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The glitter that we sell is made from two totally 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 is a single strong color.

The holographic glitter is made from film that already has the holographic quality. The identical goes for iridescent. The films are colored and treated before they’re cut.

There are completely different types and sizes of machines that are used for slicing glitter. Most machines have blades that reduce the glitter into either hex form items or sq. form items depending 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 square flakes are fed straight in. Completely different blade configurations are used based mostly on the dimensions of the flake.

There are completely different applied sciences used by different firms of course.

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

You’ll be able to take nice film and run it through a badly set up machine and you will not get a clean cut. In the event you take a look at low cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes are usually not uniform in shape, but you will notice little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.

A lot 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 here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, for those who buy an affordable metallic glitter it probably does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This could not matter too much in case you are using it for simple crafts. Nonetheless, it issues loads if you are utilizing it for floors, boats and in solvents!