I am confused about sterilising the jars and bottles I use for my products and about sterilisation in general. Can you help?
I think that there are no set rules that you have to obey by legislation but we use alcohol to spray our equipment, both here in Scotland and at my factory in Sweden and that works well enough. This method is acceptable even for drug industry standard Good Manufacture Practice (GMP). With regard to bottles/jars, as long as you know that these bottles/jars have arrived clean without dust you don’t have to sterilise them again. You can also get a letter from providers such as us stating that the containers are clean and that is also good enough. I would say that to start to sterilise the bottles and jars yourself may contaminate them rather than sterilise them. All of our glass jars and bottles are available in airtight, hygienic packs, already sterilised by the manufacturers. Our plastic bottles are not available in airtight packs but no-one I know in the cosmetic industry sterilises these when producing cosmetics. The key thing is that you produce products with the correct proportions
