Should I choose plastic bottles or glass bottles for cosmetic packaging?

In fact, there is no absolute good or bad for packaging materials. Different products should choose the packaging materials according to various factors such as brand and cost. Only the right one is the starting point for all choices. So how can we better judge whether there should be plastic bottles or glass bottles based on the current products? Then let’s share some differences between the two and their advantages and disadvantages.

Plastic bottles

Advantages of plastic bottles

Compared with glass products, plastic bottles have lower density, lighter weight, adjustable transparency, and are not easy to break; plastic bottles have better corrosion resistance, acid and alkali resistance, impact resistance, and high mechanical strength, easy to shape, and low production loss. Plastic products are easy to color, and colors can be adjusted according to needs. It is easier to meet packaging design requirements. The most important thing is that plastic bottles are relatively cheaper than glass bottles.

Disadvantages of plastic bottles

The disadvantages of plastic bottles are also obvious. People’s first impression is that they are not environmentally friendly. Plastic materials are easy to react chemically with cosmetics, which can easily cause cosmetics to deteriorate. The overall appearance is relatively cheap and not suitable for high-end routes.

Glass bottles

Advantages of glass bottles

1. The composition of glass is relatively stable and it is not easy to react chemically with skin care products. In layman’s terms, it is not easy to deteriorate when using glass bottles to store skin care products

2. Glass bottles have a sense of luxury. Merchants sell skin care products mainly based on two concepts: appearance + effect. Transparent glass bottles often convey a sense of luxury to consumers, and some transparent or colored skin care products look good

3. Glass bottles are heavier, and they feel more substantial in the hand.

4. Glass bottles are easier and more thorough to disinfect than plastic bottles. The simplest and most thorough way to disinfect plastic bottles and packaging materials is to wash them with water and then bake them at high temperature. Glass bottles can be washed and baked without any problem because glass is resistant to high temperatures.

Disadvantages of glass bottles

Glass is more expensive than plastic, so the cost of using glass bottles to store skin care products is relatively high. Glass bottles are easy to break accidentally, and all the skin care products inside will be scrapped, which is too easy to waste. Glass bottles have a fixed shape, large size and heavy volume, which is not convenient to carry when going out.