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An airless bottle is not one material. Across 68 models and 297 component entries, PP accounts for 132 of them, aluminium appears in 17 and glass in one - and the cap is the part that varies most. Wha...
Read More →Cosmetic bottle neck size is published on 461 of our 514 bottle formats. Four diameters - 24, 20, 43 and 28 mm - cover 360 of them, and one diameter serves sprayers as well as lotion pumps. What the d...
Read More →173 of the 749 formats in our makeup range are palettes. Pan count is the one specification they publish - and 3, 4, 5 and 6-pan palettes each appear exactly 19 times. What the eyeshadow palette packa...
Read More →The three numbers that decide a cosmetic pen's working life - fill volume, dose per actuation and mechanism life - and why a pen usually fails on the second and third rather than the first. Includes t...
Read More →Capacity tells you almost nothing about a cosmetic pen's size. Across 44 models we hold specifications for, the same 4 ml fill spans 61.8 mm of body length. Real diameter, length and material data by ...
Read More →Solid cosmetic pens - sunscreen sticks, wax brow and balm formats - have no fill volume to specify. Across the 12 models we hold, body diameters run 6.63-22.69 mm and the source charts no capacity for...
Read More →No cosmetic pen is a single material. Counted across 44 models: PP on 31, POM/POK on 24, ABS on 13, aluminium on 12. Three distribution patterns the data shows - and what a material change actually co...
Read More →Cosmetic pen packaging explained by format - liquid twist, special twist, liquid click, auto-flow and solid. Real capacity, diameter and tip-option data from 44 pen models, plus the four specification...
Read More →Remote supplier verification for cosmetic packaging - how to check a certificate belongs to your counterparty, what an inspection report must contain to be worth anything, and what video can and canno...
Read More →How to compare cosmetic packaging quotations - the 9 lines that change what you actually pay: Incoterm, tooling, quantity basis, stage-by-stage lead time, sampling, payment, AQL and exclusions.
Read More →Cosmetic packaging tooling explained - how many molds one product really needs, what drives tooling cost, who owns the mold, amortised vs one-off charges, and when an existing mold is the better route...
Read More →Hand-feel is a specification, not a styling choice - how press feel, opening click and in-hand weight are engineered and measured, the standards behind them, and what to write into a supplier brief.
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