Cosmetics packaging

Packaging design for cosmetics

Our design process

Whether you have a luxury or a mid-range product, we design high quality bespoke packaging, designed to complement your brand, connect with your customer and protect your product.

At the first stage of every project, we take the time to get to know you and your brand. Once we get a good understanding of what you’re looking for, along with any technical features you might want, we’ll have a team brainstorming session to come up with achievable and producible solutions, not just concepts. When we move to the design phase, we’ll need you to send us your product so we can design around it and offer a complete solution.

One stop shop

Our design team is built from a rare combination of graphic designers and brand experts, with structural engineers, and production technicians. When we work together, our complete specialist knowledge covers the entire packaging process. We can offer more realistic creative concepts than a branding agency, and more innovative production options than a packaging manufacturer.

Benefit from an Independent studio

We’re an independent design studio, which means we aren’t linked to any particular packaging manufacturer, giving us the freedom to suggest the best possible solution and production methods for you. If you ask a tube manufacturer to design you some packaging – you’re going to get a tube. You could miss out on the big idea that could really sell your product.

Environmentally friendly packaging

Sustainability advice

We’re proactive in advising environmental and sustainable solutions for every packaging project we take on. This could be by offering alternatives to plastic and foam, or reducing them to a minimum and making them easy to separate for recycling. More suitable card materials can be sourced, that are not just sustainable and recyclable, but could also be a higher quality, possibly stronger and much better to print onto. All without compromising your brand.

Plastic free & reduced plastic cosmetics packaging

Moving away from plastics is not always easy, with the importance of barriers and being able to view the product. Our designers will work with you to offer alternative solutions that securely protect your product.

We recently worked with Superdrug on a range of cosmetic product packaging, where we were able to reduce the plastics by around 80%.

Recyclable packaging

As you are probably already well aware, recycling guidelines and rules are ever changing in the UK. By working with us, you can guarantee your packaging meets the national OPRL standards for recyclability. We can design packaging with fully recyclable materials, that are easy to separate, and give you the best practice advice for labelling your packaging.

Vegan cosmetics packaging

If you’ve got a vegan friendly brand and product, the last thing you’ll want is to find out that your premium luxury high end packaging uses animal glue for the construction. By working with us, we can offer the extra certainty that your packaging is vegan too.

Reduce your carbon footprint

All our packaging is made in the UK using FSC certified materials sourced from market leading suppliers with whom we have long established relationships. This ensures the availability of high quality stock, with guaranteed and improved lead-times, as well as the assurance that your packaging hasn’t been on a world tour.

As well as recommending suitable materials and increasing the shipping efficiency, we design packaging that can be flat packed, and advise palletisation methods for pre-assembled units so that your packaging takes up fewer pallets.

Cosmetics packaging prototypes

Production quality cosmetics prototypes

Our in-house studio workshop produces small batches of production quality packaging. Perfectly suited for showing to stakeholders, for pre-sales enquiries, promotional events, market testing, and TV productions.

We use the materials that we would specify for production, and offer colour matching alongside premium print finishes including embossing, foiling, lamination, spot gloss and metallics.

Printed prototyping can also be applied to bottles, tubes, cans and tins.

Some available finishes:

Cosmetics packaging production

UK production

The vast majority of our packaging production is manufactured here in the UK with our long established suppliers. We don’t source packaging from the far east in order to maintain full control over each and every project. If any issues do arise, we can react quickly to prevent any potential delays, ensuring we hit the agreed delivery date.

Short run production

We offer a short run production service as a cost effective solution from anywhere between 1 and 200 units, perfectly suited for start-ups, market testing or promotional events.

Popular cosmetics products

The Hybrid Slider box

A popular alternative to luxury solid boxes, which are often made in the far east and constructed using animal glues - hybrid boxes can be made in the UK using fully vegan manufacturing processes. They can be wrapped with high quality coloured papers or printed designs to create a fully custom look. All the feeling and quality of a solid board box, but fully recyclable. Hybrid boxes can be supplied flat-packed – offering savings on warehouse space on transport.

Retail boxes

Bespoke retail boxes, customisable with different bases or fitments, and available in all kinds of materials and finishes.

Gift boxes and sets

We can make perfectly sized tray and lid boxes, sleeved boxes, and paper-over-board solid gift boxes. We can even create something totally custom, just for you.

Mail order and subscription boxes

Boxes strong enough to go straight in the post, but looking like they’re just off the shelf.

Ready to post boxes perfect for subscription boxes and e-commerce. Printed inside or out, (or both). Give your customers a sturdy box they’ll want to hold on to.

CDU and Shelf Displays

Perfect for retail stalls, promotional events or helping you to sell into retailers, a bespoke CDU ensures your product will be seen exactly how you want people to see it.

Looking for something more creative?

Check out our influencer marketing boxes

Check out our range of social marketing packaging for influencers - we can tailor-make packaging for just about any product and are always coming up with ways to make premium fitments to replace non-recyclables like foam with FSC-certified sustainable materials.