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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 both 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 identical goes for iridescent. The films are colored and handled before they’re cut.

There are totally different types and sizes of machines which can be used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that cut the glitter into either hex shape items or square shape pieces depending on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-cut 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 dimensions of the flake.

There are different technologies used by totally different corporations of course.

his is an finishless topic as there are so many differences between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters a whole lot. High-high quality film is going to provide you great glitter…. or is it?

You possibly can take nice film and run it via a badly arrange machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. If you happen to check out low-cost glitter, you’ll not only see that the flakes should not uniform in form, but you will see little flecks of film that should not be there at all.

Plenty of bad glitters come from outside the US the place they use low-cost film and operate machines that aren’t well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from other countries are also a wild card- is it really non-toxic or are they just saying so? Reality in advertising will not be the same around the world as it’s right here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, should you purchase a cheap metallic glitter it in all probability doesn’t have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter an excessive amount of if you’re using it for simple crafts. Nonetheless, it issues rather a lot if you’re using it for flooring, boats and in solvents!