Small Guide: Supplies

Active Pharmecutical Ingredient (API)

• Raw hormone powder

Other Excipients

• Carrier oil
• Benzyl benzoate
• Benzyl alcohol

Vials

• Pre-sterilized 3/5/10mL Vials (Please get these from a reputable vendor, not amazon/ebay).

Tools

• Oven
• Work surface
• Milligram scale
• Glass stirring rod (use a metal spoon or butter knife in a pinch)
• Baking dish
• 50mL graduated beaker (optional but very helpful)

OR

• Pyrex beakers of appropriate size for mixing. Any glass that can be oven sterilized works too (many drinking glasses will break in the oven, but you might have better luck with a glass jar for pickling)

Disposables

• 18g sterile luer lock needles (optional, used for drawing ingredients)
• 27g sterile luer lock needles (for filtering into sterile vial)
• 3mL sterile luer lock syringes
• 10mL sterile luer lock syringes
• Sterile 0.22μm PTFE syringe filters
• Isopropyl alcohol 70% (IPA) (buy exactly 70%)
• Disinfecting hand soap
• Paper towels
• Aluminum foil

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Latex/nitrile gloves