The powders
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What a botanical powder needs from a container
A mouth wide enough for a scoop, a wall that keeps light out, a seal that keeps moisture out, and enough volume that the customer is not refilling constantly.
The mouth is well served
Necks on this shelf run mostly 89-400 and 70-400, which are wide. A scoop that has to be tipped and shaken loses powder down the outside of the jar.
The wall is partly served
29 white and 11 black containers out of 97 are opaque. 19 clear and 24 natural are not, and natural polypropylene passes a surprising amount of light.
Moisture is the quality variable
A hygroscopic powder cakes, and once it cakes the scoop stops working and the customer concludes the product is old. The liner is what prevents it.
Which is the concentrates property's subject
It covers the liner shelf in full: heat induction seal, F217, pressure sensitive and the 54 closures out of 260 with no liner or no record of one.
Volume is where the shelf is thin for bulk
13 containers at 473 mL is the top of this shelf, and a kilo of a light botanical powder is several litres. For a bulk format this is not it.
The tubs are the closest thing
12 tubs and pails out of 97, which open fully and take a scoop properly. For a powder that is a better format than a jar.
And the price is low enough for a consumable format
Unit prices on this shelf run 30 cents to $3.69 with a median of 90 cents, measured as a snapshot. That is a packaging cost a repeat-purchase powder can carry.
Case packs are the catch
33 of 97 containers are full case only and case packs run from 12 to 6,370. A first run has to absorb a whole case.
None of which is the hard question
The hard question is the ingredient, and it is answered from records against a date in 1994 rather than from a catalog.