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Cosmetic packaging - Soft tube

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Cosmetic packaging - Soft tube

Cosmetic soft tube is hygienic and convenient to use, the surface color is bright and beautiful. Because it is economical and convenient, easy to carry. Even if the high-intensity circumferential extrusion, it can still recover its original state and maintain a good appearance, so it has been widely used in the packaging of creamy cosmetics, such as cosmetics products packaging: facial cleanser, hair conditioner, hair dye, toothpaste, as well as the pharmaceutical industry packaging of creams for external use of drugs.


1. The composition of the soft tube


Cosmetic soft tube generally contains: soft tube+ cover. Soft tubes are often made of PE plastic, but there are also all-plastic soft tube, aluminum and plastic soft tube, all-aluminum soft tube, and environmentally friendly forms of paper-plastic soft tube.


2. The classification of soft tube


* Aluminum and plastic soft tube: two layers inside and outside, the inside is PE material, the outside is aluminum packaging cut and then rolled. The process and classification of tube head and sealing are the same as all-plastic soft tube.


* All-plastic soft tube: the whole tube is made of PE, the tube is pulled out first and then cut out for offset printing, silk-screening and hot-stamping. According to the tube head can be divided into round soft tube, flat soft tube, oval soft tube. The sealing can be divided into straight sealing, twill sealing, special shaped sealing, etc.


* All-aluminum soft tube: all aluminum material, recyclable, environmental protection. The disadvantage is that it is easy to deform, just think of the toothpaste tubes used in childhood (after 80s). But more unique, easy to shape memory points, the most typical is Aesop skin care aluminum tube packaging.


3. Classification according to product thickness


According to the thickness of the tube, it can be divided into 1 layer soft tube, 2 layer soft tube and 5 layer soft tube, which are different in pressure prevention, permeability prevention and hand touch feel.

l 1 layer soft tube will be thinner,

l 2 layer soft tube is more commonly used

l 5 layers soft tube belongs to the high quality goods, by the outer layer, the inner layer, two adhesive layer, a barrier layer. (Features: excellet gas barrier performance, can effectively prevent the infiltration of oxygen and odor gas, and prevent the content of fragrance and active ingredients exudation.)


4. Classification according to the shape


According to the shape of the tube can be divided into: round soft tube, oval soft tube, flat soft tube, super flat soft tube and so on.


5. The covers of soft tube


Soft tube’s cover shapes are diverse, generally divided into flat cover, round cover, high cover, flip cover, super flat cover, double cover, spherical cover, lipstick cover. Plastic cover can also be processed in a variety of processes: bronzing edge, colored cover, transparent, spraying, plating, etc. Twist cap and lip balm cover are usually come with a plug.


6. Production process


Tube body: It can do colored tube, transparent tube or transparent frosted, pearlescent tube, and there are matte and light points, matte looks elegant but easy to dirty. Color can directly add color when produce, there are also large areas of printing color.

All-plastic soft tubeAll-plastic soft tube

7. Printing

Screen printing (Use color, small and few color blocks, the same as plastic bottle printing, professional line products commonly used) and offset printing (similar to paper printing, large color blocks and many colors, daily chemical line products commonly used). There are gold and silver stamping.

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