Four shelves, one craft
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What the shelf holds
The grooming shelf is 885 rows: 358 containers and 527 closures, derived from four packaging archetypes across eight leaves.
Thin oils, narrow neck, glass
96 containers from 10 to 120 mL, all glass. 61 Boston rounds, 15 straight sided jars, 4 hex, 4 packers and 4 roller ball bottles. This is beard oil and pre shave oil.
Poured solids, wide mouth
119 containers from 5 to 65 mL: 76 glass, 34 polypropylene and 9 steel tins. This is beard balm and mustache wax.
Thick creams, wide mouth
315 containers from 15 to 250 mL, 160 PET, 95 glass, 60 polypropylene. Beard butter, shave cream and shave soap. The largest of the four by a long way.
High alcohol, glass only
103 containers from 5 to 120 mL, every one glass, because alcohol attacks plastics and adhesives. Aftershave.
The closures are the larger half
527 closures against 358 containers: 353 continuous thread, 41 dropper assemblies, 27 dome lids, 19 fine mist sprayers, 14 phenolic, 14 trigger sprayers, 12 lug and twist and 11 treatment pumps.
Necks worth designing around
70-400 at 113, 38-400 at 96, 89-400 at 94, 20-400 at 72, 58-400 at 72, 24-410 at 49, 53-400 at 41, 33-400 at 40. Staying on a well populated finish is what keeps a closure decision reversible.
Two containers worth knowing by name
The steel round tin, which is what a balm is actually sold in, and the glass roller ball bottle, which is a three part assembly rather than a bottle and a lid. Both have their own page here.
Why four shelves and not one
Because the contents differ in the three ways that decide a container: how thick they are, how they leave the container, and what they do to the material. A thin oil, a poured solid, a scooped cream and a high alcohol liquid differ on all three at once, which is unusual inside a single craft and is the reason a buyer here cannot shop one list.
What that means for an order
A range of four products is four separate container decisions and, if you are not careful, four separate neck finishes and four separate closure suppliers. Deliberately steering two of them onto the same finish is the cheapest simplification available, and it has to be done at specification rather than afterwards.