Price guide · Cosmetics Personal Care
Lip Balm Tube: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.34 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.15 at volume. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $0.34 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.28 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.26 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.23 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.19 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.15 |
What moves the price
For lip balm tube, the drivers are capacity, tube diameter, wall layers, orifice size, cap style — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Published US wholesale pricing from Specialty Bottle shows a mid-range white lip balm tube at $0.27 for 144-999, $0.21 for 1,000-4,999, and $0.19 for 5,000-10,000, while SKS Bottle lists a similar tube at $0.10 each in a 2,500-case bulk pack. The main price drivers are tube format and specs like capacity, diameter, wall construction, orifice size, cap style, and whether printing/custom decoration is included; custom-printed or decorated runs are usually sourced from cosmetics packaging suppliers rather than general commodity bottle sellers. For realistic US-facing routes, the strongest fit is specialty packaging distributors for stock tubes and import/contract-packaging channels for custom-printed high-volume orders.
Paying more than the median?
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