Teach Soap

Not sure if this question belongs on this part of the forum or not, so if I should move it someplace else, just let me know!
I'm curious about appropriate packaging for bath salts. I've not made any (yet!) but am wondering how to store them. I'm planning on using essential oils and have read that only certain materials would be safe to use in contact with essential oils. I know PET containers are normally recommended. So I'm assuming that would work well for a jar.
But what about a stand-up pouch? What would I need to look for in a pouch so that it would be considered "safe" to use (meaning the material wouldn't be damaged/compromised by the presence of the essential oils)?

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Carrie
Wife to my Best Friend and Homeschool mom to 7 beautiful gifts

That depends on your formula. I use either jars or tubes. Is the stand up pouch coated on the inside? What is it made from?

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

The one website I saw has some great looking pouches that have liners containing PET/LLDPE, but you have to order at least 1000 (which is not in my plans!). I was going to keep looking around to see if I could find similar ones in a smaller quantity, but before I put the time into looking for them, I thought I'd ask here to see if they were even a viable option.
I chatted online with a rep from WSP about their pouches, but she couldn't tell me what the material they are made from was.

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Carrie
Wife to my Best Friend and Homeschool mom to 7 beautiful gifts

Sounds like I might have better results from calling next time.

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Carrie
Wife to my Best Friend and Homeschool mom to 7 beautiful gifts

Is it the silver pouches you're looking at? If so, I had problems with those. I always dried out my salts in the oven, let them cool and then packaged them in the pouch. I sealed them immediately and the sealed pouches were kept in a dark, cool area. But when I went to take them out of my storage area, the salts were weeping and the outsides of the packages were a little wet from the weeping.
I wasn't the only one to have that problem. When I mentioned it on WSP's forum, many people said they had the same problem. But we were told by an upper forum person (not going to say which one), that their packages were not defective and it must be our recipes. I'm aware that dead sea salt can weep, because it attracts moisture from the air. So, I'm assuming that the pouches are not air tight when you seal them

Oddly enough, I switched to packaging the salts in plastic jars and I had no problems at all.

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Genny

Genny......I'm very grateful for your response! Those are the ones I was considering. I was kinda bummed last night, as I kept looking around for smaller quantity pouches (someplaces would have a minimum order of 1000!) and couldn't find any smaller quantity that listed exactly what materials their pouches were made of. I love the look of pouches, but didn't want to take the chance of ruining the product. Hubby finally said "enough----just order jars and look into it more later". So I did put my order in for the jars and was disappointed, but perhaps I shouldn't be! Maybe the pouches are something I should stay away from anyway.
So thanks for sharing your experience

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Carrie
Wife to my Best Friend and Homeschool mom to 7 beautiful gifts