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Does anyone know a good source for bottles? Preferrably glass. Thanks!

You can find glass bottle in just about any thrift stores or Ebay is another good option. We are switching to glass bottles and jars for all our stuff and making it ourselves using recipes from "Better Home Basics." The recipes are pretty simple and work really well, plus we know what is in them. Until now we were using a label maker which was okay but not as nice as these labels.

How are vinyl labels and not using the bottle your product came in green?

I agree, Rebecca. I mean, isn't the "green" option here doing something like removing the labels from the things you buy, rather than running out and buying more things? And how about coming up with some ideas for ways to reuse the bottles that these products come in? I have to say, the focus of this site seems to mostly be on BETTER ways to consume, consume, consume, rather than on reducing consumption. Personally, I'd rather see more posts like the one on making a cat tree out of drawers. I'd like to focus a little more on "reduce, reuse, recycle" and a little less on "here's a new cool thing you have to buy!"

Well, by using a soap dispenser you can buy those big hand soap refills and thus ultimately save on packaging. And soap dispensers can be made out of many glass bottles (mine came from greenfeet.com, but you can use bottles you already have/ have scavanged).

Also, de-branded encourages you to MAKE your own products and then you'd need something to put them in.... hence, the recycled glass containers. You don't need to buy the labels, but I've found my guests get confused by all of the unlabeled jars and so do I (shampoo and hand soap can look quite similar, for example).