Knowledge of cosmetic packaging materials

During the OEM process of cosmetic packaging, customers did not know much about the packaging materials of cosmetics. Lisson Cosmetic packaging specifically summarized the relevant knowledge as follows:

1. Glass (cream bottle, essence, toner, oil bottle)

Glass bottles for cosmetics are mainly divided into: skin care products (cream, lotion), perfume, essential oil, nail polish several categories of small capacity, more than 200ml capacity is rarely used for cosmetics.
Glass bottles are divided into wide-mouth bottles, narrow-mouth bottles, solid paste is generally used with wide-mouth bottles, it is appropriate to use aluminized cap or plastic cap, cap can be color spray effect;
Emulsions or water-based creams generally use narrow-mouth bottles, it is appropriate to use pump head, such as the lid with inner plug, water agent with small hole with inner plug, thicker emulsion with large hole inner plug.

The uneven thickness of glass bottles will easily lead to damage, or in the cold conditions are easy to be squeezed by the contents of the broken, should be in the filling test reasonable capacity, in the transport of paper and separate, on the product should be equipped with color boxes, inner and middle boxes can be more to take anti-vibration.

Glass bottles are usually in stock in the usual shapes, such as refined oil, plain clear or frosted.
The production cycle of glass bottle is longer, need 20 days quickly, some delivery time wants 45 days, general order quantity is 5 thousand to 10 thousand, the bottle shape is smaller the quantity that wants to do is bigger, cycle and moq can be affected by peak season, off-season.
Mold opening cost: it depends on the manufacturer's conditions.
Refined oil bottles are usually made of tan or colored and colored scrub, which can avoid light. The lid is equipped with a safety ring and can be fitted with an inner plug or dropper. Perfume bottles are generally equipped with delicate spray pump heads or plastic caps.

Combination form:

1. Cream Bottle series: glass bottle body + double plastic outer cover (general capacity: 10g-50g)



2. Essence series: glass bottle body + plastic pump head or anodized pump head (the capacity is relatively high between 20 and 100ml)



3. Toner series: glass bottle body + plastic inner plug + outer cover (100ml or more, or the kind with pump head)




4. Refined oil bottle series: glass bottle body + inner plug + large head cap or rubber dropper + dropper + anodized cap




Production process:

Bottle body: transparent bottle, frosted bottle, colored bottle 'White porcelain Bottle, refined oil bottle' (color is not commonly used but the order quantity is high, professional line is less used), spraying





Spraying effect is generally added 0.5 yuan to 1.1 yuan/piece, depending on the area and the difficulty of color blending, screen printing for 0.1 yuan/color, cylindrical bottles can be monochromatic calculation, shaped bottles by two-color or multi-color calculation.

Printing: silk screen printing and gold stamping (The Times of silk screen printing and gold stamping should not be more than 2 times altogether, because of too much color setting, high defect and high cost)





Screen printing: there are usually two kinds of glass bottle screen printing, one is high temperature ink screen printing, its characteristics is not easy to decolorize, the color is dull, purple color is more difficult to produce the effect, the other is low temperature ink screen printing, the color is more brilliant, higher requirements on the ink, otherwise easy to fall off, and pay attention to the disinfection of the bottle.
Hot stamping silver 0.4 yuan/piece.

Second, the cosmetic tube

1. The cosmetic tube is divided into single-layer, double-layer and five-layer cosmetic tubes, which are different in the aspects of anti-pressure, anti-permeability and hand feeling respectively. For example, the five-layer cosmetic tube consists of the outer layer, the inner layer, two adhesive layers and another barrier layer.
Features: excellent gas barrier performance, can effectively prevent oxygen and odor gas infiltration, and prevent the content of fragrance and active ingredients from exudation.

2, double tube is relatively common, belongs to the medium can also be single, cosmetic tube diameter 60 # # 13 - a variety of caliber, elected a certain diameter of the cosmetic tube, the capacity of different characteristics in different length, capacity of 3 ml - 360 ml can be adjustable, in order to beautiful and coordination, the calibre of the commonly used below 35 # below 60 ml, 100 ml, 150 ml usually use 35 #, 45 # caliber, more than 150 ml capacity is more than 45 #.

3, the process is divided into circular pipe, elliptical pipe, flat pipe, super flat pipe.
Flat tube, super flat tube than other pipe process more complex, is also in recent years out of the new pipe, so the price is correspondingly more expensive.

4. Flexible tube covers are of various shapes, generally divided into flat cap, round cap, high cap, flip cap, super flat cap, double cap, spherical cap, lipstick cover, plastic cover can also be processed in a variety of technologies, bronzing edge, silver edge, colored cover, transparent, oil spray, electroplating, etc. Pointed mouth cover and lipstick cover are usually equipped with inner plug.
cosmetic tube cover for injection molding, cosmetic tube for pull tube, most cosmetic tube manufacturers do not produce their own cosmetic tube cover.

5. Some products need to be filled before sealing. The sealing end can be divided into straight grain sealing end, twill sealing end, umbell-type sealing end, star point sealing end, special-shaped sealing end, and the required date code can be printed at the sealing end.

6, cosmetic tube can do color tube, transparent tube, color or transparent frosted, bead light pipe, and a dumb light with the light and elegant matte seemingly but easy dirty, colored tube and pipe shaft large difference of printing, but judging from the tail slit, slit for white tube for large area printing, use the ink demand is high, otherwise easy peeling and cracking after folding and white mark.

7, cosmetic tube production cycle is 15 days - 20 days commonly cycle (starting from the confirmation here) order item for 5000-10000, the size of the factory in 10000, for minimum quantity, usually if a few small manufacturer variety, item 3000 minimum quantity to also can, there are few customers to open mold, mostly male die (a few characteristics of the lid is the private mold) contract order quantity and actual quantity supplied, the industry of the deviation of plus or minus 10%.

8, cosmetic tube quality and different manufacturers there is a big difference in price, plate-making fee is usually 200 yuan to 300 yuan price, tube body can be multi-color printing and silk-screen, individual manufacturers have heat transfer printing equipment and technology.
Hot stamping, hot silver to area unit price to calculate, screen printing effect is better, the cost is expensive and the manufacturer is less, should choose different cosmetics packaging manufacturers according to different levels of demand.

9. Combination form:

cosmetic tube + cover/cosmetic tube is usually made of PE plastic.
According to the product thickness can be divided into single-layer pipe (mostly used, low cost) and double-layer pipe (good sealing performance).
According to the product shape is divided into round cosmetic tube (more use, lower cost), flat cosmetic tube also known as shaped pipe (to secondary joint, the cost is higher).
The outer cover of the cosmetic tube is usually equipped with a cap (single layer and double layer of the division, double layer of the outer cover for electroplating cover to increase the grade of the product, it looks more beautiful, professional line with more screw cover), lift cover.


B. Production process:

Bottle body: direct production of plastic products with color, color multi-purpose, also do transparent, less use.

Printing: screen printing (with spot color, small and few color blocks, the same as plastic bottle printing, color set, professional line products commonly used) and offsctdruckeren (similar to paper printing, large color blocks and many colors, daily chemical line products commonly used).
There are also hot gold and hot silver.




Three, plastic bottles

1. Plastic bottles are usually made of PP, PE, K, AS, ABS, acrylic, PET, etc.

2. The cream bottles, caps, stoppers, gaskets, pump heads and dust shields commonly used in cosmetics with thick container walls are molded by injection;
PET blowing bottle is formed in two steps, tube embryo is injected, and finished product packaging is blown bottle.
Other containers such as thin walls of emulsion bottles, washing bottles for blow bottles.

3. PET material is environmental protection material with high barrier property, light weight, non-breaking property, chemical resistance, anti-resistance, strong transparency, can be made into pearlite, colored, magnetic white, transparent, widely used in gel water.
The bottle mouth is generally standard 16#, 18#, 22#, 24# caliber, and can be used with pump head.

4, acrylic material for plastic bottle, chemical resistance is poorer, generally cannot directly paste, need to match the tank, filling not too full, prevent the paste into the bladder and acrylic bottle, lest produce cracks, transport packaging of the demand is higher, because of the cut after look particularly evident, high permeability, sensory on wall thickness, but the price is quite expensive.

5. AS and ABS: AS has better transparency and toughness than ABS.

6, the mold development cost: blow bottle mold for 1500 yuan -- 4000 yuan, the injection mold for 8000 yuan -- 20,000 yuan, the mold with stainless steel material than alloy material is expensive, but durable, the mold out a few, see the production demand, if the production is larger, can choose a four or a six mold, the customer can decide.

7, the order quantity is generally 30,000-10,000, can determine the color, usually do the primary color matte and magnetic white, or add pearlite powder effect, although the bottle and the cover with the same color master, but sometimes because the bottle and the cover with different material, the color shown some differences.

8, screen printing ink and UV ink, UV ink effect is better, glossy and stereoscopic, in the production should be made to confirm the color, in different materials of screen printing effect will be different.

9, bronzing, stamping silver processing technology and printing gold powder, silver powder effect is different, hard material and smooth surface is suitable for stamping gold, silver, soft surface hot stamping effect is not good, easy to fall off, bronzing silver glossiness is better than printing gold silver.

10, the bottle cap is generally equipped with internal gasket, pull cap, plug, very few with a small spoon or dropper, this is mainly to consider the tightness and convenience of use.

11, the production cycle is relatively moderate, about 15 days cycle, silk-screen cylinder for monochrome calculation, flat or shaped bottle according to the two-color or multi-color calculation, usually to charge the first screen printing screen plate fee or fixture fee, screen unit price is generally 0.08 yuan/color to 0.1 yuan/color, screen version 100 yuan to 200 yuan /, about 50 yuan/fixture.

(1) Cream bottle + outer cover (Production machine: injection molding machine)

Injection molding cream bottles are often used in PP, PETG materials, new materials, transparency, or don't have to add the tank, but also has double, to save costs), acrylic, this product has good transparency, to add the tank commonly, can not directly paste, split bottle experience), ABS material (this material varieties used in electroplating parts, easy coloring), the lid is multi-purpose PP material, in PP + cover acrylic cover or electrochemical plating aluminum cover or injection

Production process:

Bottle body: PP and ABS are made of solid colors. PETG and acrylic bottles are made of transparent colors with a sense of transparency. Acrylic bottle walls are sprayed with colors to reflect light with good effect.

Printing: the bottle body can be silk-screen printing and hot stamping, hot silver.
The inner cover of the double cover can be screen printing, the outer cover can be transparent to give the effect.
The aluminum anodized outer cover can hit the protruding logo.

(2) Vacuum bottle + pump head cover (essence bottle, toner bottle, emulsion bottle), AS material commonly used in injection molding vacuum bottle body, with direct contact paste, no straw, vacuum design) + pump head (electroplating) cover (transparent and solid color)

Production process: vacuum bottle transparent color is used more, solid color is used less.

Printing: the bottle body can be silk-screen printing and hot stamping, hot silver.

(3) Blow the bottle

(Essence bottle or lotion bottle, toner bottle) (Production machine: blow molding machine)

A. Understand bottle blowing technology

According to the plastic material can be divided into PE bottle blowing (soft with solid color, more a forming), PP bottle blowing (harder to use solid color, more a forming), PET bottle blowing, good transparency, li use toner and hair products, environmental protection material, two forming), PETG bottle blowing (transparency than PET good, but not commonly used at home, cost is high, the waste is high, forming at a time, not recycled material).

Combination form: blow bottle + inner plug (PP and PE materials are commonly used) + outer cover (PP, ABS and acrylic are commonly used, there are also electroplating, aluminum anodized, oil spray toner is mostly used) or pump head cover (essence and emulsion are often used), + 1000 cover + lift cover (lift cover and 1000 cover are mostly used for large circulation daily chemical line).

B. Bottle blowing process:

Bottle body: PP and PE are made of solid colors, while PETG, PET and PVC are made of transparent or colored transparency, with a sense of clarity. Solid colors are used less.
PET material bottles can also be sprayed with color.

Printing: silk-screen printing and gold stamping, silver stamping.

(4) Pump head

1. The dispensers are divided into two types: ligation nozzle type and screw nozzle type. Functionally, they are also divided into spray, foundation cream, emulsion pump, aerosol valve and vacuum bottle

2. The size of the pump head shall be determined according to the diameter of the matching bottle body. The size of the spray is 12.5mm -- 24mm, and the water output is 0.1ml/ time -- 0.2ml/ time, which is generally used for perfume, gel water and other products

3. The emulsion pump has a wide range of specifications from 16mL to 38ml, and the water output is 0.28ml/ time to 3.1ml/ time. It is generally used for cream and washing products.

4, vacuum bottles are usually cylindrical, specifications of 15ml-50ml, some have 100ml, the overall capacity is small, is based on the principle of atmospheric pressure, can avoid cosmetics in the use of pollution, vacuum bottles are aluminum anodized, plastic electroplating and colored plastic, more expensive than other containers, ordinary order quantity requirements are not high.

5, multi-use PP material, (production machine: injection molding machine) outer ring also uses aluminum anodized cover, also uses electroplating process.
Also can be hot gold hot silver.

(1) According to the function of the bottle:

A. The pump head of the vacuum bottle, without straws, + the outer cover

B. Pump head of ordinary bottles, requiring straws.
+ with or without a hood.

(2) According to the function of the pump head

A. Lotion pump head (suitable for emulsion contents, such as lotion, shower gel, shampoo)

B. Spray pump head (contents suitable for water properties, such as spray and toner)

3. According to appearance

A. The pump head has A hood, and the hood plays A protective role.
(Especially for products with small capacity) within 100ml.

B. No cover pump head, with special design, can be locked, will not be squeezed out of the contents, play a protective role, easy to carry.
Reduce costs.
(Prefer products with comparable capacity.)
More than 100ml, the daily line shower gel and shampoo pump head design is mostly without cover.

4. According to the production process

A. Electroplating pump head

B. Anodized pump head

C. Plastic pump head

(5) Outer cover

Multipurpose PP material, also has PS, ABC material and acrylic material.
(Production machine: Injection molding machine, according to the structure of the double cover:
A. PP inner cover +PS and acrylic outer cover

B, PP inner cover + PP outer cover, ABS material electroplating

C, PP inner cover + anodized outer cover

D, PP inner cover +PP or ABS oil injection outer cover
Single layer cover: PP material is commonly used
Technology: Cover edge can be bronzed or silver, spray oil

The inner cover of the double cover can be silkscreen logo, the outer cover can be transparent effect.
The aluminum anodized outer cover can hit the protruding logo.

Cosmetic OEM packaging manufacturers have professional staff to explain to you.
All the materials are different, so I mainly know the differences:
PET: PET has high transparency, soft bottle body, can be pinched concave but harder than PP.
PP:PP bottles are softer than PET, easier to pinch, and less transparent than PET, so some opaque shampoo bottles are more commonly used (easy to squeeze).
PE: The bottle is basically opaque and not as smooth as a PET.
Acrylics: It's thick and hard, but the deepest form of Acrylics is acrylic.