Bottles: 4 Features To Consider When Selecting Packaging For Vitamins and Nutraceuticals

August 30, 2025 • 5 min read

When it comes to leaving a lasting impression on your customers, secure and functional packaging is just as important as eye-catching branding. This is especially true in the nutraceutical industry, where even the smallest design details can significantly impact the quality, efficacy, and shelf life of bottled vitamins and supplements.

At Alltrista, we consider ourselves experts in crafting superior rigid packaging solutions. With a combination of extensive product development expertise and a passion for innovation, we help you deliver the best possible products to your customers.
Four Things to Consider When Choosing Bottles For Your Products
When it comes to product packaging, bottles are a practical and user-friendly choice for vitamins, supplements, and other nutraceuticals. However, not all bottles are created equally. Choosing the right bottle for your brand involves evaluating the specific barriers needed to keep your products safe, effective, and shelf-stable throughout their lifecycle.

Here are four essential factors to consider when selecting bottles for your products:

Moisture Blocking
Limiting moisture and condensation in packaging is extremely important, as even small amounts of moisture can damage supplements, reduce their efficacy, and limit their shelf life. Lightweight, HDPE bottles will protect your product against moisture in multiple environments.

Oxygen Blocking
While oxygen plays a vital role in sustaining life, it can actually be a harmful contaminant to certain products. When exposed to oxygen, many organic compounds commonly found in vitamins lose stability, affecting their potency, longevity, color, smell, and even flavor. This makes oxygen blocking a critical part of the manufacturing process and storage planning to ensure product safety. High barrier strength against oxygen reduces the risk of oxidative damage to help extend shelf life, protect freshness, and preserve quality. 

Light Blocking
While light blocking isn’t a top priority for some bottled products, it is a common concern for medical and nutraceutical products. Many vitamins and supplements (like vitamin C) are light-sensitive and degrade more easily when introduced to UV rays.

Closure Packaging
Bottles and bottle caps go hand-in-hand to protect their contents. Our caps and closures complement the barrier technology in our bottles to prevent leaks and can provide the additional security of being child-resistant. 

Our Lightweighting Capabilities

Our bottles don’t just excel in performance, they’re leading the pack in material reduction too. Our lightweight solutions for rigid packaging create lighter-weight products with all the performance features you’ve come to expect, including no loss in moisture, light, or oxygen barrier qualities.

By optimizing the resources we use to build our bottles, we’re able to provide our customers with multiple benefits, including:

• Product development with a lower carbon footprint
• Reduced overall product weight
• More efficient logistics
• Easier compliance with certain emissions regulations

After switching to Alltrista bottles, our customers achieved nearly 1 million pounds of plastic savings within the program's first year. To put this into perspective, this is equivalent to the weight of 77 African Bush Elephants! It just goes to show just how powerful small but meaningful changes can be.

What Makes Our AllStock^® Bottles Different?

Motivated by continual advancements in technology and material science, Alltrista’s packaging experts have refined the manufacturing process for our AllStock^® lineup of bottles to ensure the highest quality possible. Our lightweight, rigid packaging protects the products inside so you can protect your customers and your brand. By strategically sourcing materials, reducing weight, and focusing on barrier technology, we are redefining what’s possible in packaging.

Our family of AllStock^® HDPE bottles includes sizing in 75cc, 100cc, 150cc, 175cc, 225cc, 300cc, 400cc, and 500cc, with additional sizing options available in 45cc, 50cc, 60cc, 90cc, and 120cc. Additionally, we offer bottle and closure packages to streamline product development, with no custom tooling required. Lastly, we recognize the importance of child-safe closure design, which is why we offer a full suite of child-resistant closures ranging from 28mm to 38mm.

Whether you’re in the middle of the product development process or are still refining your initial concept, Alltrista’s plastic manufacturing experts can make almost anything possible. Reach out today to discover how Alltrista’s lineup of lightweight HDPE bottles and closures can help you bring your product to market with confidence.