I’ll obviously never use leather for any future products. I did have graphite in mind, but it’s still on the drawing board (another project). Right now I think I will have to give up and rely on the food-grade spigots that are available on the market. I would honestly make them myself from scratch but the investment required is astronomical for me right now. Maybe in the future.

I have been trying to get my hands on some pump dispensers from like 100 years ago. I am curious how they used to be made then. Obviously no plastic, but perhaps rubber was most likely used.

I actually wasn’t aware of the natural rubber vulnerability to e-coli… And the spigot will be placed in a highly humid environment. So I guess back to the drawing board.

Thank you for your very comprehensive response. I am currently trying to replace the outer silicone gaskets with cork, with mixed results, which is why I hoped that natural rubber may do the trick. I also did see that the inner O-rings were made of EPDM, so I hoped that those could be replaced with something better for the environment.

Or it’s not really worth it financially, I suppose. I mean, my initial idea was to find an all-metal pump dispenser. There are none and I think they would be both safe and legal?

I suppose like it did before news orgs were a thing. So, like how it was about 200+ years ago?

Journalists should now do the job of a government? Bad bot

Celebrated in the US probably. Never seen it celebrated in the EU. I may be wrong though. And why people are now unhappy with Russia… well, read the room.

It’s actually that simple. Why complicate things. If you bothered to look at Putin a history, you would know what he had been up to all this time.

Hey, this is broken. What if I dedicate my life fixing it, that would be cool. That’s how I found my meaning.

No. You have got to split search and ads. Otherwise the web search is going to disappear completely and replaced by social media and ai. It’s for Google s own good.

Yeah, there’s the whole ai thing. I don’t know, I got the (clearly wrong) idea that a dedicated sub may have dedicated specialists…

Can they even see that I am not using the official app?

I admit I got quite a bit worked up with the constant greenwashing found everywhere and got a bit paranoid about contributing to the problem. I will have to talk a bit more with some specialists from the labs that I will be collaborating with (hopefully they won’t tell me what I want to hear, but be honest) and perhaps I find a solution. If all fails, then fragrance free it is…

I admit I was taken aback by the certifications provided by pure oils. I will talk about it with a few labs and see if perhaps things could work. Although I still would have preferred to go with something 100 percent safe.

I still use Apollo, so nobody gets a dime from me anyway.

Seriously, things have gotten so bad there , the website is unrecognizable from years ago… I am sorry you didn’t have the platform to vent when needed. Hopefully here it will be better.

I actually checked a few options and anything fragrant is outside the water for pollinators, which makes sense. I also did check essential oils from water lilies and still hazardous to water life… the search continues.

I don’t know if there are any pleasantly fragrant aquatic plants. I will check it out, this is a neat idea.

I actually think you may be onto something.