As a fashionable consumer product, lipstick needs high-quality packaging materials to increase its value. At present, almost all kinds of materials are used in lipstick packaging. Among them, glass, plastic, and metal are the main materials currently used, and cartons are often used as outer packaging. The continuous development of new materials and new processing technologies, and the pursuit of new shapes have always been the focus of the industry for the development of lipstick packaging containers.

1.Glass

Glass occupies a greater advantage in the field of high-end lipstick packaging. Its transparency and smoothness are incomparable to plastic bottles. The charm of glass bottles lies in thoroughness, purity, and elegance. For high-end lipsticks or lipsticks that are volatile and easy to lose fragrance, such as perfumes, glass bottles are generally used. Whitening and nutrition lipsticks, but they are extremely oxidized. This puts forward very high requirements on the tightness of the packaging. Glass bottles have strong barrier properties and are undoubtedly more competent than plastic bottles in protecting the contents.

But the variety of glass containers is single, even if there is a better design concept, it is often not realized due to the limitations of technology and materials.” Due to the inherent shortcomings of glass (high specific gravity, easy to get drunk, etc.), for general lipsticks, plastic containers or composite containers are often used.

Now most of the low-end lipstick packaging has been replaced by plastic bottles, plastic bags or plastic tubes. The application ratio of glass bottles is less than 8%. Glass has an irreplaceable advantage and is still the first choice for high-end lipsticks in the short term.

In recent years, with the improvement of glass processing technology, the use of computer CAD glass bottle mold design and enhanced lightweight technology to produce glass bottles has improved the quality, reduced weight, and further enhanced transparency and surface finish. In terms of post-processing, the glass surface can be frosted, painted, printed (up to 7-8 colors), engraved, etc., which greatly improves the glass bottle and added value.

2. Plastic

The plastic is light in weight and low in price, and it is easy to be produced on a large scale. It can be made into bottles of various specifications, transparent, opaque and various colors. The printing performance is very good. The instructions, logos and barcodes can be directly printed on the surface of the container by thermal transfer, inkjet, printing and other methods; the formation performance is good, and it can be manufactured into various structures and shapes of bottles, cans, boxes and other plastics container. Lipstick capsules have a variety of shapes, such as spherical, olive, heart, and crescent shapes, and their colors are diverse, ranging from crystal clear to colorful pearls. The appearance is very attractive. These packages have given consumers a safer and more convenient way of consumption.

In the past few years, the packaging industry has been committed to developing a product that can effectively protect the quality of the skin, but also meet the needs of luxury, novelty and appearance. The emergence of multi-layer composite technology can meet the above two needs at the same time. It enables multiple layers of different types of plastics to be combined together and molded out at once. With multi-layer composite technology, our plastic packaging can completely isolate light and air, which oxidize skin care products, on the one hand, and on the other hand, obtain wonderful visual effects and unique feel in appearance. The most common packaging for skin care dairy products is hoses and glass bottles. Hoses were only packaging for middle and low-end products 15 years ago, and now even the most famous brands have begun to use them. The hose is economical and convenient to produce, easy to carry, and suitable for containing emulsions and colloids.

Due to the above-mentioned excellent properties, the application range of plastic materials and composite materials for lipstick packaging is increasing. Plastic products have occupied more than 80% of the packaging market for lipsticks and have become the most important packaging container for lipsticks.

3. Aluminum

With the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, the consumption of lipsticks and health skin care products has increased year by year. In recent years, there has been a substantial increase. The aluminum packaging materials for lipsticks are lightweight, bright in color, elegant and luxurious, durable and easy to be processed, shaped and coated. It is favored by the lipstick packaging industry. Nowadays, vacuum aluminum coated paper has metallic luster and is easy to print. It has many advantages such as beauty, fashion, high-end and environmental protection, which greatly meets the requirements of lipstick packaging and has become the focus of attention of high-end infrared box packaging materials.

The main consumer group of lipsticks is women, and the pursuit of beauty is a natural characteristic of women. The exquisite packaging of lipsticks greatly affects the status of lipsticks in women's minds and their preference for specific brands.

Vacuum aluminized paper is printed with transparent colorful ink, which can reveal high and rich metallic luster, and at the same time gives people a kind of psychological hint: after using this lipstick, it can also be radiant. Vacuum aluminized paper is also easy to carry out laser holographic processing, which has a good anti-counterfeiting effect. According to the needs of different lipsticks, a flashing laser LOGO or a specific beautiful pattern can be printed on the outer packaging, which is beautiful and fresh and easy to identify, and also discourages fake and inferior products. Vacuum aluminized packaging material is a new type of composite environmentally friendly packaging material, which gradually replaces aluminum foil composite paper as aluminum paper substrate. The word itself has the green environmental protection characteristics of being recyclable and degradable in the soil, and it saves metal resources. It is a kind of green packaging material that is conducive to environmental protection.

For details, please contact: Aluminum Lipstick Tube.