Creative Labelling Ideas for Your DIY Skincare&Haircare Recipes
When you're done creating a DIY skincare and haircare product it is always a good idea to slap that good label on it to improve its appearance to the user but also for other safety reasons such as avoiding misuse or overuse of a particular product. So let's make creative labelling ideas for your DIY skincare&haircare recipes. Now let's go!
HOW TO'S
Creative Labelling
This is the cherry on top of any recipe that is handmade. Labelling is very important part after creating your beautiful skincare and haircare products. Labelling can involve other aspects such as calligraphy, printing, gift wrapping, making of stamps or tags. You can also include other embellishments such as decorative twigs, cute ribbons or bows and twines for tying your products or decorative origami papers of assorted colors. All these is done to make your products unique and stand out among conventional, mass produced products.
These labels can be made from reusable and eco-friendly products that can fit DIY skincare and haircare. These materials are
Brown papers
Decorative assorted papers
Ribbons
Ropes
Twigs
Wooden tags, etc.
As part of any natural homemade products, embracing eco-friendly materials in your labelling can be something that should be promoted due to these reasons;
Recyclable: Find labels than can easily be recycled after use to avoid throwing non-biodegradable, hazardous or toxic labels that can damage the environment leading to increase in carbon footprint, dumping and other adverse climate changes.
Reusable: Some of the labels especially wooden tags or rubber stamps can be used again and again. For instance rubber stamps can be melted and remolded again and again with beautiful imprints on them.
Affordability: For many creating your own skincare and haircare products can save you tons of money, so is creating the labels too. You can print unique, fantastic labels that suit your style that would've sent the price of conventional products of the roof! This privilege is only granted to DIY enthusiasts out there!
Allow space for creativity: When creating your own labels you can let your creative juices flow and make fantastic designs that help you express yourself as an individual. You can always take inspiration from nature, yourself or look out in social media! From out of this world calligraphy to sleek gift wrapping the ideas are just endless!
Embracing minimalist labelling: If you're that person who likes minimalism then this can be your place too. You can do it in a tasteful manner at affordable price than these celebrity brands that charge more for vegan and cruelty-free tags that are actually tasteless labelled ah!
Labelling Your Skincare and Haircare Products
Materials used: You can use one-sided self-adhesive waxed papers to print your own labels. You can cut out decorative papers and create tags and tie them around your Mason jars Use ribbons even biodegradable materials to write on as part of labelling.
Design your own labels: You can handcraft your labels by hand using stationery such as colored pens, water colors, glitters, glue and other cute embellishments that can beautify your labels. You can also get inspiration online and even make AI-generated labels if possible.
Printing your labels: If you're well seasoned DIY enthusiast then you can get your own mini printer and make your own labels. These mini printers some of them come with their own Apps that can help you design your labels with nice fonts and font colors. This can be helpful and help you make labels on the go!
Create stickers and stamps: You can create more wax designed by cute well-engraved rubber stamps. With one-sided self-adhesive papers you can create cute stickers that can make your products pop up.
Gift-wrapping: Another very special aspect of labelling that go one on one with it is gift-wrapping. Using cardboard boxes, decorative papers and ribbons to tie the boxes. Though you should remember that over-wrapping can lead to unsustainability in the environment.
How to Label Your DIY Skincare and Haircare Products
If you've already made your products even if you plan on using them yourself it is always proper to label your DIY products to avoid misuse and misplacement of bottles and jars. If you want to label your products then consider doing the following:
Naming your products: This is crucial part of labelling since the name of the product is the first thing that you see. Find a font style that is readable and sleek. The font size should be big enough to read with a clear background. For example Lemongrass Body Butter.
Listing ingredients: Another thing that you should consider as part of your labelling is including ingredients used to make your products. It makes your product look more legit. Listing ingredients should always start with an order of greatest quantity first and the least quantity last. Also remember to include scientific or botanical name of the ingredients for more clarity. For instance orange (citrus sinensis) essential oil.
How to use the product: Including directions for use can be very important especially if you're planning to gift the DIY products then adding instructions to it can simplify use to the receiver of your product. Clearly list the directions step by step on your label.
Add warnings, cautions or any thing else that you think is going to affect the one who uses the product or the quality of the product overall.
Date of making and expiration of the product: This is very important because many DIY products lack preservatives and should be used in less than six months. Including expiration dates will ensure using your products before they run rancid, stale or moldy and cause other healthy problems.
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