User tips
Before using the baby bottle
Please note that our baby bottles feature an air valve inside the teat to prevent a vacuum from forming inside the bottle. Make sure the valve is open by carefully pulling it.
Our teats may feature one or two air valves. Both of these variants will work the same and both will feature a double anti-colic system.
The clip below will show you how to open a teat with two valves. The procedure is much the same for teats featuring only one valve. Don’t forget to wash your hands before handling the teat!
How do I clean and sterilize the baby bottle?
We recommend hand washing the bottle. If it is cleaned in a dishwasher (top rack, 55° C/130° F), take care to ensure it is not washed in proximity to dishes that contain foods such as olive oil, tomato sauce or other colorful foods. This may discolor the plastic of the baby bottle or cause the printed measurement scale to wear off.
Please note, we do not advise boiling our products at maximum power, as extreme temperatures may cause damage. Boiling them too often, or for extended periods of time, may also cause damage to the materials, or affect how they fit together. Your new baby bottle has already been sterilized during the manufacture process. If you still want to take steps to sterilize it further, we recommend bringing a generous amount of water to a boil, switching off the burner, disassembling the bottle and putting the parts in the hot water for 30 seconds. Then, pour out the water and let the now sterilized parts cool down before handling.
My baby doesn’t like using baby bottles, how do I know Herobility’s baby bottle will be any different?
Herobility’s teat is unlike any other, specially designed to resemble a mother’s breast. When a mother breastfeeds her baby, she may press her breast slightly with her hand to make it flatter, sometimes called the “hamburger grip”. This lets the baby latch on easier to the breast and makes feeding easier. We’ve heard that many of our customers have found Herobility’s baby bottle the easiest way to transition from breast feeding thanks to the uniquely designed teat.
I bought a Herobility baby bottle, and the teat is collapsing into the bottle when the baby is drinking. What’s going wrong?
The vent inside the teat has gotten closed up. This is easily fixed by following the instructions on this page under the heading “Before using the baby bottle”.
Advantages of the materials
Bioplastic
Our bioplastic is specifically called HDPE and is made from the starch of the sugarcane plant. As sugarcane grows, it absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, resulting in a much smaller carbon footprint than regular plastic.
Bioplastic can be recycled, however, the technology is not available everywhere. Contact your local recycling center if you are wondering where to put the bioplastic parts when you recycle them.
Glass
The great advantage of glass is that it is safe, durable, and easily recyclable, many times over. In addition, it is easy to clean and does not discolor. To recycle your Herobility glass products, simply place them in glass recycling.
Silicone
A good alternative to plastic that lasts longer and does not lose its properties over time. Unlike, for example, latex or natural rubber, very few people are allergic to silicone, which is considered safe enough for use in medical technology. Ask your recycling center how best to recycle silicone.
Steel
Stainless steel is a material that lasts a very long time, does not rust or corrode, and can be recycled an infinite number of times. Sort as metal scrap.
The design of products
No material or production method in the world can justify developing products that are not used. We have a long checklist to ensure that the products we launch are truly useful and are easy to reuse and recycle. In summary, all our products are:
Safe for your child.
Developed in a way that supports your child's development. Developed to make life easier for you as a parent.
We design products with interchangeable parts to extend the lifespan of each product. For us, it is important that we design products without unnecessary details and where every function is well-justified.
Product Care and Use
Our goal is for you to get as much use and enjoyment out of each product as possible before recycling. Much of our communication therefore focuses on explaining how to use your Herobility products in different ways. But also how to care for your products so that they last as long as possible, to reduce consumption at a global level.
NOTE! Some products have a recommended lifespan to meet international safety standards for baby products. For example: pacifiers and bottle nipples have a recommended lifespan of two months from first to last use. Other products are easier to pass on to your friends or save if you are expecting siblings.
Our heroes
A part of our proceeds will always go to projects and charities that fight for children's rights and that help take care of our planet. Herobility believes that everyone can, and should, do something to try to make our world a better place.
Trees for the future
Herobility also supports Trees for the Future. Their mission is to help our planet while simultaneously stopping hunger and poverty for farmers and their families. Together, we plant trees in Africa to reduce CO2 footprints and help nature and society along the way.