Quick answer. Quadpack expanded the Skin-Up Bottle range on 31 March 2026 with Lotus Pod, a stainless-steel applicator offered alongside its flocked tips. The oval tip has an opening in its centre that holds formula for application. Its suitability is specific: Quadpack targets thick formulas and explicitly excludes highly pigmented ones.

The opening is part of the applicator

The supplier offers Lotus Pod with 15 ml and 30 ml cylindrical glass Skin-Up bottles. Its announcement describes a dip-and-apply gesture, with the central aperture helping pick up and retain product. Decoration choices include frosting, lacquering, silk screening and hotfoil stamping. The physical change is the application surface and its shape, while the bottle family remains recognizable.

That gives product developers a more precise comparison than simply choosing between a metal and a flocked finish. The important interaction is between tip geometry and the formula carried onto it. In a demonstration, the useful sequence is pickup, withdrawal and application. Looking at only the decorated bottle would miss the part that controls the experience.

Why the formula boundary deserves attention

Quadpack lists gels, serums, primers and concealers as possible applications, but its footnote narrows the scope to high viscosities and says laboratory testing is recommended. A category name alone is therefore too broad a selection tool. Two products sold as a serum may behave differently when lifted through the same opening.

A practical development comparison would keep the proposed bottle and applicator constant while observing the actual formula through repeated use. Does pickup remain manageable? Is the amount left on the tip easy to place? Does the pack remain understandable after several opening and closing cycles? Those questions make the supplier’s design boundary actionable without assuming that a category label guarantees fit.

The news adds a metal surface to a named bottle platform, widening how a brand can build a tactile application ritual around the same general pack. It is particularly relevant where the applicator is meant to be visible in product demonstrations and imagery.

This report covers the component design. It does not adopt the supplier’s claims about reducing puffiness or redness, or report an independent evaluation of cooling performance. The useful confirmed facts are the material, shape, bottle sizes and stated formula restrictions.

Source: Quadpack’s Lotus Pod announcement, read on 22 October 2026.

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