Printed boxes and pouches for loose leaf tea, tea bags and gift sets. Most of our tea people put a foil-lined mylar or kraft pouch inside a printed carton. Bagged tea? Then a carton with a pull-out dispenser front. Either way the smell stays in the bag and the damp stays out.
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Tea won’t shatter. It fades, though.
Leave a nice sencha in a paper bag by a sunny window and give it a few weeks, it’ll smell like a barn, so what our tea packaging boxes and bags really do is keep out the stuff tea hates, which is light and air and damp, and (people forget this one) the smell of whatever’s sitting next to it on the shelf, like a cinnamon candle.
We pack tea for small blenders selling online, cafes with a house blend, herbal and wellness brands, and gift companies doing sampler sets. Usually it’s two layers. There’s a pouch or inner bag sealing the tea in, then a printed box over it that does the talking.
Loose leaf wants a pouch you can reseal. Mylar with a foil layer is the one most specialty tea goes in, it blocks light and air better than anything else we do. Herbal or organic? Kraft paper with a lining inside looks softer and more natural, and we’d still add a zipper either way, because otherwise the last few spoonfuls taste like nothing.
Sizing is weird with tea. Tightly rolled oolong or gunpowder green is dense, 100 grams fits in a small bag no problem, but fluffy white tea or chamomile flowers might need three or four times the room for the same weight, so honestly just fill a sample bag with your real tea before you pick. Our mylar bag guide shows typical pouch sizes and capacities.
For bagged tea we’d normally do an SBS carton, holding 20 or 25. A perforated dispenser front means people tear it once and pull bags out one by one, and the lid stays shut. Bags not wrapped one by one? Then drop a foil inner bag in the box, or they go stale after the first week.
Fancy pyramid sachets often feel more special in a smaller box with fewer in it, say ten. For gifts, some brands go with a rigid lidded box holding a few tins or pouches, which is lovely for a holiday sampler.
Tea people read everything. Where it’s from, how hot the water should be, how long to steep, what it tastes like, so we’d put all of that on the back and sides and keep the front calm. A craft blender usually looks right on kraft with one or two inks; herbal and wellness brands go white with soft illustrations. On gift boxes, foil and embossing look gorgeous.
A few formats tea brands ask us about a lot:
Selling coffee too? Our custom coffee boxes and zipper pouches can be done to match the tea, and there’s more over in food and beverage packaging.
Mylar keeps it fresh longer, the foil just blocks more light and air. If your tea sells fast, though, a lined kraft pouch is fine and looks more natural.
If the tea bags aren’t wrapped one by one, yes, it helps a lot. Especially with delicate greens and floral blends.
You can start with often around 50 depending on the style. Production is 10 to 12 business days after you approve the proof, and ground shipping is free across the USA.
Building a full product line? Take a look at custom milk carton, custom beer boxes, custom coffee pod boxes and custom pet food packaging boxes. Everything in this range is listed under food and beverage.
