Custom Mint Tins
Small hinged tins for mints, balms and favors.
A mint tin is reusable, which keeps a logo in a pocket long after the mints are gone. The hinged lid closes flush and the metal reads premium.
Print or emboss the lid; food-safe for direct contact.
- Hinged pocket tin
- Reusable metal
- Printed or embossed lid
- Food-safe
“We were burned by a supplier who ghosted after payment. These folks sent photos from the press run without being asked. Trust earned.”
“We sent them a candle jar and a Pinterest board. Two weeks later we had rigid boxes that made a $28 candle feel like a $60 one. Our repeat rate went up and honestly the box is half the reason.”
The giveaway that refuses to be thrown away
Most promo items die in a drawer. A mint tin survives, because it keeps being useful: refilled with mints, then pills, then earbuds, then paperclips, riding in pockets and bags for years with your lid facing up every time it opens. As cost-per-impression math, a tin embarrasses nearly everything else in the swag bag.
Metal, hinge and food safety
The tin is tinplate steel with a click-shut hinged lid that closes flush, pocket-proof, no spills. Interiors are food-safe lacquered for direct contact with mints and candy; the same tins hold balms, solid perfumes and wax melts for cosmetic brands. Standard pocket sizes match the familiar mint-tin footprint, with shallow and deep variants.
Decoration is where tins outclass cartons: full-color printing across the lid and body, or embossing that raises the logo out of the metal itself, the tactile option that gets fidgeted with in meetings. Print-plus-emboss together is the premium look, and our embossed tins page covers that process in detail.
Where tins beat cartons, and where they lose
Tins cost several times a mint carton per unit, so pure sampling volume favors board. Tins win when the packaging is meant to persist: wedding favors, conference gifts, retail counter products where reuse is the brand story. Many brands run both, cartons for the bowl at reception, tins for the client gift.
What are the minimums and lead times?
Printed tins start around 500 units. Stock-shape runs are quick; custom shapes and deep embossing add tooling time, so allow extra weeks for a fully custom die.
