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The glitter that we sell is made from 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 strong 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 before they are cut.

There are different types and sizes of machines that are used for cutting glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into both hex shape pieces or sq. form items depending on how the film is fed into it. Other machines die-minimize shapes from the film. With some machines, the hex form flakes are fed in at an angle and sq. flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based on the dimensions of the flake.

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

his is an finishless subject as there are so many variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film matters an entire lot. High-quality film is going to give you nice glitter…. or is it?

You’ll be able to take nice film and run it by way of a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. For those who take a look at low-cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes should not uniform in shape, however you will see little flecks of film that should not be there at all.

A number of bad glitters come from outside the US where they use low-cost film and operate machines that aren’t well arrange or have poor blades. Glitter from other nations are additionally a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising is not the same all over the world as it is right here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, for those who buy a cheap metallic glitter it most likely does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter an excessive amount of if you’re utilizing it for simple crafts. Nevertheless, it matters loads if you are utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!