Private Label Cosmetics

More and more medium sized retail firms to Private Label cosmetics due to the big growth of consumer awareness and motivation to buy products that are copies of branded products but at super prices. This enables the Retail discount stores to sell cheaper and at the same time increase profits as much as 75% in some cases.

Price is not the only advantage of making a private label. For motels and hotel resorts. Private Label Shampoo and Shower gel cosmetics are a great way to add low cost high perceived value for their clients and bringing an exclusive feel to the hotel. Private labeling makes this all be possible even for the smaller hotels, motels and even bed & breakfast accommodation
New Spa, salons and Hairdresser's can also benefit from giving clients there own cosmetic private label. Exclusivity is created and because the private label is yours clients can only buy from your shop or your approved distribution warehouse.

Internet shops and retailer are also now seeing the benefits of creating private labels for the same reasons and for online young companies private label is a great due to the relative smaller amounts of investment needed compared to traditional retailing.

Cosmetic Tube Sealing Machines

Well we thought we would go a little crazy today and push the boundaries of Polythylene Tubes Sites by showing you some examples of what to do when you have your tube it is filled and you need to Seal it up also known as crimping

This first video is a Semi-Automatic Machine Sealing what looks like some cosmetic tubes. These types of machines can be found in Labortories all around the world. Watch out you don't seal your fingers.



Now here's and all singing and dancing Cosmetic Tube Sealer. Whilst it's not at the top of the range super car it's defienatly in the GTI range. Cosmetic Tubes are loaded into the table and goes through filling to Sealing.





Do you work in a Lab with a sealing machine, do you have a passion for Cosmetic Tubes production or maybe it is just your job to market Cosmetic Tubes then we wanna hear from you. So drop us a line and help us make this the biggest Cosmetic Tube Polyethylene Tube site in the World :-)

Top websites on Polyethylene tubes

Some links to Directories, Trade sites and Producers of Polyethylene Tube.
Will be adding to this list as soon as find some more sites please feel free
to send me some more links for review.

Directory of Polyethylene Tubes, Polyethylene Tubes Manufacturers,Polyethylene Tubes
 Suppliers and Exporters of Polyethylene Tubes from India

Polyethylene - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cosmetic tubes - Polyethylene tubes are
manufactured, printed and capped in-line. Special decoration such as
Hot stamping, foil blocking, and labelling are secondary processes.

Polyethylene tubes cosmetic tubes - Alibaba trade directory many suppliers from
All around the world

Overprint on polyethylene tubes

Printing on Polyethylene tubes can be done with the dry offset method, ensuring its perfect quality. Offset machines and the application of special dyes enables printing in a maximum six colors plus the color of the tube.

It is possible to make prints in the PANTONE scale or CMYK depending on the needs.

After printing, the tubes can be covered with matt or glossy UV varnish (also a frosty-glass effect) for the purpose of increasing resistance of print to abrasion. The varnish also also helps make the tubes feel nice to the touch impoving the esthetics of the tube. It also acts as a barrier against e.g. aromatic substances and others being released from products.

You can also add decoration of the tubes with the method of thermal print or "hot stamping" as it is commonly known as. Hot stamping enables you to add Gold, silver, black and other colors to the tubes dependant on the design specification.

Preparation of a graphic print design.
The drawing presents the usable printing area on a tube (giving designers a good opportunity to display their skills!).


It follows from the length of development of the cylinder constituting the side surface of the tube and the length of the tube itself. The bottom margin of the tube may not be smaller than 4 mm in view of the technology of execution of the tube. The top margin of 10 mm follows from the need for placement of photocell marker.

The marker applied here has the dimensions of 2x7 mm. This is can be adjusted to specific customer requirements. The marker enables automated sealing machines to know exactly where to seal the tube.

Bellow you will find some guide lines inorder to prepare your graphic.

The graphic design of the imprint should be developed taking account of the requirements of the dry offset technique. Our specialists and procedures warrant reconciliation of customer requirements with the requirements of the printing technology. The initial Customer’s design should be made in CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator applications.
It should be borne in mind that all graphic elements appearing in the design may not consist of more than six colors in the PANTONE scale (not CMYK).

The design should be made so that:

the cap is at the bottom
the proper location of the photocell marker is visible
the barcode is placed vertically, and its parameters complaint with the standard PR PN-EN 797.

The design should be supplied on one of the following media: diskette, CDR, CD-RW, Zip or by e-mail. In case of sending a design by e-mail, the files should be compressed: zip, stuff. Text objects contained in the design, so-called fonts, should be converted to curves.

Plastic Tubes for Cosmetic Market

Polyethylene manufactured Tubes are perfect for the cosmetic market and have seen a number of companies adopting this form of packaging in recent times.

The strengths of the Polyethylene constructed Cosmetic Plastic tube are self promotion, flexible packaging & ease of trasportation, range of sizes and tops, easy printing to name but just a few.

Self Promotion
Most PE Tube manufactures have the ability to screen print directly onto the Plastic cosmetic tubes. In some cases upto 6 colours can be used plus of course the actual colour of the tube enabling the marketing men and designers to make a whole range of attractive eye catching buy me now tubes. Also due to the nature of the shape of the Pe Tubes the products can easily be displayed on shop shelves whilst still being practical for the end user.

Flexible packaging
During the process of the production of Polyethylene Tubes it is possible to select the degree of hardness or softness. This provides some great benifits for both the manufacture and end user. For the manufacture the plastic cosmetic tubes can be easilly packed in box's and damaging the Cosmetic tubes is quite hard due to the soft squeezy nature of the Pe Tube. For the end user squeezyness is one of the most important features enabling them to squeeze the contents out with ease.

Range of tops and caps
Flip tops, screw tops and even pumps can be added to the cosmetic pe tubes giving a wide range of uses for the contents of the tubes.

Easy Printing
Although the pe tube is quite irregular in shape with modern Polyethylene screen printing machines priniting is easy. Graphics and even pictures can be used and by using a technic called Hot Stamp printing you are able to add Gold, Silver and other colour shiney foil to the design.