Glass, plastic, aluminum in cosmetic packaging material difference

All kinds of materials are used in cosmetic packaging, of which glass, plastic and metal are the main materials used at present, and paper boxes are commonly used as outer packing.

The development of new materials and new processing technology and the pursuit of new modeling has always been the industry's focus on the development of cosmetic packaging.

1. The glass

Glass in the field of high-end cosmetics packaging has a greater advantage, its transparency and finish is not plastic bottles compared, clear and pure, elegant is the charm of glass bottles.

For high-grade cosmetics or volatile, easy to lose the fragrance of cosmetics, such as perfume, generally used glass bottles.

Whitening, nutritional cosmetics, but they are extremely oxidized.

This puts forward a very high demand on the sealing of packaging. Glass bottles have strong barrier property and are undoubtedly more competent than plastic bottles in protecting the contents.

However, the variety of glass containers is single, and even if there is a good design idea, it is often not realized due to technical and material limitations.

Due to the inherent disadvantages of glass (heavy, easy to drink, etc.), for general cosmetics, plastic containers or composite containers are often used for packaging.

Now most of the low-end cosmetics packaging has been replaced by plastic bottles, plastic bags or plastic tubes, glass bottle application ratio of less than 8%, glass has irreplaceable advantages, in the short term is still the first choice for high-end cosmetics.

In recent years, with the improvement of glass processing technology, the use of computer CAD glass bottle mold design, enhanced lightweight glass bottle production technology is improving the quality, weight is reduced, transparency and surface finish is also further enhanced.

In the post-processing aspect, the glass surface can be treated with sand, painted, printed (up to 7-8 colors), carved, etc., which greatly improves the glass bottle and added value.

2, plastic

Plastic light and cheap, easy to form large-scale production, can be made into a variety of specifications, transparent, opaque and various colors of the bottle.

The printing performance is very good, can use heat transfer printing, ink jet printing, printing and other methods to directly print the instruction, logo, barcode on the surface of the container;

Good forming performance, can be manufactured into various structures and shapes of bottles, cans, boxes and other plastic containers.

Cosmetic capsules have various shapes, such as spherical, olive-shaped, heart-shaped and crescent-shaped, and their colors are varied, including crystal and transparent ones and colorful pearl-shaped ones. The appearance is very attractive.

These packages bring consumers a safer and more convenient way of consumption.

The disadvantage of plastic containers is that their transparency is not as good as that of glass, but at present the polyalkene extended blow molding technology has overcome the disadvantage of low transparency of polyolefin blow molding bottles, and its crystal clear properties have reached the level of glass bottles.

At COSMOPROF2003 in Italy in March 2003, HEINZ PLASTIS introduced HEAVY PET plastic bottles, which imitatesthe texture and appearance of glass bottles. Using PET injection molding technology, this plastic bottle is the first plastic bottle in the industry with a wall thickness of MM.

The bottle body with crystal transparency and brightness, appearance is very similar to glass bottles, wear resistance is also getting higher and higher.

In the past few years, the packaging industry has been working hard to develop a product that can effectively protect the quality of skin care products while meeting the needs of luxury, novelty and appearance.

The emergence of multi-layer composite technology can meet the above two requirements simultaneously.

It allows layers of different types of plastic to be combined and molded all at once.

With multi-layer composite technology, our plastic packaging can completely cut off the light and air, which oxidizes the substance of skin care products, on the one hand, and obtain wonderful visual effect and unique hand feeling on the appearance on the other hand.

Hoses and glass bottles are the most popular packaging for skin care dairy products.

Hoses, which 15 years ago were only medium and low-end packaging, are now being used by even the best-known brands.

Hoses are economical to produce, easy to carry, and suitable for holding emulsions and colloids.

As a result of above all sorts of outstanding performance, plastic material and compound material want the application range in cosmetic packaging is bigger and bigger, plastic product already occupied cosmetic 80% above pack market, become cosmetic most main pack container.

3, aluminum

With the increasing improvement of national living standard, the consumption of cosmetics and health care skincare products has been increasing year by year. In recent years, there has been a substantial increase. The aluminum packaging materials for cosmetics are light in weight, bright in color, elegant and luxurious, durable and easy to be processed, shaped and painted, which are favored by the cosmetics packaging industry.

Nowadays, the vacuum coated paper is easy to be printed with metallic luster, and has many advantages such as beautiful, fashionable, high-grade and environmental protection, etc., which greatly meet the requirements of cosmetic packaging and has become the focus of attention of high-grade cosmetic packaging materials.

The main consumer group of cosmetics is women, and the pursuit of beauty is an innate characteristic of women. Whether the packaging of cosmetics is exquisite has a great impact on the status of cosmetics in women's eyes and their preference for certain brands.

Vacuum aluminized paper printing transparent multicolored ink, can give a high degree of metallic luster, at the same time give a psychological hint: this kind of cosmetics can also be used to shine.

Vacuum aluminized paper is also easy to be processed by laser holography, which has a good anti-counterfeiting effect.

According to the needs of different cosmetics on the packaging printed on the flash laser LOGO or a specific beautiful pattern, both beautiful and fresh and easy to identify, but also make fake and inferior products from.

Vacuum aluminized packaging material is a new type of compound environment-friendly packaging material. It gradually replaces aluminum foil composite paper as the base material of aluminum paper.

The character itself is recyclable, can be degraded in the soil green environmental protection characteristics, and save metal resources, is a green packaging material conducive to environmental protection.