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Cosmetic tubes are lightweight, cylindrical packaging solutions (made from materials like plastic, aluminum, and laminates) that are essential to the global beauty industry. They provide crucial contamination protection for products like creams and gels, offer convenient dispensing, and feature customizable designs that significantly enhance brand appeal.
Cosmetic tubes are typically manufactured from HDPE or PE plastic, employing a five-layer barrier structure. The EVOH layer within this structure provides exceptional oxygen barrier properties, thereby extending the product's shelf life.
Capacity and Diameter: Common capacity ranges for tubes are 30ml to 100ml, with corresponding diameters typically between 25mm and 35mm. Customisable Length: Tube lengths are customisable, with production ranges adjustable from 120mm to 190mm.
For sealing, tubes may feature either traditional screw caps or convenient flip-top closures. To meet precise and hygienic application requirements, specific products are equipped with precision nozzles, enabling strict control over dispensed quantities.
The tube features an airtight seal design that significantly bolsters product protection. This seal minimises exposure to air, bacteria and contaminants, thereby effectively preserving the efficacy of active ingredients such as vitamin C and retinol.
To meet the precise care requirements for delicate areas such as the eye contour, we offer tubes with smaller capacities (5ml to 20ml) and narrow diameters (12.7mm to 16mm) to enable accurate and controlled application.
Applicator Design The tube's special configuration enhances the application experience: Massage and Soothing: Optional rollerball applicator provides a cooling massage effect during application. Gentle Application: Features a soft-tip applicator for comfortable product feel. Precision Targeting: Narrow-tip nozzle designed for precise application in areas such as under the eyes.
To achieve maximum product shelf life, the tubing structure may be selected as: single-layer, double-layer, or a five-layer design incorporating EVOH barrier technology. The five-layer structure provides the highest level of product protection and freshness retention.
Hoses are manufactured from laminated materials such as ABL (aluminium-plastic composite) or PBL (polymer-based laminate), which not only offer superior barrier properties but also impart a premium, luxurious feel.
Hand cream tubes are primarily manufactured from durable polyethylene or lightweight aluminium, both offering high barrier properties, a smooth tactile feel and excellent resilience. The aluminium option stands out particularly, providing superior protection against light, air and moisture, alongside enhanced corrosion resistance and high-quality recyclability.
For household-sized portions, typical tube capacities range from 60g to 100g, corresponding to diameters of 30mm to 38mm and lengths between 140mm and 190mm.
To facilitate one-handed operation and ensure clean, residue-free application, the tube system offers multiple options including the common flip-top cap, screw cap, and more contemporary pump dispensers.
The hose possesses impact resistance, effectively preventing issues such as leakage, spillage or rupture during transportation and daily use, thereby ensuring product safety.
To achieve precise targeted application of the product, the tube is fitted with various specialised applicators, including pen-style dispensers, brush heads, roller balls or massage heads.
The tubing may incorporate the airless hose design of the vacuum pump dispenser. This technology maintains a vacuum environment, completely eliminating product contact with air. This effectively safeguards sensitive active ingredients from contamination and degradation, while ensuring precise and uninterrupted product dispensing with every use.
The hose is fitted with a precise dose control mechanism, which is essential for concentrated formulations. This mechanism minimises product wastage and ensures a highly consistent application volume with every use.
The tubing is constructed from non-reactive, hypoallergenic materials and incorporates a sealed dispensing system, effectively preventing contamination to maintain the product's sterile condition.
Many tubes incorporate a metal roll-on applicator, which provides a cooling and soothing sensation during application while aiding blood circulation and enhancing product absorption.
The circular opening at the end of the tube ensures that the product flows out at a controlled rate with gentle squeezing, facilitating precise dispensing for the user.
The hose is constructed from flexible, compressible PE or laminated material, exhibiting excellent resilience. This enables users to easily control discharge pressure while ensuring the hose retains its shape and structural integrity after repeated use.
The hose's micro-perforated sealing system effectively prevents contamination and air ingress while ensuring consistent product flow. Furthermore, the easy-to-clean tip surface aids in maintaining sterility and prevents clogging or product residue at the opening.
Material composition is a critical factor determining the performance, product protection, and brand positioning of cosmetic tubes. Different materials—such as base polyethylene or advanced barrier laminates—offer distinct advantages in barrier properties, sustainability, cost, and aesthetics. Brands must understand these distinctions to select the most optimised packaging solution for their formulations and market requirements.
Material Properties: Manufactured from flexible plastic materials (LDPE, MDPE or HDPE), it offers high cost-effectiveness and exceptional versatility, making it the preferred choice for manufacturers.
Structure and Flexibility: Available in single-layer or multi-layer constructions, with varying degrees of flexibility from soft to rigid.
Market Position: Owing to its affordability, ease of manufacture, and adequate protection for standard formulations, PE tubing remains the most favoured choice for everyday cosmetics.
Structural Characteristics: The core of this tubing comprises an aluminium barrier layer sandwiched between plastic layers. A typical five-layer structure (PE/EAA/AL/EAA/PE) features an aluminium foil core thickness ranging from 9μm to 40μm.
Protective Properties: Offers exceptional protection against oxidation, light exposure and moisture ingress.
Ideal Applications: Suitable for premium skincare products, pharmaceuticals and formulations containing active ingredients, ensuring maximum shelf life extension and product integrity preservation.
Materials and Environmental Sustainability: Composed entirely of recyclable plastic materials, embodying environmental sustainability.
Barrier Technology: Incorporates an EVOH (Ethylene-Vinyl Alcohol Copolymer) barrier layer, delivering enhanced resistance to oxidation and ultraviolet radiation.
Distinctive Functionality: Features a unique ‘shape memory’ property, ensuring the tubing resumes its original form after compression. This delivers exceptional resilience and maintains an aesthetically pleasing appearance throughout the product’s lifecycle.
Material Composition: Crafted from 99.7% pure aluminium, offering exceptional protection against air, moisture and ultraviolet radiation.
Performance Characteristics: These lightweight, collapsible tubes deliver outstanding product preservation for delicate cosmetic formulations while maintaining a premium metallic appearance and tactile feel.
Environmental Value: Fully recyclable and infinitely reusable without compromising quality, they represent an eco-sustainable packaging solution for high-end cosmetic applications.
Structural composition: This innovative eco-friendly structure combines 60% plastic and 40% paper materials, designed to minimise environmental impact while maintaining the packaging’s functional utility.
Core Characteristics: It merges biodegradable paper components with durable plastic elements, offering a sustainable packaging alternative without compromising product protection.
Market Appeal: The tube supports custom branding and designs, proving highly attractive to environmentally conscious consumers seeking responsible beauty packaging solutions.
Whether high-gloss, matt or eye-catching holographic options, exquisite surface finishes serve as a powerful marketing tool, ensuring your products capture the attention of target consumers at first glance.
Test Method: Conduct comprehensive pressure testing using compressed air to evaluate the hose's sealing integrity and detect potential leakage points. Test Standard: Testing involves applying controlled pressure ranging from 2 to 6 bars. Objective: To ensure seals withstand transportation and handling conditions, preventing product leakage or contamination.
Evaluate the barrier capabilities of tubing (particularly structures incorporating EVOH or aluminium layers) against oxygen, light and moisture, ensuring the efficacy of active ingredients such as vitamin C and retinol is preserved.
Verify that tube materials (e.g., polyethylene, aluminium) exhibit non-reactivity and low allergenicity with the chemical constituents within the formulation, thereby maintaining product sterility.
Assesses adhesion strength of printed designs, labels, and surface treatments through controlled peeling forces. Tests measure initial adhesion performance, stickiness, and peel strength to ensure decorative elements remain intact throughout product lifecycle and consumer use.
Assess the ability of PE or laminated materials to recover their original shape after compression, thereby maintaining the appearance and structural integrity of the hose.
Inspect the performance of the dispensing system (such as orifices, precision nozzles, vacuum pumps) to ensure precise dose control and consistent product flow, thereby minimising waste.
Thickness measurement is a precision test that checks tube wall consistency, ensuring adequate barrier properties and normal functionality for optimal performance and appearance.
For specialised attachments such as rolling balls, brush heads or massage heads, test their cooling sensation, massage efficacy and precision in targeted application.
