Navigating strict compliance, protecting delicate formulas from heat and moisture, and managing multi-SKU subscription shipping can quickly overwhelm a growing supplement brand.
As a full-service packaging agency, Zenpack eliminates these friction points by uniting strategy, structural engineering, and global logistics under a single partnership. We turn your complex packaging challenges into seamless, true-to-brand physical experiences.
Vitamin and supplement brands usually run into five main packaging bottlenecks: protecting fragile formulas, meeting child-resistant laws, managing complex subscription orders, balancing sustainability with budget, and protecting against knock-offs.
Here is how we solve each one:
Full-service supplement packaging with Zenpack means one team handles creative strategy, structural design, prototyping, manufacturing, and logistics.
Creative Strategy & Packaging Design: Our team of creative strategists, graphic designers, and structural engineers builds custom structural dielines and brand identity visuals.
Mock-ups & Prototyping: We test and validate physical unboxing experiences with white-box prototypes before full production.
Global Manufacturing & Sourcing: Access our international supply chain to produce paperboard, rigid boxes, plastic, glass, foil-lined packets, and custom inserts.
Logistics & Channel Compliance: We develop intelligent fulfillment strategies and assist with multi-channel retail and e-commerce compliance.
Pendulum, a medical probiotic brand, needed to replace standard plastic bottles with something that matched their high-tech, sustainability-focused brand. Because they operate on a subscription model, they needed a durable container that customers could reuse indefinitely, combined with low-waste refill packaging.
Reusable Petri-Dish-Inspired Container:
Designed a slim, soft-touch, travel-friendly container built to last 2+ years, replacing single-use pill bottles with a permanent fixture in customers’ homes.
Compostable Refill System:
Developed industrially compostable, easy-tear refill pouches to ship monthly refills with minimal environmental impact.
Cross-Material Color Consistency:
Achieved precise Pantone color matching across ABS plastic, Kraft paper, and recycled corrugated board to maintain a single cohesive visual identity across the full product line.
2+ Year Reusable Product Lifespan:
Replaced recurring single-use bottles with a durable container designed for long-term daily use.
100% Recycled Shipper System:
Delivered the full packaging system in 100% recycled corrugated shippers, aligning the entire lifecycle with Pendulum’s sustainability goals.
Your customers likely have diverse needs and active lifestyles. They might take their supplements at home or on-the-go, post-workout or in the airport boarding area. We have access to a variety of containers to meet these custom vitamin packaging needs, including supplement containers such as protective glass bottles, plastic tubs, and tear-away single-use packets, to name a few options.
From the factory to your customers’ doorsteps, nutritional supplements and vitamin packaging needs to protect your products from the elements. We work with you to determine the best food-safe liners, barriers, and materials to keep your products protected.
California leads the way in child-resistant packaging, and over the years we’ve become experts in the field. We even developed our own sustainable child-resistant mechanism for the cannabis industry called Zenlock. We also provide every type of resealable and tamper-proof container available. Our pharmaceutical packaging design also takes that into consideration.
Eco-friendly packaging for supplements helps the planet and your business, but in a regulated industry, finding the balance between sustainability and brand goals can be difficult. Fortunately, there are many ways to minimize your carbon footprint, from biodegradable supplement packaging and efficient structural engineering to consolidating fulfilment to reduce transit time and fuel costs.
The nutrition and supplement industry continues to grow at an impressive rate. With rapid growth comes imitators and bad actors. We have integrated packaging solutions to protect your brand, including supplement label design, digitally printed bar codes and track & trace technology.
✓ Barrier Protection for Moisture & Oxygen ✓ Sustainable & Eco-Friendly Substrates
✓ Certified Child-Resistant Mechanisms ✓ Multi-SKU Subscription Logistics
