Author
Packaging Associate
Published
September 15th, 2020
Length
4 Minutes
You’ve seen beautiful green glass Tata Harper packaging with contrast yellow print on branding mood boards, packaging Pinterest boards, and if you’re like us it’s in your vanity.
The brand’s website explains the materials used in Tata Harper’s packaging and provides the reader with the reasoning behind those material selections. Tata and her husband both Baranquilleros (Viva Colombia!) have been able to craft a brand story that informs consumers on the power of natural and non-toxic beauty. Because as they ask “isn’t health the ultimate luxury?”
Here’s what you can learn from the beautiful Tata Harper packaging.
1. Branding is more than a logo
Tata Harper puts her money where her mouth is by living and breathing her brand promise. Sustainability is more than just words for the brand. It’s easy to tell because choosing FSC papers for packaging isn’t ever the cheapest option. They don’t believe in short cuts or more importantly, they don’t believe in outsourcing. So Tata Harper has built their labs and farms to oversee everything that goes into their bottles.
If you’re building a brand that believes in sustainability and putting people over profits, it needs to show in everything you do.
2. Cellophane level transparency
Each Tata Harper bottle has the batch number etched into the bottom of the bottle that allows you to enter it on the website to see when it was made and who made it. Complete with photos of the team that made your product providing transparency from Farm to Face.
Their paper cartons use FSC materials which the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certifies the paper has been harvested responsibly. FSC paper certification also comes with an FSC number that allows you to enter it into the FSC site to know where the material came from and where it was produced. Part of FSC certification is its chain of custody process which keeps certified and non-certified materials separated throughout the supply chain. Tata Harper’s packaging also uses 100% PCW (Post Consumer Waste) in its recycled paper boards.
3. Become the expert
You may not be an industrial engineer like Tata Harper, but you can still learn how things are made to make the right decisions for your consumer. By picking the right partners and hiring the right employees you can learn enough to fill in your knowledge gaps. You don’t have to know everything, but you need to know you’re asking the right questions. Don’t be afraid to ask questions.
When it comes to packaging there are many materials out there that claim to be sustainable, do your research. For instance, Tata Harper’s glass bottles are surely more costly than acrylic bottles but because glass is highly recyclable that material aligns with the brand they’ve built. The materials you choose say a lot about your brand.
Like Tata Harper, Intl. Direct Packaging has built our factories to produce everything we sell from making our corrugate board to rigid gift boxes and bags. Our teams of industrial engineers have patented many box constructions that are widely used in the market today because we believe in innovation over the status quo.
Each one of our master cartons shipped to clients include a hand-signed label by the person responsible for quality assurance of the product in that box. Our 100% quality control means we inspect every item we produce and can manage a transparent supply chain from start to finish.
No shortcuts.
No middlemen.
We are the factory.
