Mini PP Plastic Funnel for Decanting Small Bottles

The stem is thin enough to drop into a perfume neck, which is the whole point of it.

You have a full bottle in one hand and an empty travel bottle in the other, and the gap between them is about four millimetres wide. Every funnel in the drawer is too fat for it. This one is a cone the size of a bottle cap with a narrow straight stem cut on a slant, and it sits down inside the small neck rather than balancing on top. Pour slowly and the liquid goes where it is meant to go, with nothing running down the outside of the bottle and nothing left on the shelf.

It is moulded in one piece of translucent polypropylene, which is what the maker names on its own panel. A flat tab sticks out from the rim with a hole punched through it, so it hangs on a hook by the sink instead of disappearing into a drawer. There is no valve, no mesh and no screw thread, which means there is nothing to clog and nothing to lose.

Key Benefits

• Fits necks a kitchen funnel cannot The stem is narrow and cut at an angle, so it seats inside perfume, dropper and travel bottle necks.
• One piece moulding Cone, stem and tab come out of the same tool in polypropylene, so there is no seam to leak and no part to lose.
• Hangs where you use it The flat tab is pierced, so it lives on a hook by the sink rather than at the bottom of a drawer.
• Rinses in seconds Smooth walls and no mesh mean a rinse under a warm tap is enough between two different liquids.
• Weighs nothing to pack Small and light enough to travel inside a wash bag with the bottles it fills.

Best for: refilling travel and handbag bottles, decanting perfume or toner into a smaller flacon, and topping up dropper bottles without a pipette.

Why It Works

Funnels usually fail on the stem, not the cone. A stem sized for a wine bottle simply will not enter a 15 ml perfume neck, so the liquid ends up going in from an inch above and half of it lands on the dresser. Shrinking the stem to a few millimetres and cutting the tip on a slant solves both problems at once: it enters the neck, and the angled cut lets air escape past it while the liquid runs in, which is what stops a small bottle from burping the contents back at you. Everything else about the design is deliberately absent, because a filter or a valve on something this small would clog on the first use.

Quick Product Facts: polypropylene; one piece moulding; narrow stem cut at an angle; flat tab with a hanging hole; translucent finish; packing list is one funnel.

How It Fits Your Routine

Decanting day is the obvious one. Line up the small bottles, seat the funnel in the first neck, pour from the big bottle in a slow steady stream, then rinse and move on. Three bottles take about as long as finding the funnel did.

Packing for a trip is the other. Everything you want in small bottles goes into small bottles the night before, and the funnel goes in the wash bag afterwards because it is lighter than the bottles it just filled.

Between two different liquids, rinse it under a warm tap and shake it dry, or wipe the cone with a tissue. Store it hanging by its tab rather than loose, because a clear funnel in a drawer of clear bottles is a funnel you will not find again.

FAQ

How big is it? The maker describes it as a small funnel, and the photographs show a cone roughly the size of a bottle cap with a stem sized for a perfume neck.

What is it made for? It is made for the bathroom shelf. The maker lists perfume, toner and cosmetic liquids as its contents, so it is at its best decanting fragrance, toner and skincare into smaller bottles.

What plastic is it? Polypropylene. The maker prints PP on its own product panel, which is more than most listings of this kind give you.

How many do I get? One. The packing list reads a single funnel, even though several appear together in the photographs.