How to distinguish latex and non-latex sponge

In our previous article of the production process of beauty blender, we showed the production process of non-latex beauty blender.
It is known that latex sponge has short lifetime, the chipping always fall off, also may cause allergy to our skin. So it is not a good choice for most users. Therefore, non-latex sponge is born at the right moment.
non-latex sponge does not contain latex, so no harm to human body/skin; it includes VE which is good for our skin; no chipping fall off; no smell,eco-friendly etc.
Today, we would like to show you how to check if the sponge is made of latex or non-latex.
In fact, only one method,soak the sponge into water, and see if it will become bigger. If bigger, it is non-latex sponge, if not, it is latex.

Makeup brush material-ferrule and handle

Ferrule Material

The ferrule material can be aluminum, copper

Aluminum ferrule: surface can be anodized to a variety of colors such as silver, black, red, blue, green, etc;

Copper ferrule usually can be plated into limited colors,and the cost is high.

Aluminum ferrule VS copper ferrule:

The cost of copper ferrule is 4-5 times of aluminum ferrule. The hardness is 10 times of aluminum ferrule

Copper ferrule is thicker/brighter/durable than aluminum ferrule.

Handle material:The handle material can be wooden, bamboo, plastic, and acrylic.

Plastic and acrylic handles need molds, so it is not proper for small quantity, as the molding cost is high, and needs to spare the cost to each brush, if the order quantity is not big enough, it is not cost-effective.

Acrylic handles is expensive than plastic handles due to the higher cost and difficult technology.

The advantage of plastic handle is: it can have various shapes/designs 

Wooden handle: the most common wooden handle is birch, the MAC and Sigma brushes are all with birch handles. Some customers will use ebony, but it is too expensive, few users can afford such brushes.

Bamboo handle: also very common and cost-effective, the most famous brands are BB and EDM.

Metal handle: normally can be aluminum handle and copper handles; both can be freely printed logo

Being a makeup brush supplier since 2000, we can supply makeup brushes with different mateirial per customer requirement. Please describe your material requirements in detail and custom makeup brushes from Chinese Makeup Brush Manufacturer at factory price.

Makeup brush Material: Copper ferrule VS aluminum ferrule

From our previous articles, many customers may have known the difference between aluminum ferrule and copper ferrule ,i.e: the cost of copper ferrule is 4-5 times of aluminum ferrule. The hardness is 10 times of aluminum ferrule. Copper ferrule is thicker/heavier/brighter/durable than aluminum ferrule.

However, after plating oranodizing with difference colors, we may not distinguish them by brightness. The following is some tips to distinguish copper ferrule with aluminum ferrule:

1. Copper ferrule is much heavier than aluminum ferrule, with the same brush head and handle, we can obviously feel it by ourselves;

2. Copper ferrule is thicker than aluminum ferrule, enclosed pictures for your reference:

3. Some cheap aluminum ferrules will be easily scratched, copper ferrules will not.

So during customizing makeup brushes, shall we use copper ferrules or aluminum ferrules on our brushes? It depends on your budget and target market. Many luxurious brands only accept copper ferrule due to its brightness and luxurious, as they targets to top customers, so they use best materials for each part: top grade animal hair, copper ferrule, ebony handles. If your target market is middle/low market, it is really no necessary to pay extra cost on ferrules, use better hair material will be a better choice, after all, it is the most important part of the whole makeup brushes, and users can directly feel the quality by touching. 

The production process of beauty blender

Now, almost every makeup artist have a beauty blender in their makeup tool collection. It can give us a flawless makeup due to its good performance in foundation makeup. Beauty blender itself has cute appearance, so it has been sought after by various users for many years. But do you know how the cute beauty blends are produced? The following chart may give you a rough idea on the production process:

During the whole process, the most important step is foaming, in this process, we can control the softness by adjusting the time/temperature etc. Therefore, even with the same material, the softness of the beauty blender from different factories may be different.

Of course, the polishing is also very important, in this step, we can get required shape.

Therefore, during ordering or customizing beauty blenders from us, if customers have specific physical samples to copy, please firstly send the samples to us, so that we can adjust the machine accordingly.

The glue on makeup brushes

During makeup brush production, glues are essential to assemble ferrules to handles. The most common glue used on makeup brushes is glue rods. We put the glue rod into electrical glue gun,after electrified, the glue rod will melt, then we insert the handle into ferrule to finish the assembly. The glue rod will quickly dry in several seconds. More than 90% makeup brush factories use glue rods during the assembly due to its convenience and quickness.

However, after 2 years, or in the environment where has big temperature difference, the handle may fall off from ferrule, as the glue cannot well attach to handles. Such issue seldom happens, but if it really happens, we just need to use lighter to bake the bottom ferrule where connects handles for several seconds. Then the original glue melt, so that we can insert the handle into ferrule to do the assemble again. It is very easy and every one can do it, the only thing is to be careful in case of hurt by hot ferrule.

The second most common glue used on makeup brushes is AB glue, it is a kind of fragile glue and very strong which is hardly fall off. But it is more difficult to assemble makeup brushes with AB glue as it is fluid. If the workers are not professional enough, the handle may slant and cannot well connect the ferrule. Also, if the handle unfortunately fall off from the ferrule, we can only use new AB glue to do the assembly again.