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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 each PET and acrylic together.

The metallic glitters are made from film that is a single stable color.

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

There are different types and sizes of machines which might be used for reducing glitter. Most machines have blades that minimize the glitter into either hex shape pieces or square form items 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 square flakes are fed straight in. Totally different blade configurations are used primarily based on the dimensions of the flake.

There are different applied sciences used by totally different firms 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 matters a whole lot. High-quality film goes to present you great glitter…. or is it?

You may take great film and run it by way of a badly arrange machine and you will not get a clean cut. When you take a look at low-cost glitter, you’ll not only see that the flakes usually are not uniform in shape, but you will see little flecks of film that shouldn’t be there at all.

A whole lot of bad glitters come from outside the US the place 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? Truth in advertising isn’t the same around the world as it’s here in the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For instance, if you purchase an affordable metallic glitter it in all probability does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This might not matter an excessive amount of if you are utilizing it for simple crafts. Nonetheless, it issues so much if you’re using it for floors, boats and in solvents!