Makeup packaging featuring a foundation bottle, lip gloss tubes and a makeup remover bottle with gold-colored closures.

Makeup Packaging
for Beauty Brands

Fomalhaut manufactures empty makeup packaging for beauty brands, including foundation bottles, lip gloss tubes and makeup remover bottles. Choose packaging to suit your formula and dispensing needs, then explore custom colors, printing or a new bottle design.

Choose Packaging for Your Formula

Packaging type What to decide What to check in a sample

Foundation Bottles

  • Set the target fill volume and how customers should dispense the foundation.
  • Review bottle size and material alongside your formula and filling process.

Use your actual formula to assess how it dispenses and whether the amount delivered suits the intended use. Check the sample against your target fill volume.

Lip Gloss Tubes

  • Decide the fill capacity and how you want the applicator to pick up and apply the product.
  • Consider the applicator shape and how much product it should carry.

Try the applicator, wand, tube neck and wiper with your formula. Check how much product remains on the applicator as you pull it out of the tube, and how it applies.

Makeup Remover Bottles

  • Define the formula, target fill capacity and how the remover will be used.
  • Decide whether users will pour or press to dispense it, including onto a cotton pad.

Use your formula to assess the dispensing amount and whether the closure suits the way customers will dispense the remover. Include sealing and formula compatibility in the agreed sample checks.

Product-specific sample checks can assess capacity, dispensing and formula compatibility; the test plan depends on the packaging and your requirements.

If your project requires post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, share your preferred material and target recycled-content percentage so we can review suitable packaging options.

Explore PCR Packaging Options

Custom Makeup Packaging from Existing Designs

Use an existing design when its shape and function suit your product and you want to change its appearance for your brand.

Colors, Finishes and Decoration

Red glass dropper bottle with spray coating and gold hot-stamped lettering
Spray coating & hot stamping
Green glass cosmetic jar with spray coating and white silk screen printing
Spray coating & silk screen printing
Frosted glass bottle with a colorful transferred pattern
Frosting & pattern transfer

Surface decoration examples on glass packaging.

Colors & finishes
Bottle, pump and cap colors can be customized, with gloss, matte or soft-touch finishes.
Printing & packaging
Decoration includes silk screen printing, hot stamping and labeling. Matching paper boxes can also be included.

Suitable finishes and printing methods depend on the material, component shape, artwork and order requirements. Technical evaluation and sampling take place before production.

Explore Custom Cosmetic Packaging Design

Samples, Order Quantities and Production

Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ)

Orders typically start at 10,000 pieces (negotiable) for standard glass and plastic packaging, including PCR options, and for printing or spray coating on existing designs. Final MOQ depends on the product, material, decoration, components and order requirements.

Custom Color and Printing Samples

A sample with custom spray coating or printing typically costs USD 200 per style and takes about 14 days. The sample fee can be refunded after a bulk order if the approved print artwork remains unchanged. The quotation and refund terms are confirmed for each order.

Bulk production

Production with custom colors or printing on existing packaging designs typically takes 30 days after artwork and sample approval. Final timing depends on the specifications, components, quantity, testing and production schedule. Shipping time is separate.

Develop a New Bottle or Component

If an existing design does not meet your shape or component requirements, new-mold development can cover glass bottles, plastic bottles and plastic components.

Operator working at mold machining equipment for cosmetic packaging
Mold development and machining

Share Your Design Requirements

A drawing or reference image, target dimensions, material preference and expected quantity help us evaluate the proposed design.

Minimum Order Quantities and Lead Times

Typical starting quantities for new-mold projects

Plastic
10,000 pieces (negotiable)
Glass
30,000 pieces (negotiable)

For either material, the final MOQ depends on the product, decoration, components and order requirements.

From Design to Production

  1. Design & engineering evaluation
  2. Mold development

    Typically 45 days

  3. Sample approval

    Before bulk production

  4. Bulk production

    About 30 days after sample approval

Specifications, components, quantity, testing and the production schedule affect the final timing; allow additional time for shipping.

Explore Mold Development
Glass bottles on production equipment in a cosmetic packaging workshop
Glass bottle production
Workers inspecting cosmetic packaging at inspection stations
Packaging inspection
Operator beside plastic injection molding equipment for cosmetic packaging
Plastic molding
Cosmetic packaging samples and testing instruments in the laboratory
Testing laboratory

Packaging Manufacturing and Quality Control

Fomalhaut manufactures cosmetic packaging at its own factory in Yuyao, Zhejiang. Our production processes include molding, decoration and assembly.

Sample-Based Testing

We test samples for:

  • Dimensions and capacity
  • Sealing and dispensing
  • Formula compatibility

The test plan is set for each product and order.

Appearance & Printing

We inspect the appearance and printing of every unit (100% inspection).

Explore Our Manufacturing Facilities

Request a Packaging Quote

Tell us which packaging you need, the target fill capacity, order quantity and any color, printing or new-design requirements. Include your company name and contact email. If available, include a link to a reference image or drawing in your project details.

Tell us your target market and preferred delivery date to help us prepare a relevant quotation. You can start with the details you have and discuss the rest with us.

Portrait of a Fomalhaut team member