauty product you'd like to make and then compile a list of friends and family you'll be gifting to. Next, make a list of ingredients you may need to purchase or order.

2. Determine whether your homemade beauty product is best stored in a plastic or glass container. Keep in mind that some essential oils or other natural products can stain a plastic container. You could even use a tin container to store homemade lip balm or homemade lip gloss.

3. Check with the clerk where you shop for some of your natural ingredients to see whether they offer suitable containers. Look in the Yellow Pages of the phone book under Beauty Supplies.
   
   Do a search on the internet if you're unable to find a variety of containers locally for homemade beauty products. Choose from a generous selection of inexpensive glass or plastic and tin vessels, including glass droppers for essential oils from the various vendors' websites.

Tips & Warnings

• You may want to attach a laminated recipe card to your gift with a list of ingredients; people can be allergic to the strangest things.

Resources

• Specialty Bottles
• The Sage

[ScarlettOHairy]

on 8/16/2009 Great ideas for finding containers for the homemade goodies.

[jdds08]

on 7/7/2009 As usual, great ideas. I have sugar scrubs to store and give away and am always looking for new "packaging" ideas

[sabrinacareer]

on 6/24/2009 cool article on finding containers for homemade beauty products :)

[xrayness]

on 6/17/2009 Excellent article that i enjoyed reading!

[cb4me]

on 6/17/2009 Great suggestions for containers for homemade beauty products.