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You Should Know These Basics When Purchasing Lipstick Tube Packaging

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You Should Know These Basics When Purchasing Lipstick Tube Packaging

Lipstick tube is the main item in cosmetic packaging materials. In order to give you a basic understanding of lipstick tube products, we have sorted out the knowledge points related to lipstick tube products for your reference:


Product Definition: Lipstick tube is the most complex of all cosmetic packaging. Lipstick tube is a functional package composed of multiple components and different materials. In terms of material, there are volatile and non-volatile types, and most of the filling is automatically filled by the machine, including filling way, the combination of different parts, poor tolerance control, or unreasonable design. Even if the way of lubricating oil coating is wrong, it will affect the use and function.


1. Base material

At present on the market, the lipstick tube is divided into all plastic lipstick tube or aluminum and plastic lipstick tube. The commonly used plastic materials are PC, ABS, PMMA, ABS+SAN, SAN, PCTA, PP, etc. And aluminum models commonly used 1070, 5657 and so on. Some users use zinc alloy, sheepskin and other materials as lipstick tube accessories in order to show the temperament of the product and its brand essence.

 

2. Molding process


The plastic material of lipstick tube is mainly made of injection molding process, such as cover, base and related accessories in the middle bundle core.


3. Surface processes


The surface of lipstick tube can be treated by many processes. For plastic parts, surface  processes such as spraying, electroplating, evaporation, laser engraving and insert can be used. And aluminum products can be oxidized electroplating, anodic processing technology. Such as the above picture shows the matte black lipstick tube.



4. Picture and text printing


The lid and base of the lipstick tube can be used for graphic processing according to customers requirements, including screen printing, bronzing/silver, pad printing, heat transfer printing and water transfer printing. You can make customized logo lipstick tube.


5. Classification of lipstick tubes

According to the components: cover, bottom, middle beam core, etc., the middle beam is generally aluminum products, after anodic treatment, it will have better hardness and metal texture. And there are also plastic injection molding.
Inner diameter of beads: 8.5mm, 8.6mm, 9mm, 9.8mm, 10mm, 11mm, 11.8mm, 12mm, etc.

Bead ribs: 4 ribs, 6 ribs and 8 ribs, etc

Products: traditional lipstick tube, slim lipstick tube, lipstick/lip gloss tube, lip balm, lip oil, etc.

Filling method: bottom backfill, top forward fill


Cover: lipstick tube cover is generally aluminum cover or acrylic cover, ABS cover, etc..


Base: The base is usually acrylic or ABS plastic, but also aluminum as the base material. In order to improve the touch feel, some suppliers will add heavy iron to the inside. However, a problem with the heavy iron glue is equal to an increase in the risk of lipstick tube, plus the vibration in transportation in case of unglue will form a quality accident, so that the customer experience is worse.


Middle beam core: The middle beam core is the core component of the lipstick tube, which is equivalent to the heart part of the product. Whether the lipstick tube product has a good customer experience is basically the function of the middle beam core, which carries the torque, smoothness, blocking force, insurance force, bead bearing force and other functions of the whole lipstick tube product.


6. Lipstick tube application


As the name implies, lipstick tube is applied to lipstick and lip balm products. However, with the emergence of products such as lip stick, lip oil and lip glaze, many packaging material factories have fine-tuned the packaging material structure of lipstick tube, forming a full range of applications, which will be described in detail in the future.


7. Do not choose suppliers for the following reasons:


L 'Oreal and other famous brands also used (Your filling machine and ingredients are different.)

8. Quality control index of lipstick tube


There are touch feel indicators, filling machine, transportation vibration, air tightness, material compatibility, size matching, color different, capacity problems and filling volume shoud meet the declared value of the product.


9. The risks of choosing an aluminum lipstick tube


Aluminum products in the process of tensile cutting process, the structure of the product if not handled sleek, may be a potential safety risk to consumers! The risk of the product can be assessed by using edge testing equipment that meets the requirements of federal regulation 16 CFR1500.49 and pressure-sensitive insulated high temperature resistant tape that meets mil-i-23594b (1971) standard.


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