The products

The four liquids

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Dish soap refill Laundry refill And a spout, which the archetype knows Cleaner refill Shampoo refill Foaming hand soap is the gap Viscosity decides the closure, not the bottle Clear containers help the customer judge the refill And amber where light matters The neck is where a range becomes a system References

39 lotion pumps and 5 foamer pumps. The flagship refill product is the one we serve least.

Dish soap refill

Thick, high surfactant, dispensed a squirt at a time. A disc top or a plain cap on a bottle that stands by a sink, and 37 disc tops on this shelf.

Laundry refill

The heaviest and the highest volume. A customer refilling laundry wants a large container, which is where the 82 containers over a quart and the 23 over a gallon matter.

And a spout, which the archetype knows

home-pour names a spout or a plain closure. Pouring a litre of detergent into a machine drawer needs a controlled pour, and this is the leaf where the archetype is right.

Cleaner refill

Thin, aqueous, usually sprayed. The customer brings a trigger bottle, which they already own, so what they buy from a container supplier is a spare bottle rather than a sprayer.

Shampoo refill

Medium viscosity, used wet, one-handed in a shower. A disc top or a pump, and 39 lotion pumps plus 11 treatment pumps on this shelf.

Foaming hand soap is the gap

Five foamer pumps. Foaming hand soap is the product refill shops sell most of, because the concentrate-to-water ratio makes the economics obvious to a customer, and five is the honest count.

Viscosity decides the closure, not the bottle

A thick dish soap will not come through a foamer and a thin cleaner will run out of a disc top. Matching the closure to the product is most of the decision.

Clear containers help the customer judge the refill

111 clear containers. Somebody who can see how much is left refills before they run out, which is the behaviour a refill shop depends on.

And amber where light matters

76 amber containers, which is more than this craft strictly needs. Most household liquids are not light sensitive; a shampoo with botanical actives can be.

The neck is where a range becomes a system

194 containers at 24-410 and 91 at 38-400. A shop that standardises on one or two necks can stock one set of pumps and caps for every bottle it sells.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The refill and zero waste shelf is 917 rows: 485 containers and 432 closures. 100 mL to 7,571 mL with a median of 237; 166 containers over a pint, 82 over a quart, 35 over two quarts and 23 over a gallon. 324 PET, 152 HDPE, 7 PP and 2 glass. 443 bottles, 15 jars, 15 tubs and pails and 12 jugs. 134 white, 111 clear, 76 amber, 54 natural. Closures: 268 continuous thread, 39 lotion pumps, 37 disc top, 15 flip top, 13 dome lids, 11 treatment pumps, 9 phenolic, 7 buttress, 7 round tubs, 5 foamer pumps, 5 liners and sealing discs. Necks: 194 at 24-410, 91 at 38-400, 51 at 28-410, 44 at 45-400.

The archetype behind this shelf is home-pour: 950 to 4,000 mL, narrow mouth, a plain closure or a spout, HDPE, cold fill, thin, aqueous, poured, with "bulk liquid, jug format with a spout or a plain closure" as its stated reason. It describes the shop's bulk vessel rather than the container a customer carries home, which is why the shelf sits an order of magnitude below the window.

Written from NIST Handbook 130, 2023 edition, and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Handbook 130 is a compilation of model laws rather than federal law, and states adopt it in different forms, from different years, or not at all; the binding text is your state's. Nothing here concerns whether a scale is legal for trade, which is Handbook 44 and a state device approval, or the retail food rules for refilling a customer's food container, which belong to whoever licenses the shop.