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Mascara filling machine from China

Mascara is thick, the fill is tiny and the neck is narrow, and a machine that doses well can still leave you pressing a wiper into every bottle by hand, because most quotes stop at filling and capping.

Ask about this machine ↗Where the numbers come from

Written and listings checked 30 September 2026. Every figure on this page names its source.

What you are actually comparing.

Two quotes, one machine name

What hides inside the price

Wiper insertion

The wiper sits in the neck and controls how much product the brush picks up. Ask whether the machine sorts and presses wipers, how it checks each one is seated, and whether your wiper was tested.

Dosing a very thick product into a narrow neck

Piston, rotor pump and pressure-tank dosing all appear under this name. A thick, fibre-loaded mascara needs a nozzle that fits inside the neck and fills from the bottom, or air stays trapped in the vial.

Brush cap placing

The brush must enter the filled vial straight without pushing product over the neck. Ask whether caps are fed automatically and how the stem is guided.

Pucks and small containers

Slim mascara vials cannot stand on a conveyor by themselves. Ask for pucks or holders per vial size and what an extra set costs.

Evaporation during stops

Mascara skins over in an open hopper. Ask whether the hopper is closed and whether the nozzle seals between fills.

Before you ask for a price.

Send these with the enquiry. Without them, any number a factory gives you is a guess dressed as a quotation.

Vial, wiper and brush cap samples from your component supplier.
Your mascara, with viscosity and whether it contains fibres.
Fill volume and tolerance.
Vials per minute and whether other liquid products share the machine.
Whether you need a labeller and a date coder after capping.

Turn the claim into a demonstration.

Require this	A pass looks like
Fill, wipe and cap a counted run of your vials at target speed, then weigh each.	Every fill inside tolerance, every wiper fully seated, no product on the neck.
Open a sample of filled vials and pull the brush.	The brush carries an even load, and no air gaps show in the column of product.
Stop the machine for thirty minutes with product in the hopper, then restart.	The first fills after restart are inside tolerance with no skinned lumps.

The documents that must arrive with it.

EU Declaration of Conformity with model and serial number, under 2006/42/EC until 19 January 2027, then Regulation (EU) 2023/1230.
Low voltage 2014/35/EU and EMC 2014/30/EU references for drives and controls.
Material certificates for hopper, nozzle and seals, and drawings of the puck and wiper tooling.

The one people forget. The component tolerance the tooling was built to. If your wiper supplier changes, a slightly different wiper can jam the placer, and the drawing shows whose part is out.

When this is the wrong machine.

Buy something else if

Named, not hedged

You fill pourable serum or gloss with no wiper.

A simpler small-volume liquid filler. Wiper tooling is money you will not use.

You launch a few thousand units at a time.

A semi-automatic pressure filler with hand-fitted wipers until volume justifies automation.

Where the numbers come from.

We name the kind of source, how many and when, and never the factory. Listed prices are asking prices, not landed cost. Where we do not hold a fact we say so: that is a GAP, not an estimate.

Listings · 13Thirteen mascara filling machine listings on one marketplace, checked September 2026, advertised US$1,500 to US$60,000; only 2 of the 13 mentioned wiper or plug insertion. Asking prices, not landed cost.
Listings · 1One automatic mascara and gloss filler listing, checked September 2026, stated fills of 3 to 10 ml at 15 to 30 bottles a minute, with accuracy within 1 percent that it said depends on the product.
GAPGAP - no supplier quotations logged for this machine yet. Three to five quotations for one configuration would give a real price spread.

Related machines.

Nail polish filling machine. Choose a nail polish filler when the product is solvent based and the cap carries a brush and a mixing ball.
Lipstick filling machine. Look at a lipstick filler when your range includes stick lipstick moulded hot.

Every machine we source in this area is on the Cosmetics page. How a project runs, stage by stage, is on how it works, and what it costs is on pricing.

Straight answers

Questions buyers ask about this machine.

Chinese vs European mascara filling machine: what is the real difference?+

Wiper and cap handling, and how the tooling copes with your components. Compare those in a sample run.

What should a mascara filling machine inspection checklist include?+

Weighed fills, seated wipers, brush pull test, a stop and restart, and a timed change to your second vial size.

What EU compliance applies?+

Machinery rules through the Declaration of Conformity. Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 covers your mascara and its responsible person.

Who is the EU importer of a mascara filler?+

The business placing it on the EU market, usually you when you buy direct.

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