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Beauty and Cosmetic Labelling Requirements
Labels on product packaging are not just about getting across your branding and product name. In fact, labels play a crucial part in ensuring compliance and user safety when using your product. In this guide to beauty and cosmetic [...]
Gift Packaging and Wrapping Tips for the Holidays
A gift-wrapping option is a popular extra that online retailers can provide to help make shoppers’ lives easier, especially around holidays. Going the extra mile with gift packaging can also elevate the recipient’s unboxing experience. E-commerce retailers should always [...]
9 Luxury Packaging Ideas to WOW Customers
Packaging can be just as instrumental as the product itself in conveying quality and value. As the first thing a customer sees, it is critical your packaging makes a good impression and conveys your brand well. Don’t underestimate the [...]
How to Build and Scale a Cosmetic E-Commerce Empire
In 2020 e-commerce has grown exponentially, with brands across all industries picking up lost business from physical stores with online sales. Multiple lockdowns, ‘stay at home’ orders and the inevitable decrease of the high street has made e-commerce not [...]
Beauty and Cosmetic Industry Trends Worth Noting
2020 has been a year of adaption and change across all industries, including beauty and cosmetics. As consumers shop online more frequently, shun makeup for bare face beauty and regard the environmental impact of their actions, the industry has [...]
Switching to Eco-Friendly Cosmetic Packaging
Businesses that have not yet evaluated their environmental impact and assed their packaging are behind. Using eco-friendly packaging materials is just one of many actions businesses can take to help the environment and meet the environmental concerns of consumers. [...]
Why Aluminium Tube Packaging Is So Popular in Cosmetics
Used historically since the mid-1800s, aluminium tubes, along with other metals, have long housed all sorts of products from a variety of sectors. Commonly used for cosmetics (or as may be remembered by some, specifically toothpaste), aluminium tubes are [...]
Medicine Bottles – Tips for Using Bottles for Medicines
Medicines can come in a variety of packaging types, usually defined by product quantity and medicine form, i.e. capsules or liquid. The main types of packaging for pharmaceutical goods includes blister packs (preformed plastic/foil packaging for solid tablets) and [...]
A Beginner’s Guide to Different Types of Bottles
Bottles are hugely popular packaging types for a whole host of products, from industrial to household goods. They hold significant volumes, keep product protected from external contaminates, can be cost effective to transport and come in a variety of [...]
Getting Started with Wholesale Bottles
Businesses across the world benefit from wholesale purchasing; from cost savings to logistical ease. Although often associated with large traders, both small and large businesses can leverage the benefits of buying wholesale. Before you jump online and place your [...]
Take Your Brand to the Next Level with Custom Bottles
Are you looking to take your product design and branding to the next level? With custom product bottles you can create an experience that not only markets your product, it helps to create a unique identity for your product. [...]
Using Bottles for Oils – A Beginner’s Guide
Bottles are the most common containers for oil, from beauty serums to olive oil. Fluid products, including oils, suit packaging in bottles due reduced leaking risk and options of lid/caps for dispersion. There are many advantages to using bottles [...]
Cosmetic Bottles – Reasons to Use Bottles for Cosmetics
Cosmetic bottles are a fantastic way to display and market your cosmetic products, but what benefits are there to using bottles instead of other forms of packaging? Here at Fillcon, we have been working within the cosmetic packaging, bottle [...]
Bottle Lids and Caps – Everything You Need to Know
There are many different bottle lids and caps all suited to different purposes across industries from cosmetics and household goods, to food and drink or medical uses. Whether you are looking for the perfect bottle lid/cap for your luxury [...]
Bottle Design – How to Make Your Bottles Look Amazing
Packaging plays an important role in a product’s success. No matter how good the product, if it isn’t marketed well or given its perfect packaging, it simply will not be chosen by consumers. Bottles are an incredibly versatile packaging [...]
How to Use Cosmetic Samples to Grow Your Business – A Step by Step Guide
Cosmetic samples are a sure-fire way to entice new customers to try your brand, raise awareness of new products, and keep your loyal customers happy. Sampling has transformed from the whimsical imaginings of perfume clouds in decadent department stores [...]
Everything you Need to Know About Recycling Bottles
In the UK around 60% of all glass bottles are recycled, but with very little effort, this figure could be much higher. When looking for a packaging solution for your cosmetic products that is environmentally friendly, sustainable glass should [...]
6 Benefits of Using Cosmetic Tube Packaging
Tubes are universally popular cosmetic packaging solutions. If you want packaging that protects your product, promotes your brand and is easy for customers to use, tubes are for you. From gels and creams, to lotions and scrubs, tubes are [...]
Fillcon display at Packaging Innovations Birmingham
Fillcon will be displaying their latest range of cosmetic packaging solutions at Packaging Innovations Birmingham on the 26th and 27th February 2020. Packaging Innovations Birmingham is the UK’s leading packaging event for the wholesale packaging supply chain. Boasting 6,900+ [...]
Using Travel Size Tubes for your Product
As travel becomes cheaper and easier in our modern world, customers are looking for smaller cosmetic solutions, like travel size products. But there are lots of other reasons and advantages to having travel size products. Read on to find [...]
Sample Packaging Ideas and How to Get Started
Providing product samples is a key marketing strategy for many cosmetic companies. Consumers adore freebies and the chance to fall in love with the next best cosmetic product. We’ve put together this guide to sample packaging to help you [...]
8 Benefits of Using Bottles for Product Packaging
When shopping, you are likely to see lots of bottles on the shelves, but what makes them so great? We’ve put together the top benefits of using bottles for product packaging. Easy to Adapt Bottles are incredibly adaptable [...]
A Guide to Eco-Packaging
Consumers are becoming ever more environmentally conscious, aware of the harmful effects packaging can have on our world. With climate change and the likes of David Attenborough proving to everyone that we need to look after our environment, the [...]
What is the Best Material for Cosmetic Product Packaging?
When creating or selling a cosmetic product, one must consider packaging. It’s the first thing the consumer sees, so it needs to be attractive and reflect the brand. It protects the product, so it needs to be effective and [...]
Personal Care Packaging Supplier – Shampoo, Gels, Creams & Liquids
Fillcon was established in 2011 to show the world that their team could stand toe-to-toe with the competition and exceed their capability by manufacturing billions of cosmetic sachets for the world’s biggest brands. During their early stages, the team [...]
4 Benefits of Using Sachets for Product Packaging
Traditional methods of packaging cosmetic products are quickly being left in the dust by cosmetic sachets, but why are manufacturers and suppliers opting for sachets over bottles and tube packaging? We put together a list of some of the [...]
What Makes the Best Cosmetic Product Packaging?
The cosmetic industry is one of the few industries in the world that manages to create extensive loyalty and dedication to a brand. Once you win over a customer with your cosmetic products, they will keep buying your products [...]
Packaging Trends 2020 – Attract New Customers and Grow Your Brand with these Packaging Trends
With the public’s growing sense of alarm about damage to the global environment, and with governments around the world starting to react to these concerns, it is no surprise that green issues such as sustainability are at the top [...]
7 Branding Tips to Make Your Sachet Packaging Successful
When it comes to selling products, packaging is crucial. Packaging is often the first thing customers look at as they browse through product ranges in shops or online. Your sachet packaging undoubtedly impacts a customer’s decision on whether they [...]
Fillcon Website Live
Fillcon is proud to announce the launch of their new website. The new website showcases the services provided by Fillcon, details information on bespoke packaging and sachet solutions and lots more. Take a look around and see what you [...]