People pick up one of our tincture bottles and ask where the dropper is. Most tinctures come with one built right into the cap, a rubber bulb and a glass tube ready to squeeze. Ours don't, and there's a real reason behind it.

What a dropper top does to a bottle over time

A dropper top isn't sealed the way a plain cap is. The rubber bulb sits right against the liquid, and every week that bottle waits on a shelf, a little of what's inside works its way out through the rubber. Distillers have an old name for what a barrel loses into the air as it ages, the angels' share. A tincture in a dropper bottle loses the same way, slower and out of sight, through a rubber seal instead of a wooden stave.

Why we cap ours instead

Our tinctures don't move off the shelf overnight. A bottle can sit in inventory for months before it lands in your kitchen. A tight cap keeps what we poured into it where it belongs instead of handing a share to the angels one week at a time. A bottle you buy from us today is closer to full strength than a dropper bottle sitting the same length of time would be.

How to measure a dose without a built-in dropper

Keep a small glass dropper in a kitchen drawer, the kind sold on its own at almost any pharmacy, and draw up a dropperful straight from the bottle when you need it. A small measuring spoon works too if that's easier to keep on hand. Either way you're getting the same dropperful we'd hand you built into the cap, just measured a step later, and without months of it evaporating first.

Carole Lolley, Mayim Farm

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