FEATURE YOUR SWEET STORY: LABELS THAT PRESERVE AND PROTECT YOUR HONEY BRAND
With honey being a versatile and nourishing food product on its own, we have seen our customers also acknowledge this as a powerhouse ingredient in cosmetic and bath and beauty products. We promise to match this versatility with our own selection of durable and food safe labels to make sure that whether in the kitchen, the bathroom, or inside a purse, your own custom honey labels stay put and look good all the time.
Choose from a variety of our standard pressure-sensitive and self-adhesive paper (coated and uncoated), plastic film (white BOPP), clear PVC, foil (PET and metalized paper options), and kraft label stocks for your unique requirements. When choosing your label stock it’s important to consider the regular use and environment of your products.
RECOMMENDED STOCKS FOR HONEY LABELS
White plastic film stock is our recommended material for most honey label applications. This covers all kinds of honey products—whether on shelf, in the shower, in purses–this material will stand up to abuse. Extremely durable and flexible, these self-adhesive labels come in a beautiful pearlescent milky white with high opacity and shine, developing vibrant prints, with high contrast. This is especially valuable for curved surfaces such as honey jars, or cosmetic tubes and tubs. This stock is tear-proof and impervious to water and oil. Add laminate to give prints more resistance to friction and constant handling.
This is our only recommended stock for squeezable honey bottles. Other stocks with a plastic base can work if your labels aren’t going to be wraparound labels. Separate front and back honey label panels won’t pull against each other from compression and decompression, but may bubble or wrinkle after a while. If you want a no-fail option, this is the stock for you.
White paper stock is our cost-efficient honey label option since it is the least expensive material that costs less than plastic labels, but have comparable print quality, strength, and durability needed for simple honey packaging applications.
While we do have a white matte uncoated stock, if choosing this option, we strongly advise adding a laminate to make the labels hardy against oil, moisture, and frequent handling. To mimic uncoated paper labels’ finish, add matte laminate for a more satin finish.
Kraft paper stock is another popular choice for natural products. The warmth of its brown color and eco-friendly feel are main visual factors that make this stock a perfect match if you are after a more organic brand image. Our kraft stock has more yellow undertones—if you would like this stock for your custom honey labels, we recommend requesting for samples or a hard proof to verify that the kraft packaging that you have matches our kraft paper or that you are happy with our specific kraft paper.
This label stock isn’t going to work well with honey products that will be exposed to moisture and friction (such as honey skin cream, honey lip balms, or products that need refrigeration) as this stock is uncoated and this will pose problems with print longevity. Frequent handling, oil, and water will wear away your kraft honey label, making the paper base crumbly as it deteriorates with use. This stock is recommended for on shelf packaging.
Clear plastic film (PVC) stock is a popular, versatile and stylish choice for, particularly if you want your label to “disappear” on your honey containers. Clear labels will give you that “no label look” or printed-right-on-the-container look which works in synergy with clear honey jars to highlight golden color, clarity/consistency. This label stock is also a cheaper option compared to diecut labels (cookie cutter shape labels) since you would simply need to print white and colored ink on areas that need to be conspicuous—the clear, unprinted label material will blend onto the container, taking after the color of its background, leaving you with any custom shape of whatever has been printed.
Try using this stock for jar top honey labels to create a seamless look on your covers. You can mix it up by using an opaque stock only for labels that require visibility, such as tamper-proof vertical honey label wraps. And if you don’t want to include the best before date on your main label, you can opt to have another label for the bottom of your honey jars.
Foil silver stocks (Silver PET and Silver Metalized Paper) and our Holographic silver stock will capture the attention of your customers, especially since this differentiates strongly from the usual “organic” look and style expected of honey packaging. These specialty stocks will make your honey labels look markedly custom. The foil stocks can be cheaper alternatives to hot or cold foil stamping, if you require metallic-looking prints. Our holographic silver stock has a signature rainbow sheen that is conspicuous enough to capture any customer’s fancy and can work well with creative concepts to give your honey labels a unique shelf appeal. These label materials come with either gloss or matte laminate to further protect your custom honey labels against friction and fading.
To achieve certain effects, using these stocks will require a bit of planning and Prepress work to ensure that the final look matches your concept. Contact us and we’ll help set this up for your order on your label artwork, free of charge.
CHOOSING LAMINATE FOR HONEY LABELS
A laminate is a clear, protective coating that also changes the final finish of your honey labels. Once applied, it creates a smoother label texture and protects the print from wear-and-tear against rubbing or scuffing.
CHOOSE MATTE LAMINATE – For a flat, non-glare label finish, with printed colors that are soft and muted. Generally, colors are duller with less contrast. Matte coating is forgiving with low resolution prints and provides for a refined appearance. If you are writing lot codes or batch numbers for your honey permanent markers are ideal, however ballpoint pens may have minimal smearing depending on its quality.
CHOOSE GLOSS LAMINATE – Gloss makes your labels extremely smooth and allows them to reflect a lot of light, for high shine. This reproduces vibrant color and delivers sharper detail due to higher contrast (shadows are darker and highlights are brighter). This is great for labels with vibrant color palettes, for a more commercial look. Gloss also provides more protection against ink scuffing compared to matte laminate, especially with paper labels.
CHOOSE HOLOGRAPHIC GLOSS – Same as gloss laminate, but with the addition of a transparent color gradient that is only apparent once the surface catches light at different angles. The transparent rainbow effect transforms old honey label artwork into a more stunning piece, with its golden background if you are using clear honey jars. This kind of laminate doesn’t suit all label designs and concepts. We suggest getting a label sample to check if this will enhance your existing label artwork.