I ordered some raw pheros from LS only to find out that they package the pheros in a way that I don’t know how to measure accurately.
I basically ordered 1 of each raw phero, but I’ll use Anol and Anone as examples. Both of them claim contents of 10ml, concentration of 1mg/ml and total pheromones of 10mg however, the volume within the bottles are different. I emailed customer service regarding my concern and sending in pictures(as many on here have claimed leaks) but they said the measurements are correct. What I had originally thought was that for every 1 ml of ethanol/water solvent, there would be 1mg of dry wt pheros in it, resulting in both bottles being of equal volume, however that is not the case. What it seems, is that they take 10 ml of solvent and add 10mg of dry wt into it, resulting in an uneven displacement of volume depending on the phero that’s being added. Now, this makes measuring quite difficult because now I don’t exactly know how much mg of pheros are in a ml of liquid. This seems to be a bit ass backwards to me, but it seems common in the pharmaceutical community.
If I was desperate enough, I guess I could figure out the displacement the middle school way by dumping the entire bottle out and seeing how much above 10ml the product is, giving me an accurate measurement of how much 10mg of pheros displace, but I really really don’t want to dump my bottles out just to measure them. It seems wasteful as there will always be residue left behind with every surface it touches, not to mention possible contamination. It’s just opening the doors to more issues I don’t want to deal with.
Anyways, does anyone know where to get the information of how much volume each phero displaces?
EDIT: I thought about it for a second and I think I figured out another way of going about it. I’ll leave this question up to see if anyone knows anything else but my solution is to work in mg instead of ml. While not a perfect solution as there are more factors that lead to inaccuracies, at least it will get me close and give me a general idea of what I’m dealing with.
Basically, I’d need to get an empty bottle from LS and figure out the mgs on that. Then measure the mgs of the phero bottles. This will give me the total mg of the liquid inside through subtraction. Knowing that 10mg of phero is inside already, I can then subtract that to figure out the mg of the solvent alone. This will give me the mg ratio of phero to solvent and by knowing this, I can then take 1ml of solution and figure out how much phero is in it by knowing how many mg is in 1 ml. Theoretically, all the bottles should be the same mg regardless of liquid level as 10ml of solvent is put in each bottle,10mg of phero is put in each bottle, and each bottle is the same.