The most comprehensive knowledge of lipstick tube packaging materials

Color cosmetics market from 2016, all kinds of color cosmetics products in the market wind up, therefore, led to the color cosmetics upstream package material factory of the overall market, color cosmetics category is very much, we this issue is mainly introduced to the followinglipstick tubeThis category package, for your reference, has a posting some time ago about theLipstick Packaging Products OverviewBut are some of the surface of the broader things, only a preliminary understanding of the lipstick tube package, today we say some about the lipstick tube package more comprehensive knowledge.

Lipstick tube is the most complex of all cosmetic packaging materials, lipstick tube is a combination of multiple components, different materials with functional packaging, from the material body, but also divided into volatile and non-volatile type (airtight/non-airtight), coupled with filling most of the machine automatic filling (pre-filling, filling, filling, direct filling, etc.), including the filling of the tube, the way the lipstick tube is filled, the combination of different parts, poor tolerance control, or poor design, even if the lubricant is applied in the wrong way, will cause downtime or abnormal function. Or the design is not reasonable, even if the lubricant is applied in a wrong way, it will cause downtime or abnormal function.

I. Production process

1. Basic materials
Lipstick tube is divided into all-plastic lipstick tube, aluminum-plastic combination tube, etc., in which the commonly used plastic materials are PC, ABS, PMMA, ABS + SAN, SAN, PCTA, PP, etc., and the aluminum models are commonly used 1070, 5657 and so on. There are also users in order to express the product temperament and its brand tone, the use of zinc alloy, sheepskin and other materials as lipstick tube accessories materials.
2.Molding process
Lipstick tube plastic material to injection molding process, such as the cap, base and the center bundle core within the relevant accessories.
3. Surface treatment
The surface of lipstick tube can be treated with many processes, for plastic parts, can be sprayed, plated, vaporized, laser engraving, inserts and other surface treatment processes, while aluminum products can be oxidized plating, anodic treatment processes, and so on.
4. Graphic Printing
The lipstick tube's cap, the base can be according to the user's needs, on the top of the screen printing, hot stamping / silver, pad printing, thermal transfer, water transfer process for graphic information processing.

II. Product structure

1. Product classification:
According to the components: cover, bottom, beam core (beam, beads, forks and spiral), etc., in which the beam is generally aluminum products, after anodic treatment has a better hardness as well as metal texture, and also plastic injection molding.
Bead inner diameter: 8.5mm, 8.6mm, 9mm, 9.8mm, 10mm, 11mm, 11.8mm, 12mm and many more;
Number of bead ribs: 4-rib, 6-rib, 8-rib, etc.
By product structure: traditional lipstick shell case , slim type, lipstick/lipgloss case, lip balm, powder, lipstick oil, etc..
Filling method: bottom pouring, top positive filling

2. Cover
Lipstick tube caps are usually aluminum caps or acrylic caps, ABS caps and so on.

3、Base
The base is usually acrylic or ABS plastic, there are also aluminum as the base material. There are also some suppliers in order to increase the feel, but also in the inside of heavy iron, but heavy iron glue problems, equal to the lipstick tube inside an increased risk, coupled with the vibration of transportation in case of deglossing to form a quality accident, so that the customer experience worse.

4、Middle beam core
The center bundle core is the core component of the lipstick tube, equivalent to the heart part of the product, the lipstick tube product whether the customer experience is good, basically the function is in the experience of the center bundle core, it its carrying the entire lipstick tube product torque, smoothness, blocking force, insurance force, bead bearing force and other functions.

Bead fork screw is generally a double helix structure, its pitch is longer, after a rotation of the bead travel distance is larger, so some users also called fast screw. Beads fork screw is the core component of the lipstick tube, is the beads, fork, spiral, beads fork screw and lubricant constitute the core of the lipstick tube, beads (cup) is directly in contact with the lipstick meat body of the mouth cup part of the fork (fork) beads in the straight line direction of travel track, spiral (Spiral) beads in the direction of the spiral upward travel track, and the fork with the rotary process to achieve the bead on the line The purpose of the

Bead fork screw is a bit like a pump core, but more complex than the pump core, there are some manufacturers say lubricant-free bead fork screw design, but the current application is not widespread. Bead fork screw standardized drawings must be standardized, otherwise, their own size are not allowed to grasp the back of the assembly, the complexity of more factors, the results can be expected, injection molding materials must be verified by the compatibility of the material body, or compatibility issues occur, spinning on the spinning down the problem is not good, the bead fork screw is the most important.

III. Cosmetic applications

lipstick tubeAs the name suggests, it is applied to lipstick and lip balm products. However, with the rise of lipstick products such as lip stick, lip gloss, lip glaze, etc., many packaging factories have fine-tuned the packaging structure of lipstick tubes to form a full range of applications, which will be described in detail in our classification later.

Color Cosmetic PackagingThere are mainly two bases in China, one is Shantou, Guangdong, the other is Yuyao, Ningbo and the neighboring Shangyu area, and there are some other suppliers in other places such as Guangzhou, Suzhou, Shenzhen and so on. Such as Shantou Xingu, Zhejiang Yongsheng, Guangzhou Yongyi and so on.