What are the advantages and disadvantages of cosmetic packaging materials, plastic bottles VS glass bottles?

What do you focus on when buying cosmetics? Is it the ingredients of the product? Or is it promotion? Skin care for so many years, have you ever cared about product packaging? You may never know that the design concept of these bottles and cans not only reflects the concept of the brand's skin care, but also affects the use of cosmetics.

What kind of secret is hidden in these various cosmetic packaging? Today, follow Xiaobian to have a look.

Plastic bottles VS glass bottles, which is better?

Friends who have used cosmetics will know that there are mainly two kinds of containers for storing cosmetics: plastic products and glass. Among them, the most used plastic products, accounting for up to 80% of the proportion, followed by glass. Although plastic products have the most choices, it does not mean that plastic is the best "destination" for skin care products.

Advantages of plastic bottles:

1, light product quality, easy logistics transportation, easy to carry application

2, good permeability, tightness, high transparency

3, good production and processing performance, a variety of sizes, shapes, everything

4, product instructions, commodity bar codes, anti-counterfeiting signs, etc., easy to color and packaging printing, and not easy to drop

5, good chemical stability, weak side effects, safety and health

Plastic bottle disadvantages:

However, plastic products also have limitations, plastic products are relatively heat-resistant, light blocking is more limited, the surface layer is easy to pollute, and recycling is relatively troublesome. For some high-end cosmetics or easily volatile, easy to emit fragrance, the choice of plastic material is not so good.

Advantages of glass material:

1, good light transmission, material body at a glance

2, good barrier, can have better quality conditions

3, the ambient temperature tolerance is good, can be high temperature disinfection, can also be stored at low temperature

4, rich raw materials, can be recycled, no pollution to the natural environment

5. Good chemical stability, no toxicity, no odor, clean and sanitary

Glass material disadvantages:

But the glass is also defective, the product quality is relatively large, not to mention, only by "fragile" this defect in the production and processing and logistics transportation must consume a higher cost, and finally will affect the overall price of cosmetics. In spite of this, in the skin care industry, glass packaging materials still maintain a very important position. Especially for high-end skin care products or some special requirements of skin care products, the glass bottle container is not only stored well, but also the elegance and wealth of its crystal transparent, which is also unmatched by plastic bottles.

Why does Serum have a preference for dark brown glass bottles?

There are many products that like dark brown glass bottles as packaging, what "little brown bottle essence", "little black bottle", "red kidney essence" and so on, do you know the truth in this?

The purpose of dark brown glass is to prevent ultraviolet rays in sunlight and prevent some photosensitive active components from being decomposed by oxidation. Under normal circumstances, antioxidant, anti-aging, whitening skin and other highly active skin care products, will be used in dark brown glass bottles. For example, vitamin C, polyphenols and other components are easily oxidized when exposed to air or light. This truth is in fact the same as red wine, storage protection is not good, even 82 years of Lafite finally can only be dumped.

Summary: The packaging of cosmetics is all kinds of, but return to the role and effect, the main focus is to protect the active ingredients, in the final analysis, a precious and delicate, can not see the light, can not withstand the heat, slightly less than satisfactory will also send a temper of cosmetics, must have a good "house" to protect her.

You see, in order to be able to effectively use skin care products on the face of your little sister, the designer can be described as sparing no effort