Medicos supplies skin care company with refillable plastic and glass solutions
Key takeaways
- Medicos has provided Uriage with a refillable PET jar, glass dropper bottle, and PE tube to support targeted skincare application.
- The Cica Daily Repairing cream uses a refillable PET jar with 30% PCR and recyclable PP refill components.
- The packaging designs combine material reuse, recyclability and application functionality across creams, serums and concentrates.
Medicos, a France-based personal care packaging manufacturer, has equipped skincare company Uriage with three packaging solutions to support product application.
For Uriage’s latest repairing and soothing creams, Medicos has supplied a refillable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) jar, a glass dropper bottle, and a polyethylene (PE) tube with a cannula-based system.
Uriage’s Cica Daily Repairing cream is packaged in a 50 mL refillable PET jar incorporating 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) material, mass-dyed blue, and decorated with white silk-screen printing. In addition, the jar features a polypropylene (PP) refill cup with a sealing lid and a PP cap.
Recycled and reusable innovations
According to Medicos, the PP refill cup and lid are recycled, while the jar and cap can be reused.
“Medicos illustrates the diversity and complementarity of its industrial expertise through its collaboration with Uriage. The group controls the entire value chain, from eco-design to production and decoration, and supports brands in the development of custom-made or standard solutions,” says the packaging company.
Meanwhile, the skin care company’s Circa Daily Intense serum is packaged in a 30 mL glass dropper bottle with a dropper system featuring a glass pipette, a PP cap, and a thermoplastic elastomer bulb. In addition, the bottle can be customized with white silk-screen printing.
Finally, Uriage’s Xemose Pro Soothing concentrate is packaged in a 150 mL PE squeeze tube, decorated with two-color silk-screen printing and fitted with a mass-dyed blue PP cannula.
Medicos also develops primary packaging solutions, including tester caps and makeup palettes, dermo-cosmetics, fragrance, droppers, roll-ons, refillable jars and bottles, cannulas, capsules, closures, and fragrance caps.
Recently, Norner, a Norway-based polymer and plastics research company, and Orkla Home and Personal Care, revealed that bottles made from recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE) exhibit higher chemical migration than those made from virgin HDPE.
However, the research concluded that, with proper quality controls, PCR materials can be used safely in personal care packaging.
