Common Sense on Cosmetic Packaging Purchasing


Glass Bottles (cream jars, serum, toner, essential oil bottles)

Glass bottles for cosmetics are mainly divided into skin care product categories like cream jars, lotion, perfume, essential oil, and nail polish bottles. They usually have a small capacity, greater than 200ml capacity are rarely used for cosmetics. Glass bottles are also divided into wide-mouth bottles and narrow-mouth bottles, cream and powder are generally used in wide-mouth bottles, it is appropriate to match the anodized aluminum cap or plastic lid. The cap can be painted with color spray or other effects.

Uneven thickness of the glass bottle will easily lead to damage. In the cold conditions it’s easy to be squeezed by the contents and broken. Bottles should be tested whether it’s capable of fill a certain volume of cosmetic fluids. During the transportation, each product should have a single separation room using paper box. Each separation space should be equipped with an inner tray and box aiming to prevent vibration damage.

Commonly used shapes of glass bottles usually have stock, such as essential oil bottles, ordinary transparent or frosted bottles. The production cycle of glass bottles is long, as fast as 20 days, some supply period to 45 days, and the MOQ is usually 5,000 to 10,000. The smaller the bottle, the larger MOQ is required. The lead time cycle and the minimum order quantity will be affected by the busy season and off-season market.

Open mold cost

Manual mold is about 2,500 yuan. Automatic mold is generally about 4,000 yuan. The price of 4 pieces per mold or 8 pieces per mold can be higher than 16,000 yuan to 32,000 yuan, according to the manufacturers you choose. Essential oil glass bottles are usually made with teal or tinted and tinted frosted, light-proof, with tamper resistant caps and rubber teat droppers. Perfume bottles usually pair with delicate crimp spray pump with well-designed caps.

Cosmetic Packaging Set:

  1. Cream Jars series: glass body + double-layer plastic outer cap (general capacity in 10g-50g)
  2. Serum series: glass bottle + rubber teat dropper or anodized aluminum pump head (relatively high capacity in 20 to 100ml)
  3. Toner series: glass bottle + plastic inner plug + outer cap (100ml or more, can also be equipped with the kind of pump head)
  4. Essential oil bottle series: glass body + inner stopper + large head cap or rubber drip tip + dropper + anodized aluminum cap

Production Crafts Bottle

transparent glass bottles, frosted glass bottles, painted colored glass bottles, opal white glass bottles, opaque black glass bottles etc.

Not commonly used color has high order quantity which is less used.

Painting Painting generally adds cost about 0.5 yuan – 1.1 yuan /piece, depending on the area and the difficulty of color mixing, silk screen printing for about 0.4 yuan/color, cylindrical bottles can be priced in a single color. Pricing of unusual shaped bottles counts as two-color or multi-color printing. Printing

You can choose screen printing, hot stamping, decal, water transfer, carving, frosting and UV coated.

Screen printing and hot stamping should not be applied more than 2 times. It will mix colors, add cost and higher the defective rate.

Screen printing

Screen printing on glass bottles usually two kinds. One is high-temperature ink screen printing, its characteristics are not easy to decolorize, the color is duller, purple toning is more difficult. The other is low-temperature ink screen printing, it can be more colorful. The requirements to ink are higher, if relatively bad ink is uses, it’s easy to fall off. Sterilization is also needed to pay more attention. Hot stamping gold and silver is about 0.4 yuan/piece.

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