Cosmetic packaging - make your cosmetics more refined

Cosmetic packaging refers to the outer box packaging of cosmetics. Its components include paper material, surface technology, local detail technology, color printing, etc. The outer box packaging is processed to become an exquisite packaging box. Let us learn about the surface treatment technology of cosmetic packaging.

1. Lamination

Lamination is also called "laminate", "mounting", "filming", etc. It refers to the use of transparent plastic film to apply heat and pressure to the surface of printed matter to protect and increase the gloss. It is one of the common post-printing processing technologies for paper printed matter. It is to heat and pressurize the plastic film and paper printed matter to form a paper-plastic integrated product. After lamination, the printed matter has a thin and transparent plastic film on the surface, which makes the surface smoother and brighter. It not only improves the gloss and fastness of the printed matter and extends the service life of the printed matter, but also protects it from moisture, water, dirt, wear, folding, and chemical corrosion. Lamination generally includes glossy film and semi-film. With glossy film, the printed images and texts on the products are brighter and more three-dimensional, which is especially suitable for the packaging of green food and other products, and can stimulate people's appetite and consumption desire. With matte film, consumers will feel noble and elegant. Therefore, the packaging printing products after lamination can significantly improve the grade and added value of product packaging.

2. UV process

The UV process printing effect process is a printing process that dries and cures the ink through ultraviolet light. It needs to be matched with photosensitizer ink and UV curing lamp. UV ink has covered the fields of offset printing, screen printing, inkjet printing, pad printing, etc. It is to apply a layer of varnish on the printed pattern. The key is to increase the brightness and artistic effect of cosmetic packaging and protect the surface of the product. It has high hardness and resistance to corrosion and friction, and is not easy to be scratched. Some laminating products are now changed to UV, which can meet environmental protection requirements, but UV products are not easy to bond, and some can only be processed by local UV or polishing.

3. Hot stamping

Hot stamping of cosmetic packaging is also called hot pressing printing. It is to make the pattern or text to be hot stamped into a convex plate, and with the help of a certain pressure and temperature, print various aluminum foils on the substrate, showing a strong metallic light, giving the product a high-end texture. At the same time, because aluminum foil has excellent physical and chemical properties, it can protect the printed matter. Cosmetic packaging has always had high requirements for hot stamping technology. In this regard, it is not only necessary to cooperate with high-performance equipment, but also has certain standards for gold paper. The copper hot stamping plate has the characteristics of high hot stamping times, no deformation, and no burrs. For some high-quality paper boxes, we now use the copper electric engraving plate that is hot stamped once on the cigarette box packaging. After hot stamping, it is like engraving on paper, which significantly improves the packaging quality, but the cost is higher than that of ordinary copper and zinc plates.

There are many processes in the process of cosmetic packaging. We can design according to our own different ideas and design a packaging suitable for cosmetics to make our products more pleasing to the eye and attract customers to buy.