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The glitter that we sell is made from two 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 identical goes for iridescent. The films are colored and handled earlier than they’re cut.

There are different types and sizes of machines that are used for chopping 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-reduce 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 primarily based on the size of the flake.

There are completely different technologies used by totally different companies of course.

his is an endless matter as there are so many variations between really good glitter and really bad glitter. First the film issues a whole lot. High-quality film is going to give you great glitter…. or is it?

You possibly can take great film and run it by a badly set up machine and you’ll not get a clean cut. In the event you take a look at low-cost glitter, you will not only see that the flakes aren’t uniform in form, however you will notice 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 set up or have poor blades. Glitter from other countries are also a wild card- is it really non-poisonous or are they just saying so? Fact in advertising isn’t the identical around the world as it’s here within the USA.

Finally, there are coatings on films. For example, should you buy a cheap metallic glitter it probably does not have an epoxy coating (ours does). This may not matter too much if you’re utilizing it for simple crafts. However, it issues quite a bit in case you are utilizing it for flooring, boats and in solvents!