Custom cosmetic tubes for creams and gels

Why choose custom cosmetic tubes

Gels and creams are our core products, and a tube is often their natural home. It has four practical advantages:

• Hygiene: no fingers in the product, as happens with a jar. The formula stays better protected from air and contamination.
• The right dose: you squeeze out only what you need, with no waste. Useful for hand creams, soothing gels and products applied in small amounts.
• Travel-friendly: light, unbreakable and easy to carry. Small sizes are ideal for travel sets and samples.
• Empties almost completely: squeezing the tube uses up nearly all the product, and customers notice.

Cosmetic tubes: materials and sizes

Cosmetic tubes are usually plastic, in a single layer or several. Extra layers give better protection to formulas sensitive to air or light. For each project we propose the material that suits your formula and your target cost, including recycled plastic content where it is available for the chosen format.

We work with different capacities and diameters: from small tubes for samples, minis and custom cosmetic kits to larger sizes for body cream and professional use. Your project manager tells you what is available for your product.

Tube closures

Private label tubes printed with your brand

A tube can be decorated directly, without a label. The most common options:

• Direct print on the tube: the artwork is printed on the tube surface, including in several colours.
• Tube colour: white, clear or coloured tubes to match your artwork.
• Finishes: gloss or matt effect, metallic details.
• Self-adhesive label: for small batches, or to change artwork without reprinting the tube.

Our in-house designers prepare the artwork, check that INCI ingredients, batch code, PAO and the other mandatory information are there, and follow it through to print. A tube has limited space, so if you sell in several countries we plan the languages early: what fits on the tube and what goes on the carton. Products for Great Britain also need a UK Responsible Person address, arranged through partners. See our graphic design and labels service, and if you want a carton for your tube, see cartons and boxes.

What we put in tubes

• Creams: hand cream, face cream, body cream, creams for sensitive skin. See our private label face and body creams.
• Gels: face and body gels, soothing gels, aloe gels. See our private label gels.
• Face cleansers: cleansing gels and creams from our skin care range.
• Dermocosmetics: products for sensitive skin, where container hygiene matters even more.

Before confirming, we check that the formula and the tube are compatible: texture, seal strength, interaction with the material.

Tube or bottle?

A tube is the best choice for thick creams and gels, for small doses and for travel sizes. A cylindrical bottle works better for runny products, large sizes and when you need a pump. If you’re unsure, our guide on choosing cosmetic packaging helps you decide.

Tubes for retail, treatment rooms and kits

In a beauty salon or a pharmacy, a tube is perfect for retail: it takes little shelf space, fits in a handbag and continues the routine at home after a treatment. Treatment rooms use larger sizes that are easy to dose during work. In kits and travel sets, small tubes are the most requested, because they are light and don’t break.

If you sell online, the tube has one more advantage: it weighs little and stands up well to knocks in transit, whether you ship to customers across Europe or to Amazon fulfilment centres.

Quality and suppliers

Our tubes come from certified suppliers we have worked with for years. We fill and seal them in our plant in Pomezia, near Rome, where we produce according to GMP (ISO 22716) under an ISO 9001:2015 certified quality system. Every batch is tested by our in-house lab and by external accredited labs, and is traceable by its batch code. Every product is notified on the CPNP (Cosmetic Products Notification Portal) before it goes on sale in the EU.

Frequently asked questions