Hot sauce labels sized to your sauce bottle
You can make free hot sauce labels in your browser and size them to the sauce bottle in your hand. Put the flavor, the heat, the net content and a barcode on the label, add the ingredients you wrote, and print every flavor from one catalog CSV. No signup.
How it works
Measure the flat part, then the label fits
Your flavor, your heat, on the bottle
Open the hot sauce label with three sample flavors loaded, put in your own, and check one on a full bottle.
Open the hot sauce label1Two things first
What to put on a hot sauce label
A buyer picks up a woozy bottle and reads two things first: the flavor and how hot it is. Everything else on a sauce bottle label comes after that. From top to bottom:
Selling a gift set? A variant is just the same layout with a different flavor line.
- Flavor, the biggest line. Habanero, Green chile, Chipotle maple.
- Heat, right under it. Mild, medium or hot is enough.
- Net content and batch, like 5 fl oz and HB-031, on a small line at the bottom.
- Ingredients and allergens, in the words you supply.
- A barcode, if a shop scans your bottles, for a number you own.
2Examples
Hot sauce label examples you can open and edit
These are real renders from the editor. The brands, flavors and batch codes are made up for the examples. One bottle face filled from a variant sheet, one wrap for a sauce jar, and one small barcode label for a neck or a case.
The first card loads a variant sheet. To start without one, use the plain hot sauce label and swap in your own text.
3Measure
Measure the sauce bottle: face label, wrap or neck
Bottles curve more than jars, so the label size comes from the bottle, not the template. Grab a strip of paper and a ruler, and check the four spots below.
Set that width and height in the editor before you design. If a label looks perfect on screen and wrinkles on the bottle, it's the wrong size, not the wrong font.
- Face label. A patch on the front of a flat or wide bottle, like the 4 x 3 example. Measure the flat front between the shoulder and the base, and stay inside it.
- Wrap. Goes partway around a round bottle. Wrap the paper strip where the label sits and mark where it still lies flat. Leave a gap where the ends would meet.
- Tapered bottle. It's narrower at the top, so a wrap that fits the bottom wrinkles at the shoulder. Make it shorter than the base suggests.
- Neck or case label. A small strip for a SKU barcode, a batch code or the flavor on the shipping case. The third example is a DYMO 30334 at 2.25 x 1.25 in.
4Your catalog
Print every hot sauce flavor from one CSV
Say your catalog sheet has one SKU per row: Habanero, Green chile, Chipotle maple. You don't need a separate file for each flavor. Each column fills its own spot, on the bottle and on the case:
The sample sheet behind the first example has Flavor, Heat, Ingredients, Size and Batch columns, with rows like HABANERO, HOT, 5 FL OZ, HB-031. Load it once and step through the rows to see each bottle change.
| Column | Bottle face | Case label |
|---|---|---|
| Flavor | Big top line | First line |
| Heat | Under the flavor | Not used |
| Size | Bottom line | Second line |
| Batch | Bottom line | Not used |
5Step by step
How to make sauce bottle labels from your catalog
Here's the run, start to finish, with the sample catalog already loaded.
The labels from Excel page maps the columns you already have. Need bars for a number you already own? That's the barcode label maker. Making barbecue sauce? BBQ sauce labels has its own template with a flavor profile line and a lot code.
- Open https://app.mylabelmaker.com with the variant sample. No signup. The sheet is already loaded.
- Set the size to the bottle you measured.
- Click Data and upload your catalog CSV or Excel file, or paste the rows. Keep the column names in the first row.
- Click a text box, then Variables, and pick the column: Flavor large, Heat under it, Ingredients in the middle, Size and Batch at the bottom.
- Step through the rows. "Chipotle Maple" is the longest flavor name. If it wraps, make the type a little smaller.
- Open Edit row and tick the flavors you're bottling. Rows start unticked.
- Click Print and enter how many labels each flavor needs. One flavor today? Print this prints only the label on the canvas.
6Print it
Print on a Zebra, this computer, or save a file
On a Zebra, print with Browser Print at the printer's DPI. On any other printer, print from this computer through the normal print dialog at 100% scale.
You can also download PNG, JPEG, SVG, PDF or ZPL. Save the JSON too, since it keeps the editable master for the next batch.
Whatever you print on, print one first and stick it on a full bottle. The label stock and adhesive are your choice, so check it holds on a cold bottle and a wet one before you print the run.
Questions about sauce bottle labels
How do I make hot sauce labels?
Open the hot sauce template, set the size to your bottle, add the flavor, heat and net content, and type your ingredients. Print one, stick it on a bottle, then print the rest. No signup.
What size should a hot sauce label be?
Measure the flat part of your bottle where the label sits, top and bottom, and leave a margin. The hot sauce example is 4 x 3 for a face label. A tapered bottle needs a smaller wrap than its base suggests.
Can I print several sauce flavors at once?
Yes. Put one SKU per row in a catalog CSV, map the flavor and heat columns, check two rows, and print. Each ticked row prints its own label.
Do you write FDA food copy?
No. Food claims and the ingredient text are yours. The editor prints what you type.
Can I add a barcode to a sauce bottle label?
Yes. Add a barcode for a SKU or UPC you own, on the bottle or on a small neck or case label like the DYMO 30334 example.