Tips to make | design your cosmetic box packaging

Paper boxes are an important style of cosmetic packaging. For carton boxes manufacturer, you may find many packaging printing companies, but not many of them specialized in making and producing the function types of cosmetic box packaging. so it may not an easy thing to find an experienced and reliable cosmetic box packaging manufacturer.

Although the characteristics of cosmetic box suppliers are not very obvious, each major cosmetic packaging supplier has its characteristics, so to do a good job with branded cosmetic packaging, you must first understand the characteristics and requirements of cosmetic box packaging vendors. We would like to share some tips about making and designing your cosmetic box packaging.

Common features of different brands of their cosmetic boxes packaging.

The same industry is bound to have commonalities, and the cosmetics industry is no exception. The common features of cosmetic box packaging of Estee Lauder, L’Oreal, and Dior are summarized below.

(1) Their custom cosmetic boxes packaging is more elegant and calm in color design, not fancy, their cosmetic packaging development, their types of cosmetic packaging design often need only 1 to 2 colors to be printed, and the printing difficulty is low, so the cosmetic box packaging does not depend on the printing equipment to a high degree.

(2) Branded cosmetic packaging cartons have high requirements for environmental temperature and humidity control. Therefore, the water content, mold ,and starch content in glue and some hazardous substances in cosmetic box packaging must be strictly controlled.

(3) Branded cosmetic packaging cartons have high requirements for after-printing processing.

Different characteristics of branded cosmetic box packaging.

Different cosmetic companies have a different focus on their custom cosmetic box packaging requirements, so their cosmetic box packaging has its own characteristics, which are mainly reflected in the following two aspects.

1. Selection of paper materials for the cosmetic box packaging.

The paper has usually chosen to make branded cosmetic packaging boxes have gold and silver cardboard (metallic paper), special paper ,and coated paper.

• If choose gold and silver cardboard to print your branded cosmetic packaging, and it is difficult to print and requires the use of UV printing machines to ensure better printing quality.
• If choose special paper to print your branded cosmetic packaging, the printing difficulty is not high, it is not necessary to use a UV printing machine, ordinary printing machines can also ensure its printing quality.
• There’re many other papers to make your branded cosmetic packaging, just choose the one you like below:

2. Difficulty of after-printing processing of your cosmetic boxes packaging.

1. Branded cosmetic packaging box often set one to two after-printing processing difficulties. Although the structure of the cosmetic box packaging used is simple, the printing patterns on the carton box need to be connected and aligned on multiple sides, and the general cosmetic packaging suppliers do not have such processing capabilities. In addition, the anti-scratch measures on the surface of gold cardboard and silver cardboard are also a major difficulty for cosmetic box packaging vendors.
2. Although some branded cosmetic packaging boxes do not deliberately set up after-printing processing difficulties, because they use special paper, the paper stretch rate is large, and the surface of the paper is not protected, making the production of cosmetic boxes packaging when the alignment and after the production of finishing, rubbing glue, etc. are a major difficulty.
3. There’re many different after-printing finishes for you to choose from to make your custom cosmetic boxes packaging.

Tips to prevent scratches on the surface of cosmetic box packaging.

To prevent scratches on the surface of your branded cosmetic packaging box, here, I offer you material and a process.

• Use scratch-resistant sub-film or light film when laminating your custom cosmetic boxes packaging, the scratch resistance of this kind of film is at least 10 times of the ordinary film, but its price is also about 10 times of the ordinary film.
• after doing lamination for your branded cosmetic box packaging and coating with a layer of scratch-resistant oil, and then doing the printing process, which requires a higher level of lamination, in general, the need to use a UV printing machine to print your cosmetic box packaging.

Tips to produce high-quality cosmetic boxes packaging.

• To make your branded cosmetic packaging boxes, the cosmetic box packaging vendor can choose glue with high solid content, strengthen the adhesive force of glue appropriately, and use a thinner layer of glue to achieve a better adhesive effect and reduce the phenomenon of glue overflow.
• During make your branded cosmetic packaging box, the cosmetic packaging supplier can arrange for skilled operators to carry out production operations, requiring their actions to be standardized and in place at one time, to reduce the chance of stopping and rubbing glue in the process of making your custom cosmetic boxes packaging.
• When making sampling for the branded cosmetic packaging boxes, the cosmetic packaging supplier needs to measure the expansion rate of the paper after absorbing the glue, so that we can modify the relevant die lie according to the expansion rate when die-cutting the cover paper to offset the expansion and deformation of the paper.