Butters, creams and soap
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What these three are
Beard butter, shave cream and shave soap. All thick, all scooped rather than poured out, all in a wide mouth jar. Beard butter is whipped, shave cream is an emulsion or a soft soap, and shave soap sets hard.
The one that was mis-typed
Shave cream was carried as an essential oil product, meaning amber glass with an orifice reducer. It is a thick cream out of a tub. Retyped on 17 October 2026 to the thick cream signature the other two already used.
The shelf behind them
299 containers from 15 to 250 mL: 157 PET, 83 glass and 59 polypropylene. 84 PET single wall jars, 61 PET packers, 44 glass Boston rounds, 23 PP single wall jars and 18 glass straight sided jars.
Why PET leads this shelf
It is light, it does not break in a bathroom, and it comes in the single wall jar shape these products want. For a product shipped in volume to a customer who uses it wet-handed, that is a defensible first choice.
Shave soap wants a shallow bowl
It is loaded with a wet brush, which means the user needs to work a circle at the surface. Depth is wasted and width is not, so the squat end of the jar range suits it better than the tall end, and a wide low profile jar suits it best.
Beard butter is whipped, so allow for it
Whipped product occupies more volume than its weight suggests and settles over time. Fill by weight, declare by weight, and expect the headspace to grow between filling and the customer opening it.
The neck finishes you will actually use
The shelf is dominated by wide continuous thread: 70-400 appears 113 times, 89-400 at 94, 58-400 at 72 and 38-400 at 96. Choosing from the well populated finishes is how you keep a lid choice open later.