Hair Care Spout Pouches
Custom Shampoo Refill Spout Pouch
Shampoo refill spout pouches with a wide bore for thick product, printed from your artwork. Bulk MOQ 50,000 pcs per size, 1,000 to trial.
Specifications
- Product Type
- Shampoo Refill Spout Pouch
- Application
- Shampoo, conditioner, hair mask, hair treatment
- Capacity
- 250 ml – 1 L (custom)
- Product Type
- Stand-up spout pouch, top or corner spout
- Material
- PET/PE · PET/AL/PE · PET/AL/PA/PE
- Spout
- Bore matched to the product and the filling nozzle
- Cap
- Screw cap / flip cap / pump
- Printing
- Gravure, customer-supplied artwork
- Finish
- Matte / glossy / soft-touch
- MOQ
- 50,000 pcs per size
- Trial
- 1,000 pcs, one design
- Samples
- Free stock samples; printed samples 7–10 days
- Production
- 15–20 days after deposit and artwork approval
- Certification
- ISO 9001, ISO 22000
Custom Shampoo Refill Spout Pouch
A shampoo refill pouch has one job the bottle did not: it has to pour into a bottle the customer already owns, without a funnel and without a mess on the shower floor. The bore, the spout position and the film all follow from that sentence, which is why two pouches that look identical on a shelf behave nothing alike in use.
These are stand-up spout pouches printed with your artwork, from 250 ml to 1 L, for retail refill SKUs, salon sizes and private label. Bulk MOQ is 50,000 pcs per size, with a 1,000-pc trial batch before you commit.
The size follows the bottle, not the shelf
Most refill SKUs land on 250 ml, 500 ml or 1 L, for a reason that has nothing to do with shelf design: those are the bottles already standing in people's showers , and a refill that does not fit the bottle is a refill nobody buys twice.
Pick the pouch so the fill volume matches the bottle the customer already owns. A 500 ml refill in a 500 ml bottle leaves no headroom to top up and no room for a slightly overfilled bottle; a 1 L refill needs a bottle that can be lifted with one wet hand. If you are launching a single SKU, 500 ml is the safest place to start and 1 L is the natural second size for salon and family formats.
The bore decides whether it pours
Shampoo is thicker than water and thicker than most body wash, and a thick product in a narrow bore glugs: liquid leaves, air cannot get back in, and the flow stutters halfway through the bottle. The fix is not a bigger cap — it is a bore matched to the viscosity.
If you fill on your own line, send the nozzle diameter you run and the spout is matched to it, rather than asking your filler to adapt. That single dimension is what keeps a refill SKU from turning into a customer complaint about pouring.
Top spout or corner spout
A top-centre spout is the retail default: it stands in line with the pouch, prints on a flat face, and empties predictably while the pouch stands on its base.
A corner spout suits thicker product and it does something useful at the end of the pack — the customer can tip the pouch further without folding the printed face, so the last of the fill comes out instead of sitting in the corner. For hair masks and treatments, which are thick and expensive per gram, that difference is worth the artwork change.
What the film protects
PET/PE covers most shampoos, including the ones sold in refill programmes that make no barrier claim. Add aluminium (PET/AL/PE) when the fragrance or an active is sensitive to light and oxygen, or when the pack has a shelf life long enough for the perfume to drift.
A mono-PE structure is the one to choose if the refill programme carries a recyclability claim, because it is a single material. Confirm any structure on a filled sample with your actual formula: viscosity, surfactant load and preservative system all affect how the seal behaves over time, and a pouch that passes empty can still fail filled.
A pouch gives one uninterrupted print face — no label to apply, no seam to design around, and no chance of a label being applied crooked on a Monday. Two artwork notes save a plate: keep type and key graphics clear of the seal zone at the top and the gusset fold at the bottom, and check minimum type size at final width, because a line that reads on a mock-up can fill in on film.
MOQ, samples and the first run
Bulk MOQ is 50,000 pcs per size, and each size is its own run — a 500 ml and a 1 L in the same print are two minimums, not one. A 1,000-pc trial batch is available if you want to test the pack in market before committing to the full quantity.
Stock samples ship free. A printed sample takes 7–10 days, and production runs 15–20 days from artwork approval and deposit.
What to send for a quotation
- fill volume, and the bottle the refill is meant to top up
- the product, or just how thick it is
- cap type: screw, flip or pump
- artwork status: finished vector, or still being designed
- destination market, if the refill carries a recyclability claim
FAQ
Will it stand up on a shop shelf?
Yes — the stand-up base holds the pouch upright, and at 500 ml it does so comfortably. At 1 L check the base width against your shelf depth: the pouch gets wider as it fills, and a full 1 L pack is the one that leans.
Can the pouch take a pump instead of a cap?
Yes. A pump-cap pouch is used for salon and back-bar formats, where the pack sits on a shelf and is pumped rather than poured. Pump and cap are chosen with the spout, so decide this before the artwork.
Can both sides be printed?
Both faces can carry print. In practice the front carries the brand and the back carries ingredients, warnings and the barcode, which usually means a second plate and a second proof — worth building into the schedule rather than adding at the end.
