Price guide · Cosmetics Personal Care

Plastic Travel Tube: wholesale price

A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.18 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.06 at volume, on a typical 35-day lead time. 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 sizeMedian /unit
500–999 units$0.18
1,000–4,999 units$0.14
5,000–9,999 units$0.12
10,000–24,999 units$0.10
25,000–99,999 units$0.09
100,000+ units$0.06

What moves the price

For plastic travel 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.

For plastic cosmetic travel tubes, price is driven most by diameter/capacity, wall construction (single-layer vs co-extruded), decoration method, and closure style; thicker walls and custom caps raise cost, while higher volume lowers it. The most realistic routes are US-facing packaging wholesalers for stocked standard tubes, or China-based OEM/ODM manufacturers and marketplace suppliers for custom-printed private-label runs with landed-equivalent pricing. The strongest public volume datapoints are at 1000+ and 5000+ quantities, with very large-volume pricing dropping below $0.10 per unit on commodity-style tubes.

Also known as: mini tube, sample tube, travel tube, trial tube.

Paying more than the median?

If you reorder plastic travel tube regularly, run a free savings check — enter what you pay and see it against these researched medians, item by item. About three minutes, no card or account.

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