SIZE MATTERS PART II

I was about to go to sleep early tonight but I decided to check my gmail, facebook, twitter and Girltalk. hoho. I checked them regularly, atleast 4-8x a day. LOL!

I was checking for updates then I came across to Venus and Mars' thread. The topic was about the size of emu oil of Venus and Mars. To know more, here's the LINK of the thread. 

I was curious since I'm using Emu Oil of Venus and Mars too. And so, I decided to do a simple test. 

*This test is based only on my OWN concept/knowledge. NOT 100% accurate. This is just to show you my hypothesis to the 30ml bottle mystery (hahaha!)*

The objectives of this test are 

1. to test if 20ml of bottle 1 is equal to 20ml of bottle 2

2. to test if 30ml bottle of Venus and Mars Emu Oil contains 30ml of the product itself

I looked for 20ml and 30ml bottles at home. 

So, here's the test:

This is an empty bottles of 20ml bottle of VnM Cpc+g and 20ml bottle of Ellana Make It Last Primer

You'll notice that Ellana's bottle is bigger (in height) than VnM

By merely looking, you will notice that the diameter are almost the same but not exactly.(VnM>Ellana)

I filled VnM's bottle with water up to the exact amount when I got my cpc+g. So, yes, that's the 20ml for CPC+G. 

I poured the water from VnM cpc+g bottle to Ellana's bottle.

Tada! You'll notice that if you buy Ellana Make It Last Primer you don't get that exact amount of 20 ml simply because it's hard to be 100% accurate. In my own opinion, the reason is because of the thick consistency of Ellana. Try to use a thicker sample for this experiment then try to transfer from one bottle to another. You'll notice the there are some products left on the other bottle. So, yes, it's really hard to transfer samples with thick consistency as Ellana Make It Last Primer

Let's try other bottles please

I can't find any 30ml bottle aside from my  VnM Emu Oil. So, I decided to use Johnson's Baby Oil 25ml bottle. 

Again, I filled the Johnson's Baby Oil's bottle with water and poured it on the other bottle.

Since, I'm using my cellphone's camera, you will not be able see the amount of water in VnM's bottle so I edited it (sorry, i'm lazy! ;p) The blue is the volume of bottle filled with water. Again, that's only 25ml of Water. So, yes, emu oil is not exactly 30ml but approximately 30ml. Same reason for the error. It's the consistency. 

Possible Reasons for Errors:

*Human Error (i was not using exact scale)

*Error in Materials (consistency varies)

Though I haven't proved it 100% accurately, I conclude that the measurement of volume should be equal in all products. 30ml of bottle 1 should be 30ml of bottle 2 regardless of the consistency, otherwise there's an error. In additional, the answer for ml to grams is dependent on the density of the material. You cannot convert grams to ml unless you know the density. Always remember that 30ml is different from 30 g except for materials with density of 1 like water. Ml is measured in volume and grams is in weight.

So, this is my hypothesis. What's yours? 

Check out Size Matters Part 1

Hope this helps.

Size matters

Lotions, makeup, perfumes, and more--- the prices of this products largely depends on the quality, ingredients, name of the brands and of course sizes. If you’re a person who checks the sizes of the product you’re buying most of the time, you might notice that different packaging or brand comes in different units of sizes. Sometimes, it is labeled in ml, fluid oz, grams or oz. You might wonder, where can you get more products? Is it in 10ml or 10 g? 2.2 fluid oz or 2.2 oz? The answer is dependent on the density of the material. If it’s water, then 1ml is equals 1g simply because the density of water is 1. Going back to our elementary days, we have learned that Density= mass/volume. Indeed, you get 1 gram for every 1 ml. For other materials, since ml and fluid oz are measured in volume while grams and oz are measure in weight, you really can’t compare where you can get more products unless you know the density.

For instance, I bought 40g of Skin79 BB Cream because I thought it was cheaper than 30ml of other BB Cream brands. But I was shocked with what I saw.

Look at this picture.

I dipped a ballpen refill to show you the height of the content of the Skin79 bb cream.

  I know, looks can be deceiving so as the packaging! LOL! The height is not even 1/3 of its packaging. 

 The height measures approximately 2.5 cm.

Now, let’s measure the diameter. 

Approximately 1.2 cm.

To compute for Volume of this, I use the formula for cylinder. Volume= 2.83 cubic centimeters or 2.83 ml.

Thus, you can get more by buying 30ml than 30g of this product. 

But it’s not always like that.

For instance, the cream in the picture. The packaging says its 50ml or approximately 49 g.

Alright, I don’t know why I’m blogging about this. LOL! But I hope this helps you understand the basic measurements. I hope most products are measured in volume because it’s much easier to imagine how long this product will lasts me. In using a product, we do estimate how much product we get in terms of volume rather than how much we get in terms of weights right?

Until then.