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What goes wrong

A liquid in a wide-mouth jar

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The archetype is wrong for bath oil and bubble bath, and the pages say so rather than working around it.

What the archetype says

Small dry parts, wide mouth to get fingers in, clear so you can see what is inside, dispensed by scoop. That describes a bath bomb and a jar of salts accurately and describes neither liquid at all.

Bath oil wants a bottle

A narrow neck for controlled pouring, a closure that resists essential oils over months, and ideally light protection. A wide-mouth jar of oil is poured badly and spills, and the oils attack an unsuitable liner.

Bubble bath wants a bottle too

It is a viscous surfactant liquid poured or squeezed into running water. A disc top or a flip top suits that; a jar you dip fingers into does not, and it is also the leaf carrying the prescribed caution.

Where those two should go

The bottle shelves elsewhere in this catalog, and for an oil-heavy product the glass options. The fragrance shelf is 63 glass containers with 18 fine mist sprayers, and the lotion shelf is 443 containers with 39 lotion pumps.

Bath tea is a third odd one

A botanical blend usually sold in a sachet, where the jar is a display case. Light and crushing matter more than moisture, and a clear jar with sachets inside is a reasonable answer rather than a scooped one.

Why this matters more than it sounds

A shelf that offers the wrong container for a product confidently is worse than one that offers nothing, because it looks like an answer. Naming the mismatch is the useful thing we can do.

Six of the eight are served properly

Bath bombs, shower steamers, salts, soaks, milk baths and teas all suit a wide-mouth jar with a good liner. That is a real category and 224 containers is a wide choice for it.

References

21 CFR 740.17, Foaming detergent bath products, which defines such a product as anything intended to be added to a bath to produce foam that contains a surface-active agent serving as a detergent or foaming ingredient, and requires a prescribed caution and adequate directions for safe use except for products labeled as intended for use exclusively by adults. law.cornell.edu
29 CFR 1910.1200, Hazard Communication, which sets what a shipped container of a hazardous chemical carries and requires a safety data sheet. law.cornell.edu
Written from federal regulation, not from a formulation bench. Substantiating the safety of a cosmetic is a real body of work and nothing here is a substitute for it. Whether a particular product is a foaming detergent bath product within 21 CFR 740.17 turns on what it is and what it is intended for.