Old Perfume Bottles Views

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So now, what to do with all your old perfume bottles? They are often comprised of delicate cut glass and make great flower or bud vases. This puts them to the front of the line for a myriad of uses. If the openings are large enough, you can use them for containers for small objects like jewelry. You can even use them for kitchen containers 8– imagine how pretty Tabasco sauce may be inside glass? You can use them to contain homemade room sprays. Better yet, consider refilling the bottles with organic perfumes, purchased or homemade. (Check out a simple recipe for homemade perfume here.)

So how to prep your bottles for reuse? First off, you may have some bottles with old perfume still in them. Your first inclination may be to dump them down the sink, but we strongly discourage this. Anything you dump into the sink is ultimately returning to the water supply. Yes, we consider traditional perfumes THAT toxic n– check out the rating Skin Deep gives to a certain f“happy ” perfume available at a department store near you. This product is linked to cancer, reproductive toxicity, allergies, neurotoxicity and more. Want to shower with that down the line? Didn

A beautiful book! This sequel to Made in Czechoslovakia further illustrates the bold artistry of Czech glass, pottery, and porcelain exported to the United States from 1918 to 1938. Shown in full color are 672 pieces of pottery and porcelain, along with 343 glass perfume bottles. No duplication from the earlier book! Included are spectacular ceramic figurines of people, birds, and animals. The author discusses and illustrates peasant art, Art Deco, Amphora, Majolica, Lusterware, lamps, art pottery, kitchen sets, figurals, and dinner sets. One section features drawings of 69 different trademarks.

During the 1920s and ’30s, glass perfume bottles inspired by the Art Deco movement were all the rage. Natural forms and motifs gave way to geometric shapes and bold, streamlined designs. In Czechoslovakia, perfume bottles from this era are routinely made of blown and meticulously cut crystal. For some of these bottles, the diameters of the stoppers were a great as those of the bottles beneath them, giving these otherwise simple containers the look of a Vegas showgirl wearing an impossibly top-heavy headdress.