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The glitter that we sell is made from two completely different types of film. The Craft Glitter is made from PVC film and the Polyester Glitter is made from PET films. The iridescent line combines each PET and acrylic together.

The metallic glitters are made from film that could be a single solid color.

The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The same goes for iridescent. The films are colored and treated earlier than they are cut.

There are different types and sizes of machines which might be used for chopping glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into either hex shape items or sq. shape items relying on how the film is fed into it. Different machines die-lower shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex shape flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used primarily based on the scale of the flake.

There are totally different applied sciences utilized by completely different companies of course.

his is an endless matter as there are such a lot of differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a whole lot. High-quality film goes to present you great glitter…. or is it?

You may take great film and run it by means of a badly arrange machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. If you happen to take a look at low-cost glitter, you’ll not only see that the flakes should not uniform in shape, however you will notice little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.

Lots of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use low cost film and operate machines that are not well set up or have poor blades. Glitter from different nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising isn’t the identical around the globe as it’s here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, in case you buy an inexpensive metallic glitter it probably does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter an excessive amount of in case you are utilizing it for easy crafts. However, it matters quite a bit in case you are utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!